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Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Field of view 1 mm. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© 2003 DM	Photo ID: 7255 View Count: 549
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV 1.1 x 1.3 mm. Self collected by Modris B. Oct 1999. Child photo is stereo.
	Photo ID: 170051 View Count: 95
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV 1.8 x 1.1 mm. Collected by Modris B. Oct 1998. Analyzed find. The habit – pinacoidal termination - is very similar to elpidite from the Poudrette pegmatite and contact zone at MSH. The xls are well formed but they are in highly weathered cavities from the top of the sill. Hence full of crud which partially obscures the xls and makes them of ...
	Photo ID: 185471 View Count: 80
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV 1.0 x 1.4 mm. Collected by Modris B. Oct 1999. Tiny but well terminated pale yellow elpidite blades. The while stuff is microcline. Stereo child photo.
	Photo ID: 185469 View Count: 74
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Specimen and photograph by Arnaldo Brunetti Field of view: 3mm Not analyzed.
	Photo ID: 221368 View Count: 57
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Specimen and photograph by Arnaldo Brunetti FOV 3mm
	Photo ID: 249838 View Count: 15
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Picture width 12 mm. Collection and photograph Stephan Wolfsried
© Stephan Wolfsried	Photo ID: 49897 View Count: 617
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Collection of Modris Baum. FOV 1.1 x 1.0 mm. See next photo for a stereo view. The apparently pinacoidal terminations may seem surprising. But this is typical of elpidite from the vicinity of the "Poudrette" pegmatite. The elpidite ID has now been confirmed by Pavel Kartashov on another part of the specimen. This elpidite has an unusual and ... Mindat.org Photo of the Day - 18th May 2008
	Photo ID: 163767 View Count: 434
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada SEM image in COMPO mode. This "a bird's-eye view of a city" is enlarged termination of elpidite agregate from the specimen #163594, collected by Modris Baum. This elpidite demonstrate very unusual and variable compositions of different a single crystals in the same "bunch". Some of them more darker in BSE are enriched with Ti up to 2 wt. %, some ...
© Pavel M. Kartashov	Photo ID: 169263 View Count: 114
Elpidite : Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
	Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada Here we have an outstanding example of the relatively rare hydrated Sodium Zirconium Silicate mineral Elpidite. This aesthetic specimen is comprised of three jack-straw-like bundles of Elpidite that have an attractive silky luster. Typically the larger Elpidite clusters from the pegmatites of Mont Saint-Hilaire are not terminated, however, this ...
© Russell G. Rizzo	Photo ID: 108636 View Count: 153