| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Babingtonite |
| Formula: | Ca2(Fe,Mn)FeSi5O14(OH) |
| Comments: | "The babingtonite occurs as an elongated black crystalline aggregate, 2 cm by 3 mm in cross-section, enclosed partly by stilbite and partly by apophyllite. In addition, many small single crystals, up to 5 mm long, are enclosed in stilbite or apophyllite, or project into a small irregular cavity which has been etched from the apophyllite. The babingtonite crystals are glossy black, crushing to a dark greyish green. They tend to be slightly tabular and may show coffin-shaped longitudinal sections. Faces in the plane of flattening may be striated." |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Babingtonite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view The Harcourt Quarries, Harcourt North, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 903734 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:903734:2 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | cfce6016-7821-4f85-97fc-c8a0e12e4631 |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PP. 377-80 Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia W . D . BIRCU...National Museum of Victoria, 285-321 Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia ABSTRACT. Small...Small crystals of babingtonite and rare sphene occur in a coarse-grained aggregate of fluorapophyllite, stilbite...from Harcourt, Victoria. This is the first reported occurrence of babingtonite in Victoria. The assemblage...and under P - T conditions of the order of 0.5 kbar, I00-150~ Some of the fluorapophyllite has been altered |
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