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Schizolite & Albite

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Schizolite & Albite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.5 × 12 × 10 cm
Description

Classic and very large specimen of schizolite crystals associated with albite, polylithionite, leucophanite, rhodochrosite and aegirine.  Notice the classic fluorescence colours of polylithionite and albite at SW and of leucophanite at LW and SW.  Specimens of this size and quality are currently very rare.  Collected by Gilles Haineault.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schizolite

Formula: 
NaCaMnSi3O8(OH)
Crystal System: 
Triclinic

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

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