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Kyanite from
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Graphiteⓘ2 photos of Kyanite associated with Graphite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ1 photo of Kyanite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Kyanite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:301630
Long-form Identifier:1:3:301630:5
GUID (UUID V4):3be6d2ef-be10-46e1-976a-370d8eacd8c8
Localities for Kyanite in this Region
D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
35.2km (21.9 miles) ⓘLemshuku tsavorite mining district, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
81.5km (50.6 miles) ⓘNamalulu tsavorite deposit, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
References
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Book
GEMSTONES of East Africa Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Bruce Cairncross Published by Struik...resources 12 Burundi 13 Kenya 14 Rwanda 16 Tanzania 17 Uganda 20 Gemological properties 21 A to...through Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and into the Sudan - has blessed East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, with...starting in what was then Tanganyika ( now mainland Tanzania) and then progressing to Kenya - I am proud to...countries are among the finest in the world. The region and its gems are particularly dear to my family
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gem Variety of Zoisite Merelani Hills, Simanjiro District Manyara Region, Tanzania T anzanite is one of...geological environment in one small geographic region on one continent: Africa. Added to this uniqueness...restricted occurrence, tanzanite from the Merelani Hills in Tanzania is the mineral featured in this Connoisseur’s...used for various colored zoisite crystals from Tanzania other than blue-purple-violet, and this should...graphite, 10 cm, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro district, Manyara region, Tanzania. Marcus Budil
Book
gemological wealth of East Africa. This unique region encompasses ·what may be the world's richest gem...gemologist and geologist, Dr. Peter Keller. Kenya and Tanzania are revealed in their full mineralogical splendor...chrome tourmaline are widely identified with the region. ( continuedon backflap) ♩ ♩ ♩ ♩ ♩ ~...Conclusion 11 Chapter 2. Diamond Deposits of Tanzania 15 Location 16 Geology 18 Mining 20 Properties...Northern Province, Tanzania 28 Ruby and Sapphire from Umba, Tanga Province, Tanzania 32 Sapphire from Kenya
Catalog/List
Signature¼ Internet Session 2 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 (HERITAGELive...the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in the 1970s. You will...village near the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, in South Africa. His love of rock climbing soon...an exciting trip by Land Rover into the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) to visit the...Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment point on the back of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VANADIAN PHLOGOPITE FROM THE MERELANI HILLS GEM ZOISITE DEPOSITS, TANZANIA Gaston GIULIANI§ IRD (Institut...Abstract The Merelani deposits of gem-quality vanadian zoisite (“tanzanite”) in Tanzania occur in Proterozoic...phlogopite, tanzanite, graphitic gneiss, Merelani, Mozambique Belt, Tanzania. Sommaire Les gisements de gemmes...gemmes de zoĂŻsite vanadifĂšre (“tanzanite”) de Merelani, en Tanzanie, sont contenus dans des sĂ©ries protĂ©rozoĂŻques...phlogopite vanadifĂšre, tanzanite, gneiss graphiteux, Merelani, ceinture Mozambicaine, Tanzanie. § E-mail addresses:
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main productive areas from northern and southern Tanzania, Kenya, and Madagascar. Three consistent sets...Saul Swala Gem Traders, Sokoine Road, Arusha, Tanzania deposits hosted in graphitic gneisses related...discovered by Bridges in 1967, in northeastern Tanzania, is among the most successful recent gemstones...significant tsavorite deposits are found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Madagascar. The geology of the deposits has...partly in the Voi region in Kenya (Pohl and Niedermayr 1978) and Merelani mines in Tanzania (Malisa 1987;
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DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Diopside MERELANI, ARUSHA REGION, TANZANIA Most silicates . . . are drab and...with graphite, 6 cm high, from Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania. Steve Smale specimen, James Elliott...cut of diopside from the Kunlan Mountains, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. The rays of light are an...Baicheng, Kunlun Mountains, Akesu Prefecture, 168 ROCKS & MINERALS Xinjiang Autonomous Region. These are...deposit, Baise Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in small, dark crystals, associated with vesuvianite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite component, while the sample from Merelani Hills, Tanzania, is