| Locality type: | Outcrop |
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| Species: | Antigorite |
| Formula: | Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Antigorite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Chromitite outcrops, Barramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 619786 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:619786:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | ef7099ed-7b63-42dd-9bf2-07e752d296ce |
| Nearest other occurrences of Antigorite |
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| 25.4km (15.8 miles) | ⓘWadi Bezah, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| 53.7km (33.3 miles) | ⓘAtud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| 75.6km (47.0 miles) | ⓘWadi Um Huitate, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| 97.3km (60.5 miles) | ⓘWadi El-Zarka, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| 98.1km (61.0 miles) | ⓘWadi El-Lawi, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | include variably deformed banded and podiform chromitite bodies made up of massive, semi-massive, nodular...Compositional data indicate that these high-Cr chromitite bodies crystallized from melts of boninitic affinities...associated with clinochlore even in unaltered chromitite specimens and the degree of serpentinization...igneous origin. However, the general association of chromitite with dunite implies the involvement of melt–rock... 1995; Matveev and Ballhaus, 2002). Podiform chromitite is regularly regarded as an important petrotectonic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Avdella mélange. The most sizeable block is a chromitite-bearing serpentinite showing a mesh texture....different chromitite pods are recognized in the studied serpentinite fragment, a Cr-rich chromitite and a...a high-Al chromitite, which have been ascribed to crystallization from a single, progressively differentiating...ore-making Cr-spinel is uneven among the Al-rich chromitite specimens. Textural features such as olivine...high-Al chromitite and their absence from the Cr-rich chromitite matrix imply that after chromitite formation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrous inclusions and nodular textures indicates chromitite formation and alteration under low pressure conditions... Key words ophiolite, Variscan, ferrogabbro, chromitite, silicious inclusions, spreading rate 1 1...significant influence of fluids on formation of chromitite bodies (Lorand and Ceuleneer, 1989), as well...minerals. Ultramafic rocks neighboring the gabbroic outcrops (the Radunia and Czernica Hills – Fig. 2) are...which were replaced by high-T, non-pseudomorphic antigorite rosette crystals (Dubińska and Gunia, 1997) and |
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