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Quartz from
Amborompotsy, Amborompotsy Commune, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar


Locality type:Market Town
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluoriteⓘ87 photos of Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Limonite1 photo of Quartz associated with Limonite at this locality.
Hematite1 photo of Quartz associated with Hematite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amborompotsy, Amborompotsy Commune, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
Photo GalleryView Gallery (36 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:462271
Long-form Identifier:1:3:462271:0
GUID (UUID V4):5b909a3c-c676-4abb-9ed4-301a50a530da
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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superposed folding of the Itremo Group, west-central Madagascar Robert D. Tucker a , Timothy M. Kusky b,⁎, Robert...Abstract The Precambrian geology of west-central Madagascar is reviewed and re-interpreted in light of new...(2) Mesoproterozoic stratified rocks (Itremo, Amborompotsy, and Malakialina Groups) perhaps deposited unconformably...the Ranotsara and related shear zones of south Madagascar, and to the initial phases of lower crustal exhumation...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Madagascar; Gondwana; Itremo Group; Tectonics; Nappes; Neoproterozoic
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The Natural History Museum of Milan and its Madagascar Collection The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale... the museum began paleontologic fieldwork in Madagascar (upper Permian fauna and Jurassic and Cretaceous...fieldwork in Madagascar in 1996 in collaboration with other institu­ tions in Madagascar, Italy, and the...Pezzotta has spent a total of twenty­ nine months in Madagascar making geological-mineralogical surveys. In collaboration...watercolor by Valter Fogato Title Page Photos Quartz crystal with hematite from Mangatobangy, IO cm
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(saussuritization). Association: Amphiboles, plagioclase, quartz. Distribution: A widespread mineral. Typical occurrences...Camaderry Mountain, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. From Amborompotsy, Madagascar. At Sittampundi, Madras, India. In the...the Nightingale district, Pershing Co., Nevada. In Mexico, from the Juarez district, Baja California
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Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic boundary in central southern Madagascar Jörg Giese a,∗ , Alfons Berger b , Guido Schreurs...2011 Available online 8 January 2011 Keywords: Madagascar Monazite U–Th–Pb dating Middle crust Tectonics...African Orogen a b s t r a c t In central southern Madagascar the crystalline basement is composed of mid-crustal...phases can be distinguished in central southern Madagascar. Both these deformation phases occur between...heterogeneously distributed in central southern Madagascar. Newly developed M2 mineral assemblages are preferentially
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3 – 16 www.elsevier.com/locate/gr GR Focus Madagascar and the amalgamation of Central Gondwana Alan...2005 Available online 10 January 2006 Abstract Madagascar lay in an interesting position in Gondwana, straddling...palaeogeography of the eastern Mozambique Ocean. Madagascar consists of a number of tectonic units that amalgamated...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Madagascar; Gondwana; Azania; Tectonics; Geochronology ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tectonic units of Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ISSN: 1342-937X Gondwann Research Gold in Madagascar Andriamampianina Roger Rambeloson Ddpflrtenicrit...basement exposed in the eastern two- thirds of Madagascar, composed of Archean and Proterozoic grrenstone...belts. Introduction Gold was first discovered in Madagascar i n 1845 by Jean Laborde in a river situated...Maevatanana (north- west Madagascar) H. Rigault (1891) in Vakinankaratra (central Madagascar) Harrison Smith (1893)...ere wit 1 in t h e Precambrian bas e m e n t of Madagascar (Besairie, 1949), extraction has focused mainly
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Signature® Internet Session 2 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 (HERITAGELive...climbing soon brought him into contact with the quartz crystals that were found on the mountain slopes...Topaz Klein Spitzkopje, Spitzkopje Area, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia Klein Spitzkopje in Afrikaans...inches (1 cm) across, implanted on a white and gray Quartz matrix. In addition to the Cuproadamite, there...57007 Jeremejevite Ameib Farm 60, Usakos, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia Jeremejevite crystals
