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Leifite (Leifit)

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Leifit
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Leifit

Bildbreite: 8 mm; Fundort Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebéc, Kanada
Copyright: Stephan Wolfsried
Contribution: Hg 2006-12-07
Locality: Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry; Uni-Mix Quarry; Desourdy Quarry) / Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada
Leifit
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Leifit

Größe: 2,9 x 1 x 0,8 cm, Fundort: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Québec, Kanada
Copyright: Michael Roarke
Contribution: thdun5 2011-01-24
Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada
Leifit
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Leifit

Fundort Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebéc, Kanada
Copyright: Stephan Wolfsried
Contribution: Hg 2006-12-07
Locality: Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry; Uni-Mix Quarry; Desourdy Quarry) / Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada
Leifit
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Leifit

Größe: 2.5 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm; Fundort: Mt St Hilaire, Quebec, Kanada
Copyright: Rob Lavinsky
Contribution: Mineralienatlas 2005-02-16
Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada
Catapleiit (gelb) und Leifit
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Catapleiit (gelb) und Leifit

Größe: 76x63 mm, Fundort: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Québec, Kanada
Copyright: Rock Currier
Contribution: slugslayer 2010-07-24
Locality: Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry; Uni-Mix Quarry; Desourdy Quarry) / Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada
Leifit
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Leifit

Größe: 77x57 mm; Fundort: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Québec, Kanada
Collection: Jaquis Bradley
Copyright: Rock Currier
Contribution: slugslayer 2011-08-06
Locality: Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry; Uni-Mix Quarry; Desourdy Quarry) / Mont Saint-Hilaire / La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM / Montérégie, Region / Québec / Kanada

Collectors Summary

Color farblos, weiß
Streak color weiß
Hardness (Mohs) 6
Solubility - HCl
Crystal System trigonal, P3m1

Chemism

Chem­ical formula

Na7Be2(Si15Al3)O39(F,OH)2

Chem­ical com­po­si­tion

Aluminium, Beryllium, Natrium, Silicium, Fluor, Sauerstoff, Wasserstoff

Unit weight: 1342.159383975 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 68.5

Info

Empirical formula:

Na7Be2(Si15Al3)O39(F0.75(OH)0.25)2

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Hydrogen

H

0.04

0.5

0.73

1.0079470

0.5039735
Beryllium

Be

1.34

2

2.92

9.0121823

18.0243646
Oxygen

O

47.09

39.5

57.66

15.9994300

631.9774850
Fluorine

F

2.12

1.5

2.19

18.9984033

28.4976049
Sodium

Na

11.99

7

10.22

22.9897702

160.9283914
Aluminium

Al

6.03

3

4.38

26.9815382

80.9446146
Silicon

Si

31.39

15

21.90

28.0855300

421.2829500

Anal­y­sis wt%

SiO2 : 69.96, Al2O3 : 8.50, BeO : 3.72, Na2O : 14.75, K2O : 0.51, Rb2O : 0.42, F : 2.93 (Ref: Canadian Mineralogist 2002)

Strunz 9th edi­tion incl. updates

9.EH.25

9: Silikate (Germanate)
E: Schichtsilikate (Phyllosilikate)
H: Übergangsstrukturen zwischen Schichtsilikaten und anderen Silikaten
25:Leifit-Gruppe

Lapis Clas­sifica­tion

VIII/J.10-010

VIII: SILIKATE
J: Gerüstsilikate (mit Zeolithen)
10: Mit tetraederfremden Anionen

Clas­sifica­tion by Hölzel

9.FJ.320

9: SILICATES
F: Tektosilicates
J: Singly connected 4-Ring Chains

Dana 8th edi­tion

78.07.10.01

78: Unclassified Silicate Minerals
07: Unclassified silicates wholly unclassified silicates

IMA sta­tus

Neudefinition von der CNMNC anerkannt

Min­eral sta­tus

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

farblos, weiß

Streak color

weiß

Diaphane­ity (Trans­parency)

transparent

max. Birefrin­gence

0.004
Birefringence chart\! Leifite title=Birefringence chart Leifite

Michel-Levy Color Chart viewed according to the maximum birefringence (at 30μm). Mineral color is not taken into account. Click on the image to enlarge or change thickness.

RI value α / ω / n

1.516

RI value γ / ε

1.520

Ri mean

1.517

2V angle

Uniaxial (+)

Optical Data Luminescence

Color LW-UV (365nm)

  

orangegelb

LW-UV Intensity

schwach

Color SW-UV (254nm)

  

grün

SW-UV Other Col­ors

          

weiß, blassrosa weiß, violettrosa, rosa, lilarosa

After­glow (Per­sistant Lumi­nes­cence)

keine Daten

Crystallography

Crystal Sys­tem

trigonal

Class (H-M)

3m

Space Group number

164

Space Group

P3m1

Cell param­e­ters a (Å)

14.352

Cell param­e­ters b (Å)

-

Cell param­e­ters c (Å)

4.852

Cell param­e­ters a/b or c/a

0.338

Cell param­e­ters c/b

-

Z

1

Volumne (ų)

865.518

X-Ray Pow­der Diffrac­tion

4.69(70),
4.52(70),
4.14(70),
3.38(100),
3.15(100),
3.11(70),
2.46(90),
2.39(70)
XRD chart Leifite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Crystals 3D

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Crystal Structure 3D

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Physical Properties

Hard­ness (Mohs)

6

VHN (Hard­ness Vick­ers)

730 (ungefähre Angabe abgeleitet aus der Mohshärte)

Density (g/cm³)

2.57

2.575 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Insta­bil­ity

- HCl

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Grönland/Qaasuitsup Kommunia/Narsaarsuk (Narssârssuk)/Narssârssuk-Pegmatit

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Bøggild, 1915

References

Canadian Mineralogist 40 (2002), 183

Other languages

German

Leifit

Spanish

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French

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English

Leifite

Russian

Лейфит

Traditional Chinese

白針柱石

Simplified Chinese

白针柱石

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Lf

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German pages

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