Classification
Locality type:	Quarry
Species:	Kupletskite
Formula:	K₂NaMn₇²⁺Ti₂[Si₄O₁₂]₂O₂(OH)₄F
Habit:	bladed, lamellar
Colour:	bronze-yellow, slightly purple
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Aegirine	29
Analcime	21
Microcline	14
Natrolite	12
Genthelvite	10
Catapleiite	10
Monazite-(Ce)	8
Serandite	7
Niobokupletskite	6
Ancylite Group	5
Murmanite Group	5
Laverovite	4
Albite	4
Gonnardite	4
Ancylite-(Ce)	3
Rhodochrosite	3
Behoite	3
Polylithionite	2
Astrophyllite	2
Astrophyllite Supergroup	2
Calcioburbankite	2
Adamsite-(Y)	2
Rhabdophane	1
Natrolite Subgroup	1
Låvenite	1
Leucophanite	1
Pectolite	1
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Kupletskite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Photo Gallery	View Gallery (19 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	20052
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:20052:1
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
Grice, Joel (1989) Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec: Canada's Most Diverse Mineral Locality. In Famous Mineral Localities of Canada. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited & the National Museum of Natural Sciences. p.100-108. *Horváth, László, Gault, Robert A. (1990) The Mineralogy of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. The Mineralogical Record, 21 (4) 281-359* Jambor, J.L. and Roberts, A.C. (2001) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 86: 197-200. Piilonen, P. C., Lalonde, A. E., McDonald, A. M., Gault, R. A., Larsen, A. O. (2003) Insights into astrophyllite-group minerals. I. Nomenclature, composition and development of standardized general formula. The Canadian Mineralogist, 41 (1). 1-26 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.41.1.1 *Piilonen, P. C., McDonald, A. M., Lalonde, A. E. (2003) Insights into astrophyllite-group minerals. II. Crystal chemistry. The Canadian Mineralogist, 41 (1). 27-54 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.41.1.27*

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⇱ Kupletskite from Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

Kupletskite from
Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada