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


Locality type:Anticline
Classification
Species:Khesinite
Formula:Ca4(Mg3Fe93+)O4(Fe93+Si3)O36
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Khesinite 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:906851
Long-form Identifier:1:3:906851:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Khesinite
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘWadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘHar Parsa (Mt. Parsa), Hatrurim Basin, 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
10.3km (6.4 miles) ⓘYe’elim Mount, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
70.0km (43.5 miles) ⓘJebel Harmun (Jabel Harum), Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
71.8km (44.6 miles) ⓘNabi Musa, Jericho Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
References
Williams, P. A., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2014) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2014, CNMNC Newsletter No 21. Mineralogical Magazine, 78 (4) 797-804 doi:10.1180/minmag.2014.078.4.03
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.
Krzątała, Arkadiusz, KrÞger, Biljana, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2020) Walstromite, BaCa2(Si3O9), from Rankinite Paralava within Gehlenite Hornfels of the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Minerals, 10 (5) 407 doi:10.3390/min10050407
 
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