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Amethyst from
Rubeho Mountains, Kilosa District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Goethite9 photos of Amethyst associated with Goethite at this locality.
Hematite9 photos of Amethyst associated with Hematite at this locality.
Quartzβ“˜1 photo of Amethyst associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rubeho Mountains, Kilosa District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1306719
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1306719:3
GUID (UUID V4):7e2734fa-d873-4f93-a3b3-995c85f92f53
References
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GEMSTONES of East Africa Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Bruce Cairncross Published by Struik...resources 12 Burundi 13 Kenya 14 Rwanda 16 Tanzania 17 Uganda 20 Gemological properties 21 A to...through Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and into the Sudan - has blessed East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, with...starting in what was then Tanganyika ( now mainland Tanzania) and then progressing to Kenya - I am proud to...countries are among the finest in the world. The region and its gems are particularly dear to my family
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localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during...Discoveries, 1960-2015 ILMENITE AFRICA (Cherry) Mountains (Drnitriy Belakovskiy, personal communication
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species that are resident year-round in a particular region exploit food sources that remain available there...altitudinal movements occur even on relatively low mountains, such as the Great Dividing Range in southeast...Africa and then in the northern Mediterranean region, and possibly a third time in temperate Europe...(Bruderer 1999). When birds need to cross high mountains or find favourable airstreams, they sometimes...either southwest or southeast, depending on their region of origin (Helbig 1991). Moreover, hybrids between
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discovered about birds (and other organisms) in the region, as well as the enormous importance of Amazonia...the Seychelles National Park Authority and the District Administrator on La Digue, an advocacy and education...resulting in a conservation strategy for the Tumbesian region. At the time, ICBP was the only international conservation...conservation organisation to regard the Tumbesian region as a conservation priority. In 2004, the British...in Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya,-Tanzania and Ethiopia. The species listed in these publications
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Blue Ridge province _____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County...County _____________________ _ Zirconia district ___________ ----Macon, Jackson, and Clay Counties __ ----...site of its discovery near Miask in the limen Mountains of Russia. Other names by which it has been known...origin. Quartzite and conglomerate in the Mkushi district of the Central Province of the Federation of Rhodesia...composition intrusive into quartzite in the Diamantina district of Brazil (Derby, 1899, p. 348; 1900a, p. 209-213;
 
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