poudretteite
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Poudretteite is an extremely rare mineral and gemstone that was first discovered as minute crystals in Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, during the 1960s. The mineral was named for the Poudrette family because they operated a quarry in the Mont St. Hilaire area where poudretteite was originally found, and the quarry is currently owned by the United Kingdom based Salmon Mining Industries Inc. Poudretteite has a barely detectable radioactivity.
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Vinony files it under Cyclosilicates, Gemstones and Hexagonal minerals.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- ffc0cb
- Mineral.name
- Poudretteite
- Mineral.image
- File:Poudretteite-382457.jpg
- Mineral.category
- Cyclosilicate
- Mineral.formula
- KNa2B3Si12O30
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Pou
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.CM.05
- Mineral.dana
- 63.02.01a.08
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Dihexagonal dipyramidal (6/mmm) H-M symbol: (6/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P6/mcc
- Mineral.unit cell
- 1,221.72 ų
- Mineral.color
- Colorless, Light pink
- Mineral.habit
- Roughly equant barrel-shaped prismatic crystals
- Mineral.cleavage
- None
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal, splintery
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 5
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Poudretteite-382458.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.CM.05
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.CM.05
- Commons category
- Poudretteite
- streak color
- white
- chemical formula
- KNa₂B₃Si₁₂O₃₀
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Pou
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Poudretteite is an extremely rare mineral and gemstone that was first discovered as minute crystals in Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, during the 1960s. The mineral was named for the Poudrette family because they operated a quarry in the Mont St. Hilaire area where poudretteite was originally found, and the quarry is currently owned by the United Kingdom based Salmon Mining Industries Inc. Poudretteite has a barely detectable radioactivity.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “poudretteite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.