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Eirikite & Rhodochrosite

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Eirikite & Rhodochrosite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of weakly fluorescent eirikite crystals associated with rhodochrosite, analcime, albite, aegirine, polylithionite and highly fluorescent fluorite.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 1989.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eirikite

Formula: 
KNa6Be2(Si15Al3)O39F2
Strunz: 
9.EH.25
Hardness: 
6.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Eudidymite-Epididymite locality, Vesle Arøya, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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

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