Mn-rich with mean Mn levels in wurztite-4H...within the two coexisting polytypes. In the Merelani Hills sample the Cu+ + Ga3+ = 2Zn2+ substitution...of Cu and Ga to above 2000 ppm in the sphalerite region. The 2Ag+ + Sn4+ = 3Zn2+ coupled substitution does...sphalerite; trace element substitution; Animas; Merelani Hills 1. Introduction Sphalerite, the cubic close...from the Animas-Chocaya Mine complex, Quechisla district, Bolivia (SAM G33739; henceforth denoted “Animas”)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND ASSOCIATED GEMSTONE MINERALIZATION AT MERELANI, TANZANIA C. HARRIS Department of Geological Sciences...to date, is the Merelani area of northeastern Tanzania, a structurally complex region consisting of granulite...of tanzanite, tremolite, tsavorite and kyanite from the Merelani area are all high (average of 19.1, 19...Graphite-free garnet-bearing gneisses from the Telele Hills, ~33 km south of the mining area, have much lower...average ή13C value of the graphite from the garnet-kyanite gneiss in the mining area is -23.8‰, whereas most
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VANADIAN GROSSULAR ‘TSAVORITE’ DEPOSIT IN NAMALULU, TANZANIA Julien FENEYROL and Daniel OHNENSTETTER§ UniversitĂ©...Dar-es-Salaam, P.O. Box 35052, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Abstract The Namalulu tsavorite (vanadian grossular...up to 0.80 wt.% V2O3) deposit in northeastern Tanzania occurs in metasomatized graphitic gneiss overlain...graphitic gneiss is composed of quartz, V-bearing kyanite (up to 0.4 wt.% V2O3), V-bearing muscovite (up...kbar and 630 ± 30 °C. Keywords: Mozambique Belt, Tanzania, Namalulu, tsavorite, vanadian mineralization
Journal (issue)
You, Donors FEATURE ARTICLE 80 Gem Wealth of Tanzania Dona M. Dirlam, Elise B. Misiorowski, Rosemary...ABOUT THE COVER: Over the last three decades, Tanzania-the subject of the lead article in this issue-has...of gem-quaLity diamonds, rubies, and sapphires, Tanzania is perhaps best known for its production of the...of zoisite, tanzunite, which occurs in the Merelani Hills. The superb transparent tanzanite crystal shown...nation of Tanzania has great gem wealth. First known by Westerners for its diamonds, Tanzania emerged in
Journal (issue)
of Aurora Gems; (6) a 9.15 ct ruby from Winza, Tanzania, courtesy of Hakimi & Sons; (7) a 14.80 ct “golden”...were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...Africa, and its interest in the Williamson mine of Tanzania. Soon after the Cullinan deal went though (July...Weldon, 2009). One new source of corundum, Winza in Tanzania, began yielding some fine-quality ruby in 2007...with the opening of a new mine in the Nova Era region and technological developments at established mines
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Microminerals of the Bellerberg volcanics, Eifel region, Germany 191-198 HaĂŒy crystal models at the University...at Merelani [grafiet-XX met diopsied-XX !] 166-177 Diopside - Medrelani, Arusha region, Tanzania 179-183...Fluorapatite from the Karo Pit, Merelani Hills, Arusha region, Tanzania 184-189 Raman Spectroscopy in the...eeuw, en wordt (werd ?) uitgebaat door Svenska Kyanite AB. Het is overigens de typevindplaats voor arrojadiet-(SrFe)..."Phosphate mineralogy of the HĂ„lsjöberg and HökensĂ„s kyanite deposits", Geologiska Föreningens I Stockholm,
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purple-pink tanzanite crystal, from the Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania. JOE BUDD, THE ARKENSTONE/ IROCKS...time later the eastern part of Africa we now call Tanzania came into existence as a huge section of that...feature of this emerged as the highest landmark in Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro. In the shadow of Kilimanjaro...market was growing! The crowning year for gems in Tanzania was 1967 when two of the country’s most beautiful...This intense blue tanzanite specimen from the Merelani Hills mine weighs in at 300 carats.. a tanzanite
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replaced clams 162-167 A rediscovered twin law in kyanite from Africa 171-174 (Stalactitic Mn-oxide from...tanzanietkristal van enkele cm hoog (Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Arusha, Tanzania), dat je had kunnen kopen...berg in het Adlun-Chilon gebergte, Nerschinsk district, Oostelijk Siberië, Rusland. Slechts een paar...Geonieuws 37(10), december 2012 243 Erongo Mountains Mile 72 jeremejewiet. Dit werd later bevestigd...Niveligsberg ontginningen. Daarnaast in het Sagaing District, Myanmar en in het Kukurt Massief, Pamir gebergte
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scattering on a Fe-free crystal of zoisite from Merelani Hills, to obtain a value of KS0 = 125.3(4) GPa, which...sample is from the Merelani Hills in the Arusha Region, United Republic of Tanzania (Barot and Boehm 1992)...sillimanite and andalusite (Burt et al. 2006), while in kyanite (Yang et al. 1997; Comodi et al. 1997) the linear...structure of andalusite (a), sillimanite (b), and kyanite (c) showing the difference in the linkage between...Schmidt, M.W. (1997) High-pressure behavior of kyanite: Compressibility and structural deformations. American
