Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Shomiokite-(Y) & Aegirine

Views:
Watches:
SYM725015

Shomiokite-(Y) & Aegirine

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

White blades of shomiokite-y on aegirine. 

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...

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway