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Gneiss and clinopyroxenite outcrops, Honsvall Lake, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada

Ref.: Eur. Jour. Mineral. , 1995, 7, pp. 1251-1272.

Gneisses and clinopyroxenites outcroppings. HP/HT (15 kb, 1000°C) metamorphic formations : Felsic gneisses layers within mafic mylonites and peraluminous Kyanite-corundum-bearing garnet clinopyroxenite layers within quartzo-feldspathic gneisses.
Located south of Honsvall Lake, north of Athabasca Basin.
Northern part of the Upper Deck, East Athabascan Mylonite Triangle.





Mineral List:
Albite
var: Andesine

'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Almandine
Anorthite
var: Labradorite

Anorthoclase
Apatite-(CaCl)
Augite
var: Fassaite

var: Soda-Augite
Corundum
'Geikielite-Ilmenite Series'
Graphite
'K Feldspar'
Kyanite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
Pargasite
'Perthite'
Phlogopite
Pyrope
Quartz
Rutile
var: Niobian Rutile
Sapphirine
Sillimanite
Spinel
Titanite
Zircon


27 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.

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