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Sphalerite from
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:194663
Long-form Identifier:1:3:194663:5
GUID (UUID V4):5164faff-b207-4a9a-8074-1be2cedea381
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
45.1km (28.0 miles) Kangankunde Carbonatite Complex, Balaka, Southern Region, Malawi
49.3km (30.7 miles) Manondo-Choma gold prospect, Kirk Range, Balaka, Southern Region, Malawi
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain (Stove Mountain), Saint Peters Dome, and Mount Rosa (Raines 2001). From Cookstove Mountain, Glass...Africa, Mount Malosa in the Zomba-Malosa alkaline syenite-granite complex in southern Malawi is famous...ocherous material, specimen 5.3 cm wide, Mount Malosa, Malawi. Under daylight (left) and LW (365-nm) UV...interpenetrating smaller genthelvites and aegirine, Mount Malosa, Malawi. Under daylight (left) and LW (365-nm) UV...Reproduced with permission Mongolia Autonomous Region, have produced outstanding collector-quality specimens
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...Kangankunde Hill, zomba, lx2 £7.50 2x2 £15 2x2.Y2 £20 MONAZITECe 486 Cc La N Th PO/4 Malawi Slight!~ radioactive...CoAs SMITHSONITE ZnCO/3 SODALITE FLUORESCENT SPHALERITE ZnFeS SPHENE Ca Ti SiO SPHENE CaTiSiO SPINEL...size. In a plastic display dome. (Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi) £7.50 2. AEGIRINE two black crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anorogenic magmatism in the Chilwa Province of Malawi, East African Rift The Chilwa Province of alkaline...alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites in Malawi and neighboring Mozambique displays three major cycles...pegmatites that appear at the end stage of the ZombaMalosa complex are arguably the most spectacular example...absence of basic rocks in cycle-2 complexes in Malawi, Woolley (1987) postulated that large volumes of...vast volumes of the Chilwa granites (Mlanje, Malosa, Zomba intrusive suites), all of the ferroan variety
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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...Bernardi and Perticara mines in the Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts...Roberto Appiani photo. PYRRHOTITE with quartz and sphalerite, 17.5 cm (with crystals to 9 cm), from Dalnegosrk
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphed to malachite, 25 × 20 cm, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 16. A large...crystals on microcline, 40 × 40 cm, Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Downloaded...7 cm, Onganja, Seeis, Windhoek district, Komas Region, Namibia. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Figure 24 (right)...specimens of such sulfides as enargite, freibergite, sphalerite, galena, and other minerals from Peru, and in
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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...the dominant sulfide, but chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite are also seen. Polished section...(chromian) (Ni,Co)3S4 Siegenite Pyroxene group Sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S Quartz Tetrahedrite (Cu,Fe)12Sb4S13
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...fluorapophyllite(K), thomsonite-Ca, stilbite, sphalerite, groutite, and spertiniite. The suite includes...localities in northern Italy, principally the Piedmont region. Specimens in the Amabili collection include vesuvianite...5-cm-tall group of aegirine crystals from Mount Malosa, Malawi; a 15-cm matrix spessartine from Tongbei
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanogenic origin, and contains galena and sphalerite, among other sulfides. The quartzofeldspathic...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...the bodies of NYF pegmatite that occur at Mount Malosa in Malawi, associated with the classic A-type granite
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...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_________________...L U O R ESCENT SOGDIANITE KNa LiFeZrTi Fe SiO SPHALERITE ZnFeS SPHENE Ca Ti SiO SPHENE Ca Ti SiO SPINEL
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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...hemimorphite 16:13 pyrite 20:4 quartz 20:4 rutile 18:16 sphalerite 16:13 wulfenite 12:30 wulfenite 16:13 wulfenite...siderite 20:7-37 silver 20:7-37 smithsonite 20:7-37 sphalerite 20:7-37 stannite 20:7-37 stilpnomelane 18:15
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Ferreres mines. Rocabruna mines) is located on the southern slopes of Montfalgars mountain, about 2.3 km tin...Level 1. Crystal of 3.5 mm. P. Mingueza coll. Sphalerite \: ith tennantitetetrahedrite. Level 1. 5.5 mm...lower levels of the mine. Pyrite Sphalerite ZnS Distinct sphalerite (massive or crystalline) has only...Crystal Classics' offices are based in Somerset in Southern England (approximately 3 hours drive southwest...near the reservoir in the Sahatany valley, in the region of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Armenite, a very rare
