A complex type LCT pegmatite that in the 1980s and 1990s produced many very good samples of polychromatic tourmalines and cookeite crystals. It is situated just south of the Tsarafara Nord, an older quarry, SW of the confluence of the Ampahitra with the river Sahatany in the Sahatany Pegmatite Field, SW of the town Antsirabe in the main highland of Madagascar. The locality consits of very long deep and dangerous tunnels, some said being over 20 m long. The locality was also given the name Ankadilava in the end of 1990s.
References:
Rakotoarison, W.(1964): Les Pegmatites de la sahatany. Arch.Geol.Madf A.1983
Ranorosoa, N.(1986) :Etude mineralogiques des pegmatites du champ de la Sahatany, Madagascar.These de doctorat, l'Universite Paul Sabatier,Toulouse.
Le Règne Minéral nr 19,(1998), pp 15-28.
