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Haineaultite & Tuperssuatsiaite

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Haineaultite & Tuperssuatsiaite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm
Description

Yellow blocky crystals of haineaultite with mats of tan tuperssuatsiaite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Haineaultite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)5Ca(Ti,Nb)5(Si6O17)2(OH,F)8·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.50
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
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

Tuperssuatsiaite

Formula: 
Na2Fe3Si8O20(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EE.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tuperssuatsiat Bay, Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland