Minerals from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec

Most of these are unmounted and many will require trimming.   
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* = Type or Co-Type Locality

*ADAMSITE-(Y), Mounted micromounts, average matrix size about 1cm, with small amounts of white acicular adamsite-(Y). $20 each.

AEGIRINE - fine green/black needles, $2

AEGIRINE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Nice ~40 mm long black lustrous prism with curious rough termination, $10.

ALBITE - fine white tabular xls, $2

ALBITE - neat pale pink xls, $2

ANALCIME - superb clear colorless trapezohedra, the equal of any micro analcime anywhere, $2

ANALCIME, nice equant white xls, good tn's, $5

ANALCIME - A good miniature with 4 white xls to 15mm across on matrix. None of the xls are totally perfect. 70x55x40 mm, $15

ANATASE - good blocky black xls with brookite xls, $3, all sizes available

ANCYLITE-(Ce) - beautiful pink or reddish xls, very nice, $3

ANCYLITE-(Ce) pseudo after BURBANKITE - rough grey rods, hollowish, xln, embedded. $6

ANDRADITE -  small sharp lustrous greenish loose xl, $3

ANKERITE on SIDERITE - light brown exteriors of ankerite on dark brown rhombs of siderite, loose xls,12-25mm across, $5-8

ANNITE - Solid masses of intergrown black hexagonal xls, 5cm pcs $5

APOPHYLLITE - fine xls, tabular, blocky, pseudo-octahedral, colorless, $4

ARFVEDSONITE - good sharp terminated green/blk xls, $3

ARSENOPYRITE - nice, quite small brassy prismatic xls, $4

ASHCROFTINE-(Y) - Small amounts of pink acicular ashcroftine-(Y) on matrix. 2-4cm specimens, priced by richness not size, $20 and $40(these can be seen without magnification)

ASTROPHYLLITE - classy golden-brown radiating starbursts frozen in matrix, $3

BASTNAESITE-(Ce) - greenish/grey botryoidal, $4

BROOKITE - small, sharp black pseudohexagonal bipyramids, with anatase xls, $3

BROOKITE - classic black striated, terminated tabular xls, very small, rare habit for MSH, $5

CANCRINITE - yellow massive, $2

*CARLETONITE - Loose small blue xl sections, 3 for $6

CATAPLEIITE - excellent hexagonal xls, colorless or tan, $3

CATAPLEIITE - amazing light brown rounded hexagonal donut-like xls, bizarre, $3-10

CORUNDUM - small 1mm or so blue-ish masses in matrix, MM's $10

CRYOLITE - Specimens under 2cm with complex colorless crude and/or imperfect xln cryolite to a few mm, $10; sharper xls, quite respectable for the species, $20.

DAWSONITE - clr colorless prismatic xls, $6

*DONNAYITE-(Y) - rich specimens with numerous olive green pseudohexagonal tablets to stout barrel-shaped xls of a few mm in size, many showing interesting zoning, perched on off-white dolomite xls. 5cm specimens, $25; MM's $5

DONNAYITE-(Y), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Stout hexagonal barrels in shades of olive greenish on calcite/dolomite xl matrix. Good xls, about 3-6 mm, on matrix, $8, $10, $16

*DONNAYITE-(Y) -  6cm matrices with many small donnayites and one big one, 6-7mm long, $40 each

ELPIDITE - grey prismatic jackstraw xls, rich but none too attractive, $4

ELPIDITE - A rather good matrixless cluster of grey needles, overall 30x15mm, $10

EPIDIDYMITE - brilliant white cleavages from ~10mm across, with yellow calcite and brown lorenzenite; quite interesting for a mineral that's usually very micro, all of these are appreciable with the naked eye. 3-5cm matrices, priced by the size of the cleavages, $5-10 each.

EPIDIDYMITE - small white rough pseudohexagonal twins, some snowflakish, on matrix, $5

EPIDIDYMITE - neat loose twinned xls, 2-4mm across, from the 1973 green hole, $5 each

EUDIALYTE - good small transparent sharp xls, shades of red, pink, $4

EUDIALYTE - also see RHODOCHROSITE pseudo after EUDIALYTE

EWALDITE, DONNAYITE-(Y) - Cream/gray stout prismatic ewaldite xls with thin clear bright yellow epitactic caps of donnayite, bizarre and beautiful. No xls over about 2mm. 10-20 mm pieces in Euro mm boxes $20 each

FERROCELADONITE - Dark green films, masses, on matrix. Small pieces, 7-15mm, $10 each

FLUORAPATITE - clear colorless sharp small hex prisms, nice, $2

FLUORITE - nice clear pale yellow cubes, $2

*GAIDONNAYITE - small blocky colorless xls, $6

*GAIDONNAYITE - really weird, small clear crystals with white sectors, $8

GALENA - Modest xls in/on matrix. Not rare at MSH but good xls are pretty scarce. $4

GENTHELVITE - Pale yellow/whitish intergrown tetrahedra around 1cm in size, little or no matrix, good specimens of a mineral seldom seen in this size. TN's $30 each

GENTHELVITE - Sharp pale yellow tetrahedra to ~2 mm, most with xls of albite, microcline, aegirine, polylithionite, astrophyllite, natrolite, etc. 15-45 mm pieces, priced by number of genthelvites, from a few xls to many. $8 - $14 each

GMELINITE- various habits, modifications of the basic simple hexagonal tablet; fine sharp clear colorless/brown singles or rosettes, $3

GMELINITE - very unusual rosettes of extremely thin white hexagonal plates, analyzed, $4-10

GYPSUM - fair clear colorless tabular xls, formed by weathering of sulfides, $4

*HAINEAULTITE - Sharp yellow crystals and crystal sections on very small matrices, specimens from 1-5 mm, $20 each. A couple with labels signed by Haineault at $30.

