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Carletonite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

Very nice type locality specimen of translucent blue and white carletonite crystals associated with aegirine, arfvedsonite, albite and pectolite.  The Poudrette Quarry is the only locality where carletonite is found.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 1987.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carletonite

Formula: 
KNa4Ca4Si8O18(CO3)4(OH,F)·H2O
Strunz: 
9.EB.20
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

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