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Zircon Synchysite-(Ce) & Rhabdophane

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Zircon Synchysite-(Ce) & Rhabdophane

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: 
8.5 × 5.3 × 4 cm
Description

Fluorescent brown lustrous zircon crystals associated with very weakly fluorescent natrolite and albite, and with rutile, analcime, and synchysite-(Ce)/rhabdophane pseudomorph/epimorph after an unidentified species.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 2001.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

Synchysite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca(Ce,La)(CO3)2F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20c
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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