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Tourmaline from
Yirisen deposit, Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yirisen deposit, Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1447840
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1447840:2
GUID (UUID V4):bdb9e5d1-9709-4d57-a90b-e34e8564d577
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veins from the Yirisen deposit, Sula Mountains greenstone belt, Masumbiri, Sierra Leone Ibrahim J. Barrie... Abstract The auriferous veins at Yirisen, Masumbiri, Sierra Leone, occurring mainly in the form of sericitic...Mountains greenstone belt; Yirisen; Sierra Leone 1. Introduction The Yirisen gold deposit Žbetween latitude 08849X...08850X N and longitude 11844X and 11845X W, Sierra Leone., accessed by an adit and trenches, is located...the Archean basement complex of north-central Sierra Leone ŽFig. 1a.. Together with other smaller greenstone
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zones. Gold mining commenced at the New Liberty deposit in western Liberia in 2015, while significant gold...the border with Sierra Leone. Many of these are considered to be part of a single province that includes...includes Jurassic age diamondiferous kimberlites in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Deposits and occurrences of a wide...Liberia is located in West Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and to the south-west...north and south of the craton are exposed. The northern part of the craton is known as the Reguibat Shield
 
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