Aegirine is a member of the clinopyroxene group of inosilicate minerals. It is the sodium endmember of the aegirine–augite series. It has the chemical...
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for a mechanism to make up the "missing" positive charge. In jadeite and aegirine this is added by the inclusion of a +3 cation (aluminium and iron(III)...
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The clinopyroxene is sodic whose composition varies from hedenbergite to aegirine-augite. This mineral eventually presents resorption shape. The reaction...
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Crystals of serandite, natrolite, analcime, and aegirine from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada...
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Actinolite Acuminite Adamite Adamsite-(Y) Adelite Admontite Adranosite Aegirine Aegirine-augite Aenigmatite Aerinite Aerugite Aeschynite-(Ce) Aeschynite-(Nd)...
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of the mineral. The black spots on some specimens are either augite or aegirine, the latter occurring in almost all charoites since they commonly grow...
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material in general. Associate minerals include: microcline, nepheline, aegirine, lamprophyllite, lorenzenite, catapleiite, murmanite, arfvedsonite, sodalite...
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asbestiform variety crocidolite (blue asbestos). It occurs in association with aegirine, nepheline, albite, arfvedsonite in igneous rocks; with tremolite, ferro-actinolite...
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Na2O + K2O > Al2O3, so that some of the alkali oxides must be present as aegirine or sodic amphibole rather than feldspar. The chemistry of volcanic rocks...
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Peninsula, Russia. Its mineral association includes nepheline, albite, aegirine, riebeckite, katophorite and quartz. Arfvedsonite was discovered in 1823...
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characteristic dark color comes from its concentration of dark pyroxenes such as aegirine and augite. Blairmorite is an analcite-rich variety of phonolite. Nepheline...
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have been used as gemstones. Such as: Actinolite Nephrite (var.) Adamite Aegirine Afghanite Agrellite Algodonite Alunite Amblygonite Analcime Anatase Andalusite...
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natrolite. Other associated minerals include nepheline, titanian andradite, aegirine, microcline, sanidine, albite, calcite, fluorite, ankerite and baryte....
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Rim group, dated to 274,000–170,000 years ago Phonolite lava flows with aegirine phenocrysts, of the Inner Crater group, which represents the last volcanic...
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(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6 Sodium pyroxene series Jadeite – NaAlSi2O6 Aegirine (or acmite) – NaFeIIISi2O6 Spodumene – LiAlSi2O6 Pyroxferroite - (Fe,Ca)SiO3...
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named for Neptune, Roman god of the sea because of its association with aegirine from Àgir, the Scandinavian sea-god. The Gemological Institute of America...
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(1901–1948) for an occurrence on Iwagi Islet, Japan, where it is found in an aegirine syenite intrusive stock. It is found in a similar environment at Mont Saint-Hilaire...
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much nepheline with hauyne or nosean. Their pyroxene is principally aegirine or aegirine-augite; some of them are rich in melanite. Microscopic sections of...
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astrophyllite is associated with feldspar, mica, titanite, zircon, nepheline, and aegirine. Common impurities include magnesium, aluminium, calcium, zirconium, niobium...
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intrusives and in nepheline syenite pegmatites. It occurs associated with aegirine, sodalite, nepheline, neptunite, lamprophyllite, pectolite, serandite,...
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Sodalite-aegirine-albite pegmatite specimen, Ice River Complex, an intrusion partly in Yoho National Park. Field of view ≈7.1 cm across....
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commanded by Lt Cmdr Neil Foster RN. As well as collecting samples of the aegirine granite, "rockallite", for later analysis in London, the top of the rock...
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characteristically found in carbonatites. Associated minerals include zircon, aegirine, apatite, perovskite and columbite. It was first described in 1826 for...
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(melanite) and aegirine. The abundance of melanite is very unusual in igneous rocks, though some syenites, leucitophyres, and aegirine-felsites resemble...
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characteristic of the phonolites may also be found in some trachytes; thus aegirine or aegirine augite forms outgrowths on diopside crystals, and riebeckite may...
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khibinites of the Poços de Caldas massif, Brazil. Associated minerals are aegirine, analcime, astrophyllite, cancrinite, fluorite, lamprophyllite, nepheline...
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alkalic intrusive of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. It occurs associated with aegirine, microcline, albite, elpidite, epididymite, taeniolite, pectolite, calcite...
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the groundmass include zoned pyroxenes (cores of diopside rimmed by Ti-aegirine), spinel-group minerals (magnesian chromite to titaniferous magnetite)...
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Leucophanite The leucophanite on an aegirine needle (about 4–5 mm on edge) General Category Inosilicates Formula (repeating unit) (Na,Ca)2BeSi2(O.OH.F)7...
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