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Aquamarine from
Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Beryl var: Aquamarine
Formula:Be3Al2Si6O18
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aquamarine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:443843
Long-form Identifier:1:3:443843:4
GUID (UUID V4):3e90728d-3347-458d-92e5-35892a02270d
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Stoppaniite Fabio Tamagnini Page 40 Emerald and Aquamarine in Canada Lee A. Groat Page 22 Beryl Color Varieties...112 Author's Addresses Right: Aquamarine Rough from Marijao, Madagascar is sorted in a workshop in Idar-Oberstein...lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient gemstone, aquamarine is well suited to modern design. The Bernd Munsteiner...are widely used (see page 22). These include aquamarine, red beryl, morganite, emerald, goshenite, and...emerald and aquamarine are surrounded by the ancient mysticism of birthstones. Emerald, aquamarine and beryl
Journal (issue)
diamonds. pg. 269 284 Pezzottaite from Ambatovita, Madagascar: A New Gem Mineral Brendan M. Laurs, William...Gem-quality corundum from Colombia • Emeralds from Madagascar with strong blue/green dichroism • Peruvian blue...beryl in the world: the Ruby Violet (or Red Beryl) mine in Utah’s Wah Wah Mountains. Shown here is a unique...GEMOLOGY WINTER 2003 283 PEZZOTTAITE FROM AMBATOVITA, MADAGASCAR: A NEW GEM MINERAL Brendan M. Laurs, William...2002 in a granitic pegmatite near Ambatovita in central Madagascar. Only a few dozen kilograms of gem
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hundred specimens). As part of a new initiative to “mine” this resource for both educational and research...only contemporary specimen is from the Red Lake mine near Balmerton in western Ontario. Rich specimens...specimens of gold in smoky quartz from the O’Brien mine at Cadillac, Quebec, are particularly attractive. This...less well-developed forms. In rare cases, beryl (aquamarine or goshenite) has been observed. Late-stage,...STRIATIONS ON CARROLLITE FROM THE KAMOYA SOUTH II MINE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. R. L. Morgan, 1851
Catalog/List
Signature® Internet Session 2 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 (HERITAGELive...collection, a lot of it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably... SESSION ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment...Topaz Klein Spitzkopje, Spitzkopje Area, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia Klein Spitzkopje in Afrikaans
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similarly to pezzottaite in the type occurrence in Madagascar, formed in a pegmatite with a hybrid NYF Þ LCT...crystals of gemstone quality (e.g., goshenite, aquamarine, emerald, heliodor, morganite, and red beryl)...in pockets in the Sakavalana pegmatite near Mandosonoro, Ambatonandrahana District, Fianarantsoa Province...Province, Madagascar (Laurs et al. 2003, Hawthorne et al. 2004). Since then it has only been recorded from...Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, and the Deva Mine, Paroon pegmatite eld, Vama District, Nuristan
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Photographs January/February: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Francis Benjamin specimen...Scovil photo. March/April: Galaxy opal, Opalville mine, lease 135, Jundah, Queensland, Australia. Owner...unknown, Frank Coffa photo. May/June: Beryl (var. aquamarine), schorl, and fluorite, Erongo Mountains, Namibia...Jeff Scovil photo. July/August: Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William...Scovil photo. November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CsLiBe2Al2Si6O18. Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro area, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar. R060583 reproduced...Sahatany Pegmatite Field, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Coin diameter is ~1 cm. E.S. Grew sample (gift... Be2AlO4. Twinned crystals from the Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R100130 reproduced...Be4Si2O7(OH)2, in pseudohexagonal prisms from the Golconda mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photograph...reported from several localities in the Urals and Madagascar and from one locality in Wisconsin and the United
Show/Event (guide)
t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00...kulanite and phosphophyllite from the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire bill. W Nizamoff R...Lupulescu 4:30 M i n e r a l s of the Sakavalana pegmatite, near Ambatovita, Central MadagascarbyWm. B. Simmons...Carrollite crystals f r o m the Kamoya South I I Mine, Katanga, DRC, have pronounced facial striations...(`1200 specimens). A s part of a new initiative to "mine" this resource for both educational and research
Journal (issue)
and citrine from Namibia • Aquamarine from Colorado • Saturated blue aquamarine from Nigeria • Chalcedony...diamond from Saskatchewan, Canada • Spiral in aquamarine • “Bamboo” moonstone • Pezzottaite in quartz...are seen in hydrogen-rich diamonds from the Argyle mine (Iakoubovskii and Adriaenssens, 2001). The defects...(1969) Mineralogical notes: A study of some gold mine diamonds. American Mineralogist, Vol. 54, Nos. 1–2...the leaves. The piece came from the Coronel Murta mine in Minas Gerais, and was carved by “Docinho” of
Journal (issue)
tourmaline, and a few excellent blue beryls var. aquamarine but the unusual minerals are really more interesting...unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc...new minerals from that mine. I saw a few pieces of kochsandorite from the coal mine at Many in Hungary....crystals from an old find (1930s) in the Tilva Mika Mine (Bor, Serbia-Montenegro) shown by Gunnar Farber
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were studied in the Koktokay #3 pegmatite, Altai district, China. Complex internal textures in individual...thousands of pegmatite dykes in the Altai pegmatite district, NW China (Fig. 1a). This pegmatite, with a NW-SE...found for the first time in the Sakavalana pegmatite, central Madagascar (Hawthorne et al., 2004). The...(2003): Caesium-rich morganite from Afghanistan and Madagascar. J. Gemm., 28, 417–429. Geochemical evolution...beryl-group mineral from the Sakavalana pegmatite, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar. Mineral. Rec., 35, 369–378
Journal (issue)
with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...Hodrusa-Hamre (in the Banska Stiavnica mining district) is also the type locality for hodrusite. V INTRODUCTION...historical events before 1920, we will use the older district name of Schemnitz in accordance with the literature...time, whereas for events after 1920 the modem district name of Banska Stiavnica will be used, bearing
Journal (issue)
the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
colorful varieties of beryl (including the varieties aquamarine, red beryl, morganite, emerald, goshenite and...Southern California” (J. Fisher), “Emerald and Aquamarine in Canada” (L. Groat), “Gem Beryl from Russia...untitled (!) map (p. 43) showing some emerald and aquamarine occurrences in Canada. Standardization has also...beryl-group mineral from the Sakavalana pegmatite, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar. Mineral. Rec. 35, 369-378...MINERALOGIST Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine: the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province.
