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Galleries of Sold Specimens:
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Agates Sold    Calcites Sold   Mont St-Hilaire Sold

NOTE: Narsarsukite from Mont St-Hilaire
has been moved to Mont St-Hilaire Sold

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NAH9-16 Nahcolite  $26  SOLD

Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California

11 cm x 7 cm x 4 cm

This specimen is very delicate-looking, but it is sturdier than it looks. Under SWUV light, it fluoresces and phosphoresces white-yellow. Under LWUV light, it fluoresces more of a yellow color, but much more weakly and with no phosphorescence.

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NAH9-12 Nahcolite  $26  SOLD

Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California

6.8 cm x 6.2 cm x 3.0 cm

This specimen has thicker stalactite fingers.  Under SWUV light, it fluoresces and phosphoresces white-yellow.  Under LWUV light, it fluoresces more of a yellow color, but much more weakly and with no phosphorescence.

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NARS8-1  Narsarsukite  $65 SOLD

Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula
Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia

6.9 cm x 5.3 cm x 3.3 cm

Dozens of square and triangular cross-sections of tan Narsarsukite crystals (Na₂(Ti,Fe)Si₄(O,F)₁₁) are visible in this matrix specimen.  What I particularly like are the voids left on one end of this rock – empty impressions of rectangular-sided crystals.  The locality is an ultra-alkaline pegmatite with many of the same minerals that occur at the famous locality of Mont Saint-Hilaire.

Galleries of Sold Specimens:
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Agates Sold    Calcites Sold   Mont St-Hilaire Sold