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Apatite from
Kigezi District, Western Region, Uganda


Locality type:District
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kigezi District, Western Region, Uganda
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:822637
Long-form Identifier:1:3:822637:2
GUID (UUID V4):e5b595d3-a055-4854-921d-90c3f4900dac
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and other minerals in pegmatites of Rhodesia and Uganda By M. J. GALLAGIIER,B.Sc., Ph.D. Atomic Energy...assemblage found in the pegmatites of Rhodesia and Uganda are members of the amblygonite-montebrasite series...montebrasite, Lil.9sAlz.oo (P1.950~.9o)(OH1.90F0.29); apatite with up to 8-8 per cent MnO; heterosite (new analysis)... T U D I E S of pegmatites in Rhodesia and SW. Uganda, made in connexion with a programme of beryl reserve...of about 40 pegmatites in Rhodesia and 10 in SW. Uganda, but specimens were collected from more than 100
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania, and Rwanda to southwest Uganda in the north northeast. Its overall length is nearly...Burundi, Rwanda, the west lake district of Tanzania, and southwest Uganda. The latter area is the main...districts and localities mentioned in the text: Uganda: Bj-Buhweju plateau; Ka-Kaniena Fe; Ki-Kirwa W;...exceptionally well exposed at its northern end in southwest Uganda, where the lower Proterozoic Buganda-Toro system... and as 'Karagwe-Ankolean' or 'Muva-Ankole' in Uganda and Tanzania. The name 'Kibaran' was coined in
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Anniversary Geological Survey and Mines Department Uganda HER LONDON M AJESTY'S ST A TIO NER Y OFFIC...Commissioner of . . . Geological Survey and Mines, Uganda . . page INTRODUCTION. 1 GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS...Photogeology in the Mineral Exploration PrQgramme for Uganda. By J. E. N. Kagule-Magambo, BSc, MSc, DIC, . .... Geological Survey and Mines Department, Uganda . Follow-up Work and Interpretation of Reconnaissance...Karamoja,- Uganda. By P. W. G. Brock, BASc, PhD, formerly Geological Survey and Mines Department, Uganda . .
Journal (issue)
REPORTS FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS Kenya • • Uganda • • • Tanganyika • Nor them Rhodesia Cyprus...189 189 COLONIAL GEOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS Part 2.-Uganda . • • • • • • • 191 BOOK REVIEWS Africa...endeavours to appraise the total water resources of a region and to dev-elop the maximum supplies for all purposes...knowledge of the available water resources of a region is a pre-requisite to wise planning and successful...example, in the arid and semi-arid regions of the western United States, that part of precipitation which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
both within the belt and in foreland troughs. The western molasse and the whole belt were again orogenically...Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania and Rwanda to southwestern Uganda in the NNE. Its overall length is nearly 1500 km...Burundi, Rwanda, the West Lake district of Tanzania and southwest Uganda. The northeastern province is...Reviews 9 (1994) 105-130 215ll 3IO° --.?"- I UGANDA ...... ; 7 ; . . , 315° ~ • ;,;Ruwenzori:Fold"...districts and localities mentioned in the text: Uganda: Bj--Buhweju plateau; Ka--Kamena Fe; Ki Kirwa W;
Journal (issue)
REPORTS FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS Kenya • • • • • Uganda • • • • • • Tanganyika • • • • • Northern Rhodesia...Parsoda, some I½miles east of Ramtek in the Nagpur District. B. L. Gulatee (1945) describing these investigations...geophysical investigations of North Tirodi, Balaghat District, using a horizontal magnetometer. Some electrical...speed of magnetometric work. In the particular region where the present writer has carried out his researches...pronot1nced and produce an eluvial cover; in such a region, however, it is maintained that geophysics, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi) and is generally found in hydrothermal... Formerly, the tungsten deposits of Rwanda and Uganda were interpreted to be syngenetic in origin. Previous...several tungsten deposits in the Kigezi district in southwest Uganda (e.g., Ruhizha, Nyamalilo, Kirwa)...km from the Katanga region in the DRC up to the Ankole region in southwest Uganda. Recent work (see [16]...Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika into the Kivu-Maniema region of the DRC, where it has been mapped as the Palaeoproterozoic
Book
East Africa Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Bruce Cairncross Published by Struik Nature...12 Burundi 13 Kenya 14 Rwanda 16 Tanzania 17 Uganda 20 Gemological properties 21 A to Z of minerals...countries are among the finest in the world. The region and its gems are particularly dear to my family...most renowned gemstones from East Africa, this region is also host to some of the world's finest examples...several other varieties of gemstone occur in the region and, while perhaps not as popular, these too have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
