Griceite

minerals

vuonnemite

sodalite

ussingite

Formula: LiF
Normal halide, halite group
Specific gravity: 2.62
Hardness: 4½
Streak: White
Colour: Green-white, yellowish white, white
Solubility: Insoluble in water, not attacked by 30% hydrochloric acid (Dana)
Environments

Plutonic igneous environments
Metamorphic environments

Localities

At the type Locality, the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada, a massive hornfels unit, its contact zone, and accompanying inclusions and xenoliths were exposed during quarry operations. Griceite was found in sodalite inclusions at the periphery of the contact zone of the hornfels, which is surrounded by nepheline syenite. On a type specimen griceite occurs as late-stage botryoidal aggregates to 1 mm on ussingite crystals associated with sodalite, eudialyte, sphalerite, serandite, vuonnemite and lovozerite (CM 27.125-127, HOM). Griceite also occurs as inclusions in vuonnemite or pseudomorphs of it (Dana).

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