Cryolite

  

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Origin: Ivigtut, Arsuk Fiord, West Greenland, Greenland

Sample size: 7.5 x 5 x 3 cm (top/2nd row), 7 x 5 x 4 cm (3rd/4th row), 6.3 x 4.8 x 2.2 cm (5th/bottom row)

 

This is a somewhat etched pocket floater of solid cryolite consisting of two intergrown crystals, largest at about 1.8 cm.

Origin: Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: 2.7 x 2 x 1.5 cm

 

Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: 2 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
 

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White crystalline massive cryolite with siderite, no matrix

Association of massive cryolite with quartz crystals and minor sphalerite and galena

Origin: Ivigtut, Greenland, Denmark

Sample size: 3 x 6 cm (top), 4 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm (bottom)

 

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Origin: Ivigtut, Greenland

Sample size: 3.1 x 2.9 x 2 cm specimen of massive cryolite with vugs of smaller crystals of cryolite to 1 mm across

 

  

 

  

Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.6 cm (top/2nd row), 3 x 1.2 cm (bottom)

 

  

 

  

Ex. University of Copenhagen coll., Denmark

  

Ex. Stockholm Museum collection

Origin: Ivigtut, Greenland

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 5 cm (top/2nd row), 8.4 x 6 x 5.3 cm (3rd/4th row), 11.2 x 9 x 3.3 cm (bottom)

 

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