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Epidote from
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Epidote associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Epididymite1 photo of Epidote associated with Epididymite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13907
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13907:4
GUID (UUID V4):dbe1aa79-3416-464f-95a0-9ddba6a61ba1
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
88.4km (55.0 miles) Chimwadzulu Hill, Ntcheu, Central Region, Malawi
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
from huge salt mines in Lower Silesia, Poland—a region which now has come up with two new occurrences...specimen and photo. From another place in the same region—the locality is given as the Rudna mine, Lubin...kulanite from a sub-locality in the same area called “Mount Seafoam.” Messelite, 2.5 cm, from Grizzly Bear...recently in Malawi—not, as you may be thinking, in the Zomba district, home to the famous Mount Malosa locality...between Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. (“Machinga, Malawi” has also been cited as the locality for some superb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, 4.9 cm high, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otijikoto region, Namibia; Scott Rudolph specimen. Downloaded...Prehnite and epidote, 7.6 cm wide, Djouga diggings, Bendougou, Arrondissement, Diako, Kayes region, Mali; Demetrius...Figure 18. Aegirine, 14.1 cm high, Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi; Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure...duftite, 6.2 cm high, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia; Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure 17. Metatorbernite...high, Merelani Hills, Simanjiro district, Manyara region, Tanzania; Wayne Thompson specimen. Figure 21
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zircon localities is quite long. The Pikes Peak region of Colorado has been a historical source of exceptional...allanite, monazite, xenotime, apatite, stilbite, and epidote. Similar rare-earth-bearing pegmatites occur nearby...of pale tan zircon crystals from Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Lino Caserini specimen, Jeff Scovil...occasionally available from Rio do Peixe, Tocantins, North Region. Exceptional zircon specimens have been collected...light-colored 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.0-cm zircon crystal from the Southern Urals, Vishnovogorsk, Chelybinsk Oblast, Russia
Catalog/List
EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage 3xlcm Mount Malosa Zomba Malawi £8 ~ - - - -- -- - - - -~ 35 OHMILITE...show off the excellent colour Sandamap ,Erongo region l'{_amibia 6x4 £18 51 OPAL orange brown and white...Youlgreave Derbyshire 3 56 UNAKITE polished sphere, epidote green and feldspar pink USA 3cm across £12 64
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(specimen and cut stones) with smoky quartz on matrix, Mount Antero, Colorado. Denver Museum of Nature and Science...34043 Aegirine and Associated Minerals from Mount Malosa, Malawi, B. Cairncross, 31-37 Africa, azurite, 4043;...minerals named after South Africans, 48-53; Mount Malosa, Malawi, 31-37; Rhodes/rhodesite,50-53; Tsumeb,...Nigeria, 110 Aragonite, Tsumeb, 21 Arfvedsonite, Malawi, 36 Arsenogoyazite, New Mexico, 301 Art, see Robinson...Mexico, 301 Austinite, New Mexico, 301 Austria, epidote, 328-32 Azurite, Tsumeb, 21; Tsumeb, Namibia, and
Catalog/List
AEGIRINE Very rich mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e ....__ Malawi £10 _---- -- - -- - --·- ·- 34 AEGIRINE Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount Ste...green mass with Loch Duich Scotland lx2£1 2x2£2 EPIDOTE CaFeAI SiO HORNBLENDE Pure mass of white fibres...Kangankunde Hill, zomba, lx2 £7.50 2x2 £15 2x2.Y2 £20 MONAZITECe 486 Cc La N Th PO/4 Malawi Slight!~ radioactive...-------- - £5 Rl63 AMPHIBOLITE EPIDOTE, hornblende and epidote rich mixture Loch Duich Scotland
Catalog/List
EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage 3xlcm Mount Malosa Zomba Malawi £8 I 16 JADEITE a white water worn...show off the excellent colour Sandamap ,Erongo region Namibia 6x3.5 £25 44 GANOPHYLLITE light orange-...Namibia £20 4x4.5 L 51 UNAKITE polished sphere, epidote green and feldspar pink USA 3cm across £12 54
Journal (issue)
