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Nenadkevichite & Albite

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Nenadkevichite & Albite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 3 cm
Description

Rich specimen of "sandwich type'' nenadkevichite crystals associated with stacked pink fluorescent albite crystals, aegirine, and possibly type locality gaidonnayite and another undientified species.  Collected by Gilles Haineault.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nenadkevichite

Formula: 
(Na,◻)8Nb4(Si4O12)2(O,OH)4·
Strunz: 
9.CE.30a
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Natrolite Stock (Pegmatite No. 61), Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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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