Latitude: 19°47'S
Longitude: 18°1'E
Owned by Ongopolo Mining Ltd.
Discovered in 1850, mining started around 1900. Closed in 2008 due to problems with flooding.
Located 37 km E of Otavi.
Note on the mineral list: Red asisite from the Kombat Mine has been erroneously sold as "chubutite" or "lorettoite".
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124 entries listed. 118 valid minerals. 7 type localities (valid minerals). 1 erroneous literature entry.
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References
- Mineralogical Magazine: 54: 593-598.
- Mineralogical Record: 20: 481, 397.
- Innes, J. and Chaplin, R.C. (1986) Ore bodies of the Kombat mine, South West Africa/Namibia. In: Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa (C.R. Anhaeusser and S. Maske, editors). Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, 1789-1805.
- Dunn, P.J., Francis, C.A., and Innes, J. (1988) A mcgovernite-like mineral and leucophoenicite from the Kombat mine, Namibia. American Mineralogist 73, 1182-1185.
- Daul, J., Bauer, K. & Moser, P. (1993): Bergbau in Namiba - Erfahrungen einer Studienreise. Institut für Bergbaukunde, Bergtechnik und Bergwirtschaft, Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe No. 3, Leoben, Austria, 130 pp (in German).
- Chetty, D., and Frimmel, H.E. (2000): The role of evaporites in the genesis of base metal sulphide mineralisation in the Northern Platform of the Pan-African Damara Belt, Namibia: geochemical and fluid inclusion evidence from carbonate wall rock alteration. Mineralium Deposita 35, 364-376.
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