Catapleiite

Specimen ID: CJ2-EEM

Mineral(s)
Catapleiite : Na2Zr(Si3O9)·2H2O
Locality
As recorded:
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
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FOV 2.9 x 2.4 mm. Found August 1996. Another "cute little catapleiite". What can I say? I'm a catapleiite addict. This is an update to a POTD. Is it better? The perpetrator is usually the worst judge of that! The original is still available as a child photo - along with two stereo views. Note July 2021: I was not update the photo to full-res because it is marked as "in use". So I have added the full-res version as another child photo and have updated the stereo version.
Modris Baum - 11th June 2008

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FOV 2.5 x 2.0 mm. The crystal is ca 2.3 mm wide. This is a hild photo. It is actually a the original, original, parent photo, which has been Photshop edited in an attempt to "fix" numerous flaws - many due to the "trinocular photo attachement from hell" which now resides in a landfill and which caused numerous headaches ubtill I deided to toss it. This very old photo is digital but not multi focus.
Modris Baum - 11th June 2008

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FOV 2.2 x 2.6 mm. This is a stereo child photo. This was an early attempt to improve the original parent photo (which is now a child photo.) But the improvement still needs improvement :-) The black prisms are broken aegirines.
Modris Baum - 11th June 2008

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Modris Baum - 11th August 2008

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FOV 2.3 x 2.4 mm. This is a stereo child photo. It is a full-res, "aligned" stereo version of the parent photo. (The "alignment process resulted in a lightly smaller FOV than in the parent photo.)
Modris Baum - 26th June 2010

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FOV 2.8 x 2.3 mm. Found August 1996. Note July 2021: I was not update the parent photo to full-res because it is marked as "in use". So I have added the full-res version as this child photo. The FOV is a bit smaller than in the parent photo because I also updated the stereo version, and in so doing, I used a stereo "alignment" tool which slightly roatated and then cropped the images. This is just the LH portion of the stereo image, rotated by 90 degrees.
Modris Baum - 16th July 2021
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