deposits, sirnilar to those in Switzerland and southern Austria, in the north. (2) Hercynian granite with...sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary sequences in the southern Alpine area and Sardinia. (3) volcanic rocks of...of Perrnian and Jurassic ages in the southern Alpine area of the northeast. (4) a great number of metalliferous...Mineral collectors climbing rocks exploring for epidote in the famous Val di Viu area, western Alps. Marco...Ca' Bernardi and Perticara mines in the Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pluton, Kola Peninsula, Russia, and Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi (Mindat, accessed 12/2015). In the...Watkins Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820; 3131 Todd Rd., Mount Sidney, VA 24467; 4218 Fairhaven, Hudson J0P 1H0...(chamosite and clinochlore), epidote-group minerals (clinozoisite and epidote), corundum, dolomite, fluoborite...in the far northeastern corner of Cambodia. This region is known for its extensive deposits of gem-quality
Corporate Document
Republic of Malawi Ministry of Mining Final Report of the Project for Establishment of Integrated Geographic...Ltd. dummy Frontispiece 1 Map of Malawi Former capital: Zomba Headquarters of Geological Survey Department...Lake Chilwa located in the southeastern part of Malawi and Chisi Island: Chisi Island is composed of syenite...Lake Malawi Upper right: Syenite distributed in Chilwa Alkaline Province in the south of Malawi (Cretaceous.............................. 19 3. The Works in Malawi ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mines in the Asbestos–Thetford Mines–Black Lake region of Québec, Canada. In his professional life Dr...localities in northern Italy, principally the Piedmont region. Specimens in the Amabili collection include vesuvianite...diopside from Val Ala; and an exceptional 4.7cm epidote twin from Lago Falin, Val Viù. Right up there with...5-cm-tall group of aegirine crystals from Mount Malosa, Malawi; a 15-cm matrix spessartine from Tongbei
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
some dikes, muscovite, zircon, thorite, strontian epidote, aeschynite-(Ce), betafite, ferrocolumbite, rutile...reactions affecting serpentine-, chlorite- and epidote-bearing assemblages. Chief among these constituents...Borborema belt in Brazil, and in the Pala District of southern California. The spatial association with calc-alkaline...Consider the Chilwa alkaline province, in southern Malawi, of Cretaceous age. What makes it unusual,...largest plutons in the Chilwa Province (e.g., the ZombaMalosa pluton) consist of syenite and peralkaline granite
Journal (issue)
Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi .........................................all over the world converged on one geo­ graphic region for such an event. It changed the course of a nation...Mountain, was discovered by four men from the southern U.S. in 1858. While sinking a shaft in 1859, the...and HORTON, F. W. (1940) Mines of the southern Mother Lode Region; Part II—Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties...INTRODUCTION The Horcajo mines are located at the southern limit of Ciudad Real Province, Spain, approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
syenitic pegmatite from the Vishnevye Mountains, Urals Region, Russia. The progressive alteration of the chevkinite...chevkinite-(Ce) to a corona of allanite-ilmenitetitanite-epidote-quartz by residual magmatic fluids and a later...granites and syenites of the Graciosa Province, southern Brazil, Vlach and Gualda (2007) documented increases...chevkinite-(Ce) did not alter to a member of the epidote-group, possibly because of a high CO2/H2O ratio...(Cherry) Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast’, southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia. The specimen (K4) comes from
Catalog/List
England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount Stc Hilaire, Quebec with Fluorescent orange Sodalite...black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal sections...Silicate____________ ENSTATITE Pyroxene________________ EPIDOTE Ca Fe Al SiO____________ EPSOMITE Mg SO________________...calcite or pyrolusite ^Somerset _________ Mount Malosa Malawi Terminated white crystal or crystals, intergrown...small grey masses on Microgranite Kangankunde Hill, zomba, Green masses in carbonatite. Slightly Malawi_________________
Book
biotite, actinolite ("amiant"}, rutile, tourmaline, epidote and ilmenite, and syngenetic ilmenite, rutile,...and others discuss inclusions in quartz from this region. Alpine type parageneses are also known from North...BUKANOV 1995). Mit Einschlüssen in Quarzen dieser Region befasst sich u.a. SKOBEL (1996). Alpinotype Paragenesen... just in USA, deposits similar to the Herkimer region are known from Alaska, Arkansas and Texas. CH4-rich...verbreitetes Phäno men. Allein aus den USA sind der Region von Herkimer vergleichbare Bildungen aus Alaska
