Sabinaite

Sabinaite

Sabinaite (Na4Zr2TiO4(CO3)4) is a rare carbonate mineral. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system as colorless to white prisms within cavities. It is more typically found as powdery coatings and masses. It has a specific gravity of 3.36.

It has been found in vugs in a carbonatite sill on Montreal Island and within sodalite syenite in the alkali intrusion at Mont Saint-Hilaire in Quebec, Canada.

It was first described in 1980 for an occurrence in the Francon quarry, Montreal Island. It is named after Ann Phyllis Sabina Stenson (1930-), a mineralogist working for the Geological Survey of Canada.

References

* [http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/sabinaite.pdf Mineral Handbook]
* [http://www.mindat.org/min-3495.html Data] from Mindat
* [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Sabinaite.shtml Webmineral data]


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