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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:443845
Long-form Identifier:1:3:443845:8
GUID (UUID V4):5604929f-267e-41f4-8cf9-49e9db14878a
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
22.1km (13.7 miles) ⓘMarivolanitra pegmatite, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitic pegmatites? Clues from hybrid pegmatites in Madagascar Robert F. Martin,1,* Caterina De Vito,2 and Federico...granitic pegmatite in Madagascar. The NYF assemblages there and at the Sakavalana and Anjahamiary pegmatites...and Th-rich accessory phases and an amazonitic microcline perthite in miarolitic cavities. The early miarolitic...HFSE, containing pale-gray microcline perthite. The amazonitic microcline perthite at Anjanabonoina has...has a ή18O value above 15‰, and that at Sakavalana, close to 13‰, indicative of formation of the NYF-pegmatite-forming
Report (issue)
Addresses Right: Aquamarine Rough from Marijao, Madagascar is sorted in a workshop in Idar-Oberstein, Germany...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...Assunïżœio, Portugal. Pegmatites at Mahajamba, Madagascar have yielded beryl crystals to lengths of 3 meters...beryl crystal is a pegmatite at Malakialina, Madagascar, which produced one crystal that was 18 meters...near Sabsar, on the Gilgit to Skardu Road, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Collection Ty Lawrence;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unidentified bright blue Cu sulfide, ilmenite, quartz, microcline, albite, siderophyllite, muscovite, and possibly...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...fluorine-dominant phlogopite, olivine (hortonolite), microcline, rare garnet, and zircon are the main gangue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similarly to pezzottaite in the type occurrence in Madagascar, formed in a pegmatite with a hybrid NYF ĂŸ LCT...in pockets in the Sakavalana pegmatite near Mandosonoro, AmbatoïŹ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 ïŹeld, Vama District, Nuristan...found only in the LCT signature pod together with microcline enriched in Rb and Cs (K/Rb ÂŒ 33–70; Cs ’ 1000–2500
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
renierite-germanite-tennantite ore from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. The new mineral name is for Professor...erosenbuschite group from the Langesundsfjord district, Norway: definition and crystal structure. Eur...the island of Vesle ArĂžya in the Langesundsfjord district, Vestfold, Norway. The pegmatite was heavily blasted...still present. The mineral was found embedded in microcline and fine-grained albite. Associated minerals...second new phosphate mineral from the SilberbrĂŒnnle mine in the central Black Forest. Der ErzgrĂ€ber, 18,
Journal (issue)
en KarĂ©lie (Finlande) La chiavennite de Sakavalana (Madagascar) Roedderite (x 36) CarriĂšre du mont...PEZZITTAÏTE DANS IA PEGMATITE DE SAKAVALANA, .AMBATOVITA, MADAGASCAR Federico PEZZOTTA, Alessandro GUASTONI...presque toutes signĂ© la pĂ©tition pour sauver la mine de La Gardette, l'imagination des enquĂȘteurs et...rĂ©coltaient en rĂ©alitĂ© des minĂ©raux dans une ancienne mine abandonnĂ©e. Lors du jugement au tribunal de Mende...FrĂ©dĂ©ric Delporte - delportejrederic@wanadoojr L "mine" dite de la Gardette se situe sur la commune e Villard-Notre-Dame
Journal (issue)
Be4Si2O7(OH)2, in pseudohexagonal prisms from the Golconda mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photograph...ened tabular hexagonal crystal from Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R090019 reproduced...Sahatany Pegma te Field, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Coin diameter is ~1 cm. E.S. Grew sample (gi...reported previously, volcanic rocks in the Eifel district, Germany (e.g., Schminke 2007, Lengauer et al...rocks no younger than 1050 Ma (Chimwala, Chipata district, Zambia, de Roever and VrĂĄna 1985; Johnson et
Journal (issue)
MORNING: Ray Lasmanis will present “The Pine Point Mine, Northwest Terrritories, Canada”. N AFTERNOON:...Bridge Columbia River Oregon 2 The Bagdad Chase Mine, San Bernardino Co., California by Don Howard Following...the group. The first stop was at the Bagdad Chase mine, where we spent an interesting day collecting. Since...explanation of the mine, its minerals, and some of its history. The Bagdad Chase mine is located a few...there has been little activity. The Bagdad Chase mine was the largest producer of both gold and copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...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...Note: New Data on Arsenate Minerals from the Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 135–39; The Occurrence and Origin of Gold