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207...17656. LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207...A beautiful Crystallized Gold from the “16-to-1” Mine • A huge cut and polished Apache Agate weighing...Pallasite - PMG Hekandue River, Seymchan Magadan District, Russia This slice of the Seymchan Meteorite does...Pallasite - PMG Hekandue River, Seymchan Magadan District, Russia There are not enough superlatives to describe
Journal (issue)
Afghanistan • Quartz with gilalite inclusions • Fake aquamarine crystals from Mogok • More faked inclusions in... lower-quality diamonds from Australia’s Argyle mine, coupled with the exponential expansion of India’s...Congo [DRC] after 1996) Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA) mine and Angola’s state-owned diamond-mining company...the open market. With one exception (the Argyle mine), all major diamond production sources were controlled...producers (effectively forcing them to stock at the mine sites). Yet several forces were developing that
Journal (issue)
hiddenite discovery • Sapphires and pezzottaite from Madagascar • Mogok update • “Star” obsidian • Unusual star...Korea • Tourmaline with an iridescent coating • Madagascar gem cutting, and plans for a gemological institute...Elara diamond design patent invalidated by U.S. district court (2003) National Jeweler, Vol. 97, No. 18...gray, yellow, or pale green. It is named for the district in Scotland where it was first discovered (R....Johnson, June 2003. Ekati. Access to BHP’s Ekati mine is solely by air except for six to eight weeks during
Journal (issue)
1979 with an article on the Sweet Home mine. He mined the Dixie mine in Idaho Springs for leaf gold and crystallized...including Huanuni, Viloco, Llallagua, the San Jose mine in Oruro, Tasna, Morococala, Chicote Grande, and...reopened the now-famous Sweet Home mine in Alma, Colorado to mine specimen rhodochrosite, h bnerite,...Other localities mined include the Calumet Iron mine; Italian Mountain; and Mt. Antero. In July 1979...the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho to dig for gem aquamarine crystals, crystallized topaz, helvite, spessartine
Journal (issue)
M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
Journal (issue)
assemblage 54 Gem News International Tucson 2012 • Aquamarine from Mozambique • Azurite in granitic rock from...efforts and promising early results, the emerald mine has not yet begun production. 2 GEMS & GEMOLOGY...deposit is located near the Bonfim gold-tungsten mine (figure 2), at coordinates 05°50.45¢S, 036°07.10¢W...basement gneiss, close to the Bonfim goldtungsten mine, which is hosted by metasedimentary rocks. Modified...collected by author JCZ during his visit to the mine. Parallel plates were cut and polished from three
Journal (issue)
appointed Resident Geologist at the Copper Queen mine for three years, including the responsibility for...at Bisbee in 1975 he transferred toAjo as General Mine Foreman. He finally left the employ of Phelps Dodge...Nome, Alaska, as well as of a coal mine in Utah and a copper mine in New Mexico for Gold Fields, Ltd...Creek mine and claim (San Benito County, California-Mineralogical Record, 2005), the Outlaw mine (Nye...1991), the Alta/Union mine area (Del Norte County, California), the Lodi #4/Murdock mine area (Plumas County
Book (edition)
extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...First Edition For two decades, an earlier work of mine – Practical Gemmology – has proved a useful elementary...largest crystals are opaque some gem-quality aquamarine and topaz crystals can weigh many kilograms....and tanzanite. Gem minerals such as amethyst, aquamarine, morganite, topaz and tourmaline may be found...similar geological setting also occur at the Menzies mine in Western Australia and these rocks also have been
Book
Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
Journal (issue)
besaß auch der Eigentümer der Ampliaci6n a Victoria Mine in Navajun einen großen Stand. Er hatte eine riesige...aus dem Tagebau Khanong der Sepon Gold and Copper Mine, VilaboulyDistrikt, Prov. Savannakhet, Laos. Gesehen...aus dem Tagebau Khanong der Sepon Gold and Copper Mine, Vilabouly-Distrikt, Prov. Savannakhet, an. Die...von Malachit nach Azurit aus Tagebau Khanong/Sepon Mine, Laos. Gesehen bei Roger Lang. 2. Neufund im sh...Baluchistan (an manchen Ständen auch mit Raywoo Mine, Quetta/ Baluchistan ausgewiesen), die schon in
Journal (issue)
samples from Sri Lanka, Montana, U.S.A., Ilakaka, Madagascar, and Songea, Tanzania. Keywords: absorption spectroscopy...especially samples from Songea, Tanzania, and Ilakaka, Madagascar, contained elevated beryllium concentrations...Beryllium-diffusion-treated sapphires from Ilakaka, Madagascar; range of samples from 1.10 to 1.47 ct. Photo...sapphire of 1.44 ct originating from Ilakaka, Madagascar; this sample was labelled ‘deep diffusion treated’...sapphire of 1.29 ct originating from Ilakaka, Madagascar. Photo by M. Glas. Figure 2d: In the sample
 
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