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Ampangabé pegmatite, Faratsiho District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar

Beryl
Ampangabé pegmatite, Faratsiho District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Ampangabe, Distrikan' i Faratsiho, Faritra Vakinankaratra, Faritanin' Antananarivo, Madagasikara

A pegmatite situated in the Sahasarotra Valley 17 km southwest of the small town Faratsiho in the Vakinankaratra region in the highland of Madagscar. It is located at the northern border of the Vavavato granite massif.
The a now discredited species "ampangabéite"(= Samarskite-(Y), was first described from this locality (Lacroix 1912)

Mineral List

Beryl
Bismite
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Clinochlore
var: Ripidolite
'Columbite'
'Columbite-Tantalite'
Epidote
 Euxenite-(Y)
Lepidolite
Microcline
Molybdenite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
var: Damourite
var: Gilbertite
 Pucherite
Pyrite
'Pyrochlore Supergroup
var: Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)'
Quartz
var: Rose Quartz
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
var: Strüverite
 Samarskite-(Y)
Spessartine
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
Zircon
var: Malacon


29 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.

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References

- Lacroix, A. (1912): Sur les minéraux de la pegmatite d' Ampangabe et ses environs et en particulier sur un minéral nouveau [ampangabéite]. Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie, Paris. 35, 180-199

- Lacroix, A. (1922): Mineralogie de Madagascar, Tome I. Géologie-Minéralogie descriptive. A.Challamel (Éditeur), Paris. 624p

- Behier, J. (1960): Contribution á la mineralogie de Madagascar. Annales Géologiques de Madagascar XXIX, Tananarive (in part).

- Behier, J. (1963): Carte mineralogique de Madagascar. Archive Service Géologique Madagascar. A 1871.

- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1051.

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