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Vlasovite & Gittinsite

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Vlasovite & Gittinsite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipawa, Sheffield Lake, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

This specimen contains an "eye" of glassy brown vlasovite with a halo of white gittinsite surrounded by purple - pink eudialyte with minor white albite and black magnesiokatophorite. The "eye" of vlasovite measures 0.8 x 0.5 cm. Both the vlasovite and gittinsite fluoresce under shortwave UV light. Kipawa is the type locality for gittinsite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vlasovite

Formula: 
Na2ZrSi4O11
Strunz: 
9.DM.25
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Vavnbed Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Gittinsite

Formula: 
CaZrSi2O7
Strunz: 
9.BC.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kipawa alkaline complex, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Témiscamingue RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada

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