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Amethyst from
Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hematite10 photos of Amethyst associated with Hematite at this locality.
Smoky Quartz8 photos of Amethyst associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Amethyst associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Photo GalleryView Gallery (18 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1318083
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1318083:8
GUID (UUID V4):7bb90ce6-8312-47b9-8b1b-f5a9e81e4a85
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
87.1km (54.1 miles) St Anns Mine (St Anne Mine; St Anne's Mine; St Ann's Mine), Mwami (Miami), Karoi District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
scepter amethyst collected in 2018 from the Chibuku mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. The...to $341. Amethyst, 4.7 cm, from the Chibuku mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. Fabre Minerals...aesthetic specimens of hambergite from the Sahatany Valley of Madagascar, all showing sharp, well terminated...Hambergite, 2 cm, from the Tampo’ny Ilapa vein, Sahatany Valley, Antsirabe, Madagascar. Italian Minerals specimen...Peruvian pyrite, Moroccan vanadinite and Mexican amethyst, plus a debut offering of about seven cabinet
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einschlieBlich Sfidafrikas, Swaziland, Mogambique und Zimbabwe. Es wird die Geschichte von frfiheren Arbeiten...including South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A history of previous work done on Karoo volcanism...l'Afrique du Sud, le Swaziland, le Mozambique et le Zimbabwe. Un historique des travaux ant6rieurs effectu6s...Lebombo Monocline Karoo Volcanic Rocks of South-East Zimbabwe Karoo Volcanic Rocks in Namibia Geochronology...of Cretaceous volcanic rocks are found in north-west Namibia. The best preserved and most voluminous
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Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February, 2007 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February...SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE, P.O. BOX CY 1719, CAUSEWAY, HARARE • Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter...Department, University of Zimbabwe ……………………………………… The Geological Survey of Zimbabwe ………………………………………………… Mining...…………………………………………………… …. 22 2 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February 2007 Editorial All the very...endeavours is critical. 3 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February 2007 We continued to pursue
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Sahara (under Moroccan administration) Zambia Zimbabwe 142 146 148 152 156 160 162 168 172 176 180 186...Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Negative economic impacts that resulted from...also felt by Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The long-term implication of the AIDS epidemic...Mozambique Orogenic Belt as extending from south of the Zambezi River to the extreme north of Kenya, Uganda and...Hamburg. Gregory, J. W. (1896): The Great Rift Valley. Being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya
Report (chapter)
Jurassic age) occur in rift valley basins such as the mid-Zambezi Valley in the south of the country...reserve depletion. The Maamba Coal Mine in the Zambezi Valley is in need of re-equipment and modernization...occurrences have been historically exploited to the west of Kabwe. Manganese, silver and gold are mined in...southern part of the country are host to good quality amethyst that crystallized in fissures and fractures ranging...Jurassic) are found in rift valley basins, the main ones being the mid-Zambezi and Luangwa valleys in the
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Mine construction Stage Exploration Exploration West Central Zambia 265km northeast of Lusaka 60km...60km south of Lusaka Start of production 65km west of Solwezi Location Remarks - Cu mineralization occurs...2 85 Gold Gold 15 Luiri Gold (Canada) 16 Zambezi Resources (Australia) Apx II-5 Copper 14 TEAL...13 Caledonia Mining (Canada) Copper, gold 11 Zambezi Resources (Australia) Copper, cobalt, gold Copper...Commodity 10 / Glencore Inernational (Swizterland) Zambezi Resources (Australia) Company Chakwenga Luiri
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Prospection and Evaluation of Beryl Pegmatites in South-West Uganda. By A.J. Reedman, BSc, PhD, DIC,formerry...Prospection and Evaluation of Beryl Pegmatites in South- West Uganda Fig. I Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 The Kibaran...Distribution of vein deposits and beryl pegmatites in South-West Uganda and North Rwanda . . '' ,, 101 Ferberite-quartz...Uganda Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Part of the Western Rift Valley showing location Lake Katwe . . . . . . . . page...methods and the results plotted by districts. In south-west Uganda a correlation was generally observable between
