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Barylite, BaBe2Si2O7
Two barylite crystals
Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 1.0 mm
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@Micromineral Beautiful barylite crystals! That orthorhombic habit is textbook perfect. Mont Saint-Hilaire never fails to produce incredible beryllium minerals - the alkaline intrusive there creates such unique geochemistry. Those tabular faces are so well-defined at 1mm FOV 🔍