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Secondary REE-bearing minerals [LREE-bearing epidote and heavy REE (HREE)bearing pumpelleyite] have... GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT The Massif de l’Esterel (southern France) is characterized by Permian volcanic activity...“secondary cavities” within pegmatite dykes at Mount Cernadone (Western Alps, Italy) associated with...hydrothermal veins of the Tundulu carbonatite complex in Malawi (Ngwenya 1994). The veins consist of up to 98%...in voids, now seen as amygdules and veinlets. Epidote and pumpelleyite crystallizing in amygdules were
Journal (issue)
19:24 malachite 19:24,27 pseudomalachite 19:24,27 Mount Cobalt adamite 11:12, 12:31 clinoclase 19:24 cobaltite...19:24 Mount Elliott Mine augite 19:28 calcite 19:28 goethite 19:28 gypsum 19:28 quartz 19:28 Mount Glorious...Glorious Mine, Cloncurry pseudomalachite 12:27 Mount Oxide Mine alunite 19:25 antlerite 19:25 asbolane 19:25...District gold 11:12 Mitchell plateau, Kimberly epidote 17:15 Poona beryl var. emerald 17:15 thomsonite...molybdenite 11:45 Streamstown clinoclore 11:45 Toombeola epidote 11:45 fluorite 11:45 Tynagh Mine adamite 11:42
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...(Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during
Catalog/List
location details l cm£4 2cm£8 Mount Malosa, Zomba District. Malawi IxI ins £5 Rich line grained black...Hydrocarbon ELPIDITE Na Zr Silicate ENSTATITE P}TOxene EPIDOTE Ca Fe Al SiO ERIONITE Zcolite ER \'TH RITE Co...crystal of Gamet. Borrowdalc Cumbria Zomba Plateau Quarry. Zomba. Malawi Lake Jaco . Mexico Green massive...creamy dolomite crystals. Just one crystal showing Mount Malosa.Malawi l x l £5 120 267 269 4 580 i\...B iot,te From a pegmatite. felspar cemented by Epidote I � £ I £ 1 . 80 60_p__ _ £ I_: I 0 _ J:eppoo Fi_n
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blatnásuite suiteoccurs occursininthe thesouthern southern and southwestern margin granodiorites and southwestern...occurring in the southern and southwestern the Central Bohemian plutonic complex. The in the southern and southwestern...chlorite I (Fe/(Mg + + Fe) == 0.46–0.51). rutile, epidote, and titanite due to the liberation of Ti Ti from...U-Zr-Si mixed phases has also been found in the Mount Isa uranium deposit in Australia [35]. The Y-enriched...Geology and mineralogy of uranium deposits from Mount Isa, Australia: Implications for albitite uranium
Catalog/List
cleavage Mount Ste Hilaire, Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan...£2.50 2x2 £4 2x3 £6 ½ x½ £4 £9 Paramirim Region,Agua Quenta,Bnhia, Brazil Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales...green mass with HORNBLENDE Pyroxene 241 123 EPIDOTE Ca Fe Al SiO ERIONITE micro crystals lining numerous...size scattered Zomba Plateau Quarry, Zomba, !xi £4 C in crystalline white calcite Malawi 159 GRAPHITE Rich...Faras Mine, Bigadic, Turkey ½ x½ £2.50 8mm£6 Mount Malosa.Malawi Ix! £5 Greystones quarry,Lezant
Journal (issue)
30067, Tel: 770-973-3632, E-mail: jcgray@gsu.edu Southern California Chapter Visit our website at www.mineralsocal...Lynch Station in Campbell County, Virginia, on the southern bank of Bishop Creek. It is not indicated on the...Highway 43. Figure 2. Mines and prospects in the southern portion of the James River–Roanoke River manganese...occurrences of iron and manganese ores are located in the Mount Athos Formation, which contains beds of quartzite...quartzite and an included white marble unit of the Mount Athos Formation. The shaft sunk in search of copper
Journal (issue)
collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...Minette collection; Jeff Scovil photo. (left) Epidote with quartz, 11.7 cm, from Green Monster Mountain...with malachite, 5.3 cm, Tschudi mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. (left) Tantalite-(Fe)...malachite, 8 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Malachite on cuprite
Journal (issue)
Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian Region, Russia .........................................Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian Region, Russia Jindr=ich Kynický,1 Jan Kynický,2 Bryan...INTRODUCTION Gem tourmaline from Russian’s Transbaikalia region has become a valuable part of our global mineral...Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast, central Transbaikalia region in Zabaykalsky Krai, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The...Malkhan, covers an area of nearly 100 km2, mostly on southern slopes of the Malkhan Ridge, at the confluence
 
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