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Serandite with Analcime$6,000.00
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Well-developed, blocky orange Serandite crystals measuring to 3.4 cm with several other intergrown smaller crystals sit amongst white Analcime and Natrolite crystals, shot through with black acicular Aegirine crystals. This specimen is from Mont Saint-Hilaire and came out of the quarry many years ago. It’s a gorgeous example of this classic association and would stand out in even the finest of MSH collections. If you are new to this locality, it is one of those rare mineralogical wonders of nature, with a recorded 434 species and is type locality to a staggering 71 species. The quarry is situated in Rouville County in Quebec, Canada, a little due east of Montreal. Serandite is a sodium-manganese silicate and is without doubt the iconic trademark mineral of this classic site. For many years two quarries worked adjacent to one another, the Poudrette and De-Mix, only separated by an unexcavated demarcation wall. Once this was mined out, the two quarries amalgamated, so it is now the convention to name the whole quarry as Poudrette. It is not known which quarry this specimen came out of at the time of mining (i.e. either Poudrette or De-Mix), so it is simply given as Mont Saint-Hilaire. A superb specimen.
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