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Amazonite from
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Microcline var: Amazonite
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amazonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:792766
Long-form Identifier:1:3:792766:9
GUID (UUID V4):dd278514-f6ee-4cff-baa1-40da388632c9
Localities for Amazonite in this Region
Chingasa, Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
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...Africa, Mount Malosa in the Zomba-Malosa alkaline syenite-granite complex in southern Malawi is famous...ocherous material, specimen 5.3 cm wide, Mount Malosa, Malawi. Under daylight (left) and LW (365-nm) UV...interpenetrating smaller genthelvites and aegirine, Mount Malosa, Malawi. Under daylight (left) and LW (365-nm) UV...Reproduced with permission Mongolia Autonomous Region, have produced outstanding collector-quality specimens
Catalog/List
EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage 3xlcm Mount Malosa Zomba Malawi £8 I 16 JADEITE a white water worn... Niigata Prefecture Japan £11 1 24 GRAPHIC AMAZONITE a tumble polished piece 5x3 from Madagascar £15...show off the excellent colour Sandamap ,Erongo region Namibia 6x3.5 £25 44 GANOPHYLLITE light orange-
Catalog/List
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...=-.:..c...;:...;..:;_;;_;"-'=------- - - - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway...Ix½ £5 lxl£4 - lxl £10 lx2£10 lx2 £1 r- - • AMAZONITE Felspar Group 16 Ix½ £5 2x2 £1.20 MICROCLINE...Kangankunde Hill, zomba, lx2 £7.50 2x2 £15 2x2.Y2 £20 MONAZITECe 486 Cc La N Th PO/4 Malawi Slight!~ radioactive
Journal (issue)
Mineraliensammler Mineralogische Expedition Mt. Malosa/Malawi • Mineralien von der Goldberg-Spitze, Sonnb...AFRIKA: Eine mineralogische Expedition zum Mt. Malosa, Malawi 79 ACHAT-MAGAZIN Blaue Achate und erstklassiges...Jahres - und alles in einzigartiger Qualität. Auch Malawi gehört zu den aktuellen Mineralien liefernden Ländern...Typlokalität „In den Dellen ", Mendig, Laacher See-Region. Beim Nosean, welcher in vielen Veröffentlichungen...2(O,F),, anew mineral from the Eifel volcan ic region , Germany. - ZVMO 140 ( 1). 67-75. CRUSE, B.; KNOP
Corporate Document
Republic of Malawi Ministry of Mining Final Report of the Project for Establishment of Integrated Geographic...Ltd. dummy Frontispiece 1 Map of Malawi Former capital: Zomba Headquarters of Geological Survey Department...Lake Chilwa located in the southeastern part of Malawi and Chisi Island: Chisi Island is composed of syenite...Lake Malawi Upper right: Syenite distributed in Chilwa Alkaline Province in the south of Malawi (Cretaceous.............................. 19 3. The Works in Malawi ..............................................
