Catapleiite

Origin: Narsarsuaq, Greenland
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
A superb, unusually euhedral single crystal of catapleite, measuring 2.2 cm across, nestled in matrix of other MSH minerals including aegerine and pectolite, and perhaps kupletskite (on the back)
  
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.75 cm (top 3), 1.3 x 1 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
ex. Gilles Haineault Collection
Sample size: 12 x 8 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 1.4 x 1.4 x 0.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Catapleiite with aegirine
 
  
Catapleiite pseudomorph after sodalite with acmite and rhodochrosite, there is also some attached polylithionite
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.2 cm (top), 3.2 x 2 cm (2nd row), 2.2 cm across (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
Orange rosette-like crstals to about 0.5 mm perched on clear prismatic crystals of natrolite.
Origin: Ice River, Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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