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Gemewizard Gem Color Academy Gem Notes Amethyst from Zimbabwe | Apatite from Durango, Mexico | Cobaltoan...Mark W. Houghton South East – Veronica Wetten South West – Richard M. Slater What’s New INSTRUMENTATION...2019 681 Gem Notes COLOURED STONES Amethyst from Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is known as a source of various gems...tourmaline and quartz-family varieties such as amethyst (Ncube 1988). During the February 2019 gem shows... author BML learned about a new find of amethyst in Zimbabwe from rough stone dealer Sir-Faraz Ahmad
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American Craton) 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 Southern West Greenland 2.5.3 Scottish Shield Fragment (North...Province 2.6.4 Chwchill Province 2.6.5 Minnesota River Valley Inlier 2.6.6 Archean gneiss terrains in Wisconsin...Mobile Belt 2.8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2.9 African Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton...Craton) 3.10 African Craton: Northwest Africa 3.10.1 West African Craton 3.10.2 Tuareg Shield 3.10.3 Benin...Craton 3.12.4 Others 3.13 Australian Craton 3.13.1 West Australian Shield (Craton) 3.13.2 North Australian
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American Craton) 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 Southern West Greenland 2.5.3 Scottish Shield Fragment (North...Province 2.6.4 Chwchill Province 2.6.5 Minnesota River Valley Inlier 2.6.6 Archean gneiss terrains in Wisconsin...Mobile Belt 2.8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2.9 African Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton...Craton) 3.10 African Craton: Northwest Africa 3.10.1 West African Craton 3.10.2 Tuareg Shield 3.10.3 Benin...Craton 3.12.4 Others 3.13 Australian Craton 3.13.1 West Australian Shield (Craton) 3.13.2 North Australian
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Coast Rare Stones; he lives in Missoula, Montana (west@rarestone.com). Please see acknowledgments at end... Miller Hotchkiss, from the nearby San Joaquin Valley town of Firebaugh, leased the mine in the 1940s...Panoche Road along Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley (figure 4). These roads lead 63 km (39 miles) and...Lazzard estate, a few kilometers west of Lost Hills, in the San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California (Reed... misidentified benitoite in a thin section from Owithe Valley, Belgium (Petrov, 1995). Lonsdale et al. (1931)
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E-mall bookstore@aapg.org India Affiliated East-West Press Private Ltd Marketing Division G-l/16 Ansari...P. Mining and environmental problems in the Ib valley coalfield 141 of Orissa, India TOLIA, D. H. &...demanded by society: off-shorediamond dredging, west coast of South Africa (photo: Hobbs). diversification...'Red" because it conveys tailings from the Tolvadon valley, the scene of centuries of tin and copper mining...adorned, most early civilizations from Angkor Wat to Zimbabwe. The proceeds of artisanal mining opened up early
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Ancient Coast Lines of the Continental Shelf of West Guiana, South America . . . . . . . 4 3...Geology of Gough Island Deep Glen, a typical hanging valley Plate I . facing p. 3 7 4 374 Plate I I Tarn...Tristan da Cunha, some 230 miles to the north-north-west. As early as the sixteenth century, Portuguese navigators...island rather than on the west, probably because of the predominant south-west winds causing a rain shadow... ( ' : G.I.S.S., 1955!,56 A typical hanging valley with a trachyte plug at its head. Note the gorge
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only (fucanus). Simi- larly, in the rain forests west of the Andes there are more forms of the smaller...in the R. vitellinus group indicate that an early west-east separation of upper and lower Amazonian forms...differentiation of extant forms citreolaemus/culminatus in the west and vitellinus/ ariel in lower Amazonia to the east...serena and coronota north of the Amazon River (and west of the Andes) are mainly black, while those of the...sua ser 20 Tapajés and most of the Rio Xingú valley east to the mouth of the Amazon River. The male
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2) reflects the climatic shift between east and west sides ofthe AtlanPermanent ice Winker sea-ice ===...001), reflecting the climatic differences between west and east sides of the Atlantic. From Newton & Dale...may also vary from west to east, according to changes in climate (as between west and east sides of the...the Atlantic). From west to east across Europe, summer climates become warmer and drier, and winter ...in the austral summer (northern winter). Take the west European migrants as an example. Some species move
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Unprotected areas Protected areas Figure 17 Vultures in West Africa outside protected areas have declined substantially...in the monocultures that are now typical of north-west Europe, and other wildlife species are likely to...commodity, with 60% of the global production coming from West Africa (Donald 2004). Global demand grew 3% a year...Expansion of oil palm in other regions, particularly West Africa, is also a cause for concern. Conversion...translocated population (M. Reynolds in litt. 2008). + West Nile Virus, a mosquito-borne viral disease which
