Monte Muambe is an
inactive volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...
located east of
Moatize in the
Tete Province of
Mozambique.
The volcano is 780 meters high, has a 6 km external diameter with a
caldera
A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...
some 200m deep. The caldera is largely composed of
carbonatites, rich in both blue and yellow
fluorite. The
Zambezi Valley Spatial Development Initiative estimates Monte Muambe has reserves of 1.1 trillion tonnes of the mineral in a pure form.
[T. Schlüter (2006). "Mozambique". ''Geological Atlas of Africa'', Springer Berlin Heidelberg. .]
External links
Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy Moçambique
References
Calderas of Africa
Inactive volcanoes
Mountains of Mozambique
Volcanoes of Mozambique
Carbonatite occurrences
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