Mineralogy Database

Search |  About the mineralogy database |  Contact

Sample n° 4760

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
MICROCLINE	K(AlSi3O8)	tektosilicates	feldspar	major

Description

Description: pink broken crystal (5 cm)

Information: geochronology - Monteyne-Poulaert, G., Delwiche, R., Safiannikoff, A. & Cahen, L., 1962. Ages des minéralisations pegmatitiques et filoniennes du Kivu méridional (Congo oriental). Indications préliminaires sur les âges de phases pegmatitiques successives. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 71, 272-295. // Cahen, L., Delhal, J. & Deutsch, S., 1967. Rubidium-strontium geochronology of some granitic rocks from the Kibaran Belt (Central Katanga, Rep. of the Congo). Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série In-8°, n° 59, 65 pp.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Kivu
• Locality: Mwenga, Grande Mobale

Specification

• Donors: Safiannikoff
  Donation year: 1954
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 2
  Size: 2

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: no
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: no

Previous page