KanonaiteLe Coreux, Salm-Château, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium
Photo: Knut Eldjarn Located only 200/250 meters from Salm-Château.
Comprises the Le Coreux mine (250 meters from Salmchateau) and an outcrop of quartz veins (200 meters from Salmchateau), both to the west of the small road from Salm-Château to Vielsalm.
Late quartz veins in viridine/kanonaite-bearing phyllites of Ordovician age.
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References
- Schreyer, W., Fransolet, A.-M., Bernhardt, H.-J. (2001): Hollandite-strontiomelane solid solutions coexisting with kanonaite and braunite in late quartz veins of the Stavelot Massif, Ardennes, Belgium. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 141, 560-571.
- E.-J. Bernhardt et al. (2005): Eur. J. Min. 17, 703–714.
- Schreyer W., Bernhardt H.-J., Fransolet A.-M. and Armbruster T. (2004): End-member ferrian kanonaite: an andalusite phase with one Al fully replaced by (Mn, Fe)3+ in a quartz vein from the Ardennes mountains, Belgium, and its origin. Contr. Miner. Petrol., 147, 276-287.
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