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- The document describes the Merelani Hills tanzanite mines located in Tanzania, where the rare blue-violet gemstone tanzanite was first discovered in 1967. - The mines cover an area of 2 km wide by 50 km long within the Merelani Hills and are divided into four mining blocks. - Tanzanite and other gemstones like grossular are found in pegmatitic veins and fractures within altered and brecciated graphite-bearing gneiss. Minerals associated with tanzanite include quartz, diopside, zoisite, and calcite.
- Author
- Junsaku Yoshihara
- Language
- EN