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Pyrochlore & Calcite

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Pyrochlore & Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Oka Complex, Oka, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

Typical specimen of dark red to brown octahedral pyrochlore crystals on matrix, associated biotite, magnetite and an unidentified species in radial sprays, and possibly niocalite (type locality), all embedded in a highly fluorescent strontium rich calcite matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrochlore

Synonym Of: 

Pyrochlore Group

Formula: 
A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Strunz: 
4
Hardness: 
5 - 5.5
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Group

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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