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Hematite from
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Comments:replacing pyrite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Microcline4 photos of Hematite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Hematite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Aegirine3 photos of Hematite associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Monazite-(Ce)1 photo of Hematite associated with Monazite-(Ce) at this locality.
Synchysite-(Ce)1 photo of Hematite associated with Synchysite-(Ce) at this locality.
K Feldspar1 photo of Hematite associated with K Feldspar at this locality.
Zircon1 photo of Hematite associated with Zircon at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6098
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6098:1
GUID (UUID V4):85bc2c6f-b6a2-48c0-b71b-9a8348e3e6c9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain (Stove Mountain), Saint Peters Dome, and Mount Rosa (Raines 2001). From Cookstove Mountain, Glass...red tetrahedra to 3 mm, in lenses of magnetite, hematite, and quartz in postmagmatic joints in the Conway...to 1 cm embedded in massive quartz and specular hematite (fig. 6). Its composition ranges from nearly pure...Figure 6. Blue genthelvite crystals on specular hematite and quartz, field of view 6.4 mm, El Criollo pegmatite...Africa, Mount Malosa in the Zomba-Malosa alkaline syenite-granite complex in southern Malawi is famous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granites of the Zomba-Malosa pluton in southern Malawi (Martin and De Vito, 2005). The Zomba-Malosa pluton, emplaced...pegmatites, which crop out close to the summit of Mount Malosa, are sub-horizontal, highly miarolitic and often...deposits of the Quaternary volcanic field in the Eifel region, where high-level phonolitic-trachytic magma chambers...glass, but larger aegirine crystals and very minor hematite flakes. L. SECCO ET AL. XRD Intensity data were...N3–N4 the second generation of the same sample (Zomba-Malosa aegirine); in this case also, the cell-volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa; Marshall Sussman specimen. Figure 7. Hematite, 4.2 cm high, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari Manganese...azurite, 4.9 cm high, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otijikoto region, Namibia; Scott Rudolph specimen. Downloaded...diggings, Bendougou, Arrondissement, Diako, Kayes region, Mali; Demetrius Pohl specimen. Figure 13. Elbaite...Figure 18. Aegirine, 14.1 cm high, Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi; Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure...duftite, 6.2 cm high, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia; Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure 17. Metatorbernite
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EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage 3xlcm Mount Malosa Zomba Malawi £8 ~ - - - -- -- - - - -~ 35 OHMILITE...show off the excellent colour Sandamap ,Erongo region l'{_amibia 6x4 £18 51 OPAL orange brown and white...Cornwall £30 10x7 87 HEMATITE kidney ore. Good botryoidal about 5x2.5cm on hematite Deepdale Hall • trials
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AEGIRINE Very rich mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e ....__ Malawi £10 _---- -- - -- - --·- ·- 34 AEGIRINE Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount Ste...in Gravel Hill Minc,Comwall lxl £I.SO lx2 FeOOH Hematite £2.50 - --:-GOETHITE ~ - -· - - ... ....-,-'....HEDENBERGITE Pyroxene Marittima,Grosseto,ltaly HEMATITE SPECULARITE variety. Rich black platy Bamfylde...lxl £1 lx2£2 2x2£4 FeO lustrous in or on quartz HEMATITE Attractive rich black lustrous masses, as Geevormine
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EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage 3xlcm Mount Malosa Zomba Malawi £8 I 16 JADEITE a white water worn...show off the excellent colour Sandamap ,Erongo region Namibia 6x3.5 £25 44 GANOPHYLLITE light orange-...TITE kidney ore. Good botryoidal about 5x2.5cm on hematite Deepdale Hall trials near Patterdale Cumbria £15
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(specimen and cut stones) with smoky quartz on matrix, Mount Antero, Colorado. Denver Museum of Nature and Science...34043 Aegirine and Associated Minerals from Mount Malosa, Malawi, B. Cairncross, 31-37 Africa, azurite, 4043;...minerals named after South Africans, 48-53; Mount Malosa, Malawi, 31-37; Rhodes/rhodesite,50-53; Tsumeb,...Nigeria, 110 Aragonite, Tsumeb, 21 Arfvedsonite, Malawi, 36 Arsenogoyazite, New Mexico, 301 Art, see Robinson..., Aegirine and Associated Minerals from Mount Malosa, Malawi, 3 1-37; Spectacular Minerals from the Kalahari
