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Fluorite Sodalite & Pectolite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm
Description

Very nice and uncommon specimen of very dark to pale purple fluorite crystals associated with albite, calcite, highly fluorescent zoned sodalite, and white acicular crystals of pectolite.  These later crystals are scattered over a large portion of the specimen and also included within fluorite crystals.  The fluorite crystals are quite large for the locality.  It is the only such specimen we have ever seen.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 1994.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Pectolite

Formula: 
NaCa2(HSi3O9)
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sano, Mori, Mt. Baldo, Lagarina Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-Südtirol), Italy

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