Color is usually orange to orange-brown, yellow in fine fibers. Luster is vitreous. Diaphaneity is translucent to transparent. Crystal Habits include aggreagates of acicular crystals to 10mm, patches of fibrous crystals and euhedral crystals to 10mm.
Fracture is conchoidal.
Hardness is 5 - 6. Streak is white to very pale yellow. Associated Minerals include aegirine, albite, cancrinite, catapleiite, donnayite, eudialyte, kupletskite, microcline, natrolite, nepheline, rinkite and villiaumite. Named in 1997 after Charles Normand, Canadian amateur mineralogist who discovered the species.