Thumbnails
Sidorenkite crystals – 0,3mm
© Gilles Haineault
Sidorenkite crystals
© Doug Merson
NaMn(PO)(CO
Sidorenkite is extremely rare at MSH.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Color is usually colorless to pale pink, pale brown to reddish brown.
Luster is vitreous to pearly.
Diaphaneity is transparent to opaque.
Crystal System is monoclinic,
Crystal Habits include globular grains and embedded rectangular
crystal sections that are etched.
Cleavage {100} and {010} are perfect.
Fracture is (??).
Hardness is 2.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.9 g/cm
Streak is white.
Associated Minerals include cancrinite, eudialyte, kogarkoite,
lovozerite, rasvumite, sérandite, sodalite, terskite, tugtupite,
ussingite, villiaumite and vuonnemite.
Distinguishing Features: Crystal habit.
Origin: Named in 1979 after Alexander Vail’evich Sidorenko
(1917-1982), Russian.
CLASSIFICATION:
Dana System
# 43.2.1.2
Strunz Classification
# V/C.04-20
REFERENCES:
MinRec 21:338 (1990), Dana 8:958 (1997)
DISTRIBUTION AND RARITY AT MONT SAINT-HILAIRE:
MSH
¤¤¤