Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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Noqui

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Occurrence number: 
005-00-001
Country: 
Angola
Location: 
Longitude: 13.57, Latitude: -6.07
Carbonatite: 
No

From 16 km along the road from Noqui to Sao Salvador, Holmes (1915) described a riebeckite-aegirine granite marginal to albite granites. A mode, by weight, gave 32% quartz, 48% albite, microcline and perthite, 16% riebeckite, 4% aegirine and accessories including zircon. A rock analysis is given. This locality extends northwards into Congo (See Congo No. 20).

References: 

HOLMES, A. 1915. A contribution to the petrology of north-western Angola. Geological Magazine, 6: 228-32, 267-72.

Location: 
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