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Scapolite from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Scapolite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scapolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:363092
Long-form Identifier:1:3:363092:1
GUID (UUID V4):fb5b199f-3b10-499e-a80f-8261b966885f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
., ..J ATLAS DU KATANGA PUBLIE PAR LE ,,, COMITE SPECIAL nu KATANGA / d 'ap�è5 les tr>avaux ·de...remonte à l'âge triasique. rhétien. ATLAS nu KATANGA FASCICULE 2 TABLE DES MATIÈRES GÉNÉRALITÉS...LXXXIII LXXXVII Introduction . La géologie du Katanga Méridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « I...Tenke » Carte géologique du Katanga Méridional LXXXV LXXXIX FEUILLE KAMBOVE Texte. Planches, plans et...de mine Planche géodésique. Planche des minéraux Plan et coupe schématique de la mine de Kambove Planche
Journal (issue)
mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............................................ The Katanga Province ........................................922 923 The Mine Series .................................................... Shinkolobwe ..............Southern Rhodesiaand in the Katanga Provinceof the Republicof the Congo. The depositssampledoccur in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
knownonlyin theShabanprovinceof ZaYre, asat Shinkolobwe, andin theZambianCopperbelt. A surveyby AGIP...Uranium in the Shaban and as it includes the Shinkolobwe mine (Derricks and Vaes, 1956; Derricks and Oosterbosch...Zambian Copperbelt Areas T•F• depositionof the Katanga system,mainly of marine origin, beganbetween840...sequenceis subdividedfrom bottom sompi,Swambo,and Shinkolobwe(Fig. 2). Copperto top into the Roan, Mwashya...upto 1,000m thick, and a predominantly Mashitu, Kambove, Luishya, and many other localdolomiticUpperRoansubgroup
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise...REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi 11°- Shinkolobwe Luishia...26° LEGEND post-Katangan granite (520 Ma) major mine or deposit post-Katangan cover city Nguba and...Solwezi dome westward to the Kabompo dome. The Shinkolobwe and Swambo U-(Ni) deposits occur between the...metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; Derriks and Vaes
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Northern Rhodesia, 503 • 15 m.y. ; uraninite, Shinkolobwe, Katanga, 642=t=20 m.y. ; davidite, Mavuzi, Mozambique...derived f r o m a concent r a t e p r o v i d e d b y Dr. T. D. Guernsey of R h o k a n a Corporation Ltd...inches, collected from the Mindola Section of Nkana mine. This mode of occurrence is not typical of the disseminated...based on the average of 10 galena analyses from Katanga and Northern Rhodesia. Nine are taken from Holmes...from Nkana. Melonite has also been recorded at Shinkolobwe (Derricks and Vaes, 1956). Further work is in
Book
. ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Report (issue)
in the Athabasca Formation.......28 Northern Territory.................................................mineralogy........................................76 Shinkolobwe................................................Saskatchewan.............53 22. Geology of the Rossing mine area...............................55 iii Illustrations...cross section of Verna and Fay orebodies, Eldorado mine...................................................temperature and & 0 in hydrothermal fluids, Fay mine................................................
Report (volume)
(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through...urani urn minerals first discovered in the Belgian Congo. The work of the American mineralogist C. Palache...occurs in hydrothermal veins, as in the Belgian Congo. The relation between the names uraninite and pitchblende
Book
Such color shells may also app6ar in calcite and scapolite. In son1e cases the discoloration clearly has...distiict, Colo. (Sims, 1955). Noted in Belgian Congo pitchblende are Pb, Fe, Co, Ni, 1'1o, and Se. Uraninite...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...weighing 20 tons have been found in the Katanga, Belgian Congo,· deposits. Single euhedral to subhedral...deposits; cubes in vugs at Shinko]obvve, Belgian Congo, and partial cubes in veins of some deposits in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogeny as a result of the collision between the Congo and Kalahari cratons that led to the formation of...region; (3) the Synclinorial belt and (4) the Katanga high. According to the metamorphic isogrades described...External fold-and-thrust belt, designated as the Katanga Copperbelt (Key et al. 2001; Cailteux et al. 2005;...deposits, in the External fold-and-thrust belt (Katanga Copperbelt) and in the eastern part of the Domes...Luiswishi occurrences in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several generations of fluids were trapped during
Book (edition)
co-author, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino. -Malcolm E. Back Fleischer's...they are: Dr. Peter Bayliss, Dr. Ernst A.J. Burke, Dr. Anton and hakhmouradian,Robert Gault, Dr. Julian...Låszl6 Horvåth, Dr. Uwe Kolitsch, Locock,Gaspare Malet.to,Dr. Roger Mitchell, Renato Pagano. Dr. Ole Petersen...Robert Ramik,Andy Roberts, hallit, Dr. Chris Stanley,Tony Steede and Dr. ThomasWitzke. upport and encouragementof...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
