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Sapphirine & Kornerupine

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Sapphirine & Kornerupine

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Description
Locality: 
Fiskenæsset, Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.2 × 3.1 cm
Description

Very nice, old time specimen of blue Sapphirine with pale greenish Kornerupine in schist matrix. Both from Type Locality!! Comes with old label.

ex. Staatliche Mineralien-Niederlage Freiberg, Sa. (Saxony/Germany)

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

Kornerupine

Formula: 
Mg3Al6(Si,Al,B)5O21(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BJ.50
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Fiskenæsset old harbour, Fiskenæsset (Fiskenaesset; Qeqertarsuatsiaat), Nuuk (Godthåb), Sermersooq, Greenland

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