Global InformationPanda Hill Carbonatite information
The Panda Hill Carbonatite is an apatite and pyrochlore bearing sovite carbonatite located in the Mbeya District of Tanzania. The deposit was found in the mid-1950s by the then Geological Survey of Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Niobium ore occurs largely in pyrochlore bearing sovite (carbonatite composed largely of calcite) and dolmite-rich carbonatite.[1]
The deposit also contains lesser phosphate mineralisation associated with apatite.[2]
- ^ Misra, Kula (2000). Understanding Mineral Deposits. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-045530090.
- ^ Zablon, Andrew (10 December 2013). "Tanzania to map its phosphate deposits". East African Business Week. Retrieved 25 February 2015.