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphed to malachite, 25 × 20 cm, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 16. A large...crystals on microcline, 40 × 40 cm, Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Downloaded...7 cm, Onganja, Seeis, Windhoek district, Komas Region, Namibia. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Figure 24 (right)...including some outstanding pyrites, iridescent hematite, and other items from an old collection. Giazotto’s...fluorite, galena, Frizington barite, and Egremont hematite. In 1975 Giazotto made contact with a geologist
Journal (issue)
Worthy of mention among these classics are the hematite, pyrite, ilvaite and other minerals of the Elba...deposits, sirnilar to those in Switzerland and southern Austria, in the north. (2) Hercynian granite with...sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary sequences in the southern Alpine area and Sardinia. (3) volcanic rocks of...of Perrnian and Jurassic ages in the southern Alpine area of the northeast. (4) a great number of metalliferous...Ca' Bernardi and Perticara mines in the Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare
Journal (issue)
Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi .........................................all over the world converged on one geo­ graphic region for such an event. It changed the course of a nation...Mountain, was discovered by four men from the southern U.S. in 1858. While sinking a shaft in 1859, the...and HORTON, F. W. (1940) Mines of the southern Mother Lode Region; Part II—Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties...INTRODUCTION The Horcajo mines are located at the southern limit of Ciudad Real Province, Spain, approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
smectite-group clay associated with ilmenite, brookite, hematite, columbite-Fe, zircon, and pyrochlore. The core...were remobilized and redeposited. The presence of hematite suggests that the metasomatic fluids were oxidizing...cerianite-(Ce) is intergrown with clusters of platy hematite in small miaroles, associated with quartz, K-spar...(REE) carbonates from alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa, Malawi. American Mineralogist 94:1216–22. Zaitsev
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
syenitic pegmatite from the Vishnevye Mountains, Urals Region, Russia. The progressive alteration of the chevkinite...mainly between the nickelnickel oxide and magnetite-hematite buffers. This occurrence represents a new paragenesis...granites and syenites of the Graciosa Province, southern Brazil, Vlach and Gualda (2007) documented increases...(Cherry) Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast’, southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia. The specimen (K4) comes from...shown in Fig. 4b comprises an oscillatory zoned region overprinted by a darker (lower Z) phase. The presence
Catalog/List
England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount Stc Hilaire, Quebec with Fluorescent orange Sodalite...black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal sections...or fibrous in Gravel Hill Mine,Cornwall £2.50 Hematite _ 1x2 £4 2x2 £8 Ixl £2 Colreath, Roche.Comwall...Rich black platy Bamfylde Mine,North Devon 526 HEMATITE _FeO__________________ lustrous in or on quartz______________...Attractive rich black lustrous masses, as 524 HEMATITE Cornwall FcO an exposed crystalline vein on matrix
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mantle-hosted chromitites from the Ojén ultramafic massif, southern Spain. The microscale zoning observed and quantified... Minerals 2019, 9, 692 4 of 7 granoblastic hematite. Later interaction with hydrothermal fluids associated...granitoid rocks led to W, Sn, and Sb enrichment in the hematite. Ciobanu et al. [30] address the question “what...characterize atypical Cu-As-zoned and weave-twinned hematite from Olympic Dam. The study reveals Cu- and Cu-As-nanoparticles...reprecipitation reactions. Linear and planar defects in hematite provide evidence of strain, induced during the
Journal (issue)
Identify Emeralds Bastnäsite and Parisite from Malawi THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE...Bastnäsite-(Ce) and Parisite-(Ce) from Mt. Malosa, Malawi Alessandro Guastoni, David Kondo, and Fabrizio...and water vapor in air. The spectra in the mid-IR region were normalized based on the two-phonon absorptions...absorptions of diamond, and in the near-IR region based on its three-phonon absorptions. This allowed us to...very weak and sharp absorptions in the UVVis-NIR region at liquid nitrogen temperature. The sampling interval
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and others discuss inclusions in quartz from this region. Alpine type parageneses are also known from North...BUKANOV 1995). Mit Einschlüssen in Quarzen dieser Region befasst sich u.a. SKOBEL (1996). Alpinotype Paragenesen...Bildbreite 7 mm. Left. Color zonation and "beetlelegs" (hematite) are typical phenomena and indication of o,scillating...Käferbeinen". Breite 1,7 cm. Above. Amethyst with hematite inclusions, Brandberg-West, Nambia. Field of view...Page 16. Quartz overgrown by amethyst. Needles of hematite to be seen in the amethyst. Konso, Ethiopia. Hight
Catalog/List
