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Analcime Albite & Quartz

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Analcime Albite & Quartz

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Superb specimen of analcime and albite crystals pseudomorph/epimorph after natrolite, associated with albite, siderite, sabinaite, type loccality donnayite-(Y), synchysite-(Ce), and a single highly fluorescent quartz crystal.  The weakly smokey quartz crystal is loose but locked between the surrounding crystals.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 1998.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Analcime

Formula: 
Na2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cyclopean Islands, Acitrezza (Aci Trezza), Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

Albite

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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