Diopside from
Beluga sapphire property, Kimmirut (Lake Harbour), Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

Locality type:

Property

Classification

Species:

Diopside

Formula:

CaMgSi₂O₆

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Beluga sapphire property, Kimmirut (Lake Harbour), Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

1093424

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:1093424:7

GUID (UUID V4):

1fef8d08-bd24-415c-b03c-6cfd7ee0ca51

Nearest other occurrences of Diopside

10.7km (6.6 miles)

ⓘ Lake Harbour Group, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

70.2km (43.6 miles)

ⓘ Cook Inlet, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

References

Belley, P, et al. (2017) Origin Of Scapolite-Hosted Sapphire (Corundum) Near Kimmirut, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada The Canadian Mineralogist,55(4):669 http://dx.doi.org/10.3749/canmin.1700018

Lee Groat, Philippe Belley, Donald Lake, David Turner, Andrew Fagan (2018) Adding logic to luck: Recent advances in coloured gem exploration in Canada. in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p 322

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	Belley, Philippe M., Groat, Lee A. (2019) Metacarbonate-hosted Spinel On Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada: Insights Into the Origin of Gem Spinel and Cobalt-Blue Spinel. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (2) 147-200 doi:10.3749/canmin.1800060	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	1800060 METACARBONATE-HOSTED SPINEL ON BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA: INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN OF GEM SPINEL...Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4 ABSTRACT Samples from 14 spinel occurrences in the Lake Harbour Group (LHG)...(LHG), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, were studied using a combination of petrography, whole rock geochemistry...not of gem quality. Two spinel occurrences near Kimmirut contain vivid blue, cobalt-enriched (0.03–0.07...include calcite, dolomite, phlogopite, pargasite, diopside, humite, forsterite, scapolite, anorthite, graphite
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Diopside from Beluga sapphire property, Kimmirut (Lake Harbour), Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

Diopside from
Beluga sapphire property, Kimmirut (Lake Harbour), Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada