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Kuannersuit (Kvanefjeld) plateau, Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland

Latitude: 60°58'30"N
Longitude: 45°59'30"W
Localities located north-west of Narsaq Elv.
The mineralisation occurs in outcrops of tugtupite-analcime-albite-bearing veins.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Aegirine
Albite
Analcime
'Apatite'
Arfvedsonite
Bertrandite
Beryllite
Carlgieseckeite-(Nd) (TL)
Chalcothallite
Chkalovite
Cuprostibite
Dorfmanite
Epistolite
'Erikite'
Eudialyte
Galena
'Gmelinite'
Gonnardite
Hemimorphite
'K Feldspar'
Kuannersuite-(Ce) (TL)
Kvanefjeldite (TL)
Leucophanite
Lomonosovite
Lovdarite
Microcline
Monazite-(Ce)
Nabesite (TL)
Nacareniobsite-(Ce) (TL)
Natrokomarovite
Natrolite
Natrophosphate
Naujakasite
Nepheline
Neptunite
Opal ?
Orthojoaquinite-(La) (TL)
Pectolite
Polylithionite
Pyrochlore Group
Rhabdophane-(Ce)
Riebeckite
Sodalite
Sørensenite (TL)
Sphalerite
Sphalerite
var: Cleiophane

Steenstrupine-(Ce)
Tantalum
Thalcusite
Townendite (TL)
Trona
Tugtupite
Ussingite
Villiaumite
Vitusite-(Ce) (TL)
Willemite
Yofortierite


71 entries listed. 52 valid minerals. 9 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

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References

- Petersen, O., Giester, G., Brandstätter, F., Niedermayr, G. (2002): Nabesite, a new mineral species from the Ilimaussaq alkaline complex, Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 173-181
- Friis, H., Balic-Zunic, T, Pekov, I., Peterson, O. (2004): Kuannersuite-(Ce), a new member of the Apatite-group, from the Ilimaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland, Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 95-106
- Husdal, T. (2011): På jakt etter nye mineraler. Norsk Bergverksmuseum, Skrifter. 46: 88-98 [On the discovery of Carlgieseckite-(Nd)]

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