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Searlesite & Villiaumite

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Searlesite & Villiaumite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.8 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a tiny vug hosting three flat prisms of searlesite. Searlesite is an extremely rare mineral at MSH. There is a seperate vug with a small villiaumite crystal. Gilles Haineault material. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Searlesite

Formula: 
Na(H2BSi2O7)
Strunz: 
9.EF.15
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Villiaumite

Formula: 
NaF
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Rouma Island (Roume Island; Roma Island; Ruma Island), Los Archipelago (Los Islands), Guinea

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