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THE Kibaran–Burundi–Karagwe-Ankolean fold belt is one of the major geological features of eastern central Africa. It is perhaps best known as the seat of important tin and niobium-tantalum mineralizations, occurring in association with post-tectonic granites, pegmatites and veins1,2. In the Kibaran portion of the belt, geochrono-logical studies have been carried out by the rubidium-strontium method on tectonically deformed granites, on non-deformed granites, and on pegmatites and veins, from four granitic batholiths: Bia Mountains, Kibara Mountains, Bukena-Manono and Mwanza.
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CAHEN, L., DELHAL, J. & MONTEYNE-POULAERT, G. Age Determinations on Granites, Pegmatites and Veins from the Kibaran Belt of Central and Northern Katanga (Congo). Nature 210, 1347–1349 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101347b0
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