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Rhodochrosite & Elpidite

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Rhodochrosite & Elpidite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 8 × 6 cm
Weight: 
235.00gr
Description

Beautiful rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystals, up to 3.5 cm in size, associated with elpidite needles and albite on microcline matrix.  Notice the beautiful fluorescent colours of elpidite, albite and microcline.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Elpidite

Formula: 
Na2ZrSi6O15·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.65
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0

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