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Tugtupite & Epistolite

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Tugtupite & Epistolite

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Description
Locality: 
Kvanefjeld, Ilímaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2 × 0.8 cm
Description

Nice combination sample from the Kvanefjeld Plateau at Ilimaussaq with pink crystalline tugtupite and aggregates of pinkish to pearly white plates of epistolite on matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tugtupite

Formula: 
Na4(AlBeSi4O12)Cl
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Albitite vein, Tugtup Agtakôrfia (Tuttup Attakoorfia), Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Epistolite

Formula: 
Na2(Nb,Ti)2(Si2O7)O2·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.BE.30
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Nunarssuatsiaq, Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
Cartils Minerals

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