Mineralogy Database

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
LEPIDOLITE	KLi₂AlSi₄O₁₀F₂	phyllosilicates	mica	major

Description

Description: pegmatite with purplish mica

Information: geochronology - Aldrich, L.T., Wetherill, G.W., David, G.L. & Tilton, G.R., 1958. Radioactive ages of micas from granitic rocks by Rb-Sr and K-A methods. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 39, 1124-1134. // Monteyne-Poulaert, G., Delwiche, R. & Cahen, L., 1962. Ages des minéralisations pegmatitiques et filoniennes du Rwanda et du Burundi. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 71, 210-222. // Monteyne-Poulaert, G. & Cahen, L., 1964. Ages des granites, pegmatites et filons de la chaîne kibarienne au Katanga. Rapport Annuel du Département de Géologie et Minéralogie du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Année 1963, pp. 88-91. // Cahen, L., Delhal, J. & Monteyne-Poulaert, G., 1966. Age determinations on granites, pegmatites and veins from the Kibaran belt of central and northern Katanga (Congo). Nature 210, 1347-1349. // 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: Katanga
Locality: Manono

Specification

Donors: Géomines

Donation year: 1952
Sampling year:

Registration date:
Quantity: 1

Size: 2

Dimension code 1>2>3: 2

Quality code 1>2>3: 1
Holotype: no

Paratype: no

Radioactive: no
Thin section: no

Chemical analysis: no

X-Ray spectra: no

Sample n° 3117