| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Niveolanite |
| Formula: | NaBe(CO3)(OH) · 2H2O |
| Comments: | The first and only naturally occurring beryllium carbonate mineral! |
| Quality for species: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Significance: | Unusual or interesting association, relationships with other species, pseudomorphism etc. - see notes. |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Valid - Type Locality |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Aegirine | 18 |
| Siderite | 7 |
| Microcline | 5 |
| Franconite | 4 |
| Shortite | 3 |
| Hochelagaite | 2 |
| Petersenite-(Ce) | 2 |
| Adamsite-(Y) | 2 |
| Natrolite | 2 |
| Rhodochrosite | 2 |
| Gonnardite | 1 |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Niveolanite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (51 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 485487 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:485487:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| References |
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Pekov, I. V., Zubkova, N. V., Chukanov, N. V., Agakhanov, A. A., Belakovskiy, D. I., Horvath, L., Filinchuk, Y. E., Gobechiya, E. R., Pushcharovsky, D. Yu., Rabadanov, M. Kh. (2008) Niveolanite, the first natural beryllium carbonate, a new mineral species from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, 46 (5) 1343-1354 doi:10.3749/canmin.46.5.1343 |
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Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada