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Elpidite & Aegirine

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Elpidite & Aegirine

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8 × 7 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of fluorescent whitish elpidite crystals associated with acicular green aegirine, albite, catapleiite and polylithionite.  Purchased in 1990.

Ex-William Pinch collection; ex-Canadian Museum of Nature collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elpidite

Formula: 
Na2ZrSi6O15·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.65
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

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