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Nepheline from
Kringlerne, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:Nepheline
Formula:Na3K(Al4Si4O16)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nepheline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kringlerne, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1015883
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1015883:8
GUID (UUID V4):4a257bb8-ea3b-47c9-878f-3a196f8989ae
Nearest other occurrences of Nepheline
1.4km (0.8 miles) South Coast Pegmatite, Qeqertaussaq Island, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
1.4km (0.9 miles) East Coast Pegmatite, Qeqertaussaq Island, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
1.5km (0.9 miles) Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
2.0km (1.2 miles) Leucophanite occurrence, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
5.6km (3.5 miles) Tuperssuatsiat Bay, Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
5.7km (3.5 miles) Naujakasik (Naajakasik), Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
7.5km (4.6 miles) Igdlunguaq, Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
7.7km (4.8 miles) Tugtup Agtakôrfia, Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
11.8km (7.3 miles) Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
13.4km (8.3 miles) Kvanefjeld adit, Kvanefjeld deposit, Kuannersuit Plateau (Kvanefjeld), Ilímaussaq complex, Kujalleq, Greenland
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and altered eudialyte in nepheline syenite from the Ilímaussaq Complex, Greenland, one of the world’s largest...partial replacement of primary magmatic eudialyte by complex pseudomorph assemblages of secondary Zr-, Nb-,...Keywords: eudialyte; hydrothermal alteration; Ilímaussaq; rare earth elements; fluid mobility; peralkaline...example, the Kringlerne deposit in the Mesoproterozoic Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland, presents a...layered agpaitic nepheline syenite, locally known as kakortokite [10,13]. Agpaitic nepheline syenite crystallises
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zirconosilicates in the kakortokites of the Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland: Implications for fluid evolution...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark Department...layered agpaitic nepheline syenites (kakortokites) of the Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland, host voluminous...accumulations of eudialyte-group minerals (EGM). These complex Na-Ca-zirconosilicates contain economically attractive...silicate gittinsite, previously unidentified at Ilímaussaq, requires an increase in CaO activity and suggests
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Metallogeny of South Greenland: A review of geological evolution, mineral occurrences...Jochen, Thrane, Kristine, Metallogeny of South Greenland: A review of geological evolution, mineral occurrences...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Metallogeny of South Greenland: A review of geological evolution, mineral occurrences...Thrane IP The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...steenfelt@gmail.com; ast@geus.dk NU Abstract South Greenland has been the site of historic mining of cryolite
Report (issue)
35 Side 1 The rare earth element potential in Greenland GO_29_GO-29 26/02/18 15.35 Side 2 GEOLOGY AND...earth element potential in Greenland Supply of rare earth elements (REE) is complex. REE deposits are geographically...only containing a few of the REEs in demand. Greenland is endowed with several large REE deposits, related...advanced stages of exploration. Additionally, Greenland also holds geological terrains favourable for...2016). In response to this rising global demand, Greenland has experienced a strong international interest
Report (issue)
PM Page 1 The rare earth element potential in Greenland No. 20 - November 2011 GO_20_GO19_OpenType...earth element potential in Greenland Supply of rare earth elements (REE) is complex. REE deposits are geographically...only containing a few of the REEs in demand. Greenland is endowed with several large REE deposits, related...advanced stages of exploration. Additionally, Greenland also holds geological terrains favourable for...critical. In response to this rising global demand, Greenland has experienced a strong international interest
Journal (volume)
E T I N 1 9 0 · 2001 The Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland: status of mineralogical research...Sørensen Contributions to the mineralogy of Ilímaussaq, no. 100 Anniversary volume with list of minerals...SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT 1 Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 190...province, geochemistry, hyper-agpaite, Ilímaussaq, mineralogy, nepheline syenite, peralkaline, Mesoproterozoic...South Greenland. Cover Igneous layering in kakortokites in the southern part of the Ilímaussaq alkaline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
