Elpidite

  

Origin: Narssarsuk, Igaliko, Greenland

Sample size: 3.2 x 2.5 x 1.1 cm. This specimen has abundant crystals of elpidite and a 0.5 cm, flat lying crystal of leifite

 

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Very nice aggregates of grey-brown elpidite crystals up to 7mm; Ex. collection Gilles Haineault

Grey to white to 5 mm long elpidite sprays on matrix

Grey to white to 7 mm long elpidite sprays on matrix

Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: micromount (top), 1.5 x 2.2 cm (2nd row), 3 x 3 cm (3rd row), 1.5 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

Straw-yellow 6 mm long crystals in albite matrix

Origin: Mt. Alluaiv, Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Sample size:  micromount

 

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