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Jabal Tawlah, Midyan, Mintaqah Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Composite sill (80 m thick, 320 m strike length) of porphyritic alkali-feldspar microgranite to syenite, associated with peralkaline granite. The microgranite bears disseminated Nb-Ta mineralization.



References:
- Küster, D. (2009): Granitoid-hosted Ta mineralization in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Ore deposit types, tectono-metallogenetic setting and petrogenetic framework. Ore Geology Reviews 35, 68-86.





Mineral List:
Albite
Biotite
Columbite
Fluorite
Fergusonite-(Y)
Gagarinite-(Y)
Microcline
Phlogopite
Quartz
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


11 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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