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Niocalite & Perovskite

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Niocalite & Perovskite

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Description
Locality: 
Oka Complex, Oka, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 5.2 × 3.2 cm
Description

Pale yellowish brown niocalite in matrix with black perovskite from Oka in Quebec, the type locality for the mineral niocalite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Niocalite

Formula: 
(Ca,Nb)4(Si2O7)(O,OH,F)2
Strunz: 
9.BE.17
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Bond zone (Quebec Columbium Ltd. and Columbium Mining Products properties), Oka complex, Oka, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada

Perovskite

Formula: 
CaTiO3
Strunz: 
4.CC.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Akhmatovskaya Kop' (Achmatovsk Mine), Nazyamskie Mts, Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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