HARMOTOME - see phillipsite

HERCYNITE - Reference specimens, small lustrous black masses in matrix, MM's $10

*HILAIRITE - good to excellent sharp brown transparent xls to a couple mm. A mineral with distinctively wacky crystallography. $10

JAROSITE - earthy yellow coating, very rare at MSH, very small pieces, mostly under 1cm, $10

KAERSUTITE - embedded resinous black phenocrysts of this rock forming amphibole, $3

LABUNTSOVITE - tiny orange prisms on matrix, MM's $10

LEIFITE - excellent silky bright white, solid  sprays of needles, around 2cm, no matrix. TNs $10

LEUCOPHANITE - Typical yellow xls to a few mm, mostly quite blocky, small micros with little or no matrix, $5 each

LORENZENITE - good brown sprays of acicular crystals amongst xln yellow calcite.$5

LOVOZERITE - fairly good brown xls, under 2mm on matrix, $15

LUESHITE / LOPARITE-(Ce) (visually indistinguishable) - Small sharp black cubes, under 1mm, mostly embedded in matrix, 1-2cm specimens $15.

MAGNESITE - unusual habit, brown opaque hexagonal prisms with quartz-like terminations, analyzed material, $5

MAGNETITE - black metallic massive spots in matrix, highly magnetic, $3

MARCASITE - very tiny brassy platy xls, seldom seen from MSH. $4

MISERITE - nice pink fibrous embedded, rich, $5

MOLYBDENITE - typical tiny bright metallic thin sharp hexagonal xls, $2

MONAZITE-(Ce) - small greenish bladed singles and groups,  $8-12

*MONTEREGIANITE-(Y) - tiny grey simple prismatic on calcite xls, only locality known, $8

MOSANDRITE / RINKITE (name being debated) - yellow prismatic xls, some embedded, some freestanding, $6

MUSCOVITE - tiny but pretty transparent green hexagonal xls, rich pieces $3

NARSARSUKITE - superb lustrous sharp yellow to green tabular xls embedded in matrix, beautiful stuff, great micros, $4

*NATROLEMOYNITE - Fairly sparse whitish radiating sprays or acicular xln patches to a couple mm embedded in matrix. Recently published in Can.Min. 20 mm specimens $25 each

NATROLITE - fine clear colorless prisms, $2

NATROLITE - cool white spheres of, analyzed material, (thought it was franconite) MM's $2

NENADKEVICHITE - good small red/pinkish tabular xls, $5

NEPHELINE - Quite nice reasonably sharp hexagonal greyish xls in vugs, small matrices, $8 ea

NONTRONITE - tiny brown flakes richly covering matrix, none too attractive, $5

NORDSTRANDITE - good small clear colorless wedge-shaped xls. EDS confirmed. $8

*NORMANDITE - sparse, tiny fibrous orange clots to a couple mm across in matrix, MM's $10; larger specimens, 3-6cm, $15; a couple of particularly nice 3-4cm pieces with naked-eye visible normandite, $20 each

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PECTOLITE - colorless prisms, $2

*PETARASITE -  medium to hot pink wedge-shaped xls, tiny (40x) and sparse, with eudialyte from sodalite xenolith, very rare, $15

PHILLIPSITE / HARMOTOME - typical tiny clear colorless prismatic, visually indistinguishable from eachother. $5

POLYLITHIONITE - Clear brown thick hexagonal xls with a wild mix of associated minerals, 2-3cm pieces, good specimens! $5 each

PYRITE - cubes, etc., $2

PYROCHLORE - good very small brown octahedra, often impaled on aegirine needles, $3

PYROPHANITE - Very small black platy xls, $5

PYRRHOTITE - small brassy hexagonal xls hiding in vugs, $3

QUARTZ - colorless or smoky xls, $2

REMONDITE-(Ce) - fibrous/acicular orangish wisps in vugs, sparse, $6

RHODOCHROSITE pseudomorphs after EUDIALYTE - Small brown, somewhat crude crystals, replaced by solid rhodochrosite, the exteriors a druse of tiny rhodo xls, the original eudialyte xl form still appreciable. 10-25mm TN's, $15 each

