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Sapphirine

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Sapphirine

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Locality: 
Fiskenæsset, Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

From the Type locality for sapphirine at Nuuk (Godthab), Greenland comes this very uncommon specimen with a very rich coverage of blue crude crystals and crystalline masses of sapphirine.
Associated by minor greenish blue kornerupine crystals (this is also the Type Locality for this species) and golden-brown phlogopite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sapphirine

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe)4-xAl4+x[Al4+xSi2-xO18]O2
Strunz: 
9.DH.45
Hardness: 
7.5
Type Locality: 
Fiskenæsset old harbour, Fiskenæsset (Fiskenaesset; Qeqertarsuatsiaat), Nuuk (Godthåb), Sermersooq, Greenland
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