Mustard deposit, Filabusi (Filibusi), Gwanda - Filabusi District, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Emerald most occurs in intensely altered phlogopite-chlorite rocks intersected by quartz-tourmaline veins and adjacent to rare-metal pegmatites with beryl, spodumene, lepidolite, and tantalo-niobates.

Ref: E.Ya.Kievlenko, Geology of gems, 2003, p. 89

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