RHODOCHROSITE - beautiful red rhombs to 2mm or so, $3

RHODOCHROSITE, ELPIDITE, ALBITE pseudo after? - NEW PIX! - Damage-free red rhombs to 17mm across in a chain with a bit of acicular white elpidite hiding here and there. The 'matrix' is actually a large, 45x15mm incomplete pseudomorph of white xln albite after some unknown mineral. Quite an interesting miniature! 50x25x20mm, $175

RUTILE - typically weird, complex black xls in groups, $2

RUTILE ps ILMENITE - unusual very thin, brown-black hexagonal plates, $4

SABINAITE - fair clear colorless to pale yellow platy xls, only locality known for xls, $15

SERANDITE - good pink/orange micro xls, $4

SERANDITE - Thumbnails: The classic thin tabular pink version of Saint-Hilaire’s most famous mineral. 25-30mm crystals, mostly multiple xls or sheaves of xls, all terminated but none absolutely perfect, $12 each. A nice blocky xl, 14x9x9mm, well formed and terminated but with a bruised front edge and some nasty coatings here and there obscuring the orange color, $12. The best of the lot: a super-lustrous parallel grouping of blocky orange crystals, overall 25x20mm, with a doubly terminated but dinged 14mm xl on the side, intergrown with a couple of small leifite xls and micro mangan-neptunite on the right side, contacted on the bottom of the main aggregate and the side of the dbl term’d xl. A nice, chunky TN of a modern classic, $45

SHELDRICKITE on SHORTITE - Very small amounts of distinctive, somewhat pearly, flaky white sheldrickite, maximum size a couple of millimeters, on yellow massive shortite, mostly without rock matrix. A rare carbonate. Very sparse 2-3cm specimens, $30 each

SHORTITE crystals - good 3-4cm specimens of massive shortite with relatively crude prismatic shortite crystals to a few mm long, quite rare, priced by quantity and quality of crystallization, $20-$30

SHORTITE - TN sized bright yellow chunks, great sulfur-yellow color, only $10 each

SIDERITE, QUARTZ pseudo after AEGIRINE - Unterminated brown prisms of siderite and other minerals sharply replacing aegirine prisms, 6-8cm long, no matrix, cool and unusual! $15 each

SIDERITE, ANKERITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - typical sharp brown rhomb, loose,12mm across, with a thin skin of epitaxial lighter brown ankerite, $5. A 25mm xl, shades of brown, sans ankerite coating, the main face, triangular, being either a modification of the basic rhombohedron which I can’t figure out or a product of twinning, as in the Min. Rec. MSH issue photo on p.338. Not pretty but interesting, $6.

SIDERITE - your basic nice yellow-brown rhombs on matrix, good micros $2

SODALITE - color change, colorless to purple/pink with SW UV, spotty, veined mssv, $5-10

SPHALERITE - small black, brown xls, $2

STEACYITE - A nice little brown twin on matrix, old specimen, $25

STEENSTRUPINE-(Ce) - small embedded resinous brown masses, $10

SUGILITE - Small pale purple fragments, mostly under 5mm, $8 each.

SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - excellent clusters of brownish tabular xls to a few mm, $4

*THOMASCLARKITE, ADAMSITE-(Y) - Good to excellent sharp yellow xls closely associated with small amounts of acicular radiating white adamsite-(Y). Two type locality rare species for the price of one! $30

TITANITE - reference specimens with modest, small xls, $3

TUGTUPITE - Crude pink octahedra a mm or two in size in vugs. Matrix sizes from 5 to 50mm, $30 each

TUNDRITE-(Ce) -  Small patches to a few mm of yellow-green acicular xls, 2cm matrix, $25.

TUPERSSUATSIAITE - Small golden brown acicular sprays, flat-lying on small fragments of pale purple sugilite, no rock matrix, nothing over 5mm, $10

USSINGITE - Good colorless blocky/tabular xls lining vugs, mostly 2cm matrices, $20

VESUVIANITE - palest yellow acicular to thicker prismatic sprays to a few mm, $5 - $10 (superb!)

VILLIAUMITE - mssv red/pink cleavages, mostly loose, some in matrix, water soluble, $3; red/black cleavages of 1cm or more, TN’s $10, larger $20

VUONNEMITE, EUDIALYTE, SERANDITE - Platy pale yellow mass to 6mm, 40x30x20mm, $20

ZAKHAROVITE - Brownish/yellow massive on matrix; ~2cm specimens $25, one unusually rich @$40

ZIRCON - typical sharp brown bipyramids, $2

ZIRCON, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - A nicely formed brown bipyramid, 3 corners imperfect. Good size for the locality, 11x10x10mm, $10

PLEASE NOTE:  MOST SPECIMENS ON THIS LIST REQUIRE A MICROSCOPE FOR BEST APPRECIATION!

Standard Saint-Hilaire references:

-Mineralogical Record V21 #4, 1990
-Monteregian Treasures by Mandarino & Anderson, 1989
-Micro Minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Fisher & Glenn, 1989;
-Lapis V25 #7/8, 2000
-Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, special issue #3, 2000.
-The latest MSH info is at Marc Favre's site: http://www.saint-hilaire.ca/ .
-Also the newsletter of the Canadian Micro Mounters Association has notes on new finds.

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