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Rubellite from
Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Tourmaline var: Rubellite
Formula:A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ7 photos of Rubellite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Feldspar Groupⓘ6 photos of Rubellite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
BĂŠhierite3 photos of Rubellite associated with BĂŠhierite at this locality.
Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite3 photos of Rubellite associated with Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite at this locality.
Albiteⓘ2 photos of Rubellite associated with Albite at this locality.
Londonite-Rhodizite Series2 photos of Rubellite associated with Londonite-Rhodizite Series at this locality.
K Feldsparⓘ2 photos of Rubellite associated with K Feldspar at this locality.
Lepidoliteⓘ2 photos of Rubellite associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Pollucite2 photos of Rubellite associated with Pollucite at this locality.
Rhodizite1 photo of Rubellite associated with Rhodizite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rubellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Photo GalleryView Gallery (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:764657
Long-form Identifier:1:3:764657:7
GUID (UUID V4):1f5d17db-e869-4478-b08f-ad022f3394ea
Localities for Rubellite in this Region
Ambahonolona, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Ampano, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Ampatsikahitra pegmatites, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Andriamanamihanta, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Andrianampy, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Ankitsikitsika, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Antsahanana quarry, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Ilapa, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Maharitra, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Manjaka, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Maroando, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Vohidahy, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Nearest other occurrences of Rubellite
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘMaharitra, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
1.8km (1.1 miles) ⓘIlapa, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘAndriamanamihanta, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘAmpatsikahitra pegmatites, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
2.8km (1.7 miles) ⓘAndrianampy, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
3.9km (2.4 miles) ⓘManjaka, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘAntsahanana quarry, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
4.4km (2.7 miles) ⓘAmpano, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
8.1km (5.1 miles) ⓘAntsofimbato pegmatites, Mangarano, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
13.8km (8.6 miles) ⓘMaroando, Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II District, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
References
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otherwise noted, all photos by Malcolm Southwood Madagascar 2014 The Third International Mindat.org Conference...rudimentary research before we left Australia. Madagascar, it seems, is the fourth largest island in the...the United Kingdom. Figure 2 (left). Map of Madagascar showing the places visited by the Third International...119 drifted away to the north, and initially Madagascar tried to follow with the opening of the Mozambique...Channel. However, the rift between Africa and Madagascar failed, leaving the latter as an island that
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The Natural History Museum of Milan and its Madagascar Collection The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale... the museum began paleontologic fieldwork in Madagascar (upper Permian fauna and Jurassic and Cretaceous...fieldwork in Madagascar in 1996 in collaboration with other institu­ tions in Madagascar, Italy, and the...Pezzotta has spent a total of twenty­ nine months in Madagascar making geological-mineralogical surveys. In collaboration...both classic and new minerals and gemstones from Madagascar opened at the Natural History Museum in Milan
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Mozambique belt in East Africa. Mozambique and Madagascar and within the Damara sequence in Namibia and...equatorial, central and southern Africa, including Madagascar, where the senior author has investigated numerous...Mommbique belt of East Africa, Mozambique, and Madagascar, and in the Damaran of Namibia (Figure 1). One...especially in parts of central and southern Africa and Madagascar distinct geochemical provinces of lithium can...Muianc area, Alto Ligonha, Mozambique; 10. Antsirabe area. Madagascar. Structural units from Clifford (1966)
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tourmaline from the Sahatany Pegmatite Field at Manjaka, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar, was structurally...significant amount of [4]B from the Sahatany Pegma- tite Field, Madagascar. The pegmatite at Manjaka (west...village Ihasy), Sahatany Valley, Betafo-Antsirabé region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar, is located...located in the Sahatany Pegmatite Field. Gem tourmaline (elbaite) has been mined in this marble-hosted, complex...which Clifford Frondel collected in 1963. This ‘‘rubellite’’ sample consists of several subparallel idiomorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lacroix (1922) for manandonite from Antandrokomby, Madagascar. The same kind of twinning was observed by the...Hebron, Maine, and of manandonite from Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. These two specimens were kindly made...the mineral represents no alteration product of rubellite or other Li-mincrals, the specimen studied did...represents a secondary alteration product of elbaite (rubellite). In most cookeite descriptions published in literature...absorption spectrum of manandonite recorded of the Sahatany Valley mineral shows, however, no noticeable difference
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(at Tamponilapa and Tsarafara-Nord, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar) and paragneisses (at CtidruĹžice, Moldanubian...NovĂĄk Tamponilapa and Tsarafara-Nord, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar and CtidruĹžice, Moldanubian Zone, Czech...Pegmatite fields of Central Madagascar The pegmatites of the Sahatany Valley pegmatite field are located...north-eastern part of the Itremo Region, Central Madagascar built by low- to medium-grade metamorphic rocks...dominance of elbaite-subtype pegmatites in this district (see Ranorosoa 1986; NovĂĄk et al. 2015a). Mineral
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Report (issue)
of a liddicoatite crystal from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar. Photo by Bild & Text Mager Dedicated to Dr...be seen along the surface of the stone. This rubellite was broken perpendicular to the c-axis, and only...reference to what most certainly would be known as rubellite today. Hill's was the first known use of the modern...tourmaline (all colors other than black and blue). Rubellite was consid­ ered a sub-species of tourmaline....that two popular color varieties came into use: rubellite (1794) and Upper: "lndicolite" from Goshen, Massachusetts
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exotic Manjaka rubellite-kunzite-rhodizite pegmatite in the Sahatany Valley of Madagascar. The K-feldspar...amount of the mineral was noted in the examined rubellite-rich veinlets. However, the content of albite...end-member, is confined to the petalite- and rubellite-rich veins, whereas montebrasite is less widespread...indicated. Numbers correspond with analyses in Table II. Scale bar 60 #m. 446 O. V O N Table I. KNORRING...enrichment in Ta from core to margin (Tables I and II). In the manganoeolumbites the overall Nb205 content
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