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Zircon from
Alto Ligonha Pegmatite Field, Zambezia Province, Mozambique


Locality type:Pegmatite Field
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alto Ligonha Pegmatite Field, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1438578
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1438578:6
GUID (UUID V4):a423e752-e295-4c6e-9367-758906d037e5
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November-December 2000 Volume Thirty-one, Number Six MOZAMBIQUE! Africa in the Mineralogical R e c o rd .......W. E. Wilson Famous mineral localities: The Alto Ligonha pegmatites, M ozam bique......................ELBAITE crystal, 7.3 cm, from the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. American M useum of Natural History...present our first article on mineral occurrences in Mozambique, but certainly not the first to deal with African...Island, 7:310-314 MADAGASCAR The Anjanabonoina pegmatite, 20:191-200 MALAWI Zomba district, 25:29-35, 38
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a l s o prominent within the Mozambique belt in East Africa. Mozambique and Madagascar and within the...belt. Another characteristic. lithiumbearing pegmatite procince is lound in the basement rocks o f Zimbabwe...Cassiterite 1. Introduction Although the major granite pegmatite regions of Africa have been known for a long time...demand. The present study reviews the principal pegmatite regions in Africa, where extensive mining of minerals...paid t o the mineralogy and geochemistry of the pegmatite deposits, and in particular t o tin and tantalum
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Schist Belt (western Zimbabwe) 4.3.3. Orange River Pegmatite Belt (Namibia, South Africa) AC 4.3.3.1. Radiometric...data 4.4.2.2. Mineralogy 4.4.3. Alto-Ligonha Province (northern Mozambique) 4.4.3.1. Radiometric data 4...3.2. Kamativi Schist Belt 5.3.3. Orange River Pegmatite Belt 5.4. Late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic...Pegmatites of Ethiopia and Somalia 5.4.3. Alto-Ligonha Province (Mozambique) 5.4.4. Damara Belt (Namibia) 5.4...presented for 13 rare-element granite NU and pegmatite districts in Africa, covering Archean, Paleoproterozoic
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MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems WILENS EXQUISITE MINERALI ...Cook 10 Southern California Pegmatite Gems Mark Mauthner 16 The Pegmatite Interest Group (PIG) Is Hog...Hog Heaven! David London Pegmatite gems, p. 70 18 Pegmatites William B. Simmons, Karen L. Webber, and...Falster 33 Cliff Trebilcock, Lifelong Field Collector of Pegmatite Minerals, Recipient of the Maine Mineral...Heritage Award Donald A. Dallaire 56 Maine Pegmatite Workshop: Sponsored by the Maine Mineral & Gem
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...crystals from 2 to 5 cm across occur with good brown zircon crystals (Britvin, Ivanyuk andYakovenchuk, 1995;...is the source of the large, lustrous, rich brown zircon crystals which arguably are world's best for the...matrix of white albite, sometimes with the brown zircon crystals. Evseev (1995a) gives 11 cm as the maximum... associated with crystals of corundum, rutile, zircon and magnetite. Russian scientists have made detailed
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Inclusion in Ruby from China | Raman Spectroscopy of Zircon Inclusions in Unheated Pink Sapphires | Spessartine...prospect and mine for opal both within and outside’ a field. Also covered are land access and environmental...well known as a source of aquamarine and other pegmatite-related gem materials (e.g. Pezzotta 2001), but...to occur in gem quality. In early 2021, during field studies of Cenozoic alkaline basalts associated...Photomicrograph by C. Williams; image width 4 mm. Province, southern Vietnam, the authors found several fractured
 
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