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Bloodstone from
Kuruman, Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:'Bloodstone' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bloodstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kuruman, Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:872430
Long-form Identifier:1:3:872430:4
GUID (UUID V4):db00baa5-76ab-423c-ad35-46529867f2c9
References
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Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...©E.K. Macintosh Cover design by Neville Poulter, Cape Town Lithographic reproduction by Tien Wah Press...Ltd, Singapore Photoset by McManus Bros (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town Printed and bound by Interpak, Pietermaritzburg
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire Colourless to yellow...Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Rich mass of black...Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Unusual...France 1111 ALMANDINE Eptelnnd, Evje-lvelnnd area, South Norway White phcnocrysts at lens! 5mm size richly
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PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FeO"OH Cl 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire A rare British mineral...-·-·- -·1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Pure white cleavage mass lxl £3 lx2£6 2x2£10 LiNaAIPO/4FOH...Kragero Norway 1098 ANAL CITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway · Rich orange-red masses with darker Hornblende
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but cut only for collectors. DIAMOND RING BLUE JOHN RING Hardness, brittleness, and cleavability Diamond...scratched easily, making it ideal for jewelry. Blue John is soft and vulnerable to scratching and breaking... a llama was made of gold cast by the Inca of South America in the 16th, century. soldered-on feet ...mining. Important sources of platinum are in South Africa; _ a and bes ring Montana and Alaska, USA;...diamond This 18.3-carat yellow diamond from South Africa is colored by the nitrogen in its structure
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Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles W. Engelhard 25 ...across Columbite with Feldspar and Mica Rincon district, San Diego County, California Black crystal 3...in) across Barite on Calcite 112 Near Meade, South Dakota 15. 7 cm (61/a in.) across l Ba rite frlZlngton...72 to 31 .7 carats Opal Carving Stuart Range, South Australia; American. c. 1929 272 6.3 cm (2½ in...Quartz Carving of Buddha Prieska. N. Cape Province, South Africa; Chinese, early 20th century 8 cm (3
Catalog/List
lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...F OH 2x2 £10 -------------------------Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 16 AMBLYGONITE Pure grey cleavable...LiNaAIP0/4FOH 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in Syenite...inch £4 Gamet ~y,_µ .Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa ~6--......--.-·-····· ___ 477 ALMANDINE Altai...AIMnSiO 1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-Iveland area, South Norway Rich red granular mass, mixed with black
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
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2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...-----------------�--------ANDESINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway Boulouris, St Raphael, France ALMANDINE 11...Ix2 £5 2x3£I 4 2x2£9 Ix1/,£4 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire Mangruvan, Wcstmanland
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or pass beneath one another (e.g., west coast of South America). rising granitic magma continental crust...between India and Asia, the Alps by the collision of Africa with Europe. Why did I say that the plate tectonic...an activevolcano, but rather an extinct one in northern Arizona. Although the site contained no molten...igneous rock, kimberlite (named for Kimberley, South Africa, where diamonds have been mined for over a century)...garnet inclusions in diamonds from Kimberley, South Africa (and by analogy, the diamonds themselves), areas
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~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...ALUMOHYDROCALCITE A rare British mineral. Rich white veins South Bay, Scarborough ½x ½ £3 Ix½ Ix! £10 C.!_~_15_013...AMBLYGONITE Pure grey clcavablc massive 2x2 £3 Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. Ixl £1 lx2 Li Na Al P0/4 F OH -··£1...group pun: pale brown cleavages. Ula, near Larvik, South Norway Ix I ins .50 I x2 168 ANORTHOCLASE .£1.JQ...________ _ 522 ARSENOPYRITE Grey massive in matrix South Crotty Mine, JxJ 80p lx2 Fe As S _ ___ ___ ____
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Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained solid grain-like red-brown...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...-···-· --- - - - - - - ·- · Galteland, Evjc area, South Norway 1068 CHRYSOBERYL Lnuvland, lvcland,Norway
Book (edition)
Gray, Mike Gray, A. V. Gumuchian, George Harlow, John Holcombe, William T. Huff, Kuhn's Baltic Amber Specialties... ("Dee") Parsons, William Pinch, John Saul, Sonja Schwartzman, John Sinkankas, Kenneth Sumner, Lillian...Sean Sweeney, David Brackna, Richard E. McCarty, John T. McCasland, Thomas Chatham, and Sarabeth Koethe...used the new names for Ceylon. Rhodesia, and S.W. Africa: Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, respectively...heating. The chemical environment is determined by local rock types and their mineral tions in formation
Catalog/List
Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan 3mm...50p A rare British mineral. Rich wh ite veins and South Bay, Scarborough ½x½ masses in matrix. Yorkshire...polished £5 Pu re grey cleavablc massive Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. l x l £1 Rich pinkish mass in dark...white to faint ly blue masses Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia Staffordshire Engl and lx2 S0p... l x2 £6 2x2 £ 12 2x3 £8 Ul a, near Larv ik, South Norway 2x2 £2 2x3 £4 Rich fawn sheaves in silvery
