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Quintinite-2H

- Formula
- Mg4Al2(OH)12CO3 4(H2O)
- Crystal System
- Hexagonal
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- colorless, deep orange red, orange, pale brown
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Hexagonal - Trapezohedral
- Hardness
- 2
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Quintinite-2H from Iron mine, Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Orange hexagonal crystals to 1.5mm. The locality is probably one of the better localities of just a handful reported worldwide. This geo-environment is more like a skarn than a carbonatite as in Jacupiranga. The crystals display perfect basal cleavage giving the appearance of a micaceous mineral but is not.
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