Lake Superior Sodalite (Yooperlite) Michigan Teeth merchant's stone

merchant's stone

5” and weighs 24

A substantial and visually striking example of Michigan’s rich mineral history

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all resting on a glittering bed of fine druzy quartz

Lake Superior Sodalite (Yooperlite) Michigan Teeth merchant's stoneLake Superior Sodalite is a variety of Sodalite, composed of syenite clasts containing fluorescent sodalite. These stones are made up of fragments of course grained igneous rock, similar in composition to granite. Under ultraviolet illumination the mineral sodalite will fluoresce, creating glowing yellow orange splotches or veins. Sodalite is typically a royal blue mineral part of the feldspathoid group, a chloride containing sodium aluminosilicate.