Catapleite & Natrolite on Microcline (Charlie Key Coll.)

Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Thumbnail, 2.6 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
Start Time: 12/06/2019 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 12/12/2019 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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An adorable combination thumbnail from Mont Saint-Hilaire and the Charlie Key Collection. A nifty rosette of lustrous, translucent, yellow pseudohexagonal catapleiite crystals with glassy colorless laminated natrolite is elegantely perched on a sharp, tabular microcline stalk. The world's finest examples of catapleiite, a rare Na-Zr silicate, come from the renowned Poudrette Quarry. Seldom seen in this combination quality.

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