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Occurrence number:
103-00-030
Country:
Malawi
Region:
Chilwa Province
Location:
Longitude: 35.6, Latitude: -15.28
Carbonatite:
Yes
Python Island, in the northern part of Lake Chilwa, contains a vent filled with blocks of gneiss and small areas of breccia consisting of angular fragments of slightly fenitized granulite and syenitic gneiss in a sparse comminuted matrix containing siderite and goethite. Florencite has been identified. Garson (1965a) classified this as a ‘carbonatite and agglomerate vent’.
References:
GARSON, M.S. 1965a. Carbonatites in southern Malawi. Bulletin, Geological Survey of Malawi. 15: 1-128.
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