Journal (issue)
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...from lhe Gold Hill Mine, U1ah, 21-8: I. Micromincralogy of !he Blue Mons1cr Mine, California. 21-9:5
Journal (issue)
Zacatecas, Mexico (perhaps the largest example from the mine in 25 years) In conclusion, if the reader generally...specifically at Bloemfontein itself, but in that district within Free State are the Jagersfontein, Koffiefontein...be from the Tonglushan Copper Mine, near Daye, Hubei Province. This mine is said to be among the oldest...Bornonite on Quartz· Yaogangxian show oood luster and Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China; ° . terna l specimen is...these crystals. Also from Daye, at the Fengjiashan Mine, famous for its outstanding inesite and hubeite
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 (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... 2000). Zone I is characterized by a typical microcline ĂŸ quartz graphic texture. In this zone, elbaite–schorl...very rare. Zone III contains large crystals of microcline (30 cm), rarely enclosing black elbaite–schorl...consists of quartz and spodumene, with platy albite, microcline, elbaite, tantalite, pollucite, and ‘‘Cs-lepidolite’’
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collection—a druse of natrolite crystals from the Phoenix mine, Michigan, donated (and probably also collected)...Manitoba), and a 48-cm beryl cluster from the Tanco mine (eastern Manitoba). 336 People Behind the Museum...Stalactitic smithsonite from the now-abandoned Kelly mine, New Mexico. This specimen was acquired in the 1920s...fluorapatite, fluorite, hematite, magnetite, microcline, muscovite, pyrite, quartz, and sphalerite. The...partially enclosed “crust” of native copper, Quincy mine, Michigan. This specimen, donated by W. J. Trethaway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amazonitic K-feldspar, which is orthoclase rather than microcline, indicate that the pegmatitic assemblage lost...fluid it held before crossing into the field of microcline, at 450°C or so. As a result, the minerals of...effects (leading to the conversion of orthoclase to microcline and the “exsolution” of lead from the structure...the Borborema belt in Brazil, and in the Pala District of southern California. The spatial association...(see below), the typical K-feldspar is now low microcline, and pseudomorphic after a primary monoclinic
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)
RJ (1997) A high-pressure structural study of microcline (KAlSi3O8) to 7 GPa. Eur J Mineral 9:263–275...beryl-group mineral from the Sakavalana pegmatite, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar. Min Rec 35:369–378 Hess
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...consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:...Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Description: Grey...Veatchite Sr2[B5O8(OH)]2B(OH)3·H2O Locality: Billie mine, Death Valley, California, USA. Description: White...Hydroboracite CaMgB6O8(OH)6·3H2O Locality: District # 99, underground mine, Inder boron deposit, Atyrau region
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...similar geological setting also occur at the Menzies mine in Western Australia and these rocks also have been...applied in countries such as Brazil (Figure 1.29), Madagascar and Sri Lanka, almandine garnet, aquamarine,...first stage is to 36 Note on the Word ‘Origin’ mine the upper part of the pipe as an open pit to a maximum
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...Kosnarite was later found in Brazil in the Jenipapo district. Kosnar assembled an extensive suite of some of
Book
41)(Si3.86Al0.10 Fe0.04O10)(OH)2 from Mikhailovskii mine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia (Chukanov 2014a). IR spectra...In Fe3+-bearing Mg-poor schorl from the Limoeiro mine, Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the band of OH groups...area), olmiite CaMn(HSiO4)(OH) from N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese ïŹelds, South Africa (c), and...brandtite Ca2Mn(AsO4)2·2H2O from skarn (Harstigen mine, Sweden) (b), and roselite Ca2Co(AsO4)2·2H2O from...from Cigana mine, Brazil (a), landesite [nominally, Fe3+Mn2+2 (PO4)2(OH)·] from Bull Moose mine, South Dakota
 
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