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Kuannersuit plateau (Kvanefjeld), Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kitaa Province (West Greenland), 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)
Chalcocite
Chalcothallite
Chkalovite
Cuprite
Cuprostibite
Dorfmanite
Epistolite
'Erikite'
Eudialyte
Fluorapatite
Galena
'Gmelinite'
Gmelinite-Na
Gonnardite
Hemimorphite
'K Feldspar'
Kuannersuite-(Ce) (TL)
Kvanefjeldite (TL)
Leucophanite
Löllingite
Lomonosovite
Lovdarite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Nabesite (TL)
Nacareniobsite-(Ce) (TL)
Natrokomarovite
Natrolite
Natrophosphate
Naujakasite
Nepheline
Neptunite
Opal ?
Orthojoaquinite-(La) (TL)
Pectolite
Polylithionite
Pyrochlore Group
Rhabdophane-(Ce)
Riebeckite
Rohaite
Silver
Sodalite
Sørensenite (TL)
Sphalerite
var: Cleiophane
Steenstrupine-(Ce)
'Tantalum'
Thalcusite
Townendite (TL)
Trona
Tugtupite
Ussingite
Villiaumite
Vitusite-(Ce) (TL)
Willemite
Yofortierite


80 entries listed. 59 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)]

Pekov, I.V., Zubkova, N.V.,Husdal, T.A., Kononkova, N.N., Agakhanov, A.A., Zadov, A.E. and Pushcharovsky, D.Y. (2012): Carlgieseckeite-(Nd), NaNdCa3(PO4)3F, a new belovite-group mineral species from the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland. Canadian Mineralogist. 50, 571-580


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