incrustations, has been found in the St. Kevin mining district, 8 miles west of Leadville, Lake Co., Colo. CONNECTICUT—Dark...collecting minerals around Ruth in the Robinson Mining District." At our request for some information on rosasite...class (Easton) reports finding recently a xl of apatite." " Another letter, dated April 24, 1952, has been...rock have 255 been found in the Tres Hermanas district, Luna Co., N . Mex. N E W YORK — Oscar Bodelsen...War Department. Survey of the Northern and North Western Lakes, 1849. Green Island was then known as Strontian
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the Canadian Shield and then in South Africa, Western Australia and India (Wilson, 1972). They include...anorthosite bodies containing chromite ore horizons (Western 18 Precambrian Mineral Deposits Greenland)...discovery of large sulphide copper-nickel deposits in Western Australia was an important stimulus in studying...similar to the nickel-bearing supracrustal belts of Western Australia (Archean geochemistry..., 1 9 7 7 ) ...pegmatoids comprising sulphide copper-nickel and apatite ores. Granites of the second phase cross-cut the
Journal (issue)
the Kilsyth Coking Coal in the Glasgow-Stirling region, by l, H . Forsyth, B;Sc., and W. A. Read, B.Sc...Boreholes in the Carboniferous rocks of the.A:s:hover district, Derbyshire, by W. H. C. Ramsbottom, M.A., Ph... 55 VII.-Beryllium minerals from Rhodesia and Uganda, by M. J. Gallagher, B.Sc., Ph.D., and J. R. Hawkes...Fro. 8. FIG. 9. I Sketch map showing geology of western end of the Criffcll granodiorite Geological map...mineral veins and a nticlinal belts within the western Southern Uplands Fro. 3. Fro. 4. II Location
Journal (issue)
north of the hut contains good graftonite, a few apatite, roscherite and childrenite crystals and, always...Fe 20 3 /M n 0 is 24.67/23.73 percent. Apatite group Apatite belongs to two stages of crystallization...or 4 mm lozenge-shaped crystals perched on buff apatite in drusy albite. Vashegyite (?) A14( P 0 4)3(0...Urubu pegmatite and chief mining company of the region, controls more than 2 0 0 pegmatite bodies. The...substantially reduced and concentrated in the western part of the deposit, mainly on amblygonite. Presently
Report (issue)
For each country having a tungsten deposit or district listed in the ISMI tungsten inventory...........numerous mine closures (estimated at 85 percent of Western world mine capacity). In some cases, however, tungsten... TYPES OF TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS (southern Jiangxi region), Bolivia, Peru, Portugal, and the former Soviet...Deposits in the former Soviet Union in the Dzhida district possibly are in this category. However, most placer...in arid regions of the former Soviet Union and Western United States. For example, the Searles Lake deposit
Book
VULCANICITY AND CONTINENTAL EVOLUTION IN THE BARBERTON REGION, TRANSVAAL 27 M. J. Viljoen and R. P. Viljoen...Survey and Mines Department, P.O. Box 9, Entebbe, Uganda. Cauen, L., Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale,...Highlands and part in the Midland Valley. In the Western Highlands he and Richey established for the first...J. E.). The succession of the Moine Schists of western Invernessshire. Abstract. Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv....A, No. 2, 61. 1938 (with Harvey, C. O.). An apatite rock from Dumfriesshire, Great Britain. Summ. Progr
Journal (issue)
SOMALILAND SUDAN (A.E.) SWAZILAND TANGANYIKA TRINIDAD UGANDA W. PACIFIC IS. WINDWARD IS. ZANZIBAR REGULAR FEATURES...RESOURCES ARTICLE The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Uganda. By K. A. Davies, O.B.E., Ph.D., M.Sc., Director...D.I.C., Deputy Di'Yector, Geologi'cal Survey of Uganda • . 161 OBITUARIES Dr. J. D. Falconer and Dr...over-retted. Northern Province, Nigeria.-Fibre from this region was reported on as being very suitable for spinning...paper was being used on an increasing scale in Western countries as a substitute for jute, in particular
Journal (issue)
SOMALILAND SUDAN (A.E.) SWAZILAND TANGANYIKA TRINIDAD UGANDA W. PACIFIC IS. WINDWARD IS. ZANZIBAR REGULAR FEATURES...RESOURCES ARTICLE The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Uganda. By K. A. Davies, O.B.E., Ph.D., M.Sc., Director...D.I.C., Deputy Di'Yector, Geologi'cal Survey of Uganda • . 161 OBITUARIES Dr. J. D. Falconer and Dr...over-retted. Northern Province, Nigeria.-Fibre from this region was reported on as being very suitable for spinning...paper was being used on an increasing scale in Western countries as a substitute for jute, in particular
Journal (issue)
Rhexoxylon and Dadoxylon from the Lower Shire Region of Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa. By Professor...SURVEYS Kenya • • • • • • I • • • • 183 Uganda • • • • • • I • • I • 184 Nyasaland...THE • . CORRESPONDENCE The Itiaso Series of Western Ta11ganyika. and C. B. Bisset . . MINERAL • ...Rhexoxylon africanum Banc. Half the expanded pith region of a large stem, with shreds of normal secondary...trench crossing bands of iron ore iron ore ba11cls. Region indicated by rectangular outline 011 Text-fig.
