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Narssârssuk pegmatite (Narsarsuk pegmatite), Narssârssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kitaa Province (West Greenland), Greenland

A nepheline syenite pegmatite located in the westernmost part of the Igaliko nepheline syenite complex. The pegmatite is especially rich in miarolitic cavities, and covers an area about 200 x 500m

Mineral List

Aegirine
Aenigmatite
Albite
Analcime
Ancylite-(Ce) (TL)
'Apatite'
Arfvedsonite
Ashcroftine-(Y) (TL)
Astrophyllite
Barylite
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
'Biotite'
Calcite
Catapleiite
Cerussite
'Chalcolamprite'
'Chlorite Group'
Cordylite-(Ce) (TL)
Donnayite-(Y)
Elpidite
Epididymite (TL)
Epidote
Eudialyte
Eudialyte Group
var: Eucolite

Eudidymite
Ewaldite
Ferro-hornblende
Ferrokentbrooksite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Gaidonnayite
Galena
Goethite
Gonnardite
Graphite
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Ilmenite
Leifite (TL)
Lepidocrocite
Leucophanite
Leucosphenite (TL)
Lorenzenite (TL)
Magnetite
Mesolite ?
Microcline
Microlite Group
Narsarsukite (TL)
Natrolite
Nepheline
Neptunite (TL)
Nordstrandite
Orthoclase
Parisite-(Ce)
Polylithionite
Pyrochlore Group
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Ralstonite
Rhodochrosite
Riebeckite
Riebeckite Group
var: Crocidolite

Röntgenite-(Ce) (TL)
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
'Spodiophyllite'
Steacyite
Synchysite-(Ce) (TL)
Tainiolite (TL)
'Tetranatrolite'
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


72 entries listed. 64 valid minerals. 12 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

Flink, G. (1893): Om några mineral från Grönland. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholms Förhandlingar. 15, 195-208 [First descriptions of Neptunite and Epidydimite]

FLINK, G. (1898a) Berättelse om en mineralogisk resa I Syd-Grönland sommaren 1897. Meddelelser om Grønland, 14, 221-262.

FLINK, G. (1898b) Beschreibung eines neuen Mineralfundes aus Grönland. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 23, 344-368 (in German).

BØGGILD, O.B. (1899) Epistolite, a new mineral. In: Flink et al. (1901) Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 183 190.

FLINK, G. (1899) Part I. On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland. 8-180, In: FLINK, G., BØGGILD, O.B., and WINTHER, C. (1901) Undersøgelser af Mineraler fra Julianehaab indsamlet af G. Flink 1897, Part II. On some minerals from the Nepheline-Syenite at Julianehaab, Greenland (Epistolite, Britholite, Schizolite and Steenstrupite) Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 1-213.

BØGGILD, O.B., and WINTHER, C. (1901) On some minerals from the nepheline syenite at Julianehaab, Greenland (epistolite, britholite, schizolite and steenstrupine). Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 181 213.

BØGGILD, O.B. (1904) Erikite[?] Meddelelser om Grønland, 29, 93.

BØGGILD, O.B. (1915) Leifit et nyt mineral fra Narsarsuk. Meddelelser om Grønland, 51, 427 433. (in Danish) English abstract: Mineralogical Abstracts, 1, (19) (1915) 123.

BØGGILD, O.B. (1920) Leifit, ein neues Mineral von Narsarsuk, Grönland. Zeitschrift für Krystallographie, 55, 425 429 (in German).

BØGGILD, O.B. (1953) The Mineralogy of Greenland. C.A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 439 p.

Montgomery, A. (1974): An American Mineralogist Part IV. Mineralogical Record 5 (3), 115-127

Petersen, O. V., Johnsen, O. & Leonardsen, E.S. (1976): Nordstrandite from Narssârssuk, Greenland. Mineralogical Record 7, 78-82

Petersen, O. V. and Johnsen, O. (1980): First occurrence of the rare mineral Barylite in Greenland. TMPM Tschermak's Mineralogische und Petrologische Mittheilungen 27: 35-39

Petersen, O. V & Johnsen, O. (2005): Minerals first described from Greenland. Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication. 8, 184p

Bonazzi, P., Bindi, L., Zoppi, M., Capitani, G.C., and Olmi, F. (2006): Single-crystal diffraction and transmission electron microscopy studies of "silicified" pyrochlore from Narssârssuk, Julianehaab district, Greenland. American Mineralogist: 91: 794-801.


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