Comments: | Black (internally very dark brown), highly, lustrous crystals from 3.8 to 9.8 cm, where found in a large collapsed pocket in an unspecified locality in the Tsitondroina area in 2010. These were first thought to be schorl, but according to Moore (2014) they has been analysed and found to be magnesio-foitite. However, no further information was given about the analytical methods used to establish this identity. |
| | Report (issue) | Bou Nahas (or Afrou) mine in the Oumjrane-Alnif district near Meknes. Really, though, it’s not that they...============ Beryl, 2.7 cm, from the Gilgit district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The Arkenstone specimen;...specimens, from some unknown site in the Gilgit district of Gilgit-Baltistan (formerly Northern Areas)...light. Localities include the Sahatany Valley (Madagascar), the Paprok mine (Afghanistan), the Himalaya...site is the rare tourmaline-group species magnesio-foitite (confirmed by analytical testing), as 13 loose | | | Book | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings...to 6 cm (2005: 120). Los Remedios mine, Taxco district, Taxco, Guerrero. Ilvaite occurs in the wallrock...manto deposits of polymetallic ores in the Taxco district, commonly as compact aggregates of crystals overgrown |
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