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Sapphirine

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Description
Locality: 
Morafeno, Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud, Anosy, Madagascar
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.8 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Weight: 
39.00gr
Description

Dark blueish grey crystals of sapphirine, up to 9 mm in size, in a matrix of white calcite and golden phlogopite.

Ex Dr. Bob Janssens specimen, #951.

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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