KEM JV Mine, Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa

Exceptionally good coating of very fine Bulfontein crystals over matrix. The color and quality of drusy crystals are excellent, as are the symmetry and aesthetics of the overall specimen. THIS IS A VERY RARE specimen from the TYPE LOCALITY! 1.2 x 1.2 x .9 cm

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Afwillite. Specimen is in the collection of the British Museum of Natural History #1925,463 (1975). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

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A euhedral 7.4 cm celestine crystal (with minor white pectolite attached) in the McGregor Museum, Kimberley collection. The specimen was donated on 23 September 1929 to the museum by J. Stewart and comes from 1120 foot level, 21 South of 32 main in the Bultfontein mine. Photographed in January 1999 with the museum's consent.

6.3 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm. A rare and beautiful zeolite combination specimen from one of the world's most famous diamond mining areas - Kimberley in South Africa. The matrix is kimberlite, the potassic volcanic host rock for diamonds. The striking, sculptural field of snow-white natrolite stalactites hosts a single, 9 mm, sharp calcite rhomb and ...

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A 3.5 cm mountainite specimen. This is in the collection of the Department of Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Edgar Mountain (after whom the mineral is named) was head of this department and spent 43 years at Rhodes University. This specimen is part of the original sample used to define the species. The type-locality, ...

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Afwillite specimen in the Council for Geoscience, Pretoria collection; from the type-locality. Specimen number MGS 20007.

A large 34 X 25 cm plate of aophyllite (exact variety not stated) in the McGregor Museum Collection, Kimberley. The specimen was donated to the museum by Alpheus F. Williams, General Manager of De Beers from 1905-1931, himself an avid collector of minerals and diamond crystals from the Kimberley mines, and after whom afwillite was named. ...

Pecolite specimen from Dutoitspan mine donated by C.E. Addams to the McGregor museum in Kimberley. Photographed in January 1999 with the consent of the museum.

Clusters of pink bultfonteinite on calcite from the Dutoitspan mine. Donated by C.E. Addams to the McGregor Museum in Kimberley. Photographed with the consent of the museum

6.3 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm. A rare and beautiful zeolite combination specimen from one of the world's most famous diamond mining areas - Kimberley in South Africa. The matrix is kimberlite, the potassic volcanic host rock for diamonds. The striking, sculptural field of snow-white natrolite stalactites hosts a single, 9 mm, sharp calcite rhomb and ...

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6.3 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm. A rare and beautiful zeolite combination specimen from one of the world's most famous diamond mining areas - Kimberley in South Africa. The matrix is kimberlite, the potassic volcanic host rock for diamonds. The striking, sculptural field of snow-white natrolite stalactites hosts a single, 9 mm, sharp calcite rhomb and ...

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Natrolite from Bultfontein mine, donated by H.T. Dickenson to the McGregor Museum in Kimberley. Photographed with the museum's consent.

Platy crystalline mass of intergrown mathiasite and lindsleyite, clearly showing trigonal symmetry. Purchased from Gunnar Farber in 2016.

© Andrew Hodgson

Pectolite from Dutoitspan mine Kimberley. McGregor Museum specimen, donated by C.E. Adams.apwith permission on 20 January 1999.

Spray of natrolite crystals from Wesselton mine, donated by J.A. Swan to the McGregor Museum, Kimberley. Photographed in 1999 with the consent of the museum.

11.5 x 8.3 x 4.2 cm. Mineral specimens are rare from this old extinct kimberlite pipe diamond mine, opened before 1880 and closed in 1905. This is an extremely rare large 2-sided combination specimen. Thick crusts of creamy pectolite, a Wollastonite Group species, cover both sides of the sculptural, tapered sandwich-looking specimen. Glassy ...

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This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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Afwillite is perhaps better known as well-crystallised specimens from the Wessels Mine (Kalahari Manganese Field), but was first discovered by Alpheus Fuller Williams, General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines at the Dutoitspan Mine in 1923. Crystals were found in a dolerite cavity together with natrolite, apophyllite and calcite, and ...

