EMERALD         TANZANITE       AQUAMARINE       TOURMALINE         GARNET       AMETHYST

MKUSHI PEGMATITE REGION

In the mid to late 1990's the Jagoda Mine was an important producer of pink to red tourmaline and some morganite.

The near vertical pegmatite dike trends north -north west and has been explored to a depth of about 15m in an elongate open pit.

The pegmatitie is geochemically quite highly evolved, being composed mainly of 'cleavandite' (albite), quartz, and albetized K feldspar with local areas of lepidolite and tourmaline.

One particularly large pocket produced some enormous tourmaline crystals that typically showed a thin layer of black to dark green covering a pink interior.

Mine owners, Clare Chan and Ross Walker have recently reactivated the deposit using heavy equipment.

The open pit is being enlarged so the pegmatite can be mined at deeper levels, and surrounding areas will be explored through trenching.

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