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Mt Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi

Alkali pegmatites with unusual REE minerals.
Famous for excellent and large aegirine crystals, feldspars, arfvedsonites and rare Be minerals.

Located in the Chilwa Alkaline Province.


References:
- Cairncross, B., Messner, K & Farquharson, E. (1999): Die Pegmatite des Mount Malosa bei Zomba, Malawi. Lapis 24 (4), 22-32. (in German)
- Guastoni A., Pezzotta F., Demartin F. (2003): Le pegmatiti di Zomba-Malosa (Malawi). Riv. Mineral. Ital., 27 (2), 66-77.

- http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~w.steffens/zomba.htm
- http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mmessner/sites/malawi/zomba.htm





Mineral List:
  		•  Aegirine
  		• Albite
  		• Annite
  		• Arfvedsonite
  		• Barylite
  		• Bastnäsite-(Ce)
  		• Calcite
  		• Cassiterite
  		• Caysichite-(Y)
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• Elpidite
  		• Epididymite
  		• Epidote
  		• Eudialyte
  		• Eudidymite
  		• 'Feldspar Group'
  		• Fergusonite-(Y)
  		• Galena
  		• Genthelvite
  		• Goethite
  		• Helvite
  		• Hematite
  		• Hingganite-(Y)
  		• Illite
  		• Ilmenite
  		• Kainosite-(Y)
  		• Manganoneptunite
  		• Microcline
  		• Milarite
  		• Monazite-(Ce) ?
  		• Niobophyllite
  		• Orthoclase
  		• Parisite-(Ce)
  		• Polylithionite
  		• Pyrochlore
  		• Pyrophanite
  		• Quartz
       var: Smoky Quartz
  		• Riebeckite
  		• Rutile
       var: Ilmenorutile
  		• Scheelite
  		• Siderite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Thorite
  		• Titanite
  		• Xenotime-(Y)
  		• Zircon


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