| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Danalite |
| Formula: | Be3Fe42+(SiO4)3S |
| Comments: | Green et al. (2005): "Danalite occurs rarely as small translucent brown crystals and grains on joint planes and in small cavities with quartz, saponite and stilbite-Ca. It is later in the paragenesis than all of the other silicate species except the low temperature zeolite group minerals." |
| Habit: | tetrahedral to pseudo-octahedral |
| Colour: | pale brown |
| Abundance at site: | Rare |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD
SEM-EDS |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Danalite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Lindsay's Leap, Newcastle, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 524271 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:524271:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 94e620aa-4128-4cd3-9917-7c0ea19e87cb |
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Lindsay's Leap, Newcastle, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK