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Aquamarine from
Befotaka, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Madagascar


Locality type:District
Classification
Species:Beryl var: Aquamarine
Formula:Be3Al2Si6O18
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aquamarine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Befotaka, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Madagascar
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:647540
Long-form Identifier:1:3:647540:6
GUID (UUID V4):e108d101-1f17-4895-bcc4-4a501d59193b
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find of sapphire placer deposits on Nosy-Bé, Madagascar Dr Reinhard Ramdohr1 and Dr Claudio C. Milisenda2...info@gemcertificate.com Abstract: The north of Madagascar is rich in corundum occurrences. Late Mesozoic...occurrences on the Ambato peninsula and at Ambilobe, NE Madagascar. Sapphires are found mainly in the alluvium of...characteristics, geology, Madagascar, placer deposits Introduction Madagascar is well known for its many...years much sapphire has been found in the NE of Madagascar (Figure 1). The recent discoveries of sapphires
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unique a history of antiquity, pink blue aquamarine. compelling people second in the and synonyms...Beryl, 276 208 Color Filters for Emerald, Aquamarine, Yellow Maxixe-Type Beryls, for 10. 217 ... Japan, 462 Switzerland, 510 Tanzania 463 Madagascar (Malagasy Republic), Malawi Nepal, 482 513...by as use clear gem containing pebbles of aquamarine, it Asia, And if, the first produce men...it of the element of beautiful colored gems aquamarine, beryls history, principal the source emerald
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(khyberminerals .com), being a specialist in Madagascar minerals, usually has something new from that...at a newly developed site in the Befotaka district, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Fianarantsoa Province. The hexagonal-prismatic...with flat basal terminations are either pale aquamarine or pale heliodor, but some are color-zoned bluish...yellow. A much more surprising new import from Madagascar consists of about 25 loose fragments-and some...which intrude uraniferous skarns in southern Madagascar, inland from the coastal town of Fort Dauphin
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courtesy of Rio Tinto; (4) an 11.16 ct sapphire from Madagascar, GIA Collection no. 31618; (5) a 1.01 ct yellow...competitive rough diamond market. Political problems in Madagascar and a ban on gem exports from Myanmar disrupted...for gemstones. New Deposits and New Operations. Madagascar. Much of the global gem business for well over...in the middle of the decade was dominated by Madagascar. This was due in part to the Malagasy PRODUCTION...exports ended in July of 2009, the mining sector in Madagascar failed to get jump-started as a result of the
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(Itabira), Colombia (Coscuez), Ethiopia (Shakisso), Madagascar (Mananjary), Russia (Ural mountains), Zambia...significant quantities of gemstones, including aquamarine, morganite, and the high-quality turquoise-blue...gem minerals are colored varieties of beryl (aquamarine, heliodor, and morganite), Minerals 2019, 9...beryllium, as well as of gemstones, including aquamarine, morganite, and the high-quality turquoise-blue...which so far has been reportedly found only in Madagascar, Tanzania, Myanmar, and Vietnam [6,7]. The important
 
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