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islanders of St Kilda, a remote island group off north-west Scotland, were known as ‘the bird people’ because...forms, Sabine’s Puffback (Dryoscopus sabini) of West Africa and the equatorial Pink-footed Puffback (Dryoscopus...Moreover, Many-coloured Bush-shrikes in north-west Angola seem to be largely yellow-breasted, matching...and intergrading where they meet in the Limpopo valley; Turati’s Boubou in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra...suburbs. [Laniarius ferrugineus ferrugineus, Nature's Valley, Western Cape, South Africa. Photo: Peter J. Ginn]
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fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe in Hannover, West Germany. Other similar exchanges with databases...and Netherland borders. BT North Rhine-Westphalia West Germany Aaland use Aland Aalenian Europe. Includes... Aar Valley River valley in central and N Switzerland. Also search Aare Valley. UF Aare Valley BT Switzerland...Switzerland Aare Valley use Aar Valley Aberdeen City on North Sea. BT Scotland Great Britain United...in subfile E. Now use Ethiopia. Abyssinian Rift valley use Ethiopian Rift Bryozoa Acceglio Village in
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000 tonnes, becoming available to traders in the west. Before the Soviet Stocks added to the problem,... there was already enough uranium in the west for the industry to live off its stocks until the year...the industry seems remote. The metals which the west would probably miss most, should Soviet exports...Tiananmen Square set China’s relationship with the west back considerably and its future remains clouded...Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zimbabwe Corp CV Corporation United States of America
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Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...decade. Bose (1884)! found in the Lower Narbada Valley in west central India masses “of yellowish, altered...different ages actually are present. To the east-west belt of alkalic and alkalic carbonatitic intrusives...Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina on the west and Angola, South-West Africa, and South Africa on the east...information on the Brazilian and Damaraland (South-West Africa) alkalic intrusions indicates that both may
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(R) 423 — (South), Union of, '29, (R) 135 Africa (West Coast), Foliated and other Rocks, J. Parkinson,...Refraction Investiga297 tions of the Preglacial Valley of the — Zone, Recent Volcanic Eruptions in River...Triassic Invertebrates, '28, (R) 282, (R) 283 Amethyst, Colour of, '17, (R) 521 AMIN, M. S., Metamorphic...Ores, '25, (R) 280 Antiquarian Notes, Upper Thames Valley, '24, (R) 240 Antiquatonia molarum nom. nov. pro...Palestine, '43, 107; New Jurassic Outcrop in the Jordan Valley, '45, 81 Avon Gorge, Carboniferous Limestone, M
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species of parrot and one species of cockatoo in south-west Australia. Emu 94: 149-155. Milberg, P. & Tyrberg...species is found in Australia, New Guinea and islands west to Sulawesi, including all the sooty-owls and masked-owls...and grassowls overlap in parts of southern Asia west to India and in Africa south of the Sahara. Elsewhere...separate centres of speciation, for example in the West Indies. The sooty-owls number two species. In the...and the Manus Masked-owl in the Admiralty Islands. West of New Guinea are the Lesser Masked-owl (Tyto sororcula)
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Netherland borders. BT North Rhine-Westphalia BT West Germany Aaland use Aland Aalenian Europe. IN Includes...Aar Valley River valley in central and N Swit¬ zerland. UF Aare Valley BT Switzerland Aare Valley use...use Aar Valley Aargau Canton in N Switzerland. BT Switzerland Abakan Town on Yenisei River SW of Kras¬...in subfile E. Now use Ethiopia. Abyssinian Rift valley use Ethiopian Rift abyssolith use batholiths Ac...Nigeria as applicable. BX Cameroon BX Nigeria BT West Africa BT Africa adamellite active faults BA faults
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Architecture. College, London. Architecture: East and West; &c. R. S. C. Robert Seymour R. Tr. Roland Truslove...which the cross line is set the Greeks of the west the alphabet and from them has passed \ /\ fa...important streams of this name: Two rivers in the west of Russia, both falling into the Gulf of Riga, near...Betnaerkinger . marshy shores and many islands. North-west is the Store Vildmose, a swamp where the mirage...situation is typical of the north of Jutland. To the west the Limfjord broadens into an irregular lake, with
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establishment o f a central customs mill i n t h � West Mtoko fields. m a i n l y for t h e recovery o f...characteristica l l y poor in m usco\· itc. fringing the Zambezi Escarpment nea r the northern boundary o( Southern...Southern R hodesia. Fig11rc 3 i l lustrates th,: cast-west geographical l i m i t of the m a i n M i ami M...iscovery of the Western i'-,, l ica Field in the Zambezi Valley esca rpment. new finds were few, the most sign...13ulawayan age. s t retching 10 m i l e cast and west of 13 angaweia hi l l. 1nw which many h u n d reds
 
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