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Montmorillonite from
Rubikon Mine, Okongava Ost Farm 72, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rubikon Mine, Okongava Ost Farm 72, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:708705
Long-form Identifier:1:3:708705:9
GUID (UUID V4):56db6056-860b-4984-bab7-c178f1f745fd
References
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Book
Twyfelfontein 7 AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree ...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
Book
REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
Report (issue)
crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite...nothing more of interest seemed to come out of the region until November 2002, when people from around Mandrosonoro...Madagascar to study some pegmatites in the Betafo region. Observing the exceptional tourmaline rough arriving...(Laurs et al. 2003). A second location in the Deva mine, Paroon Valley, Kunar, Nuristan, Afghanistan has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
late hydrothermal clay minerals (possibly montmorillonite and cookeite; Fig. 2). The ferrotapiolite may...manganotantalite replaced by ferrotantalite from the Rubikon pegmatite, Namibia (Baldwin 1989), in holtite replaced by...from rare-metal pegmatites in South Africa and Namibia. Mineral. Mag. 53, 571-581. BERLEPSCH, P., ARMBRUSTER...(2000): Complexly zoned fibrous tourmaline, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil: a record of evolving magmatic
Report (issue)
........3 Verkhoyansk-Chukotsk Mesozoic folded region ......................3 Yana-Kolyma system ..................9 Koryak-Kamchatka Cenozoic folded region ..........................9 Anadyr-Koryak system...Mesozoic folded region on the north and west, the Koryak-Kamchatka Cenozoic folded region on the southeast...addresses the latest structural features of the region, the sedimentary basins, which are Late Mesozoic...Verkhoyansk-Chukotsk Mesozoic folded region, Koryak-Kamchatka Cenozoic folded region, and the Okhotsk-Chukotsk volcanic
 
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