Bulaydah, Bani Hamid area, Khawr Fakkan Massif, Semail Ophiolite, Oman

Pyroxene quartzite outcrop situated 3.6 kilometers NNW of Bulaydah town.
Layered pyroxene quartzite/gneisses (granulite facies equivalent of a chert-hosted sedimentary Mn-deposit).
The quartzite contains boudin or augen-shaped clusters of Mn/Mg pyroxenes or Mn/Fe ore.
Bani Hamid granulite-facies metamorphic unit is characterized by quartz-rich rocks with two pyroxene-magnetite-titanohematite, enstatite-sapphirine-magnetite/spinel-titanohematite, or cordierite-sillimanitemagnetite-titanohematite assemblages.

Mineral List:

	Albite

	'Apatite'

	Braunite

	Donpeacorite

	Enstatite

	Hematite

	Kanonaite

	Parvowinchite

	Pyrophanite

	Quartz

10 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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