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Central Granites-Gneiss-Migmatite Belt (CGGMB) of Madagascar: the Eastern Neoproterozoic Suture of the East...Terre, Universite'd'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, E-mail:andria-roger2001@yakoo.com Gondwana Institute...July 12,2003) Abstract The northeastern part of Madagascar 1s characterized by Archaean to early Proterozoic...collisional event in Madagascai. Key words: Madagascar, East African Orogen, Suture between West and...Ankazobe-Antananarivo-Fianarantsoa Virgation. Introduction Madagascar, situated in the eastern part of the East African
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include sphalerite, galena, siderite, and quartz. Casts of quartz after fluorite are common from here. Recent...green to colorless (Jones 2006). Pseudomorphs of quartz after fluorite have been found in the Botallack...from the Virtuous Lady mine, in the Tavistock district, Devon, where it also occurs as encrustation pseudomorphs;...Treak Cliff, at Castleton, in the Kinderscout district of Derbyshire, England (Webster and Anderson 1983)...the Caravia-Berbes district, the La Collada district, and the Arlós-Villabona district—each with distinctive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
margin of the East African Orogen in central Madagascar夽 Alan S. Collins a,∗ , Ian C.W. Fitzsimons a...de la Terre, Université de Toliara, Toliara, Madagascar Received 25 July 2001; received in revised form...accepted 16 February 2002 Abstract The island of Madagascar straddles the poorly understood eastern margin...eastern margin of the Antananarivo block of central Madagascar and the overlying Beforona belt of the Tsaratanana...eastern Antananarivo block indicates that eastern Madagascar was a focus for deformation during the final
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(sakenites) from the type locality in southern Madagascar M. M. RAITH,1 R. RAKOTONDRAZAFY2 AND P. SENGUPTA3...Terre, Université d ÕAntananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar 3 Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur...of the Sakena river to the NW of Ihosy, south Madagascar. The exposure has been revisited and subjected...rocks; metasomatism; phlogopitites; southern Madagascar; spinelsapphirine coronas. INTRODUCTION Enigmatic...the Fort Dauphin-Anosyan complex of southern Madagascar: Rakotondrazafy et al., 1996). The bimineralic
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Terrane correlate with the Vohibory Terrane (Madagascar), Eastern Granulites (northern Tanzania) and...broadly correlate with the Vohibory Terrane (Madagascar), Eastern Granulites (north Tanzania) and Cabo...Sinai and Jordan in the north to Mozambique, Madagascar, and possibly, Antarctica (Jacobs et al., 1998...the strands of ocean to the west and east of Madagascar (Azania). 2.2 Terminology used in this study...Mozambique border and 47 km north-west of the district centre of Nachingwea (Figure 1b). All samples
Journal (issue)
inclusions in quartz from Madagascar • Bismuthinite inclusions in rose quartz from Madagascar • Yellow hydrothermal...phlogopite reaction zones adjacent to Be-bearing quartz-tourmaline veins that metasomatically altered Cr-bearing...Mujimanzovu’s village in the Musakashi area, Solwezi district, central Zambia. In August 2002, one of the authors...and artisanal workings (mined for rock crystal quartz) showed the presence of abundant hydrothermal veins...recovered from eluvial lateritic soil adjacent to quartz veins at two mines (Hope and Musakashi) in the
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pg. 269 284 Pezzottaite from Ambatovita, Madagascar: A New Gem Mineral Brendan M. Laurs, William...Gem-quality corundum from Colombia • Emeralds from Madagascar with strong blue/green dichroism • Peruvian blue...from the North American West Coast • “Platinum quartz” from Brazil • Some rare faceted gem materials...WINTER 2003 for the mid-infrared range, and a quartz beam splitter for the near-infrared range. A 6¥...WINTER 2003 283 PEZZOTTAITE FROM AMBATOVITA, MADAGASCAR: A NEW GEM MINERAL Brendan M. Laurs, William
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content, it is much less useful. For example pure quartz is colourless, but may be of almost any hue through...usually white and often too hard to powder easily. Quartz has a typical o¡ystal form of six-sided prismatic...reflective like diamond Vitreous glassy, as in quartz Resinous like resin, as in amber and opal Pearly...lc Number 6 Mineral Orthoclase 2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz 4 Fluorite 9 Corundum...is found in igneous rocks, often associated with quartz veins, and as placer deposits. The main mining
