Sakenite outcrops, Ihosy Department, Horombe Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar

Sakenite lenses within a series of biotite-sillimanite-cordierite-garnet gneisses of the Ihosy granulite unit. The sakenite was described by A.Lacroix in 1941.

Ref:
http://christian.nicollet.free.fr/page/Publications/musgravite.html
A.Lacroix (1941): Les gisement de phlogopite de Madagascar et les pyroxenites qui les renferment, Tananarive

Mineral List:

	Anorthite

	Corundum

	Edenite

	Magnesiotaaffeite-6N’3S

	Phlogopite

	'Pyroxene Group'

	Sapphirine

	Scolecite

	Spinel

9 entries listed. 8 valid minerals.

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