Country origin record
Madagascar
Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.
Evidence-backed overview
A country in the gemstone graph
Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.
Bidirectional relationships
Documented gemstones
Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.
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Alexandrite
Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.
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Aquamarine
Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.
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Within this country
Published places
Madagascar Alexandrite Deposits
Madagascar is a documented Alexandrite source with overlapping origin features.
AlexandriteOpen recordMadagascar Aquamarine Pegmatites
Madagascar is a documented source of Aquamarine, including strongly colored material.
AquamarineOpen recordMadagascar Sapphire Deposits
Major modern reference population for metamorphic and basalt-related blue sapphire.
SapphireOpen recordMadagascar Tourmaline Pegmatites
Madagascar is an important source of complexly zoned Liddicoatite-related and Elbaite Tourmaline.
TourmalineOpen recordEvidence ledger
Sources & verification
Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.
- [1]Aquamarine Quality Factors.
Gemological Institute of America
View authoritative source - [2]Tourmaline Description.
Gemological Institute of America
View authoritative source - [3]Aaron C. Palke, Ziyin Sun, Nathan D. Renfro, and Shane F. McClure. Geographic Origin Determination of Alexandrite.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
View authoritative source - [4]Aaron C. Palke, Sudarat Saeseaw, Nathan D. Renfro, Ziyin Sun, and Shane F. McClure. Geographic Origin Determination of Blue Sapphire.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
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