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Graphite from
Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1295584
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1295584:6
GUID (UUID V4):f26f7299-ff74-422c-b17b-2583aa018fb4
Localities for Graphite in this Region
Qaarsut graphite mine, Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
65.2km (40.5 miles) Asuk, Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
66.3km (41.2 miles) Black Angel Mine, Maarmorilik, Avannaata, Greenland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Graphite potential in Greenland GEOLOGY AND ORE Graphite potential in Greenland Graphite is the most...due to its crystallographic structure, making graphite a very important industrial mineral with many...lithium-ion batteries, etc. The production of total graphite in 2017 was 1.2 mio. tonnes. A conservative prediction...prediction is that the demand for flake graphite will rise 50% by 2025 to about 900,000 tonnes per year...workshop on the ‘Assessment of the graphite potential in Greenland’ was arranged jointly by the Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lower Tertiary Vaigat Formation on Nuussuaq, central West Greenland Asger Ken Pedersen, Lotte Melchior...Member fonn subaeriallava flows in western Nuussuaq. Central Nuussuaq constituted a marine embayment in which...which indicate water depths ofup to 160 m. Eastern Nuussuaq was a gneiss highland with a more than 700 m high...conglomerates in the sea where the north coast of Nuussuaq is now situated. A. K. P, Geological Museum,...Denmark. L. M. L., Geological Survey ofDenmark and Greenland, Thoravej 8, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark. G
Journal (volume)
2002 Review of Greenland activities 2001 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF THE...Y B U L L E T I N 1 9 1 • 2 0 0 2 Review of Greenland activities 2001 Edited by A. K. Higgins, Karsten...Sønderholm GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT GSB191-Indhold 13/12/02...Side 2 Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 191 Keywords Geological mapping, Greenland activities 2001...was reported from the southern shore of the Nuussuaq peninsula in November 2000 (see Pedersen et al., page
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concemed with Tertiary basalts from West and Bast Greenland, one concemed with the Upper Palaeozoic succession...in eastem North Greenland and one with Upper Permian foraminifers in Bast Greenland. The first article...a description of the dykes and sills in Bast Greenland from the sediment areas that lie between the plateau...Upper Permian foraminiferal assemblages from Bast Greenland which suggests a broad correlation ofthe Wagener...drowning event in the Wandel Sea Basin, eastem North Greenland. (Photo: L. Stemmerik.) ©GElJS,Copenhagen, 1996
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MINERAL SPECIES FffiST DESCRIBED fron1 GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen Also in this series... MINE. RAL ....... SPECIES FIRST DESCRIBED froin GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen The Canadian Mineralogist...organizations: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland Geologisk Museums St0ttefond (Geological Museum's...document on the minerals first discovered in Greenland. After all, as they point out in the first sentence...Introduction, a mere 26 kilometers separates Greenland from Canada along Nares Strait; we are neighbors
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Figure 5. Gneiss from Zackenberg, Greenland. Gneiss is a rock consisting of feldspars, quartz...relatively a very special tinbeen found only in Greenland, alabundant. Figure 6. Rhomb porphyry from Bulbjerg...from Kangerdluarsuk, the Ilimaussaq complex, Greenland. The rock consists mainly of feldspar (white)...belonging to {110}, from the Gardiner complex, Greenland. Field of view: 44 x 75 mm. fore {hkl}, e.g....are held together by van der Waals bonds, and graphite, in which van der Waals bonds hold the carbon
 
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