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utCanada: , ALFRED PETER HitiiEr, M.D., M.P. Author of South African Studies; The Commonweal; &c. Served in Kafnr...with Dr L. S. Jameson in medical practice in South Africa till 1896. Member of Reform Committee, Johannesburg...Geography. X Society. Author of The London at 2 Cape Colony: part). Water- . Cancer. Supply; Industrial...DE Pvt. Assistant, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Author of HispanoMoresque Ware of the...Ceramics: Assistant, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. CHARLES FRANCIS ATKINSON. Formerly
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sent with the parceL Eilarama,Ruanda, Central Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA...OH Ixl £3 Ix2 £6 2x2£10 Amphibolc IxI £3 Norway South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine...Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals well covering Basall...grey cleavablc massive lx2 £1.50 Jxi£1 Keystone, South Dakota U.SA 2x2 £3 LiNaAI P0/4 FOH 695 ANGLESITE...crystal about 5mm size Pb� £4 Broken Hill, New South Walcs,Australia 658 ANGLESITE good small grey crystal
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gemstones were cut by masters including: Phil Youngman, John Dyer, Rodger Dery, Larry Woods, Bernd Munsteiner...Rhodochrosite - 8.65 Cts. Pasto Bueno, Pampas District Pallasca Province Áncash, Peru This nearly 9 carat...- 2.02 Cts. Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross Alma District, Park Co. Colorado, USA At just over 2 carats...- 7.94 Cts. Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross Alma District, Park Co. Colorado, USA Out of the famous Sweet...Starting Bid: $1,000 72072 Gemstone: Bloodstone - 67.80 Cts. India Bloodstone is a wonderful stone which can
Journal (issue)
ecirrings t ~ ? rority o/fine peorls, {eoture 1z1/2 m m South Seas cultured pe~rls,Becnuse o{ tile p o p ~ ~ l...William E. Boyajian Peter C. Keller D. Vincent Manson John Si~~l...B. Loeb Cor~tributir~g Editor John I. Koivula Editors, Gem News John I. Koivi~la Robert C. Kamn~erling...Los Angeles, C A Robert E. Kane Santa Monica, C A John I. Koivula Son to A40nic0, C A Henry 0. A. Meyer...Brenner, Youngstown, OHj Laura M. Britz, Morrow, GA; Michael A. Broihahn, Penlbroke Pines, FL; Marika
Book (edition)
extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...Britain’s own Journal of Gemmology whose editor, Mr John Chisholm, has been successful in providing in each...names, particularly those of the new republics of Africa and Asia, has caused problems. Where possible these...individual minerals start to crystallize around local centres. The first to do so are those that form...Miarolitic cavity in granite from the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. A topaz with good crystal form projects
Book (edition)
with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK - CHICHESTER - WEINHEIM...printed on acid-free paper. Copyright ©1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published...should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York,...(1844) and all but one other have been published by John Wiley. The System was the first book Wiley (then...Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain, France. F. John Barlow: Appleton, Wisconsin. Peter Bayliss: Mineralogy
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Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...System of Mineralogy. John Wiley @ Sons, New Haven, Connecticut. Second ed. (1844), John Wiley & Sons, New...New York. Third ed. (1850), John Wiley & Sons, New York. great help. Echefu C. Ike and George W. Robinson
Executive Officer: Donald Brobst had a thirty-year John S. Hendricks career with the U.S. Geological Survey...First Edition 10987654321 teaches geology at Northern Virginia Community College. Anthony R. Kampf...seas, (found in areas marked above) on South America and Africa and on North America and Europe is cited...chain; that Florida once belonged to _—_western Africa; and that Brazil face of Earth, it’s not surprising...of fossils of the Glossopteris flora in South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica argues
Book (edition)
(lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine...MEMORY OF 2. HELEN KEMPNER < i FROM ye = JOHN & ELAINE WOODARD oe le sy n-- alor anima ...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Nancy Smith, preparation and entry data for Groen John and , Chapman Gary Caballero, Craig ous amount of...involved with the editing and this book. 4 4 if fa) GA Pyirlreaciom to soertras Ort? et arma yy (oe Serer
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the magma as a whole. Diamondiferous pipes in South Africa and elsewhere contain this kind of rock. When...cavities. Contact metamorphism is usually fairly local in extent but where the country rock is recrystallized...and gases become trapped. Cavities arise when a local shortage of nutrient leaves gaps in the growing...spinel seems to be common in Siberian diamonds and South African stones are rich in garnets. A structural...and Montana sapphire is tabular. Ruby from East Africa is bipyramidal and Sri Lanka sapphire is 34
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the magma as a whole. Diamondiferous pipes in South Africa and elsewhere contain this kind of rock. When...cavities. Contact metamorphism is usually fairly local in extent but where the country rock is recrystallized...and gases become trapped. Cavities arise when a local shortage of nutrient leaves gaps in the growing...spinel seems to be common in Siberian diamonds and South African stones are rich in garnets. A structural...and Montana sapphire is tabular. Ruby from East Africa is bipyramidal and Sri Lanka sapphire is 34
Journal (issue)
Zam bia and the Scottish Highlands. ALMANDH\IE GA Group: Silicates Crystal system: Cubic Hardness:...known in the Old World thousands of years before South America was discovered: the ancient Egyptians, for...may be found washed up along shorelines all over northern Europe. (/) -I 0 z m AM GEMS T ON ES z...world, notably Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uruguay and the USA. As a result...USA. Fine chiastolite minerals are found in South Africa. ~ Andalusite is found mainly in clay rocks
 
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