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Catapleiite

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Catapleiite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
20.00gr
Description

Several relatively thick colorless lustrous gemmy catapleiite crystals, up to 2.5 mm in size, are intermixed with beautiful pink rhombohedric rhodochrosite crystals on matrix of fluorrichterite (?).  Also associated with needles of an unidentified mineral (lorenzenite?) and white partially crystallized albite (?).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Catapleiite

Formula: 
Na2Zr(Si3O9)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CA.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Låven (Skådön; Lamö; Lamanskjaer), Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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