Journal (issue)
With appended summary reports on: Kenya • • • • • Uganda • • Tanganyika • • • • Northern Rhodesia • • •...the Rhodesian Copper Belt The Search for Oil in Uganda • • • The Geology of North-Eastern Bechuanaland...a dendritic drainage pattern. The rocks of the western, the Tucuche, sector show a uniform south dip....especially in the southern half of the range. The western half is well settled, the eastern mainly under...about 10 miles (16 km.). It is subdivided into a western and eastern part, sep,arated by the Moruga Bouffe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et minSraux accessoires en quantit6 variable: apatite, zircon, rutile, oxydes de fer-titane. Ces minSraux...Sud du Massif Central. li6e aux strafes dans le district Compte rendu de fin d'$tude. Actungstif6re de...and genesis of the tungsten deposits of Kigezi district, SW Uganda. Thesis, Dept. Earth. Sci., Univ. Leeds
Journal (issue)
Mf"\vanganu Island, Whitworth, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.) Western . . Kenya. By Thomas . . . . 150 REPORTS...SURVErs Kenya • • • • • • • • • • • 191 Uganda • • • • • • • • • • • 191 • • •...148 • • • • • The Geologyof Mfwanganu Island, Western Kenya . Plate I 1. 2. 3. Fig. I Fig. 2 Fig.... . ,, I 73 area . Sketch map of part of western Kavirondo showing relationship of Miocene localities...closely examined, right out to the tip of the north-western cluster of islands. Isolated small areas have been
Report (issue)
• Southern Rhodesia Swaziland • • Tanganyika • Uganda • • Zanzibar • • British Guiana Canada . . . ...Fluorescence India (calcined) Idaho Corundum Apatite Apatite Pink White Pinkish S. Africa (heated) I Korea...Kyanite Apatite Red Pink Pink India (beach sand) India (beach sand) Kyanite Zircon Idaho Apatite Faint...Henry Knob deposit, as well as others in the same district, is thought to have been formed by the metamorphism...originated from Nerchinsk in the Transbaikalia district of Siberia. Gem qualities of fibrolite have been
Journal (volume)
Rhexoxylon and Dadoxylon from the Lower Shire Region of Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa . By Professor...PAGE REPORTS FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS Kenya Uganda Tanganyika . Northern Rhodesia Nyasaland . Somaliland...258, 382 CORRESPONDENCE The Itiaso Series of Western Tanganyika. From Dr. R. B. McConnell and C. B....Rhexoxylon africanum Banc . Half the expanded Pith Region of a large Stem, with Shreds of normal Secondary...· facing p . Coloured Geological Sketch Map of Western Guadalcanal Coloured Geological Sketch Map of Malaita
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Azores. gamagarite, Gamagara ridge, Postmasburg district, South Africa. garronite, Garron plateau area...Mountains, Soviet Union. inderite, Inder Lake, western Kazakhstan, Soviet Union. jarosite, Jaroso ravine...example, is after the locality at Inder Lake, Western Kazakhstan, Soviet Union and at the same time after...from Variscia, an ancient name of the Voigtland district of Ger¬ many, where the mineral was first found...from the herb galax, which is abundant in the district of North Carolina where the mineral was discovered
Report (issue)
---_------------Tanganyika _______________________________ _ Uganda Protectorate_______________________ _ United Arab...----------------------Victoria ___ ---------------------------_ Western Australia ___ ------------------New Zealand ______...Blue Ridge province _____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County...County _____________________ _ Zirconia district ___________ ----Macon, Jackson, and Clay Counties __ ----..._______________ -- __ Crystalline rocks in the western monazite belt in the Piedmont province __ Stokes
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Greece 22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...Rare-earth minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli)...6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne: Apatite and muscovite from the Ze Pinto prospect, Minas...Cassedanne) 8:382-387 Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario (by D. G. Ellion) 13:67-70 New data on...[Arizona] (by W. E. Wilson) 2:252-258 APATITE The discovery of apatite on the Lievre River, Quebec (by D
 
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