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Sapphirine

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Sapphirine

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Riddock Homestead Mine, Mount Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Crude crystal in matrix from same locality as the well known kornerupine crystals

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
Earthstones Australia

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