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Fiskenaes old harbour, Fiskenaes (Fiskenaesset; Qeqertarsuatsiaat), Nuuk (Godthåb), Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland

Latitude: 63°5'14"N
Longitude: 50°40'41"W
Lenses of ultramafic rocks located along the top contact (major thrust zone) of the Fiskenaesset complex (anorthosite-leucogabbro intrusion in Archean gneisses) with an overlying meta-volcanite amphibolite.

Rocks with hogbomite and sapphirine are known, bounding to the West the UMF rocks.

References

- Stromeyer (1819): Analyse einiger von dem Prof. von Giesecke in Grönland entdeckten Fossilien, 2. Saphirin von Fiskenaes oder Kikertarsoeitsiak, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Vol. 63, p 374

- Giesecke, K. L. (1910): Karl Ludwig Giesecke´s mineralogisches
Reisejournal über Groenland, 1806-1813, Medd. Grönland 35,

- Boeggild, O.B. (1953): The Mineralogy of Greenland, Reitzels Forlag Koebenhavn

- Grew, E., Herd, R., Marquez, N. (1987): Boron-bearing Kornerupine from Fiskenaesset, West Greenland: a re-examination of specimens from the type locality, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 51, 695 - 708

Mineral List

Anorthite
'Chlorite Group'
Cordierite ?
Corundum
Enstatite
var: Bronzite

Gedrite
Kornerupine (TL)
Magnesiohornblende
Phlogopite
'Pinite'
Sapphirine (TL)
Spinel


12 entries listed. 9 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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