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Identity HelpLocality of columbite from Madagascar - Analalava vs. Tsaramanga
12th Jul 2012 01:25 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
But locality http://www.mindat.org/loc-157722.html don't contain any pagmatite minerals but only mineralized basaltic effusive rocks.
Fromother hand, here was uploaded photo very similar crystal - http://www.mindat.org/photo-149304.html
Other very similar crystals we see in classic pegmatite occurrence http://www.mindat.org/loc-27803.html
Compare my specimen with http://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?loc=27803&min=1112
I am confused...:-(:-S:-(
By the way my mineral in reality is Sc-bearing ferroan and titanoan Manganocolumbite. It contains inclusions of quartz, microcline, films of bastnasite-(La), pseudomorphoses of bismuthite after bismuthinite and overgrown by minute tetragonal prismes similar to xenotime.
12th Jul 2012 09:09 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager
The geology of the Analalava District consist, as you say, only of cretaceous basaltic roks and jurassique-cretaceous and tertiary sedimentary layers. The columbites like these come from precambrian granite pegmatites (55o MA) from the socle of the Madagascar highland. There are so far as I know no granite pegmatites in the Analalava district,. and none marked on the geological maps of the area.
There is a granite pegmatite field with Beryl-Columbite subtype LCT pegmatites in the neighbour District of Analalava, in the Bealanana District , along the River Meavarano wich produced some columbite in the 1950s, but I have not seen these.
Your sample looks indeed very similar to samples from Tsaramanga. I have several in my collection, collected at the Tsaramanga pegmatite. Together with these I found also bismutite pseudomorphs after bismuthinite etc.
But , of course i can't say with a 100% certainty that your specimen is from Tsaramanga. It may come from another locality- but not Analalava District.
12th Jul 2012 09:54 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager
10th Jan 2015 02:20 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
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