| Locality type: | Alluvials |
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| Species: | 'Microlite Group' (not an IMA approved species) |
| Formula: | A2-mTa2X6-wZ-n |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Microlite Group data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Mumba cassiterite gravels, Mumba, Osso, Masisi Territory, North Kivu, DR Congo |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 993525 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:993525:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | d6f94c0b-73a2-4c85-a85b-0c3e27fda80e |
| Nearest other occurrences of Microlite Group |
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| 34.3km (21.3 miles) | āMungwe mine, Numbi, Kalehe Territory, South Kivu, DR Congo |
| 34.6km (21.5 miles) | āMisumari II mine, Numbi, Kalehe Territory, South Kivu, DR Congo |
| 36.9km (23.0 miles) | āNumbi, Kalehe Territory, South Kivu, DR Congo |
| 100.0km (62.1 miles) | āRusororo pegmatite, Muhororo, Ngororero District, Western Province, Rwanda |
| 100.0km (62.1 miles) | āBuranga pegmatite, Muhororo, Ngororero District, Western Province, Rwanda |
| References |
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Melcher, Frank, Graupner, Torsten, GƤbler, Hans-Eike, Sitnikova, Maria, Henjes-Kunst, Friedhelm, OberthĆ¼r, Thomas, Gerdes, Axel, Dewaele, Stijn (2015) Tantalumā(niobiumātin) mineralisation in African pegmatites and rare metal granites: Constraints from TaāNb oxide mineralogy, geochemistry and UāPb geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 64. 667-719 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.003 |
| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | Atencio, D., Filho, R. R. C., Mills, S. J., Coutinho, J. M. V., Honorato, S. B., Ayala, A. P., Ellena, J., de Andrade, M. B. (2011) Rankamaite from the Urubu pegmatite, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Crystal chemistry and Rietveld refinement. American Mineralogist, 96 (10) 1455-1460 doi:10.2138/am.2011.3594 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | intimately associated with simpsonite, thoreaulite, cassiterite, quartz, elbaite, albite, and muscovite. The...ātungsten bronzeā (OTB), crystallizing in the space group Cmmm. Its unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray...(1) the Mumba cassiterite gravels, Masisi Mountains, Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (von Knorring...pegmatite, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo (Voloshin and Pakhomovsky 1988; Uher et al. 2008)...spodumene-bearing pegmatites between Goma and Masisi to the northwest of Lake Kivu, long before its discovery. The |
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