Journal (issue)
Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi .........................................Komerupine $7 Colorado-II Issue Locality Index, Amazonite, Mt. Antero, Sweet Home Jeffrey mine (Quebec)...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
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...crystals County, Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11...Attractive green with white perthitic Madagascar AMAZONITE 60 2x3inch £5 Feldspar________________ intergrowth...calcite or pyrolusite ^Somerset _________ Mount Malosa Malawi Terminated white crystal or crystals, intergrown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Borborema belt in Brazil, and in the Pala District of southern California. The spatial association with calc-alkaline...Consider the Chilwa alkaline province, in southern Malawi, of Cretaceous age. What makes it unusual,...largest plutons in the Chilwa Province (e.g., the ZombaMalosa pluton) consist of syenite and peralkaline granite...the bodies of NYF pegmatite that occur at Mount Malosa in Malawi, associated with the classic A-type granite...to the spectacular NYF-type pegmatites of the ZombaMalosa pluton, there are many others that are more
Journal (issue)
Ferreres mines. Rocabruna mines) is located on the southern slopes of Montfalgars mountain, about 2.3 km tin...Crystal Classics' offices are based in Somerset in Southern England (approximately 3 hours drive southwest...interesting ..deja vu" items: Lucky Monday Pocket's amazonite. from the Smoky Hawk Claim. Colorado. with big...near the reservoir in the Sahatany valley, in the region of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Armenite, a very rare...group. The specimen came from Mount Malosa, on the Zomba Plateau, Malawi. Bobierrite. A specimen 32 mm
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...scorodite 19:12 sideronatrite 19:12 ITALY LIGURIA Mount Bregaceto brookite 16:12 peridot 16:10 indicolite...inderborite 14:37 preobrazhenskite 14:37 KIRGIZIA Mount Altyn-Tube dioptase 11:13 KUSTENI OBLAST Sokolovsky
Catalog/List
cleavage Mount Ste Hilaire, Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan...LUMOHYDROCALCITE Ca Al CO/3 ALUN ITE KAI SO/4 O H AMAZONITE Fe ldspar A l\1BL \'GONITE Li Na Al PO/4 F OH...£2.50 2x2 £4 2x3 £6 ½ x½ £4 £9 Paramirim Region,Agua Quenta,Bnhia, Brazil Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales...size scattered Zomba Plateau Quarry, Zomba, !xi £4 C in crystalline white calcite Malawi 159 GRAPHITE Rich...Faras Mine, Bigadic, Turkey ½ x½ £2.50 8mm£6 Mount Malosa.Malawi Ix! £5 Greystones quarry,Lezant
Catalog/List
location details l cm£4 2cm£8 Mount Malosa, Zomba District. Malawi IxI ins £5 Rich line grained black...£2 Arizona 2xJinch £5 Madagascar /,x½£3 60 AMAZONITE 16 AMBLYGONITE Amphibolite A rare British mineral...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\...(Nsutu , Tarkwa in th e A s hanti Belt of 2x2 £ I O Southern Gh ana) I x2 £5 2x3 £ I 5 64. GADOLINlTE a line
Journal (issue)
showing location of the Grenville Province and its southern subdivisions; modified from Price and Douglas...Boundary Zone (CMBBZ) of the Grenville across southern Quebec, southeastern Ontario and northwestern...(Hogarth, 1970). During the Paleozoic, much of the southern portion of the study area was covered by sediments...et al., 1988). Younger rocks are unknown in the region; if they were once present they were probably eroded...(1970) Geology of the southern part of Gatineau Park, national capital region. Geological Survey Canada
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...area, Pacific Occa 2 79 MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 1 1 I Region Chile Black-bro\\11 part section showing the interior...Ix½ £5 lx . I £7 .50 MICROCLINE MUSCOVITE 30 6 4 Mount Malosa.Malawi Near Shelby, Cleveland Co.North Carolina...Ashio Mine, Tochigi Prefecture, 667 4 52 variely AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages, old stock. PSEUDOMORPH
Journal (issue)
in Europe was made in an iron mine in the polar region of northernmost Sweden two decades ago. The Malmberget...known as the Dallas Gem mine, is situated near the southern tip of San Benito County about 30 km to the north...them. Imagine the difficulty in accessing this region in 1907, the year benitoite was discovered, when...discovery. Arrows shows limit of mineralization. southern San Benito County for new mercury deposits in...possible that the Native Americans who inhabited this region may have seen this deposit at some point in the
Catalog/List
lunar meteorite was found in the Dhofar Desert region of Oman by noted meteorite hunter Michael Farmer...a fascinating pattern of patches and veins. The region that produced this material has been closed now...Source: Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic Eastern-Siberian Region Russia Another little sphere made from rare Russian... 72069 Orbicular Granite Sphere Stone Source: Mount Magnet, Western Australia This extremely large sphere...was cut and polished to make an incredible wall mount specimen or could even be used as a tabletop. This
