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Liddicoatite from
Anjanabonoina pegmatites, Ambohimanambola, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar


Locality type:Pegmatite Field
Classification
Species:'Liddicoatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca(Li2Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Comments:A gem-quality purplish-red tourmaline sample of alleged liddicoatitic composition turned out to be elbaite in composition (Bosi et al. 2021).
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Liddicoatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Anjanabonoina pegmatites, Ambohimanambola, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44546
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44546:1
GUID (UUID V4):11ee242c-1404-48a2-908a-bb20a11e424b
Nearest other occurrences of Liddicoatite
38.9km (24.1 miles) ā“˜Vohitrakanga pegmatite, Andrembesoa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
44.6km (27.7 miles) ā“˜Ambatonapetraka pegmatites, Mangarano, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
44.9km (27.9 miles) ā“˜Antsofimbato pegmatites, Mangarano, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
47.1km (29.2 miles) ā“˜Tsarafara Sud (Ankadilava), Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
57.8km (35.9 miles) ā“˜Tsilaizina pegmatite, Sahanivotry Manandona, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
62.6km (38.9 miles) ā“˜Antandrokomby pegmatite, Manandona Valley, Sahatsiho Ambohimanjaka, Ambositra, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Caron and Geneve Rege Figure 1. Four original liddicoatite tourmaline crystals before cutting. Clockwise...Lost Liddicoatite Crystals ā€” How a Long-Misplaced Lot of Gem Liddicoatite Crystals from Madagascar Was...work, said he had ā€œinheritedā€ a group of large ā€œliddicoatiteā€ crystals (see the Connoisseurā€™s Choice column...Robert B. Cook in this issue for a discussion of liddicoatite terminology). There are more than a dozen species...supergroup, including elbaite, dravite, and schorl. Liddicoatite, first recognized as a tourmaline species in
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GEM-MINERALIZED AND ā€œHYBRIDā€ ANJANABONOINA GRANITIC PEGMATITE, CENTRAL MADAGASCAR: A RECORD OF MAGMATIC AND... Moro 5, Iā€“00185 Roma, Italy Abstract The Anjanabonoina rare-element-enriched granitic pegmatite dikes...dikes, located about 40 km southwest of Betafo, in central Madagascar, are emplaced in a complex environment...mineralogy (which includes abundant elbaiteā€“liddicoatite, a pink variety of beryl, spodumene, and hambergite)...hambergite) typical of much of the Anjanabonoina dike. Large crystals of pyrochlore of the first generation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared...tourmalines of the liddicoatite-elbaite series from pegmatites from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar, have been characterized...to the olenites (from Koralpe, Austria) the liddicoatite-elbaite samples show a positive correlation...formulae of the Al-rich tourmalines from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar, show ~ ā– 0.2 (vacancies) on the Y site...process. Keywords: Liddicoatite-elbaite, tetrahedrally coordinated boron, Madagascar, structure, chemistry
Journal (issue)
when purchasing gems. 28 Liddicoatite Tourmaline from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar Dona M. Dirlam, Brendan...elbaite with Cu ā€¢ Vesuvianite from Kenya and Madagascar ā€¢ Star opal triplets ā€¢ Plus: Emeralds from Hiddenite...Hiddenite, North Carolina ā€¢ Star emerald from Madagascar ā€¢ Tourmaline ā€œsliderā€ in quartz 107 109 111...leadership in the field, the tourmaline species liddicoatite was named after him in 1977. Much of this tourmaline...tourmaline has come from Madagascarā€™s Anjanabonoina mine and contains remarkable color zoning, as shown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystallization in the eclogite, i.e. tourmaline-bearing pegmatites in the country-rock, were inļ¬‚uenced by a Sr-bearing...pre-enriched in B by the intrusion of tourmaline-bearing pegmatites during Permian metamorphism. Laser-ablation inductively...metapelitic country rocks with tourmaline-bearing pegmatites, which intruded during Permian times. A crustal...and Fe (Table 4). Commonly, tourmaline-bearing pegmatites of the Austroalpine basement units and many other...tourmalines from the contact zone of Permian pegmatites to mica schists and marbles from different localities
Journal (issue)
only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...extraction technology originally conceived in the district were considered the state-of-the-art around the...1957). By the winter of 1864 the Summit Valley district (Butteā€™s original name) had been organized, with...bulk of the primary silver produced in the Butte district eventually came from the Rainbow vein system....dispatch a man by the name of Marcus Daly to the district in 1876, in order to examine the mining prospects
Journal (issue)
Resources. According to Wang et al. (1996), 22 pegmatites and 8 quartz veins related to emerald had been...gem mines in the central deposits, around Khlung District within Chanthaburi Province, have supplied more...geochemistry of Nb and Ta in rare-element granitic pegmatites. Bulletin de Mineralogie, Vol. 108, pp. 499ā€“532...gem collection. Chiolite occurs in some granite pegmatites and is associated with ralstonite, pachnolite...info/vlasovite/R060913). Vlasovite is known to be found in pegmatites in northern Russia, Canada, and Portugal. It
 
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