Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

Setup during HiTech AlkCarb: an online database of alkaline rock and carbonatite occurrences

Makutu

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Occurrence number: 
180-00-002
Country: 
Zambia
Location: 
Longitude: 33.2, Latitude: -10.47
Carbonatite: 
No

An intrusion including nepheline syenite is known to occur in the Makutu Hills, 29 km north of Mivula Hill (No. 180-00-003) (Newton, 1959), but no account of this occurrence has been located except for a detailed petrographic description of a single specimen by Adams and Osborne (1932). The rock consists of microcline perthite, nepheline, partly or completely altered to cancrinite and replaced by sodalite, aegirine, biotite, magnetite, ilmenite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, zircon and calcite.

References: 

ADAMS, F.D. and OSBORNE, F.F. 1932. On two nepheline-sodalite-syenites from new localities in Northern Rhodesia. Canadian Journal of Research, 6: 571-6.NEWTON, A.R. 1959. On the syenite of Mivula Hill, Eastern Province. Records, Geological Survey of Northern Rhodesia, 14-7.

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