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Tugtupite

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Tugtupite

Ex Dr. A. Günther collection
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Description
Locality: 
Tugtup Agtakôrfia, Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

White to pink-red tugtupite with green-black aegirine in matrix.

This type locality material is not so colorfull in natural light as the material from the Kuannersuit Plateau but shows the same strong fluorescense under uv light.

Found by Dr. Andreas Günther, Hannover in th 1970s.

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

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