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Tourmaline from
Tsodilo Hills, Ngamiland West District, North-West District, Botswana


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tsodilo Hills, Ngamiland West District, North-West District, Botswana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:798113
Long-form Identifier:1:3:798113:5
GUID (UUID V4):90c17a12-2e63-4be2-a80d-8f726b2f24d1
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Genesis of the Kihabe Zn-Pb-V Prospect, Aha Hills, Northwest Botswana Nicola Mondillo 1,2, *, Maria Boni 1,2...the boundary between Namibia and Botswana (Aha Hills, Ngamiland District) in a strongly deformed Proterozoic...this part of Botswana from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene. Keywords: Botswana; Aha Hills; sulfides;...Introduction Mineral exploration and mining in Botswana has been historically dominated by diamonds and...Cu-Ag deposits intensified in western parts of Botswana, in the so-called Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB) [1]
Book
REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Water Affairs Geological Survey Department ...Geology of Botswana to 1966 PRICE Rl.OOc PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER GABERONES BOTSWANA ISRIC LIBRRRY...Annotated Bibliography and Index of the Geology of Botswana to 1966 Compiled by C.A. Laughton, Geologist...This is the first Bibliography of the geology of Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) and it includes both published...the main source of information on the geology of Botswana i s to be found in the files of unpublished reports
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4.82 ct purple sapphire, (10) 5.32 ct Paraíba tourmaline, (11) 2.16 ct demantoid, (12) 1.05 ct emerald...diamonds were Australia, central and southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Zaire), and...peridot, quartz, spinel, tanzanite, topaz, and tourmaline). Locality information is both summarized in...production in the areas omitted (e.g., Russia, North America, western Africa, and China), they were less...example. Tourmaline—Pink. For a period, pink was popular. In the early 1990s, prices of pink tourmaline rose
Book
These rocks were characterized by ‘a general north-northeasterly trend’, and du Toit (1927) attributed...that, by the early Ediacaran, the Amazonian and West Africa Cratons were probably still attached to Laurentia...the Central Eburnean Zone and Lubango Zone in the west. Magmatism recorded in these domains is attributed...peak metamorphism and deformation associated with north-northwest-south- Preface Preface xi southeast...shortening by c. 512–508 Ma. A switch to east–west shortening and north–south extension is evident in the Damara
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and...A. Hronsky The boron isotope composition of tourmaline from the Val-d’Or orogenic gold deposits, Québec...of the world class Siguiri orogenic gold district (Guinea, West Africa) .................................mineral systems – Hodgkinson metallogenic zone, north Queensland, Australia ...........................the carbonate-hosted Sadiola gold deposit, Mali, West Africa. .......................................
 
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