Micheelsenite

  
 
  
Bundles of white, fibrous crystals and matted aggregates filling voids between albite and aegerine.
  
White, fibrous crystals in a tiny tuft about 1 mm across deep in a vug.
Origin: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Quebec, Canada (type locality)
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm (top), 2.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm (2nd row), 7 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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