John A. Jaszczak
Department of Physics and the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University
December 5, 2014, 3:00pm Chemical Science Building, Room 101
Abstract:
The Lelatema Mountains in northern Tanzania are host to one of the world’s richest flake graphite deposits, but it is the purple-blue gem variety of zoisite called “tanzanite” that has brought renown to the region since the 1960s.