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Sodalite

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Sodalite

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: 
13 × 7 × 6 cm
Description

Classic specimen of blue sodalite crystals in sodalite, albite and nepheline matrix.   Purchased in 1993.

This specimen is labelled as belloeilite, a local name after the city name Beloeil, for a feldspathique variety of tawite (ref. mindat website).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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