Merelani Hills

Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania

Range of hills known for interesting mineral specimens, especially known for tanzanite.

The site does produce a range of minerals – mindat lasts 47. It is the type locality for 3, Axinite-(Mg), Merelaniite, and Richardsite.

It produces fine specimens of various minerals, but by far the best known from the area is the zoisite – the blue variety known as tanzanite.

 

Further reading

 

If you are interested in other classic Tanzanian locales we may have stock from the following locales.

Tanzanian locales


 

For the rest of our Tanzanian stock, see below.

Tanzania

Minerals from Tanzania