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Andradite from West Africa

Ghana
 
  • Eastern Region
    • Asuogyaman District
Woldegabriel, Giday, Aronson, James L., Walter, Robert C. (1990) Geology, geochronology, and rift basin development in the central sector of the Main Ethiopia Rift. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 102 (4) 439-458 doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1990)102<0439:ggarbd>2.3.co;2
Kesse, G. O. (1985) The Mineral and Rock Resources of Ghana. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam.
Holm, R. F. (1974). Petrology of alkalic gneiss in the Dahomeyan of Ghana. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 85(9), 1441-1448. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<1441:POAGIT>2.0.CO
Holm, R. F. (1971). Some garnets, pyroxenes, and amphiboles from nepheline gneisses in Ghana. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, 56(11-12), 2111-2122.
Allen, J. B., Charsley, T. J. (1968) Nepheline-Syenite and Phonolite. Institute of Geological Sciences, London.
Ivory Coast
 
  • Montagnes
    • Tonkpi
      • Zouan-Hounien Department
Béziat, D., Siebenaller, L., Salvi, S., & Chevalier, P. (2016). A weathered skarn-type mineralization in Ivory Coast: The Ity gold deposit. Ore Geology Reviews, 78, 724-730.
  • Woroba
[var. Melanite] Morel, B., & Alinat, M. (1993). Géologie, pétrologie et géochimie des syénites de Ninakri: comparaison avec d'autres massifs syénitiques anorogéniques de Côte d'Ivoire et d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East), 17(2), 213-223. doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(93)90037-Q
Yobou, R. (1993). Pétrologie des granitoïdes du Protérozoïque Inférieur du Centre-Nord de la Côte d'Ivoire(Ferkéssedougou-Marabadiassa): Evolution magmatique et contexe géodynamique (Doctoral dissertation).
Bonhomme, M. (1962). Contribution à l'étude géochronologique de la plate-forme de l'Ouest africain. Annales de la Faculte des Sciences de l'Universite de Clermont, 5 (Fasc.5), 1-62.
Arnould, M. (1961). Étude géologique des migmatites et des granites précamibriens du nord-est de la Côte l'Ivoire et de la Haute-Volta méridionale. Memoires du Bureau de `Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, 3.
Mali
 
  • Kayes Region
    • Bafoulabé Cercle
Karel Bal Collection
        • Diakon
          • Bendougou
[var. Melanite] Currier, Rock H., Pohl, Demetrius (2011) Mineral collecting in Mali. The Mineralogical Record, 42 (3) 231-250
[var. Melanite] Currier, Rock H., Pohl, Demetrius (2011) Mineral collecting in Mali. The Mineralogical Record, 42 (3) 231-250
Karel Bal Collection
      • Arrondissement of Kontela
[var. Melanite] Karel Bal Collection
    • Kayes Cercle
Masurel, Q., Thébaud, N., Miller, J., Ulrich, S., Roberts, M. P., & Béziat, D. (2017). The Alamoutala Carbonate-Hosted Gold Deposit, Kédougou-Kénieba Inlier, West Africa. Economic Geology, 112(1), 49-72.
    • Nioro du Sahel Cercle
      • Sandaré Commune
Mauritania
 
  • Tiris Zemmour Region
    • Bir Moghrein
[var. Melanite] Marsh, Erin E., Anderson, Eric D., Marsh, Erin E., Anderson, Eric D. (2015) Database of mineral deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 90 and 91) Open-File Report, 2013 (1280-S) US Geological Survey. doi:10.3133/ofr20131280s
Niger
 
  • Agadez
    • Arlit
[var. Rainbow Garnet] Weiß, S. and Schäfer, K. (2022). "Regenbogengranat" aus Niger, Westafrika. Lapis, 47 (6), 38-41.
Dmitry Stepanenko specimen & photo (Photo ID: 952617), ex Sylvain Leroux specimen, verified by EDS ( Dimitry Stepanenko.
Senegal
 
  • Tambacounda Region
    • Falémé River basin
Schwartz, M. O., & Melcher, F. (2004). The Falémé iron district, Senegal. Economic Geology, 99(5), 917-939.
 
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