This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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Diamond: octahedral crystal with dodecahedral faces of maximum development of 1.8 mm, with good transparency, pale greenish-yellow colour and sub-resinous lustre. There are no inclusions and it shows no UV fluorescence. Purchased from Robert Vaňo in November 2019. Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera with Raynox MSN-500 lens. Stack of 141 images.

From Natural History Museum, London

© Jolyon Ralph

This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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Afwillite is perhaps better known as well-crystallised specimens from the Wessels Mine (Kalahari Manganese Field), but was first discovered by Alpheus Fuller Williams, General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines at the Dutoitspan Mine in 1923. Crystals were found in a dolerite cavity together with natrolite, apophyllite and calcite, and ...

This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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Afwillite is perhaps better known as well-crystallised specimens from the Wessels Mine (Kalahari Manganese Field), but was first discovered by Alpheus Fuller Williams, General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines at the Dutoitspan Mine in 1923. Crystals were found in a dolerite cavity together with natrolite, apophyllite and calcite, and ...

This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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Aerial view of the workings.

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An early photo of the open pit mine. Image from Oliver Cummings Farrington, Gems and Gem Minerals, A.W. Mumford, Chicago, 1903. Note: I had earlier associated this with the Cullinan Mine, but based on https://www.mindat.org/photo-905722.html, and the date and state of development, it is Wesselton Mine. Thanks to Günter Grundmann for this ...

Bultfontein mine headgear, Kimberley. Photo taken December 2016.

© Bruce Cairncross

The Dutoitspan open cut diamond mine, in 1880. Vintage handcoloured picture postcard, photo and publisher F. H. Hancox (No. 13774), Port Elizabeth. The card was sent on 23 May 1904 from Kimberley to Berlin, Germany. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Port Elizabeth

Part of the Kimberley Underground operations.

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Plant tailings at Kimberley Underground

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The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) open pit with the new head gear (in the distance upper right), ca. 1910. Vintage artist picture postcard “Oilette” (Regd. No. 7654), published by Raphael Tuck & Son, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© Raphael Tuck & Son, Kimberley.

The Dutoitspan diamond mine head gear (opened 1905), ca. 1914. Vintage real photo postcard, photo and publisher The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd. (No. IV 500531), Cape Town. The Card was sent on 20 November 1914 from Kimberley to Sydney, Australia. G. Grundmann collection.

© The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd.

Vintage picture postcard showing early open cast diamond mining scene with aerial gear and ore cars ready for haulage. Photographer and publisher are unknown. The postcard was sent on 27 November 1909 from Kimberley to Oxford, England.

© Dr. Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Bultfontein diamond mine, 1903. Vintage hand colored picture postcard showing very early head frame, and ore cars at the Bultfontein Mine Head-Gear. The photo was taken and published by the photographer F. H. Hancox (No. 13766). The postcard was sent on 4 April 1903 from North Transvaal to Somerset, England.

© F. H. Hancox, Port Elizabeth

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) open pit with the new head gear (upper right), in 1904. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. The card was sent on 16 January 1905 from Modder River to Merthyr, South Wales. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley

Detail of the Dutoitspan diamond mine head gear (opened 1905), ca. 1910. Vintage real photo postcard, photo and publisher HUNDERMARK, Stationer (No. 1), Jagersfontein. G. Grundmann collection.

© HUNDERMARK, Stationer, Jagersfontein

Joint Shaft conveyor belts at Kimberley Underground

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Payday in the compound Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley), in 1910. Vintage picture postcard, publisher Stern & Schiele (No. 6), Berlin. G. Grundmann collection.

© Stern & Schiele (No. 6), Berlin.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) pans & curve, washing gear, in 1905. Vintage picture postcard, publisher Hallis & Co., Port Elizabeth. G. Grundmann collection.

© Hallis & Co., Port Elizabeth.

