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Sapphirine from
Sapphirine locality, Ivesdalsfjellet, Vikeså, Bjerkreim, Rogaland, Norway


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Sapphirine
Formula:Mg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]
Chemical Analyses:
Oxide wt%:
1
SiO214.6 %
Al2O358.7 %
TiO20.1 %
FeO(tot)9.2 %
MgO16.9 %
MnO0.1 %
Total:99.6 %
Sample references:
1A 146
Comments:Crystals often mantled by bronzite
Habit:euhedrale prismatic crystals
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphirine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sapphirine locality, Ivesdalsfjellet, Vikeså, Bjerkreim, Rogaland, Norway
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:389691
Long-form Identifier:1:3:389691:4
GUID (UUID V4):4200713a-efe9-48ff-bf64-b50cdf988b36
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrology (2002) 75: 123±130 Short Communication A sapphirine±phlogopite±cordierite paragenesis in a low-P...Australia, preserve relatively low-temperature sapphirine-bearing parageneses that developed during low-pressure...metamorphism. Peak metamorphic phlogopite±cordierite±sapphirine assemblages are interpreted to have formed during...cooling of the terrain resulted in the breakdown of sapphirine to corundum±chlorite±phlogopite and corundum±spinel±chlorite...facies conditions resulted in the replacement of sapphirine by diaspore±chlorite intergrowths. The reaction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
8.1966 JULY-AUGUST 1966 A New Occurrence of Sapphirine and Related Anthophyllite from Central Australia...e rocks, in which aggregates of bronzite and sapphirine appear to be pseudomorphs of aluminous anthophyllite...gedrite + AH = enstatite + sapphirine + silica + escaping " water ". SAPPHIRINE is associated with rocks...foothills of the Strangways Range. The only other sapphirine occurrences reported in Australia are at Dangin...mineralogy and genesis of these rocks is in hand. The sapphirine was found in boulders among the country rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands A new occurrence of sapphirine-bearing granulite from Podur, Andhra Pradesh...Summary We report here on a new occurrence of sapphirine bearing granulites in the high-grade granite...stable assemblage contains cordierite-biotite-sapphirine-spinel-corundum-K-feldspar. Interpretation of...K-feldspar þ H2 O sapphirine ¼ cordierite þ spinel þ corundum The P–T evolution of these sapphirine granulites... 2:2:1 and Spr7:9:3: Subscripts indicate the sapphirine end member molar ratio of MgO: Al2O3:SiO2 416
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. 47, P P . 555 61 Magnesian h6gbomite in a sapphirine-bearing rock from the Fiskenaesset region, W...gedrites there are dusters with chlorite, spinel, sapphirine, rutile, hfgbomite and corundum. H6gbomite forms...surrounded by spinel and sapphirine but never in contact with gedrite. Usually sapphirine forms rims on spinel...gedrite. Corundum is intergrown with spinel and sapphirine. Reactions suggested by the textures are: 1....Gedrite + spinel + rutile --* sapphirine + hfgbomite + chlorite. 2. Sapphirine ~ chlorite + corundum + spinel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.I. metamorphic Geol. 1987, 5, 323-339 Sapphirine parageneses from the Caraiba complex, Bahia, Brazil:...of Fe2+-Fe3+ distribution on the stability of sapphirine in natural assemblages D. ACKERMAND, Mineralogisches...Leicester LEI 7RH, United Kingdom Abstract. Sapphirine-bearing rocks occur in three conformable, metre-size...Brazil. In the lenses there are six different sapphirine-bearing rock types, which have the following...E: F: Sapphirine, orthopyroxene; Sapphirine, cordierite, orthopyroxene, spinel; Sapphirine, cordierite;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Received June 14, 1967) SUMMARY A beryllium-bearing sapphirine, spinel, taaffeite, phlogopite and a p a t i...n c o u r a g e s i m i l a r s t u d i e s . LOCALITY PREDICTION In 1957 a new o c c u r r e n c e of...i e d in d e t a i l by one of us (D.R.H.). Sapphirine finds In 1966, d u r i n g f u r t h e r field...= Mount P a i n t e r . ANALYSIS Samples of sapphirine and spinel were prepared from the phlogopite...associated taaffeite is included in Table I. The sapphirine is the first recorded in which BeOis present
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
