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Sérandite & Aegirine

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Sérandite & Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.6 × 3.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

This is an excellent, colourful and contrastful specimen in splendid condition. The orange-coloured, blocky and sharp serandite is accompanied by a sharp and mirror-bright aegirine. Both minerals are well developed and the whole specimen is in very good shape.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sérandite

Formula: 
Na(Mn2+,Ca)2(HSi3O9)
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Rouma Island (Roume Island; Roma Island; Ruma Island), Los Archipelago (Los Islands), Guinea

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
Wendel Minerals

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