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THE spectacular purple magnesium–iron–aluminosilicate, yoderite1,2, was described from Mautia Hill, Kongwa, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), by McKie in 1959. Since that date, no other occurrence of the mineral has been recorded and unpublished analyses of yoderite from variant associations at Mautia Hill have been found to be not significantly divergent.
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McKie, D., Min. Mag., 32, 282 (1959).
Fleet, S. G., and Megaw, H. D., Acta Crystallog., 15, 721 (1962).
Ingamells, C. O., Talanta, 4, 268 (1960).
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MCKIE, D., BRADSHAW, N. A Green Variety of Yoderite. Nature 210, 1148 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101148a0
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