Mineralpedia Details for Elpidite
Elpidite
- Formula
- Na2ZrSi6O15ยท3H2O
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Fibrous
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- brown, colorless, yellow brown, white, light red
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 7
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Elpidite from Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
An bundle of long greenish gray crystals to 2mm.
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Elpidite from Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
A great, large crystal group of greenish, prismatic Elpidite with crystals to 3cm. Associated with Leifite.
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