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Leifite

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Description
Locality: 
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.7 × 2 cm
Description

Rich specimen of white leifite crystals with minor elpidite and rhodochrosite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Leifite

Formula: 
(Na,H2O)Na6[Be2Al2(Al,Si)Si15O39]F2
Strunz: 
9.EH.25
Hardness: 
6.0
Colour: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland