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Behoite Rhodochrosite

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Behoite Rhodochrosite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
40.00gr
Description

Beautiful reticulated and sprays of greenish behoite crystals on dark red rhodochrosite, associated with black elongated aegirine and a cluster of small natrolite crystals nicely perched at the periphery of the specimen.  Ex-Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal University) specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Behoite

Formula: 
Be(OH)2
Strunz: 
4.FA.05a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano Co., Texas, USA

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

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