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Amboasary Department, Anosy (Fort Dauphin) Region, Tuléar (Toliara) Province, Madagascar

(Departementa Amboasary, Faritra Anosy, Faritany Toliary, Madagasikara)

The Amboasary Department, especially the area north of the town Amboasary and on the eastern side of the river Mandrare, from Behara to Esira is famous for its many thorianite and phlogopite deposits.
This area has been, in earlier maps and writings, named "l'Androy Mandraréen". The name Androy (stricto sensu) is today the name of the area and the administrative region west of the river Mandrare.
Therefore the name "l'Androy Mandraréen" refers not to the Androy region but to the area north in the Amboasary department.

Old (and newer) labels with minerals from the Anosy region can have a reference to Androy (ex. locality, Androy, Fort Dauphin)- thus meaning "l'Androy Mandraréen" and not the Androy Region.




Mineral list contains contents from all localities listed at bottom of page


Mineral List:
  • Albite
  • 'Albite-Anorthite Series'
  • 'Allanite'
  • Anhydrite
  • Anorthite
       var: Bytownite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Apatite-(CaF)
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Augite
    var: Fassaite
  • Azurite
  • Baddeleyite
  • Böhmite
  • Bornite
  • Calcite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • 'Chevkinite'
  • Chrysocolla
  • Cordierite
  • Corundum
       var: Sapphire
  • Covellite
  • 'Davidite'
  • Diaspore
  • Diopside
  • Elbaite
    var: Indicolite
  • Fluor-cannilloite ?
  • Fluorite
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • Grandidierite
  • Hibonite (TL)
  • 'Hornblende'
  • Humite
  • 'K Feldspar'
  • Lepidolite
  • Liddicoatite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • 'Marialite-Meionite Series'
       var: Wernerite
  • Microcline
    var: Amazonite
  • 'Monazite'
  • Mottramite
  • Muscovite
  • Pargasite
  • Phlogopite
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrochlore
  • 'Pyroxene Group'
  • Quartz
       var: Jasper
       var: Smoky Quartz
  • Rhodizite
  • Rossmanite
  • Rutile
  • Sapphirine
  • Scheelite
  • Spinel
  • Thorianite
       var: Uranothorianite
  • Thorite
       var: Orangite
  • Thorogummite
  • Titanite
  • 'Tourmaline Group'
  • Wollastonite
  • Zircon
  • Zirconolite


    69 entries listed. 45 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

    Localities in this Region:
    Madagascar
     
    • Tuléar (Toliara) Province
      • Anosy (Fort Dauphin) Region
        • Amboasary Department
    Madagascar
     
    • Tuléar (Toliara) Province
      • Anosy (Fort Dauphin) Region
        • Amboasary Department
          • Maromby Commune
            • Belafa area

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