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content, it is much less useful. For example pure quartz is colourless, but may be of almost any hue through...usually white and often too hard to powder easily. Quartz has a typical o¡ystal form of six-sided prismatic...reflective like diamond Vitreous glassy, as in quartz Resinous like resin, as in amber and opal Pearly...Number 1 6 Mineral Orthoclase 2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz 4 Fluorite 9 Corundum...is found in igneous rocks, often associated with quartz veins, and as placer deposits. The main mining
Report (volume)
RAZAKAMANANA, T. Neoproterozoic deformation in central Madagascar: a structural section through part of the East...Proterozoic Itremo Group metasediments in central Madagascar GRANTHAM, G. H., MABOKO, M. & EGLINGTON, B. M...data, and compare this with similar events in Madagascar and the ArabianNubian Shield, indicating that...include two on the Arabian-Nubian Shield, two on Madagascar and two on eastern and southern Africa. Johnson...history of the Mozambique Ocean. The two papers on Madagascar are concerned with the central part of that island
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..................................... C. The Madagascar Ridge and the Crozet Plateau ....................................................... F. The Madagascar Basin ........................................................... VI. The Palaeoposition of Madagascar .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. ....631 635 638 643 An Outline of the Geology of Madagascar J. Boast and A. E. M. Nairn I. Introduction...the Antarctic bottom water from Crozet to the Madagascar basin (Fig. 4; Burckle et at., 1974; Warren,
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Jiang Preparation of NaA Zeolite from High Iron and Quartz Contents Coal Gangue by Acid Leaching—Alkali Melting...Mineralogical Studies of Greenish Blue Apatite in Madagascar Reprinted from: Crystals 2022, 12, 1067, doi:10...the coal gangue that is enriched by Fe and high quartz content. Technology includes preliminary calcination...have studied apatite of Paraiba-like color from Madagascar. It was shown that studied samples belong to... Preparation of NaA Zeolite from High Iron and Quartz Contents Coal Gangue by Acid Leaching—Alkali Melting
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Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...major associations of Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially
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257 Crustal evolution of the granulites of Madagascar. by C. NICOLLET. . . . . . . . . . . . 291 ...granulites based on garnet - clinopyroxene - plagioclase quartz assemblages. by D. PERKINS . . . . . . . . . ....Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow District, USSR. 52' J. PERCIVAL, Commission Geologique...Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow District, USSR. 56 C.J. POTTER, Department of Geology...Nicollel displayed a poster on granulites in Madagascar and their place in the Mozambique belt showing
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Africa–Antarctica Orogenic Belt in central and northern Madagascar 49 WENDORFF, M. Tectonosedimentary expressions... geological survey of the basement rocks of Madagascar, providing an overview of the five Archaean to...Neoproterozoic collision and amalgamation history of the Madagascar segment of the East Africa– Antarctica Orogen...aspects of granulite metamorphism, geology of Madagascar and other Indian Ocean continental fragments...Antarctica Orogenic Belt in central and northern Madagascar. In: van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Buiter, S. J.
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fibrous radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 THE...metamorphic rock, and in sea water. Auriferous quartz is a major source for gold and occurs in hydrothermal...Localities. Apart from South Africa, Above: Gold on quartz from California. Such a specimen would command...gold visible Left: Another fine example of gold on quartz, also from California gold is found in Rhodesia...iron stains may be removed by any convenient acid. Quartz may be removed by strong hydrofluoric acid. Left:
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cristobalite (found only in volcanic lavas), tridymite, quartz, coesite and stishovite (found only in the impact... CLASSIFICATION Right: Magnesite crystals growing on quartz, a framework silicate a great variety of physical...further cations and forms the common oxide mineral quartz, Si02, and its rarer polymorphs. In other framework...then worked out Top: X-ray diffraction pattern of quartz cell. However, such methods remain too slow to...in granite are relatively large and consist of quartz (grey, white, 25 THE CRYSTALLINE STATE or colourless)
 
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