Huge pegmatite mined for columbite-tantalite.
100 Mio t of reserves.
Operations also suggest that the Manono deposit hosts one of the largest reserves of lithium in the world (30 M tons of spodumene at 6% lithium oxide).
References
- Buttgenbach, H.(1933): La thoreaulite, nouvelle espéce minérale. Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique. 56: 327-328
- Kristiansen, R. (2001): Sjeldne tantalniobater fra Sentral-Afrika. eksotiske minerallokaliteter II (Exotic mineral-locations II). STEIN 28 (2): 21-28 [notes on thoreaulite and cesplumtantite]
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