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Anjanabonoina pegmatites, Mount Ikaka, Ambohimanambola Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region (Betafo - Antsirabé region), Antananarivo Province, Madagascar

(Anjanabonoina, Kaominina Ambohimanambola, Distrikan' i Betafo, Faritra Vakinankaratra, Faritany Antananarivo, Madagasikara)

The Anjanabonoina pegmatites are famous for they large and multicolored tourmalines. Located 42 km WSW of the town Betafo in the central highland of Madagascar.

These pegmatite dikes outcrop at an elevation of about 1,400 meters on the eastern slope of Mount Ikaka and are emplaced in a complex environment characterized by paragneiss, marble and orthogneiss of the Neoproterozoic Itremo Group, of medium metamorphic grade. The subhorizontal bodies of pegmatite are strongly zoned. The metasedimentary rocks hosting the pegmatitic dikes locally show extensive contact-metasomatic phenomena. Abundant tourmalization extensively affected schist and quartzite units, with schorl-dravite replacing up to 30% of the rock volume Veins of quartz, dravite-schorl and danburite are locally present in metasedimentary rocks close to the pegmatites, and marble is transformed into skarn (De Vito et al 2006).

Locality mispelled as "Anjanabonsana" in Lacroix (1909).



References:
- Lacroix, A. (1908): Les minéraux des filons de pegmatite á tourmaline lithique de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Francaise de Minéralogie 31: 218- 247 [with notes on tourmaline from Anjanabonoina]

- Lacroix, A. (1909): Sur la hambergite de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie, Paris. 32, 320-324

- Lacroix, A. (1922-23): Minéralogie de Madagascar. Tome I-III, A. Challamel (Éditeur), Paris.

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

- Bancroft, P.: Gem & Crystal Treasures. Published by Western Enterprises/Mineralogical Rercord, 488p. [On Anjanabononia : p 322-325]

- Strunz, H. (1979): Anjanabonoina, Fundort schönnnnnnnster Tourmaline. Lapis: 4: 24-27, 47-48.

- Wilson, W. E. (1984): What's new in Minerals ? Munich show 1983. Mineralogical Record 15: 118 [on a find of phenakite]

- Wilson, W. E. (1989): The Anjanabonoina pegmatite, Madagascar. Mineralogical Record 20: 191-200

- Pezzotta, F. (1999): Madagaskar- Da Paradies der Mineralien und Edelsteine. Extra Lapis 17. 56-59 (german version).

- De Vito, C., Aurisicchio, C., Ferrini, V., and Pezzotta, F. (2002a): Nb-Ta oxides from Anjanabonoina pegmatite. International Mineral. Assoc. 18th General Meeting (Edinburgh), Program Abstract: 275.

- De Vito, C., Aurisicchio, C., Ferrini, V., and Pezzotta, F. (2002b): Chemical composition and B, O and H isotopes of tourmaline from Anjanabonoina pegmatite. International Mineral. Association, 18th General Meeting (Edinburgh), Program Abstract: 208.

- Dini, A., Tonarini, S., Pezzotta, F., and De Vito, C. (2002) Boron isotopes study of borates and boro-silicates from Anjanabonoina and Tetezantsio pegmatites (central Madagascar). International Mineral. Association, 18th General Meeting (Edinburgh), Program Abstract: 210.

- Dirlam, D.M., Laurs, B.M., Pezzotta, F., and Simmons, W.B. (2002): Liddicoatite tourmaline from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar. Gems and Gemology: 38: 28-52.

- De Vito, C., Pezzotta, F., Ferrini, V., and Aurisicchio, C. (2006): Nb-Ti-Ta oxides in the gem-mineralized and "hybrid" Anjanabonoina granitic pegmatite, central Madagascar: A record of magmatic and postmagmatic events. Canadian Mineralogist: 44: 87-103.






Map Reference: 19°55'S , 45°32'E

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Mineral List:
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
Annite
Beryl
var: Morganite
Betafite
Bismite
Bismuth
Chrysoberyl
Columbite
Danburite
Dravite
'Dravite-Schorl Series'
'Elbaite-Liddicoatite Series'
Fersmite
Feruvite
Gibbsite
Hambergite
Lepidolite
Liddicoatite
Magnetite
Microcline
var: Amazonite
Microlite
Phenakite
Pyrochlore
'Pyrochlore Group'
Quartz
var: Rutilated Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
Spessartine
Spodumene
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
'var: Achroite'
'var: Rubellite'
Zinnwaldite
Zircon


46 entries listed. 25 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region:
Madagascar
 
  • Antananarivo Province
    • Vakinankaratra Region (Betafo - Antsirabé region)
      • Betafo District
        • Ambohimanambola Commune
          • Mount Ikaka
            • Anjanabonoina pegmatites

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