The very early Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) open pit workings, ca. 1900. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) incline haulage, ca. 1904. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. The card was sent on 3 June 1912 from Kimberley to Büdingen, Germany. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) Conning Tower during the siege of Kimberley, in 1900. Vintage picture postcard, published by The Valentine & Sons Co., Ltd. (No. 500534), Cape Town. The card was sent on 19 August 1902 from Kimberley to Wallingford, Berks, England. G. Grundmann collection.

© The Valentine & Sons Co., Ltd., Cape Town.

The Dutoitspan Mine Open Pit, in 1906. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. The card was sent on 27 August 1906 from Kimberley to Johannesburg. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) incline haulage, ca. 1910. Vintage picture postcard, photographer A. H. Long, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© A. H. Long, Kimberley.

The Head Gear (120 feet high), Dutoitspan Mine, in 1905. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Dutoitspan Mine Compound, ca. 1917. Vintage picture postcard, publisher The Valentines & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd., Cape Town. The card was sent on 14 June 1917 from Kimberley to New York, USA. G. Grundmann collection.

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The Dutoitspan diamond mine new head gear, ca. 1934. Vintage real photo postcard, photo and publisher the Newman Art Publishing Co., Cape Town. G. Grundmann collection.

© Newman Art Publishing Co., Cape Town.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) incline haulage, ca. 1910. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley.

The Head Gear (120 feet high), Dutoitspan Mine, in 1903. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The very early Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) open pit workings, ca. 1902. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) incline haulage, ca. 1904. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. The card was sent on 14 March 1914 from Kimberley to Salisbury, England. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) open pit with the new head gear under construction (upper right), in 1904. Vintage real photo postcard, publisher Looney’s Book Store, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© Looney’s Book Store, Kimberley.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) mine hostel, ca. 1980. Vintage picture postcard, published by The Northern Cape Printers, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© The Northern Cape Printers, Kimberley.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) pans & curve, washing gear, in 1905. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. The card was sent on 28 October 1905 from Kimberley to Padstow, Cornwall. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) washing gear, in 1905. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. The card was sent on 20 March 1905 from Kimberley to Lingen a/d Ems, Germany. G. Grundmann collection

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) new head gear, in 1904. Vintage picture postcard, photographer unknown. The card was sent on 16 July 1905 from Kimberley to Hedlow, Kent. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) new head gear, in 1904. Vintage picture postcard, photographer F. H. Hancox, Kimberley. The card was sent on 16 July 1905 from Johannesburg to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. G. Grundmann collection.

© F. H. Hancox, Kimberley

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) new head gear, in 1904. Vintage picture postcard, published by The Valentine & Sons Co., Ltd. (No. 500534), Cape Town. G. Grundmann collection.

© The Valentine & Sons Co., Ltd., Cape Town.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) new head gear, in 1905. Vintage real photo postcard, publisher Looney’s Book Store, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© Looney’s Book Store, Kimberley.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) washing gear, in 1905. Vintage picture postcard, publisher unknown. The card was sent on 20 March 1905 from Kimberley to Lingen a/d Ems, Germany. G. Grundmann collection.

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold

Sunday in the Compound Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley), in 1910. Vintage picture postcard, publisher Hallis & Co., Port Elizabeth. G. Grundmann collection.

© Hallis & Co., Port Elizabeth.

The Wesselton Mine (= Premier Mine, Kimberley) new head gear, ca. 1910. Vintage picture postcard, photographer A. H. Long, Kimberley. G. Grundmann collection.

© A. H. Long, Kimberley.

Very early view of the Wesselton open pit diamond mine. Vintage artist photo-imitation lithograph print. In: “General Views of South Africa” leporello fold in hard cover, published by B. Benjamin, Cape Town. G. Grundmann collection.

© B. Benjamin, Cape Town.

This an unbelievably rare specimen of the barium, titanium, chromium, iron oxide species, hawthorneite from the type locality, the Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The species was named in 1987 after John Barry Hawthorne, who was the Chief Geologist for DeBeers Consolidated Mines in South Africa. This piece features a few small (1 mm) ...

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