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Biotite from
Ambindandrakemba, Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud District, Anosy, Madagascar


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:500 ± 12 Ma
Minimum recorded age:500 ± 12 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
1500 ± 12 MaMiaolingian - Rb/Sr
Sample references:
1 -
Comments:In gneiss
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ambindandrakemba, Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud District, Anosy, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1220296
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1220296:6
GUID (UUID V4):e79f479c-784a-4224-9ee2-ba59f2cb2ae1
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Osumilite occurrence, Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud District, Anosy, Madagascar
21.1km (13.1 miles) Osumilite occurrence 1, Mahaly, Amboasary Sud District, Anosy, Madagascar
41.6km (25.8 miles) Manangotry (Manangotra), Isaka-Ivondro, Taolagnaro District, Anosy, Madagascar
71.1km (44.2 miles) Cap Andrahomana, Andranobory, Taolagnaro District, Anosy, Madagascar
77.1km (47.9 miles) Ampasimena, Ampasimena, Taolagnaro District, Anosy, Madagascar
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The belts of Eastern Africa, extending from Madagascar to southern Ethiopia, include the principal graphite...Eastern•tjerica(II) betweenEthiopiaand Moqambique, continuingin Madagascar. Rising betweenthe basinsand the sea,the •ttlantic...further north,with the principal,Hartley, gold district (28) in an irregularly shaped,150 mile long roof-pendant...Tshamakaterraces,the zoned, North Lugulu placer district. Most of the world's tantalum is locatedon the...beendistinguished in the southern,or Kilo (56)district: (a) Tsi-Labo, (b) Sindani-Alosiand (c) Pokwo-Yedi
Report (issue)
The Natural History Museum of Milan and its Madagascar Collection The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale... the museum began paleontologic fieldwork in Madagascar (upper Permian fauna and Jurassic and Cretaceous...fieldwork in Madagascar in 1996 in collaboration with other institu­ tions in Madagascar, Italy, and the...Pezzotta has spent a total of twenty­ nine months in Madagascar making geological-mineralogical surveys. In collaboration...both classic and new minerals and gemstones from Madagascar opened at the Natural History Museum in Milan
Report (issue)
LIBERIA LIBYA LIECHTENSTEIN LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MALI MALTA MARSHALL ISLANDS MAURITANIA...partial melting, such as pegmatites (Bancroft district and Charlebois Lake, Canada); (b) Disseminations...Zaire); Jachymov (former Czechoslovakia); Limousin district (France)); (ii) Deposits associated with ‘old’...(Proterozoic quartz-pebble conglomerates) (Blind River district (Canada); Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa));...mineralization (e.g. deposits of the Lagoa Real district, Brazil [42]) or (b) remobilization by supergene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(continued) Mineral Chemical composition Line Biotite Birnessite Bischofite Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite...no hypersthene. Lamprophyre mainly composed of biotite or phlogopite and melilite. May also contain olivine...mafic minerals such as pyroxene, hornblende or biotite. Matrix consists of the same minerals as the phenocrysts...typical rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite...Accessory and alteration minerals include hornblende, biotite, chlorite, and calcite. This diabasic texture is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(continued) Mineral Chemical composition Line Biotite Birnessite Bischofite Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite...no hypersthene. Lamprophyre mainly composed of biotite or phlogopite and melilite. May also contain olivine...mafic minerals such as pyroxene, hornblende or biotite. Matrix consists of the same minerals as the phenocrysts...typical rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite...Accessory and alteration minerals include hornblende, biotite, chlorite, and calcite. This diabasic texture is
 
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