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Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi

Photo: A. Rečnik
Latitude: 15°16'18"S
Longitude: 35°18'5"E
Alkali pegmatites with unusual REE minerals. Famous for excellent and large aegirine crystals, feldspars, arfvedsonites and rare Be minerals.

Geologically part of the Chilwa Alkaline Province.

Mineral List

Aegirine
Albite
Annite
Arfvedsonite
Astrophyllite
Barylite
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Calcite
Cassiterite
Caysichite-(Y)
Cerianite-(Ce)
'Chlorite Group'
Cordylite-(Ce)
Dingdaohengite-(Ce)
Elpidite
Epididymite
Epidote
Eudialyte
Eudidymite
Fergusonite-(Y)
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Genthelvite
Goethite
Helvine
Hematite
Hingganite-(Y)
Illite
Ilmenite
Kainosite-(Y)
'K Feldspar'
Manganoneptunite ?
Microcline
var: Amazonite
Milarite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Niobophyllite
Orthoclase
Parisite-(Ce)
Polylithionite
Pyrochlore Group
Pyromorphite
Pyrophanite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rhabdophane-(Ce)
Rhabdophane-(La)
Riebeckite
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
Scheelite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Synchysite-(Ce)
Thorite
Titanite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


60 entries listed. 55 valid minerals.

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References

Petersen, O.V., Rønsbo, J.G. & Leonardsen, E.S. (1994): Hingganite-(Y) from the Zomba-Malosa complex, Malawi. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1994, 185-192.

Cairncross, B., Messner, K & Farquharson, E. (1999): Die Pegmatite des Mount Malosa bei Zomba, Malawi. Lapis 24 (4), 22-32. (in German).

Massanek, A. (1999): Neu aus Malawi: Caysichit-(Y), Lapis 24 (4), 33.

Demartin, F.; Guastoni, A. & Pezzotta, F. (2003): Barylith, Niobophyllit & yttriumreicher Milarit - Neufunde aus den Pegmatiten von Zomba-Malosa, Malawi. Lapis 28 (1), 18-21 (in German).

Guastoni A., Pezzotta F., Demartin F. (2003): Le pegmatiti di Zomba-Malosa (Malawi). Riv. Mineral. Ital., 27 (2), 66-77.(in Italian)

American Mineralogist, 94 (2009), 1216–1222.

Guastoni, A., Kondo, D. & Nestola, F. (2010): Bastnäsite-(Ce) and Parisite-(Ce) from Mt. Malosa, Malawi. Gems & Gemology 46, 42-46.

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