MAKE A MEME View Large Image Makatite-449521.jpg Makatite Locality Demix-Varennes quarry Saint-Amable sill Varennes St-Amable Lajemmerais RCM Montérégie Québec Canada FOV ~4 …› x 5¾ mm Found Oct 1999 MOB coll Visually ID by Elsa Pfenninger-Horváth You can see from ...
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Keywords: Makatite-449521.jpg Makatite Locality Demix-Varennes quarry Saint-Amable sill Varennes St-Amable Lajemmerais RCM Montérégie Québec Canada FOV ~4 …› x 5¾ mm Found Oct 1999 MOB coll Visually ID by Elsa Pfenninger-Horváth You can see from this why many MSH pectolite spercimens are labeled makatite But this makatite looks more like somebody poking soft brie with a fork Despite that appearance it appears to have a good cleavage and doesn ™t really look fibrous like some pectolite Makatite does come fibrous/bladed as well See File Makatite-288534 jpg This type of makatite fluoresces weak to moderate whitish SW and LW The stuff that I have from a hydrothermalite does not fluoresce The latter was ID by László Horváth “ so both IDs should be good Interestingly the brightest fluorescence on the specimen comes from other parts that appear to have just a thin white dusting “ perhaps magadiite or a calcite smear There is a bit of calcite mixed in but the actual makatite does not fizz in HCl If it dissolves it does so slowly “ I got tired of waiting This is one of a half dozen similar areas on a specimen ~ 9 x 7 x 4½ cm It seems to be a miorolitic cavity rather than a hydrothermalite The only minerals associated are microcline aegirine eudialyte very minor zakharovite and possibly magadiite From a distance the specimens look as if pigeons have visited them See File Makatite-449517 jpg Makatit Sichtfeld ~ 6 …” x 4 …“ mm Fundort Grube Demix-Varennes Saint-Amable Schwelle Varennes St-Amable Lajemmerais RCM Montérégie Québec Kanada http //www mindat org/photo-449521 html 2012-03-07 http //www mindat org/user-11235 html 0 Modris Baum Modris Baum Makatite Files by Modris Baum from mindat Minerals of Demix-Varennes quarry
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