Aegirine

Canada North and Central Americas

ncat VHD15 Thomasclarkite-(Y), Molybdenite, Elpidite, Siderite, Aegirine, Sodalite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points to thomasclarkite and elpidite. Identified by mineralogist Dr. Ian Graham. Click on the images for...

  • September 23, 2024
Canada North and Central Americas Type Locality

3539 Ancylite-(Ce), Albite, Aegirine, Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

Colourless to greyish, and pinky-orange crystals of ancylite-(Ce), or possibly calcioancylite in small cavities in albite. In the second photo, white (probable) calcioburbankite (Type Locality). You can see the hexagonal cross section if you look closely. The label said burbankite. Width of view 3mm and stack of 50 images (ancylite)...

  • January 21, 2024
Denmark Europe

5653 Naujakasite, Villiaumite, Aegirine, Sodalite, Kvanefjeld Uranium deposit, Kuannersuit Plateau (Kvanefjeld), Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland, Denmark

Pale green naujakasite with pink villiaumite, black aegirine and colourless sodalite that fluoresces orange. Ex Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click here for a short video going through the stack of photos used to create...

  • April 25, 2023
Arkansas North and Central Americas United States

5806 A2964 680marps Fluorite, Pyrophanite, Aegirine (Acmite), Albite, Holiday Inn Quarry, Granite Mountain area, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA

Purple fluorite cluster and isolated crystals with green needles of aegirine, brown pseudohexagonal pyrophanite, and colourless albite crystals, all in a white albite matrix. Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1986). Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.

  • January 28, 2023
Canada North and Central Americas

ncat ANK MSH126 Rhodochrosite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

Deep sharp red-brown rhombohedral crystals, one perched on aegirine crystal. There are also colourless reticulated crystals below right of centre. Maybe albite? One small area on top of rhodochrosite (not in photo) fluoresces orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of...

  • December 16, 2022
Africa Namibia Type Locality

8514 Villiaumite, Tuperssuatsiaite, Ellingsenite, Unnamed Fe Analogue of Zakharovite, Aegirine, Albite, Nepheline, Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia

Pink villiaumite, brown tuperssuatsiaite, white ellingsenite, tiny brown unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite, green prismatic aegirine, colourless albite. Type Locality for ellingsenite and unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite. Villiaumite fluoresces red (Convoy LW) and nepheline in matrix fluoresces orange. Width 6mm. Stack of 140 images.

  • July 25, 2020

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