Mineralpedia Details for Sapphirine
Sapphirine
- Formula
- Mg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Granular, Tabular
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- blue, bluish gray, greenish gray, green
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic - Pinacoidal
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 7.5
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Sapphirine from Betroka dist., Anosy, Tuléar prov., Madagascar
Bluish green crystalline area showing some faces in mica matrix.
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