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Behoite Polylithionite & Catapleiite

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CFL1037098

Behoite Polylithionite & Catapleiite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.3 × 6.3 × 4.7 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of pale yellow-orange behoite crystals associated with fluorescent polylithionite, catapleiite and orange crystals of possibly type locality petarasite pseudomorph/epimorph after eudyalite, and with analcime, gonnardite, type locality paranatrolite, and possibly calcioancylite-(Ce).  Collected in 2002.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Behoite

Formula: 
Be(OH)2
Strunz: 
4.FA.05a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano Co., Texas, USA

Polylithionite

Formula: 
KLi2Al(Si4O10)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Kangerluarsuk Fjord (Kangerdluarssuq Fjord), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Catapleiite

Formula: 
Na2Zr(Si3O9)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CA.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Låven (Skådön; Lamö; Lamanskjaer), Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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