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Malkhan pegmatite field (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Photo: Vítězslav Snášel
A field of complex granitic pegmatites located south-east of Lake Baikal, about 100 km from Ulan-Ude. The pegmatites were discovered in 1980 by Russian exploration geologists, and are known for recent production of pink and polychrome elbaite, and other pegmatite minerals.

References

- Zagorsky, V. Y., I. S. Peretyazhko and V. Y. Kushnarov (2005), Tourmalines of Malkhan, Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk, 31 p. (in English and Russian)

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
var: Oligoclase
'Apatite'
'Axinite Group'
Beryl
var: Morganite
Biotite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bismutocolumbite (TL)
Bobierrite
Borocookeite (TL)
Boromuscovite
Cassiterite
Columbite-(Mn)
Cookeite
Danburite
Elbaite
Euxenite-(Y)
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Hambergite
'Ilmenorutile-Strüverite Series'
Ixiolite
var: Scandian Ixiolite (of von Knorring)
'K Feldspar'
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Laumontite
Lepidolite
Microcline
var: Amazonite

Microlite Group
var: Bismutomicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)
'Monazite'
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Petalite
Pollucite
Polycrase-(Y)
Pyrochlore Group
Pyrochlore Supergroup
var: Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)

Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
var: Strüverite

Schorl
Spessartine
Spodumene
'Stibiomicrolite (of Groat et al)'
'Stilbite'
Stilbite-Ca
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
'var: Rubellite'
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


58 entries listed. 36 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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