taaffeite (an oxide of Be, A1, Mg and Fe) and Be-sapphirine are also found in Sri Lanka. A mineral termed...Hudson (1967) reported the first occurrence of sapphirine in the granulite terrain of the Musgrave Block...Australia. As a result of a detailed study of the sapphirine and the associated phlogopite-bearing pyroxenites...Musgrave Ranges was predicted to be a potential sapphirine locality. This was done on the basis of the presumed...that Be-bearing sapphirine was discovered. Lacroix (1940) had also found such sapphirine and associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reaction Textures and Metamorphic Evolution of Sapphirine-bearing Granulites from the Gruf Complex, Italian...chemistries and textures are described from a suite of sapphirine-bearing granulites from the Gruf Complex of the...contain combinations of garnet, orthopyroxene, sapphirine, sillimanite, cordierite, biotite, quartz, spinel...monomineralic reaction rims (e.g. of cordierite between sapphirine and quartz); (iii) fine-grained symplectitic...symplectitic coronas (e.g. of orthopyroxene + sapphirine round garnet); (iv) inclusions, in garnet cores, of minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deduction. The suggestion that the corundum and sapphirine are formed by incongruent melting of the plagioclase...Sittampundi layered rock (JS I56) from near the sapphirine locality that is composed of about 51 ~o Anal' bytownite...aluminous amphiboles, sillimanite, corundum, and sapphirine but does not solve the problem of whether or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Manton, W.I., 1986. A new correlation of sapphirine granulites in the Indo--Antarctic metamorphic...the Eastern Ghats Province of South India, a sapphirine-bearing granulite from Anakapalle and a charnockite...India for sapphirine formation during the late Proterozoic; other South Indian sapphirine localities...review of sapphirine localities in the Indo-Antarctic metamorphic terrain indicates that sapphirine developed...(1979a). Sapphirine localities are from summaries by Grew (1982b) and Grew (1984a) except for locality west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al., 1974). I I ASl2 I-_-------_ I Fig. 1. Locality map of Australia to Figs. 2, 4 and 5, respectively...Average Charnockite 85 86 89 87 88 90 91 94 92 93 Sapphirine 95 96 100 97 98 99 101 of 80 samples (Wilson...Fe, Hb 18974 Pl, Op, Fe 18978 Pl, OP, CP, 8, Fe locality, S. Quairading Mafic granulite, 41352 WA Pl, Op...with 6 “0 values of - 5.2°/oo (see Fig. 3). Sapphirine locality, south of Quairading, Western Australia (Fig...(Fig. 5, Sa. 95-l 07) This locality is characterized by anomalously low 6 “0 values (Wilson and Green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
garnet-bearing gabbro, Heidal, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. Said to be between an amphibole and a pyroxene...net schist. Sel, PiUargurippiggen, Otta River, Norway. Analysis made for Goldschmidt in I915. Because...%). M a c o n Co., N o r t h Carolina, precise locality u n k n o w n . Analyst, A. K e m p . A Y , A...hornblende in an anorthite amphibolite rich in sapphirine with a little corundum, o'7 K m ESE of Chantel...amphibolite with corundum, zoisite, spinel, and sapphirine. Locality and reference as 5. H 2 0 + is loss on ignition
Report (chapter)
2004). Baba et al. (2006) reported a new sapphirine locality in the southwestern part of the Schirmacher...microprobe (SHIRIMP) U –Pb zircon age dating of sapphirine-bearing UHT granulite in the Schirmacher Hills...Station and Troll Station during the Japan–Germany–Norway joint expedition in the Mühlig-Hofmannfjella region...WADA , M., G REW , E. S. & S HIRAISHI , K. 2006. Sapphirine granulite from Schirmacher Hills, Central Dronning...East Antarctica: A preliminary report on a Japan–Norway–Germany joint geological investigation. Polar Geosciences
Book (volume)
145 STAUROLITE.151 CHLORITOID.161 DATOLITE.171 SAPPHIRINE.176 EPIDOTE GROUP 183 Zoisite Clinozoisite...composition of the olivine form dunite of the type locality (Table 2, anal. 5) is F092, the average composition...area of Sunnmore on the west coast of southern Norway. Norsk. Geol. Tidsskr., vol. 7, p. 177. Grigoriev...plutonic rocks. Norbergite is named after the locality Norberg, Sweden, chondrodite, from the Greek chondros...and Sahama, 1950). Zircon, however, from Iveland, Norway, has been found to contain 22 to 24 per cent. HfC>2
 
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