Well-zoned pegmatitic dyke hosted in calc-silicates rocks (foot wall) and dolomitic marbles (hanging wall) of the Upper Precambrian Damara sequence.
Located 18 kilometers ESE of Karibib.
Zonation of the pegmatite:
- Wall zone: aplite (muscovite, quartz).
- Outer intermediate zone: aplite gives way to coarse-grained quartz-alkaline feldspar-muscovite association.
Microcline perthite towards the core.
- Intercalated zone: Early space filling with quartz-muscovite-feldspar pegmatite rich in beryl, columbite, amblygonite-montebrasite, apatite (Mn) and Fe-Mn phosphates.
Quartz-albite-muscovite rock (zonation of the pegmatite).
- Inner intermediate zone: Red microcline perthite (crystals up to 1 meter long) rimmed by muscovite. Quartz + muscovite in interstices.
- Replacement unit: pink/grey Li-mica with petalite, albite and microlite.
- Quartz core (milky quartz).
References:
- Keller, P. & von Knorring, O. (1989): Pegmatites at the Okatjimukuju farm, Karibib, Namibia. Part I: Phosphate mineral associations of the Clementine II pegmatite. Eur. J. Mineral., 1, 567-593.
- Keller, P., Fontan, F., Velasco-Roldan, F., Melgarejo i Draper, J. C. (1997): Stanĕkite, Fe3+(Mn,Fe2+,Mg)(PO4)O: a new phosphate mineral in pegmatites at Karibib (Namibia) and French Pyrénées (France). European Journal of Mineralogy 9, 475-482.
Mineral List:53 entries listed. 42 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).
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