I’ve posted fun new specimens in this Mali Update (click here). This update features particularly good clinochlore crystals, and also specimens of prehnite, grossular and andradite specimens, with some distinctive finds and a couple of unusual Mali localities.

Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 3.9 cm

Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 2.3 cm crystal

Clinochlore, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 3.5 cm

Clinochlore, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 3.4 cm

Clinochlore, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 3.6 cm

Clinochlore, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – crystal 0.9 cm

Clinochlore, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 2.8 cm

Grossular, Diabe Sira, Arrondissement Diako, Kayes Region, Mali – 9.1 cm

Andradite, Bendougou, Arrondissement Diako, Kayes Region, Mali – 4.0 cm

Andradite, Bendougou, Arrondissement Diako, Kayes Region, Mali – 4.7 cm

Epidote, Prehnite, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 2.9 cm

Prehnite with pargasite inclusions, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé,
Kayes Region, Mali – 5.3 cm

Prehnite, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 6.4 cm

Prehnite, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 5.7 cm

Prehnite, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 5.4 cm

Grossular, Sibinndi, Arrondissement Diako, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali – 3.0 cm