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Birkhin (Ozernovskii) gabbro massif, Narin-Kunta, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Kilchoanite
Birkhin gabbro massif, Narin-Kunta, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov
Latitude: 52°42'N
Longitude: 106°30'E
Бирхин (Озерновский) массив

Partly altered high-temperature skarns; skarned carbonate-silicate xenoliths within gabbroid rocks.

References

- Savel'eva V.B., Uschapovskaya Z.F., Nartova N.V. (1992) On kilchoanite rock from Priolkhonie (Western Pribaikalie), // Zapiski VMO, v.121, N3, pp. 111-117 (in Rus.)
- Savel'eva V.B.,, Korikovskii S.P. (1998) Sadanagaite in biotite-corundum-margarite-spinel-anorthite crystalline shists of Western Pribaikalie, // Doklady AN, v.360, N1, pp.85-87 (in Rus.)
- Armbruster, T., Lazic, B., Gfeller, F., Galuskin, E.V., Galuskina, I.O., Savelyeva, V.B., Zadov, A.E., Pertsev, N.N., Dzierżanowski, P. (2011): Chlorine content and crystal chemistry of dellaite from the Birkhin gabbro massif, Eastern Siberia, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 379-394.

Mineral List

'Andradite-Grossular Series'
Anorthite
Bredigite
Calcio-Olivine
Clinozoisite
Clintonite
Dellaite
Galuskinite (TL)
Gehlenite
'Grossular-Hibschite Series'
Kilchoanite
Larnite
Magnetite
Margarite
Merwinite
Monticellite
Pavlovskyite (TL)
Perovskite
Potassicsadanagaite
Spinel
Spurrite
Vesuvianite
Wollastonite


23 entries listed. 21 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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