Book (edition)
This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...by Strunz (1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung...arisen with localities in Congo-Zaire: the country, named Democratic Republic of Congo since 1960, was changed...Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region
Book (edition)
Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr & Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hanel Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter...Joachim Lorenz Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik Dr. Frank Melcher☆ & Dr. Simon Goldmann & Dr. Thomas Oberthür Dipl...-Min. Sebastian Möller Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Peter Röper☆ Prof. Dr. Supriya Roy✝ Dr. Thomas Seifert Dipl...-Geol. Jana Wazeck & Prof. Klaus Thalheim Dr. Thomas Witzke Prof. Dr. Fathi Zereini Mitteljörn 14a, D-24536... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
Catalog/List
Excellent rich reddish mass with minor Likasi. Congo (Zaire) Malachite - - - - . --·- . Red brown blades...lxl £8 rich orange coatiing on matrix Moon Anchor Mine,Maricopa ½" £5 Pb Zn CrO SiO F County,_ Arizona...Violet micro crystals on I cm white matrix Fuka Mine. Oicchu-cho, 1cm £8 Ca y11 ~ Q~l__. __ . .. ~a\Vll~mi~gu...Greenish-yellow . relatively rich coating on Moon Anchor Mine. Mariposa 5mm £4 I cm £8 . _P~_Cu_qll(As__~) 011...Russia ½" £7 K Mn Nb Ti SiO OOH -- - ----Lucky Cuss Mine, lxl £8 lx2 £20 479 QUEITITE Many small white blades
Report (issue)
accident in the search for copper in the Belgian Congo, for cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories...Goldfields area, Saskatchewan, Canada; the Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Zafre; and the medium-sized deposits...Joachymov, Czechoslovakia, and at Schwartzwalder mine, Colorado, U.S.A.). Uranium deposits have been found...pi anat ion). 19 Symbol: Name: 1AVM Midnite mine, Stevens County, 80 kilometers northwest of Spokane...Peters lease (or Northwest Uranium mine, also known as the Sherwood mine), Stevens County, Washington, U
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chiefly confined to the Lower Roan Group of the Mine Series which, to the southwest of the central Kafue...minerals such as anhydrite, dolomite, calcite, scapolite, microcline and sodic plagioclase are also variably... % \, %° \ i .,$ = \" cosz CO3S4 I ' I dR]enite hex. cholcocite Co3S ~ Co9S8 -hiqh -13 ...Co-pyrite ÷ cattierite + carrollite at Shinkolobwe in Katanga, Zaire reported by Craig and Vaughan (1979)...Copperbelt Deposits b) Specific Environments I. Baluba Mine The Baluba ore-body occurs on the northeastern flank
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
drawn to similar depositsin Africa and Australia. mine (19, Fig. 1) occursin a belt of layered calcsil...breccias; classII deposits, uranium-bearing Day mine (7, Fig. 1) occur in a brecciaore hosted basemetal...occurrences shownin Figure 1, only the Schwartzwalder mine is currentlyin production. Phanerozoic sections...pre-Laramide episodesof uranium concen- Schwartzwalder mine proposeda Proterozicorigin for the ColoradoFront...Copper King $,800 0.$0 Ohman 1,200 0.71 Scapolite,an indicatorof hypersalinityin amphibolite-faciesmetasedimentary
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...phillipsite 124, 124 phlogopite 104 sartorite 18 scapolite 114 schalenblende 11 scheelite 63, 63 schorl 95...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...sanidine 112, 112, 113 sapphire 25 sartorite 18 scapolite 114 schalenblende 11 scheelite 63, 63 schorl...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Book
COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504 KATANGA] 257-320 321--416 M-S--HlLAlRE ] CARNEGlE]...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
Catalog/List
collection, a lot of it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably... SESSION ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment...Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia Some of the best things to come from the Tsumeb Mine were...com/5236 57004 Mimetite Epimorph on Cerussite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia The multiple stages
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, for:merly Keeper of Mineralogy...sanidine 112, 112, l 13 sapphire 25 sartorite 18 scapolite 114 schalenblende I l schee'lite 63, 63 schorl95...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...especially near Ki1nberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimber/ite
Book
Min. Rev.) Comité Special du Katanga, Service des Mines (Com. Spec. Katanga, Serv. Mines) (all publications)...gíte de wolfram, molybdéne et cuivre d'Azegour (Haut-Atlas, Maroc) et dans celle du gíte de manganese...50, p. 164-168 Heim, Α., 1 9 3 4 , The molybdenum mine at Azegour: Soc. Econ. Geol., v. 29, p. 76-83...Allanite et epidote dans des corneennes de la mine d'Azegour, Haut-Atlas: Serv. Geol. Maroc. Notes et Mem....gisement de molybdéne, tungstene et cuivre d'Azegour (Haut Atlas), etude petrographique et metallogénique:
 
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