Siberite is a variety of the mineral elbaite. For information about augite please click the article tab at the top of the page, or click -here-.

Siberite is a red to pink opaque variety of elbaite originally described from Soktuj Gora (Mount Soktuj), Adun-Cholon Range, Nertschinsk (Nerchinsk) Mines, Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.

The mineral siberite can be translated into the following select languages:

Arabic		Bulgarian		Chinese (Sim)
Croatian		Czech		Danish
Dutch		Esperanto		Estonian
Finnish		French		German	Siberit
Greek		Hebrew		Hungarian
Italian		Japanese		Korean
Latin		Lithuanian		Norwegian
Persian		Polish		Portuguese
Romanian		Russian		Slovak
Spanish	Siberita	Swedish		Tagalog
Turkish		Ukrainian		Vietnamese

Siberite can only be found in two places around the world. The map below shows major documented concentrations of siberite:

Geographical Data	Mindat.org. Retrieved on 2012-04-27
July 30, 2012	The last time this page was updated
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