Ruia Falls estate, Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwei

Regional Level Types
Ruia Falls estate	- not defined -
Mazowe District	District
Mashonaland Central	Province
Zimbabwe	Country

Pegmatites.

"Beryl has been found on Ruia Falls Estate, 32 miles north of Bindura in a narrow schist belt following the east bank of the Ruya river. It occurs in pegmatites holding spodumene and some lepidolite, but the quantity of beryl is negligible. [Other reported occurrences in the district are on the Grand Duke claims near Odzi, 15 miles south of Chibi, and at the Chakari claims, 15 miles northeast of the Bikita tin field.]" (Mineral Trade Notes, 1953, page 5-6)

"On Ruia Falls Estate, formerly Clutton and Bruton farms, about 32 miles north by west of Bindura township, greisenized pegmatites cut paragneisses of the Ruya Series (S.R.G.S. Bull. 10). These have been opened up to some extent in a search for beryl, but the lithium minerals, lepidolite and spodumene, were found to be more abundant than beryl. The spodumene here crops out in large rounded masses and boulders and shows spheroidal weathering in the trenches. Although the available tonnage probably is moderate, it is as usual intermixed with quartz in about equal proportions, so that it is of little value at present. The quantity of lepidolite, too, is very small. [Lepidolite also occurs in the vicinity of Shamva -- on the Tafuna hill, and near Bindura -- but here again in very small quantity. Isolated occurrences are reported elsewhere in the Colony, such as in the north Inyanga District and a locality 6 miles north of Gadzoma in the Hartley District.]" (Mineral Trade Notes, 1953, page 49).

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