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Sapphirine from
Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia


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Sapphirine

Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
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Sapphirine

Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
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Sapphirine

Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Sapphirine
Formula:Mg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]
Comments:"The sapphirine crystals are mostly pseudo-hexagonal tabulae up to 2.0 x 2.5 cms, which are found aligned with the gneissic fabric of the matrix. Crystal margins are commonly altered to a fine intergrowth of corundum, tourmaline, and magnetite, and surround a deep blue-black vitreous core of sapphirine."
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphirine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:819653
Long-form Identifier:1:3:819653:8
GUID (UUID V4):4d49e9f2-c171-44e0-86cd-1869b190e265
Localities for Sapphirine in this Region
Unnamed kornerupine location (W), Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Sapphirine
9.1km (5.6 miles) ⓘUnnamed kornerupine location (W), Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
20.6km (12.8 miles) ⓘOonagalabi Prospect, Mount Mabel, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
61.3km (38.1 miles) ⓘStrangways Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
62.8km (39.0 miles) ⓘJohannsen's Phlogopite Mine, Strangways Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
R.G.Warren & D.H.McColl 1983. Occurrences of boron-bearing kornerupine in the western Harts Range and near Mount Baldwin, Arunta block, Central Australia. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics, 8 pp. 93-96 1983
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Hemingway, B.S., Mazdab, F.K., Anovitz, Lawrence M. (1996) Heat capacity and thermodynamic properties for two samples of prismatine. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-508) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96508
Report (issue)
divided the kornerupine group into two compositional ranges which they call kornerupine and prismatine. The...acquired for this study is from Mt. Riddock Station, Harts Range, NT, Australia. The sample consisted of large...Natural History (#133772), but was labeled as sapphirine. Both X-ray and microprobe analyses showed the...replacement reactions involving tourmaline, Fiskenaesset region, W greenland: Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, 490-500...boron-free kornerupine and its breakdown products in a sapphirine rock of the Limpopo Belt, south Africa: Contributions
 
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