A deposit with a lazulite-bearing metaquartzite. Pieces for ornamental use (mostly polished eggs and spheres for solitaire games) have been taken out here in a small scale. It is situated about 500m NNE of the summit of Mt. Ibity and about 2 km W of the village Manandona in the central highland of Madagascar.
References
- Lacroix, A. (1922): Mineralogie de Madagascar, Tome I. Géologie-Minéralogie descriptive. A. Challamel (Éditeur), Paris. p. 356-357
- Ackermand et al. (2006): Lazulite-bearing metaquartzite of the Itremo Group (Central Madagascar); Scientific significance and economic importance, in Proceedings of the Malagasy-German Research Cooperation in Life and Earth sciences, 5-18
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