Magnetite from
Mount Kenya, Mount Kenya National Park, Meru County, Kenya

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Classification
Locality type:	Mountain
Species:	Magnetite
Formula:	Fe²⁺Fe₂³⁺O₄
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Mount Kenya, Mount Kenya National Park, Meru County, Kenya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	1271491
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:1271491:1
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite

71.8km (44.6 miles)	ⓘ Kithiori, Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
87.2km (54.2 miles)	ⓘ Maragwa prospect, Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
References
Gregory, J. W. (1900) Contributions to the Geology of British East Africa.--Part II.The Geology of Mount Kenya. Journal of the Geological Society, 56 (1) 205-222 doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1900.056.01-04.12 Baker, B.H. (1967) Geology of the Mount Kenya area. Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mines and Geological Department, Report No. 79, 78 pp. *Baker, B.H., Williams, L.A.J., Miller, J.A., Fitch, F.J. (1971) Sequence and geochronology of the Kenya rift volcanics. Tectonophysics, 11 (3) 191-215 doi:10.1016/0040-1951(71)90030-8* Rock, N. M. S. (1976) The comparative strontium isotopic composition of alkaline rocks: New data from Southern Portugal and East Africa. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 56 (2) 205-228 doi:10.1007/bf00399605 Price, R. C., Johnson, R. W., Gray, C. M., Frey, F. A. (1985) Geochemistry of phonolites and trachytes from the summit region of Mt. Kenya. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 89 (4) 394-409 doi:10.1007/bf00381560 Mahaney, W. C. (1989). Glacial advances on Mount kenya in the Middle Holocene: fact or fiction?. In Quaternary and environmental research on East African Mountains (pp. 141-153).

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Magnetite from Mount Kenya, Mount Kenya National Park, Meru County, Kenya

Magnetite from
Mount Kenya, Mount Kenya National Park, Meru County, Kenya