cleavage Mount Ste Hilaire, Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan...£2.50 2x2 £4 2x3 £6 ½ x½ £4 £9 Paramirim Region,Agua Quenta,Bnhia, Brazil Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales...lustrous cleavage nice small clear crystals on hematite and dolomite. Good coverage Rich creamy co loured...fibrous in Gravel Hill Mine.Cornwall 1x2 Ix! Fe OOH Hematite £1 .50 £2.50 147 GOETHITE )x2 £3 PSEUOOMORPH after...size scattered Zomba Plateau Quarry, Zomba, !xi £4 C in crystalline white calcite Malawi 159 GRAPHITE Rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blatnásuite suiteoccurs occursininthe thesouthern southern and southwestern margin granodiorites and southwestern...occurring in the southern and southwestern the Central Bohemian plutonic complex. The in the southern and southwestern...significant for the origin of fine-grained aggregates of hematite that occur as very fine grains and/or grain aggregates...significant for the origin of fine-grained aggregates of hematite that occur as very fine grains and/or grain aggregates...(Ab—albite, Cal—calcite, Chl— chlorite, and Hem—hematite), (a)—Nahošín uranium deposit, sample R-752; (b)—Mečichov
Journal (issue)
19:24 malachite 19:24,27 pseudomalachite 19:24,27 Mount Cobalt adamite 11:12, 12:31 clinoclase 19:24 cobaltite...19:24 Mount Elliott Mine augite 19:28 calcite 19:28 goethite 19:28 gypsum 19:28 quartz 19:28 Mount Glorious...Glorious Mine, Cloncurry pseudomalachite 12:27 Mount Oxide Mine alunite 19:25 antlerite 19:25 asbolane 19:25...connellite 17:25-28 copper 17:25-28 cuprite 17:25-28 hematite 17:25-28 malachite 17:25-28 pyrolusite 17:25-28...Florence Mine, Egremont calcite 14:35 fluorite 14:35 hematite 14:35 Force Crag Mine, Coledale acanthite 18:10-14
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GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT The Massif de l’Esterel (southern France) is characterized by Permian volcanic activity...by abundant disseminated acicular crystals of hematite, not observed at B3-1. At the B3-1 locality, amygdules...“secondary cavities” within pegmatite dykes at Mount Cernadone (Western Alps, Italy) associated with...hydrothermal veins of the Tundulu carbonatite complex in Malawi (Ngwenya 1994). The veins consist of up to 98%...is attributed to the Permian volcanism of this region. Fluorite-calcite assemblages observed as veinlets
Catalog/List
Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal...CRI STOBALITE 424 Vcchec, Slanskc Mtns, Presov Region, Slovakia 220 Rich coverage of dull grey micro...50 1 58 Light brown f ibrous vein, banded with hematite and quartz Good brown cleavages in biotite/fluoritc...x l £6 Carleon Cove, Poltesco, Lizard Cornwall HEMATITE GORCEIXITE Les Montmins, AllierFrancc 6 57 184...lx2 £ 6 2x2 £10 Ba At P 0/ 4 I x ! £3 6mm £2.50 HEMATITE ltabera , Brazil 7 4 6 GRAFTONITE Sollefiea, Sweden
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localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...(Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...lustrous, though some which are coated by rutile or hematite are yellow or red and earthy; they are equant...different combinations of rutile, anatase, brookite, hematite and titanite (Philippe Beiley, personal communication
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Crofty, Elaterite, Jet, Fluorescent yellow Fluorite,Hematite Brazil,Hydroboracite,Inyoite,Priceite, Ulexite...location details l cm£4 2cm£8 Mount Malosa, Zomba District. Malawi IxI ins £5 Rich line grained black...crystal of Gamet. Borrowdalc Cumbria Zomba Plateau Quarry. Zomba. Malawi Lake Jaco . Mexico Green massive...creamy dolomite crystals. Just one crystal showing Mount Malosa.Malawi l x l £5 120 267 269 4 580 i\...inch £6 B) 2.5 x 1 inch £4 (West Cumbria) 1 4 . HEMATITE variety K i dney ore, good shaped piece with a
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£3 Ix! £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...Colum_bia , Canada rich brown mass with red-grey HEMATITE (Carbonate Auorapatitc) small brown vemlets m...Betpakdala Desert Kasachstan Small clear crystals on hematite /dolomite. Good coverage. One or two broken xls...Good coverage of slightly blueish 2mm cubes on Hematite ½"£3 lx½£5 EMPLECTITE Wittichen, Black Forest...Beryllium mineral. lxl £5 lx2 £10 Mn Be SiO S 1026 HEMATITE Elba Italy SPECULARITE rich black crystalline
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wave ½"£3 lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections...BenalltMine,Lleyn, Wales rich broY.n mass with red-grey HEMATITE BaNaAISiO lxl £6 lx2 £12 2x2 £30 Blueish masses...Bcckermet Mine.Cumbria nice small clear crystals on hematite and dolomite. Good coverage ...:.l.::x½:..:2....Good coverage of slightly blueish 2mm cubes on Hematite ½u£3 lxl£5 lx2£10 FLUORITE Weardale England Pure...Unusual Berylliwn mineral. lxl£5 lx2£10 MnBc:SiOS HEMATITE West Cumbria KIDNEY ORE. Very nice display pieces
 
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