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
05 Xps can be found. Gem-quality crystals from Tanzania match this requisite, as they have excellent crystalline...single-crystal of zoisite from Merelani Hills, Arusha Region (Tanzania) was selected. Sample was kindly...different diffraction techniques. Zoisite from Merelani Hills occurs in hydrothermally formed calc-silicate...calc-silicate rocks, associated with graphitic gneiss with kyanite/sillimanite-quartz-anorthite, which were intruded...the structure of blue and golden zoisite from Merelani hills and discarded the V3? ? V4? charge transfer
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 LOT...LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...include: ‱ An incredibly unbelievable sculptural Merelani Pyrite: “The Tower or Mirrors”. ‱ The Himalaya...Potrerillos, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Interesting mineral specimens seem to have...TOWER of MIRRORS” Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania Only within the
Catalog/List
214-528-3500 877-HERITAGE (437-4824) HA.com BEVERLY HILLS PALM BEACH Ed Beardsley Cristiano Bierrenbach...President and Managing Director Dallas/Beverly Hills Executive Vice President International Steve Ivy...crystal in matrix from the only locality of Merelani Hills, Tanzania Please visit www.HA.com/8068 to view...72002 Gold Nugget Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA The dimensionality... 72004 Gold Nugget Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA This simplistic
Report (issue)
carats from localities around the world, including Tanzania, Nigeria, and Russia, show some of the many colors...Mountain in the High Atlas Mountains, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tajilalet Region, Morocco; the large, central...uranium-vanadium deposit of the Sandy Mine in the Laguna District, New Mexico, is the type locality for goldmanite...Ettringer Bellerberg Mountain in Ettringen, Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Field of view 2...lava. There is a similar occurrence in the Eifel Mountains of western Germany, however, the anhydrous grossular
Book (edition)
Apatite Grape Topaz Hemimorphite Indicolite Kyanite Lapis Lazuli London Blue Topaz Midnight Blue...Kiwi Topaz Malachite Green Gems (continued) Merelani Mint Garnet Moldavite Russian Diopside Trapiche...Sapphire); environmental changes (e.g. Andalusite, Kyanite, Lapis Lazuli, Tanzanite and Tiger's Eye); surface...ee ——.\ Alluvial gold miners in Russia’s Ural Mountains in the early 20" century. It was from deposits...NIGERIA e— TAHITI Tahitian Pearl BRAZIL Agate TANZANIA Amethyst AAA Tanzanian Ruby AAA Tanzanite Alexandrite
Journal (issue)
Chondrodite from Tanzania| Purple garnets from East Africa|Green prase opal from Tanzania|Trapiche ruby...Mozambique|Tourmaline slices from Myanmar|Wurtzite from Tanzania|Star zircon| Amber processing in Lithuania|Shungite|Gem-set... Gem Notes Chondrodite reportedly from Tanga, Tanzania Chondrodite, (Mg,Fe2+)5(SiO4)2(F,OH)2, is an uncommon...from various localities, including two places in Tanzania: Sumbawanga in the west-central part of the country...(Fritz et al., 2007) and Mahenge in south-central Tanzania (Overton, 2011). A broad range of colour has been
Book
139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...Serbia Âą tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite, Taihang Shan Mountains, Hebei, China * (Sexes selem 10 | MINERALS:...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...hundred kilometers. Most of them orbit the Sun in a region called the asteroid belt, which is between the...in the triclinic system are microcline, albite, kyanite and talc. Orthorhombic Monoclinic S Triclinic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the garnet–biotite, garnet–clinopyroxene, garnet–kyanite–phengite gneisses from the Kokchetav massif, diamonds...complicated morphology. Diamond surfaces have small hills (Figure 8a,b) and depressions (Figure 8c). The pinacoid...structure [23,29]. The main peaks of a second-order region in the graphite Raman spectrum are 2400, 2700,...[CrossRef] Jaszczak, J.A.; Trinchillo, D. Miracle at Merelani A Remarkable Occurrence of Graphite, Diopside...Minerals from the Karo Mine, Block D, Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania. Rocks Miner. 2013, 88, 154–165
Journal (issue)
luminescence - research on calcites from the Harz Mountains, Germany. 25-31 Calcium fluoride for ArF lithography...Arkansas diamond 508-517 Diamonds of Russia 520-526 Kyanite, Minas Gerais, Brazil 528-533 Australian fossil...vanadian phlogopite from the Merelani Hills gem zoisite deposits, Tanzania 1195-1207 Pseudosinhalite and...Spanish America 25-34 The Milpillas Mine, Cananea district, Sonora, Mexico 41-50 The Las Chispas mine, Arizpe
 
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