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Malo-Bystrinskoe lazurite deposit, Malaya Bystraya River Valley, Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Bystrite
Malo-Bystrinskoe lazurite deposit, Malaya Bystraya River Valley, Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov
Мало-Быстринское месторождение, Мал. Выстрая)

Lazurite deposit in magnesium skarns.
Not to be confused with the Tultui lazurite deposit which is located ~7 km from this locality. Lazurite from Malo-Bystrinskoe has typically mainly marble matrix while from Tultui matrix is silicate (diopsidites and tremolite +/- phlogopite).
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References

- Voskoboinikova, N. (1938) The mineralogy of the Slyudyanka deposits of lazurite. Zapiski Vserossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 67: 601-622 (in Russian).

Mineral List

Afghanite
Bystrite (TL)
Calcite
Chabazite-Ca
Chalcopyrite
Diopside
var: Lavrovite
Dolomite
Graphite
Lazurite
Phlogopite
Pyrite
Quartz
'Scapolite'
Sodalite
Sulphur
Tounkite (TL)


17 entries listed. 15 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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