Specimen #1003

Name: Rhodochrosite on Polylithionite

Type: Micromount

Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

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Acquired: 2008-11-23

Source: Ian Heales Collection

Label: N

Comment: Polylithionite, which is named from the Greek for having much lithium, is not a well know mineral. Yet it is an attractive mineral that is available on the mineral markets. The best specimens arguably come from the famous quarry at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Specimens there are found mostly in the altered and unaltered pegmatites with other rare minerals.Any yellow to silvery white, fluorescent mica like crystals attached to specimens of other Mont Saint-Hilaire specimens are probably polylithionite.

Minerals: Polylithionite (KLi2AlSi4O10(F,OH)2) Rhodochrosite (MnCO3)

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Rhodochrosite on Polylithionite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - FOV: 14.1 x 9.4 mm