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Rankinite from
Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel


Locality type:Anticline
Classification
Species:Rankinite
Formula:Ca3Si2O7
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Aradite2
Melilite Group2
Perovskite1
Schorlomite1
Wollastonite Group1
Magnetite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rankinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1219609
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1219609:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Rankinite
1.5km (0.9 miles) ⓘParalava outcrops, Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘWadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.8km (1.7 miles) ⓘSouthern Hatrurim Basin, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.8km (1.8 miles) ⓘFerroÃĨkermanite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
4.1km (2.5 miles) ⓘMazorite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
4.1km (2.6 miles) ⓘParalava occurrence, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘRoadside Arad – Dead Sea, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
7.3km (4.5 miles) ⓘAradite type locality, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘTsomet Hatrurim, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘNahal Morag Canyon, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
References
Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Prusik, Krystian, Stasiak, Marta, DzierÅžanowski, Piotr, Murashko, Mikhail (2017) Gurimite, Ba3(VO4)2 and hexacelsian, BaAl2Si2O8 – two new minerals from schorlomite-rich paralava of the Hatrurim Complex, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 1009-1019 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.147
Krzątała, A., Galuskin, E.V., Galuskina, I.O., Vapnik, Y. (2018) “Uranian cuspidine” – a potentially new mineral from paralava of Eastern Gurim, Hatrurim Complex, Israel. in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne: 358.
 
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