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SAPPHIRINE is a principal constituent of certain high grade silica-deficient metamorphic rocks at Fiskenaesset, West Greenland, where it occurs with cordierite, corundum, anorthite and biotite. A crystallo-chemical enigma, it is one of the few rock-forming minerals with unknown crystal structure.
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MOORE, P. Crystal Structure of Sapphirine. Nature 218, 81–82 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218081b0
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