resources of critical metals are found commonly in complex natural systems that are not always well understood...AND FRANCES WALL found in the Ilímaussaq complex of southern Greenland (Sørensen, 1992), which hosts...exploration projects, Kringlerne and Kvanefjeld (Goodenough et al., 2016). Of these, the Kringlerne prospect lies...lies within a zone of layered agpaitic nepheline syenites in which the REE are hosted largely in eudialyte-group...alteration and mineral replacement in the Ilímaussaq complex, using samples from Kvanefjeld. This work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plutonic bodies in the alkaline province of South Greenland. Its formation was preceded by the accumulation...Ilimaussaq into two groups : 1) the unstratified complex made up of fairly normal rocks as augite syenite...granite ; 2) the stratified, peralkaline, agpaitic nepheline syenites: sodalite foyaite, naujaite, kakortokite...beds of porphyries. The stratified part of the complex is saucer-shaped. According to USSIN G the batholith...FERSMAN and BACKLUND. WEGMANN considered the nepheline syenites to be of metasomatic origin. The Ilimaussaq
Journal (issue)
plutonic bodies in the alkaline province of South Greenland. Its formation was preceded by the accumulation...llimaussaq into two groups : 1) the unslratified complex made up of fairly normal rocks as augite syenite...granite; 2) the stratified, peralkaline, agpaitic nepheline syenites: sodalile foyaite, naujaile, kakortokile...beds of porphyries. The stratified part of the complex is saucer-shaped. According lo UssING the batholith...FERS)IA:'< and BACKL UN D. vVEGMANN considered the nepheline syenites lo be of metasomatic origin. The Ilimaussaq
Report (issue)
1/4/10 1:28 PM Page 2 GEOLOGY AND ORE 16 / 2009 Greenland and its geological environments favourable for...mining Shield formation and cratonisation in Greenland, created by the formation of continental and oceanic...southern West Greenland. Ultramafic to mafic intrusions in greenstone belts occurred in Greenland as major...the Pitufiik area, Melville Bugt, North-West Greenland. The width of the banded iron formation varies...Exploration and development of mineral resources in Greenland, as a ‘greenfield’ region with rather high exploration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Metallogeny of Greenland Jochen Kolb, Jakob K. Keiding, Agnete Steenfelt, Karsten Secher...Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M., Metallogeny of Greenland, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Metallogeny of Greenland JOCHEN KOLB1, JAKOB K. KEIDING1,2, AGNETE STEENFELT1...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...TE D MA Corresponding author: jkol@geus.dk Greenland is the largest island on Earth, with 80% of its
Report (issue)
100°59(2)´ Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ilímaussaq intrusion, Greenland. 13.49 (100), 2.505 (100), 3.448 (90)...07 0.34 9.44 13.91 0.36 98.80 (1) Ilímaussaq intrusion, Greenland; by electron microprobe, C confirmed...Occurrence: In pegmatite veins associated with nepheline syenites. Association: Aegirine, lamprophyllite...aegirine, fluorite, rinkite, eudialyte (Ilímaussaq intrusion, Greenland); aegirine, albite, analcime, an astrophyllite-group...Peninsula, Russia. In southern Greenland, from the Ilímaussaq intrusion, at Kringlerne, on the Kangerdluarssuk
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Uppsala, Sweden e Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...of Precambrian to Palaeozoic age and occur in Greenland and the Fennoscandian Shield. Of particular importance...their REE potential are the Gardar Province of SW Greenland, the Svecofennian Belt and subsequent Mesoproterozoic...European REE ores. Such raw material processing is complex, comprising a beneficiation step to concentrate...candidate countries, plus Norway, Switzerland, and Greenland. Russia and Ukraine are not included in this work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
compositional zoning in eudialyte, Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland Anouk M. Borst 1,2*, Henrik Friis3...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark 2:...kakortokites of the Mesoproterozoic Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland, comprise a rhythmically layered...layered series of agpaitic nepheline syenites that crystallized at the base of a shallow crustal magma chamber...eudialyte-group minerals (EGM), i.e. structurally complex Na-zirconosilicates, as a major cumulate phase
Book
MINERAL SPECIES FffiST DESCRIBED fron1 GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen Also in this series... MINE. RAL ....... SPECIES FIRST DESCRIBED froin GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen The Canadian Mineralogist...organizations: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland Geologisk Museums St0ttefond (Geological Museum's...document on the minerals first discovered in Greenland. After all, as they point out in the first sentence...Introduction, a mere 26 kilometers separates Greenland from Canada along Nares Strait; we are neighbors
Journal (issue)
