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Epistolite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Demix-Varennes Quarry, Varennes & St-Amable, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Light orange crystals of epistolite on the matrix. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Epistolite

Formula: 
Na2(Nb,Ti)2(Si2O7)O2·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.BE.30
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Nunarssuatsiaq, Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland