Serandite

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

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  
Origin: DeMix quarry, Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: left crystal 3 cm, right crystal 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Carrieres Dessourdy, Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2 cm with pink to peach colored crystals to 1.5 cm
 
  
 
  
3cm salmon orange bladed crystal with a few smaller embedded in albite matrix with associated acmite, analcite and catapleite.
Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 3 cm (top), 7.5 x 6 x 4 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
 
Serandite on analcime
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm
 
Origin: Poudrette Quarry, Mt. St.-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 1.0 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm, 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 4 x 5 x 2 cm
 
  
  
 Typical blocky thick doubly terminated orange opaque serandite crystal with minor albite and aegirine.
Origin: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Québec, Canada
Sample size: 5 x 4.1 x 6.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Serandite and aegerine with albite
   
  
Serandite with analcime, ex. Dave Douglass collection
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 8.5 x 6 cm (top), 11.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (2nd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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