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Shomiokite-(Y) Neighborite

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Shomiokite-(Y) Neighborite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.8 × 2 cm
Description

Combination of two very rare minerals from Mont Saint-Hilaire. White blades of shomiokite-y with dark brown cubes of neighborite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shomiokite-(Y)

Formula: 
Na3Y[CO3]3·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.CC.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Shomiokitovoe pegmatite, Umbozero mine (Umbozerskii mine; Umba Mine), Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Neighborite

Formula: 
NaMgF3
Strunz: 
3.AA.35
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Sun Haverstrite Well, Uintah Co., Utah, USA