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Can Someone Identify This For Me Please. Found Nova Scotia.


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Interesting sample but you'd need to provide some more information - hardness, streak, density, etc. I'm getting a zeolite mineral feel from that photo - like natrolite, but those aren't exactly common, so it's hard to guess this, but it's my first thought looking at the photo. What area of Nova Scotia? 

An evaporite/carbonate (aragonite, calcite, etc) should react with acid, so that's worth a try. If heavy for it's size, maybe cerussite. And actually, I've seen plain old quartz form similarly and resemble a fibrous habit in really vuggy deposits, but I don't think that's what this is.

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Zeolite is my knee jerk first guess too.  But jasong is correct in stating there are other options.

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