{"id":8138,"date":"2025-04-25T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8138"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:27:18","slug":"sapphirine-vangaindrano-fianorantsoa-madagascar-5","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/?product=sapphirine-vangaindrano-fianorantsoa-madagascar-5","title":{"rendered":"Sapphirine: Vangaindrano, Fianorantsoa, Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Species: Sapphirine in Biotite, Sillimanite, Anorthite<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Locality: Vangaindrano, Fianorantsoa, Madagascar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Size: 6.5 x 4 x 3.8 cm.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>We are very excited to be offering world-class sapphirine crystals from Vangaindrano, Fianorantsoa, Madagascar. Sapphirine is an uncommon accessory mineral in granulite-facies metamorphic rocks around the world, but almost never forms large euhedral crystals. Around 2-3 years ago, a hence unknown locality called Vangaindrano in southeast Madagascar started producing what are, by an order of magnitude, the world&#8217;s finest examples of this species. Recently, we acquired the rest of this find, and are pleased to be selling superb examples of this species at prices that won&#8217;t break the bank. This excellent example features two very sharp, and very complete 3 x 3 cm. sapphirine crystals (large for the species!) positioned 3-dimensionally in a matrix of sillimanite and biotite. A &#8220;halo&#8221; or reaction rim of white anorthite feldspar has allowed this sapphirine crystal to develop with exceptional perfection. Rare!! Mark Cross photo.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Species: Sapphirine in Biotite, Sillimanite, Anorthite Locality: Vangaindrano, Fianorantsoa, Madagascar Size: 6.5 x 4 x 3.8 cm. We are very excited to be offering world-class sapphirine crystals from Vangaindrano, Fianorantsoa, Madagascar. Sapphirine is an uncommon accessory mineral in granulite-facies metamorphic rocks around the world, but almost never forms large euhedral crystals. Around 2-3 years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8140,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/8138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}