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LocalitiesTsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia

27th Jun 2011 23:38 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Any objections to my adding renierite to the suite of minerals found at the Tsumeb Mine? The RRUFF database http://rruff.info/renierite/display=default/ has ID'd the mineral from the mine.

Normally if I saw it on RRUFF, I'd say it was a no brainer, but... something tells me to run it by the membership first.

thanks!

Maggie

28th Jun 2011 08:09 UTCLefteris Rantos Expert

I can't believe that Renierite wasn't on the list!!:o

It's a very well-known occurrence, mentioned in all major Tsumeb references. I don't think there could ever be a doubt on it! I have at least 3-4 specimens containing Renierite from Tsumeb...!

Lefteris.

28th Jun 2011 12:24 UTCLiam Schofield

Do you mean the Mindat database? Because it is already on there? Unless it has been added very recently with a couple of photos?

I was sure it was there as I regularly get it confused with Reinerite from Tsumeb... not visually, I mean, but the name...!

:)

EDIT# spotted the issue now- it's listed under Tsumeb, but not Tsumeb Mine...

28th Jun 2011 12:33 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Hi guys -

Reinerite is already on the database as being found at the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb (type locality, too) - but Renierite is not - Renierite is attributed to Tsumeb, one level higher than the Tsumeb Mine.

I suppose that's why I posed the question - with the very similar names of both minerals and the localities, I didn't want to add it to the database without some expert judgement.

Maggie

28th Jun 2011 13:08 UTCLiam Schofield

I think you're absolutely correct- Renierite, from Tsumeb Mine is perfectly valid.

29th Jun 2011 00:10 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Renierite added to the Tsumeb Mine.

25th Jun 2012 18:16 UTCgeorg gebhard

Hello,

this is a good reference, but could somebody take off the photo of a fluorite specimen which is from a Namibian fluorite mine and certainly not from Tsumeb.

25th Jun 2012 19:01 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager

Georg, have removed the fluorite - Thanks for letting us know.

2nd Sep 2012 18:25 UTCWalter Veldsman

Hi Georg

It's Walter here

You generously helped me ID Ojuelaite from Tsumeb in 2001

May I send you some photos of rare tsumeb minerals taken on my microscope

Mostly from small vugs in Germanite ore

Vugs less than 1mm in size with some exotic rare tsumeb minerals in them

Walter

Tsumeb collector living in london

5th Jan 2013 01:04 UTCGeorge Sayers

Hello,

I have a specimen of cuproadamite with a sky blue mineral crust, which I thought was rosasite, but I don't find any examples of the association in the mindat photo database, and there are no other carbonates present. Zebra?

Thanks,

G. Sayers

5th Jan 2013 07:10 UTCMalcolm Southwood 🌟 Expert

Hi George,

Any chance of a photograph? Giraffe!

mal

27th Sep 2017 08:44 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Jochen Schlüter of the Mineralogical Museum of the Universität Hamburg kindly asked me to add the following info on Mindat:

Karibibite was confirmed by SEM-EDS and PXRD. It occurs as pale yellow intertwined fibres on a sample containing leiteite and schneiderhöhnite. The karibibite may be confused with ludlockite.

Added.

27th Sep 2017 10:49 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager

Very interesting, thanks Uwe.

27th Sep 2017 10:58 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager

Thanks Uwe, one more specie to add to the greatest mineral locality in this galaxie.

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