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Sabinaite Synchysite-(Ce) Rhabdophane-(Ce) & Siderite

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Sabinaite Synchysite-(Ce) Rhabdophane-(Ce) & Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Sabinaite microcrystals associated with synchysite-(Ce) and rhabdophane-(Ce) pseudomorph/epimorph after an unidentified species, and siderite.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 1998.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sabinaite

Formula: 
Na4Zr2TiO4(CO3)4
Strunz: 
5.BB.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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

Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

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