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Sapphirine

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Description
Locality: 
Fiskenaesset Old Harbour, Fiskenaesset, Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

Rich bright blue sapphirine associated with phlogopite from the type locality! Comes with an old label dating to 1972.
 

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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