Catalog/List
location details l cm£4 2cm£8 Mount Malosa, Zomba District. Malawi IxI ins £5 Rich line grained black...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\...Cumbria) 4x4 inch £ 1 5 8) 2x3 inch with massive sphalerite base and a few galena crysta ls on t h e Fluorite...Gorland, St Day, Cornwall) I x ! £4 l x l .5 £6 30. SPHALERITE quite rich masses in massive ol ive-green garnet
Book
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...as arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite), helvite, siderite, tourmaline, and others....in these. Furth ermore, inclusions of pyrite, sphalerite, hematite, calcite, dolomite, siderite and garnet... just in USA, deposits similar to the Herkimer region are known from Alaska, Arkansas and Texas. CH4-rich
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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
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that had recently been mined by Gary Freeman at Mount Mica. The stone had an unusual blue color, and she...apatite, Plumbago mountain for rose quartz crystals, Mount Mica for tourmaline, the Keith and Pulsifer quarries...efforts have now come full-swing, and he is back at Mount Mica and Newry, mining for the Plumbago Mining Corporation...seriously, that we were dining in what Frank calls the “Mount Mica Hilton!” Frank’s narratives include colorful...least 2008. But the mining culture in this remote region of China was sometimes a little slow to recognize
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT The Massif de l’Esterel (southern France) is characterized by Permian volcanic activity...and very small, < 5 µm) include chalcopyrite, sphalerite, monazite, and an undetermined Fe oxide phase...“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%...is attributed to the Permian volcanism of this region. Fluorite-calcite assemblages observed as veinlets
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...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...SMITHSONITE Zn CO/3 SODALITE FLUORESCENT SPHALERITE Zn Fe S SPHALERITE rich yellow and grey massive Partially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pianciano, Ficoreto and Forcinelle in the Roman Region demonstrates that Italian carbonatites are not...Italy in a large volcanic area, named ‘The Roman Region’ (RR) by Washington (1906) (Fig. 1). Locardi (1990)... PR India (Viladkar et al., 2019). AL ROMAN REGION CARBONATITE OCCURRENCES Subvolcanic carbonatites...Rare accessory phases include galena, pyrite, sphalerite, monticellite, witherite and unidentified Ca-...portlandite, Na-K-sulphates, galena, pyrite, sphalerite and scheelite. RESULTS F Twelve new analyses
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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...contain veins of sulfides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and bornite) and areas of barite. The underlying
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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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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...2019 Scott Ankenbrand Calcite and siderite on sphalerite, 12 cm, from Rudabanya, Rudabanyai Mountains...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
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Republic of China Pages 76-77: Brookite crystals from Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite...ofelbaite with a typical vitreous luster. Left: Sphalerite with its typical resinous-adamantine luster....luster like that of resin; classical examples are sphalerite and sulfur. Pearly This term applies to a Above:...temperatures of around 1,500°F 1800°C) in an outcrop in southern Madagascar. Bottom: Crystal ofcalcite, a wide¬...exposed in a locality in southern Madagascar. Below: Granite pluton outcrop in southern Madagascar Right:
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(Figure 2). The mining located on the southern slope of the Mount Fravort, along the valley carved by the...Argenta stream, area is located on the southern slope of the Mount Fravort, along the valley carved by the...took place in 1940, the area was exploited for sphalerite, at Cinquevalli. In the last century, until the...period, fluorite was extracted [21]. exploited for sphalerite, galena, and copper. In the last years of activity...3 Å. Inset filtered region. (001) repeat distance 18.3 Å . Inset filtered region. 3.3.4. [110] HRTEM
Catalog/List
LO-- -- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda... Ix! £1.50 lx2 £3 2x2 £5 Feldspar 4 MICROCLINE Mount Malosa.Malawi Terminated white crystal or crystals...2x3 £6 Mica group 279 ■ MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 111 Region Chile Silvery masses of molybdenite+ yellow FLUORESCENT...Suergiu Mine,Villasalto, Gerrei,Sardinia 910 SPHALERITE State Mines, Cuzco Province Peru Pure almost...Morocco Greystones Quarry Lezant, Cornwall 581 SPHALERITE Pink areas on yellow-green Serpentine Rich brown
 
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