Catalog/List
wave ½"£3 lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections...crystallised mass ½" £2 lx!l,£4 CaBOOH 284 MICROCLINE Mount Malosa.Malawi Terminated white crystal or crystals...452 MICROCLINE Landsverlc, Evje,Norway variety AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages, old stock. lxl £1...ob\ious lxl £2.40 Mo S MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 111 Region Chile 667 MUSCOVITE Watarase River, Ashio Mine...Ix½" £4 lxl £6 8S3 VOLKONSKOITE Efimyatskaya,Penn Region,Urals ,Russia Pure.dark green massive. About 7mm
Catalog/List
£3 Ix! £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...452 MICROCLINE Landsverk, Evje,Norway variety AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages, old stock. lxl £1...£1.50 lx2 £3 2x2 £5 Feldspar 4 MICROCLINE Mount MalosaMalawi Terminated white crystal or crystals, intergrown...obvious lxl £2.40 Mo S 279 ■ MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 111 Region Chile Small silvery molybdenite in matrix + yellow...-- -- ---- 853 VOLKONSKOITE Efimyatskaya,Perm Region,Urals ,Russia TREMOLITE Harquahala,Arizona U.S
Journal (issue)
collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...major shows) he not only opened nice pockets of amazonite and topaz, but systematically mapped the pegmatite...with malachite, 5.3 cm, Tschudi mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. (left) Tantalite-(Fe)...malachite, 8 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Malachite on cuprite
Catalog/List
-452 MICROCLINE Landsverk, Evje,Norway variety AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages, old stock. lxl£1.SO...½" £3 lx½ £5 Zn AsO/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass of black crystal sections...Quilace, Santa Cruz Dept, Bolivia 4 MICROCLINE Mount Malosa.Malawi Stream worn pure metallic nodule Tenninated...SILVER Coahuila Mexico 279 MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 111 Region Chile small plates on calcite ,some with Chrysocolla
Catalog/List
LO-- -- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda...452 MICROCLINE Landsverk, Evje,Norway variety AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages, old stock. Ix! £1...£1.50 lx2 £3 2x2 £5 Feldspar 4 MICROCLINE Mount Malosa.Malawi Terminated white crystal or crystals, intergrown...2x3 £6 Mica group 279 ■ MOLYBDENITE Copiapo 111 Region Chile Silvery masses of molybdenite+ yellow FLUORESCENT
Journal (issue)
that had recently been mined by Gary Freeman at Mount Mica. The stone had an unusual blue color, and she...apatite, Plumbago mountain for rose quartz crystals, Mount Mica for tourmaline, the Keith and Pulsifer quarries...efforts have now come full-swing, and he is back at Mount Mica and Newry, mining for the Plumbago Mining Corporation...seriously, that we were dining in what Frank calls the “Mount Mica Hilton!” Frank’s narratives include colorful...least 2008. But the mining culture in this remote region of China was sometimes a little slow to recognize
Journal (issue)
30067, Tel: 770-973-3632, E-mail: jcgray@gsu.edu Southern California Chapter Visit our website at www.mineralsocal...Lynch Station in Campbell County, Virginia, on the southern bank of Bishop Creek. It is not indicated on the...Highway 43. Figure 2. Mines and prospects in the southern portion of the James River–Roanoke River manganese...occurrences of iron and manganese ores are located in the Mount Athos Formation, which contains beds of quartzite...quartzite and an included white marble unit of the Mount Athos Formation. The shaft sunk in search of copper
Book
to 15 mm ("/» in) come from Konder in Khabarovsk Region, small crystals, but mainly nuggets, weighing up...aggregates are found in Sri Lanka (Radegara, Galle region). Accumulations in Buckingham and Grenvillc, Quebec...Freiberg, Germany; Cobalt, Ontario, Canada and in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. It was a principal Ag...Austria and from the deposits in the Tri State region, Missouri, USA. Crystals up to 10 mm ('/» in) occurred...(J/s in) long were described from Burra district. Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to 10 mm (Ys
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15 mm (1 9h2 in) come from Konder in Khabarovsk Region, small crystals, but mainly nuggets, weighing up...aggregates are found in Sri Lanka (Radegara, Galle region). Accumulations in Buckingham and Grenville, Quebec...Freiberg, Germany; Cobalt, Ontario, Canada and in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. It was a principal Ag...Austria and from the deposits in the Tri State region, Missouri, USA. Crystals up to 10 mm (3/s in) occurred...(3/M in) long were described from Burra district, Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to I 0 mm Cla
 
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