GEOLOGY OF THE ILfMAUSSAQ ALKALINE INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND DESCRIPTION OF MAP .AND STRUCTURE BY J. FERGUSON...GEOLOGY OF THE ILfMAUSSAQ ALKALINE INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND DESCRIPTION OF MAP AND STRUCTURE BY J. FERGUSON...province of South Greenland . It is thought that all the alkaline intrusions in South Greenland were emplaced...fissile lujavrites. Minor syenitic intrusions in the complex probably mark the last phase of igneous activity...aerial phofograf'h used as 6ase) Legend CJ Banded nepheline } AgpuHes syenifes -~-~9 Just undersofurated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF THE ILIMAUSSAQ ALKALINE INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND , DESCRIPTION OF MAP AND STRUCTURE BY J. FERGUSON...GEOLOGY OF THE ILIMAUSSAQ ALKALINE INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND , DESCRIPTION OF MAP AND STRUCTURE BY J. FERGUSON...province of South Greenland. It is thought that all the alkaline intrusions in South Greenland were emplaced...fissile lujavrites. Minor syenitic intrusions in the complex probably mark the last phase of igneous activity...stage i/?.Jeefed } 1:·..... :::-.:1 BCTnded nepheline syenites ~ Just undersaturafed o/enites '::
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
igneous activity – either carbonatites or agpaitic nepheline syenites. The total resource in these deposits...the primary igneous source, but the grade is a complex function of igneous source, magmatic crystallisation...molal Na2O+K2O/Al2O3>1.2, and the formation of complex Zr and Ti minerals such as eudialyte – such rocks...host marble. The geochronology of the ores is complex, with periods defined from 1230– 1350 Ma (largely...2015). SC Bear Lodge– The Bear Lodge Carbonatite complex is not currently mined, but hosts potentially economic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Layering in Peralkaline Magmas, Ilı́maussaq Complex, S Greenland Emma J. Hunt, Adrian A. Finch, Colin H....Layering in Peralkaline Magmas, Ilı́maussaq Complex, S Greenland, LITHOS (2016), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016...Layering in Peralkaline Magmas, Ilímaussaq Complex, S 2 Greenland 3 Emma J. Hunt*1, Adrian A. Finch...PT 1 The peralkaline to agpaitic Ilímaussaq Complex, S. Greenland, displays 10 spectacular macrorhythmic...(agpaitic nepheline 11 syenite), which outcrops as the lowest exposed rocks in the complex. This study
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
funnel-shaped (Bushveld Complex, South Africa), box-shaped (Skaergaard Intrusion, SE Greenland), or that are sheet-like...layered nepheline syenites (kakortokites) in the upper part of the Ilímaussaq Alkaline Complex (South...(South Greenland). Individual layers are, on average, 8 m thick and consist of a very amphibole-rich dark base...photograph was taken at the Kringlerne plateau in the southern part of the complex. Photo : M ichael Marks...emplaced. Muskox Stillwater Sudbury Figure 2 Ilímaussaq Kiglapait Duluth Kemi & Pechenga Penikat Rum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite: a case study from the Ambohimirahavavy complex, Madagascar GUILLAUME ESTRADE *, STEFANO SALVI...pegmatitic granites from the Cenozoic Ambohimirahavavy complex, and assess the magmatic conditions required to...are richer in REE and poorer in Ca than EGM in nepheline syenites. We infer that magmatic EGM are rare...Introduction EUDIALYTE-group minerals (EGM) are complex Na-Ca-Zr-cyclosilicates with the general formula...1180/minmag.2017.081.053 are incorporated into complex Na-K-Ca-Zr-silicates, rich in volatiles (Cl, F
Report (issue)
65 0.24 [100.00] (1) Il¶³maussaq intrusion, Greenland; Na2 O by di®erence, CO 2 presumably driven o®...layered nepheline syenite. Association: Microcline, arfvedsonite. Distribution: Greenland. Name: ... In the Il¶³maussaq intrusion, at Kringlerne, Kangerdluarssuk Plateau, southern For its relation to...gerasimovskite, and tundrite { from Il¶³maussaq, South Greenland. Medd. Gr¿nland, 181(5), 1{11. (2) (1968) Amer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EVOLUTION • OF THE ILIMAUSSAQ INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND BY JOHN FERGUSON WITH 44 FIGURES AND 35 TABLES...GEOLOGISKE UNDERSØGELSE The Geological Surfley of Greenland 0stervoldgade 10, DK-1350 København K Denmark...deformation of the gneisses of Vesterland, South-West Greenland. 1968 by J. Watterson (Mecldr Grønland 175, 6)...veins in volcanic rocks from Nilgssuaq, West Greenland. 1969 by S. Karup-Møller (Meddr Grønland 186,...preliminary examination of fluid inclusions in nepheline, sorensenite, tugtupite and chkalovite from the
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EVOLUTION , OF THE ILIMAUSSAQ INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND BY JOHN FERGUSON WITH 44 FIGURES AND 35 TABLES...EVOLUTION OF THE ILIMAUSSAQ INTRUSION, SOUTH GREENLAND r BY JOHN FERGUSO WITH 44 FIGURES AND 35 TABLES... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nepheline...... . ...... . ........ ...... ... . . .. ....plutons of Precambrian age occurring in South Greenland. Of these bodies the Ilimaussaq Intrusion has...well-known Tunugdliarfik fjord (Figs. 1 and 2); the grey weathering of the friable nepheline syenites contrasts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eudialyte ores from Norra Kärr (Sweden) and Kringlerne (Greenland) are considered a potential source of rare-earth...already-liberated minerals such as alkali feldspars and nepheline, which should not be considered as tailings. In...Fe, Ti, and other colored impurities from the nepheline-feldspar product and to minimize the tailings...selective flotation; phosphoric acid esters; nepheline-syenite of Norra Kärr Deposit. Minerals 2022...such as Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta. In this context, nepheline syenite rocks belong to alkaline igneous rocks
 
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