| Locality type: | Pegmatite |
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| Species: | Kristiansenite |
| Formula: | Ca4(Sc2Sn2)[Si2O7]2[Si2O6OH]2 |
| Habit: | Triclinic |
| Colour: | Colourless, greyish, yellowish |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Valid - Type Locality |
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| Quartz | 5 |
| Stilpnomelane | 4 |
| Scandiobabingtonite | 3 |
| Albite | 3 |
| Cascandite | 2 |
| Titanite | 1 |
| - var Triclinic Titanite | 1 |
| Epidote | 1 |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Kristiansenite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Heftetjern pegmatite, Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark, Norway |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (21 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 60225 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:60225:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| References |
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Ferraris, G., Gula, A., Ivaldi, G., Nespolo, Massimo, Raade, G. (2001) Crystal structure of kristiansenite: a case of class IIB twinning by metric merohedry. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, 216 (8) doi:10.1524/zkri.216.8.442.20353 Raade, G., Ferraris, G., Gula, A., Ivaldi, G., Bernhard, F. (2002) Kristiansenite, a new calcium-scandium-tin sorosilicate from granite pegmatite in Tørdal, Telemark, Norway. Mineralogy and Petrology, 75 (1) 89-99 doi:10.1007/s007100200017 Chukanov, Nikita V.; Zubkova, Natalia V.; Kasatkin, Anatoly V.; Pekov, Igor V.; Agakhanov, Atali A.; Yapaskurt, Vasiliy O.; Virus, Alla A.; Ksenofontov, Dmitry A.; Britvin, Sergey N. (2026) Partial Ordering of Cations by the Wolframite Mechanism Using Fe2+- and Sc-Dominant Minerals of the Columbite Supergroup as Examples. Minerals, 16 (5). p.536. doi:10.3390/min16050536 |
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Heftetjern pegmatite, Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark, Norway