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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Heterogenite
Formula:Co3+O(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Curite10 photos of Heterogenite associated with Curite at this locality.
Torbernite7 photos of Heterogenite associated with Torbernite at this locality.
Soddyite5 photos of Heterogenite associated with Soddyite at this locality.
Metatorbernite4 photos of Heterogenite associated with Metatorbernite at this locality.
Wulfenite1 photo of Heterogenite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Becquerelite1 photo of Heterogenite associated with Becquerelite at this locality.
Oursinite1 photo of Heterogenite associated with Oursinite at this locality.
Nontronite1 photo of Heterogenite associated with Nontronite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Heterogenite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Heterogenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160312
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160312:5
GUID (UUID V4):6c6e0736-690c-4114-8b29-eaa6a69adb6b
Nearest other occurrences of Heterogenite
19.4km (12.0 miles) Kambove Principal Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
23.8km (14.8 miles) Kabolela Mine, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
26.9km (16.7 miles) Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
36.1km (22.4 miles) Swambo Hill, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
38.4km (23.9 miles) Kakanda North Mine, Kakanda deposit, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
41.2km (25.6 miles) Mindingi Mine, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
51.8km (32.2 miles) Luishia Mine, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
60.8km (37.8 miles) Kansalawile Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
61.3km (38.1 miles) Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
71.5km (44.4 miles) Kasompi Mine, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dating of U-rich heterogenite: New insights into U deposit genesis and U cycling in the Katanga Copperbelt...Keywords: Katanga Copperbelt Uranium deposition Shinkolobwe U–Pb geochronology Heterogenite a b s t r...r a c t The Katanga Copperbelt region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hosts world-class cobalt deposits...deposits accounting for ∼50% of the world reserves. Heterogenite (CoOOH) is the most abundant Co-bearing secondary...sediment-hosted copper and cobalt ore deposits, the Katanga Copperbelt also hosts numerous uraniferous mineral
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 (issue)
The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...............6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties
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 (issue)
net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal... M. Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal...Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University...Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi 1825, Democratic Republic of the Congo; theophil.ngoy@ruashi.com (T.K.); chabu.cm@gmail...Democratic Republic of the Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining
Book
mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Of the 322 entries*, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) comes out on top with 88; Namibia...indebted to Dr.Joseph Mandarino of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Werner Krause of Hiirth, Germany, who supplied dates...briartite shares with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia, and both djerfisherite and niningerite...Localities (1) Kanemite: Kanem region, Lake Chad. CONGO(3) People (2) Fornacite: Lucien Louis Fourneau (18671930)...(18671930), colonial governor, French Congo. Plunchkite: Mr. PlanchC, French explorer. Localities (1)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxidized cobalt and manganese ores in the Katanga province, DR Congo Sophie Decrée & Étienne Deloule & Gilles...Springer-Verlag 2010 Abstract The Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, hosts world-class cobalt deposits...within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks. Heterogenite, the main oxidized cobalt mineral, is concentrated...world-class “manganese cap” deposits in western Katanga, i.e., the “black earths” that are exploited by...Mn ore and in situ U–Pb SIMS measurements of heterogenite yield Mio–Pliocene ages. The Ar–Ar ages suggest
Report (issue)
850(3) α = 92.16(4)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 5.55 (10), 7.74 (9), 6.88 (8), 3.448 (8)...2 (2) 71.79 7.36 13.31 7.54 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, H2 O determined...uranophane, heterogenite, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, near Kolwezi...Kolwezi, at the Musonoi mine, and in the Kamoto mine, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In
Report (issue)
Co3+ O(OH) Heterogenite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point... Z = 3, or X-ray Powder Pattern: Katanga (Shaba Province), Congo (3R). 4.40 (vvs), 2.315 (vs), 1.427...(m), 1.979 (mw) X-ray Powder Pattern: Mindigi, Congo (2H). 4.39 (vvs), 1.236 (vs), 2.472 (ms), 1.262...100.0 100.00 (1) Katanga (Shaba Province), Congo; H2 O by difference. (2) Mindigi, Congo; by electron microprobe...constituting an important ore of cobalt (Shaba Province, Congo); widespread in residual soils above ultramafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recently been asserted; for this mineral the name heterogenite has priority. Copper, frequently present, may...be as finely divided malachite; for cuprian heterogenite, the name schulzenite has priority. OBALTIC...Frenzel's mineral, to which he gave the name heterogenite, 1 was essentially CoO.OH, with only minor impurities...nickeliferous, with Co:Ni from 4 to 2. Nickelian heterogenite had already been described as a distinct species...Heubachtal, Wittichen, Baden, ~ and from the Eberhard mine, Alpirsbach, Schwarzwald, and named heubachite,
Report (issue)
= 22.79 Z = [3/8] X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; very close to takovite. 7.64 (100), 2.567...[1.29] Total [99.64] [96.42] 3+ (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; Ni and Co valences by ESCA spectra; MgO...oxidized zone of a uranium deposit. Association: heterogenite. Distribution: Uraninite, “metasaleeite”, uranophane...becquerelite, curite, rutherfordine, From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). Name:
Journal (issue)
the L'Etoile du Congo Mine Lumbumbashi, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...copper minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been available for many years. Although production...other species less so. The L'Etoile du Congo (Star of the Congo) Mine is the type locality for cornetite...become Zambia (and not to be confused with the other Congo on the African west coast!) See figure 1. Perhaps...clarification is needed, since older names such as Belgian Congo and Zaire also apply to the locality: The 1870s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tenke-Fungurume, D.R. Congo Przibram, Bohemia Peramea, Spain Durango, Colorado Kakanda, D.R. Congo Mashamba West...R. Congo Tantara, D.R. Congo Kamoto, Musonoi, and Kabolela, D.R. Congo Mupine, D.R. Congo Kambove, D...D.R. Congo Konkola, Zambia Chibuluma, Zambia Tsumeb, Namibia Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo Reported species...Copperbelt of northern Zambia and southeastern D.R. Congo (Fig. 1) is one of the world’s largest Cu and Co...dolomite to form malachite (Fig. 2). Chrysocolla, heterogenite, pseudomalachite, and rare cornetite, brochantite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
床 学会 誌 ・64巻2号, 1970年 山 口県 長 登 鉱 山 産heterogeniteHeterogenite from Naganobori Prefecture 南 Abstract:... 勝 俊(Katsutoshi 村 桜 井 D study 欽 of heterogenite 0.1 at 3.1‑3.4, た の で,こ 藤 ・桜 井, mineral...討 し た 結 果, の 概 要 を報 告 す る 。 も っ と も,古 認 め, heterogeniteの Japan in corespondsclosely to about 山 口...Naganobori Prefecture, malachite iron of irregular Mine, 部 ccurrence as つ い て* く高 可 能 性 を著 書 らの 一...一 人(K. バ ル ト土)と し て報告 され て い heterogeniteで あ る こ とが 判 明 し 壮 吉 は この 鉱 物 に 著 量 のCoの S)に 報 ぜ られ た が
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922)....planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In...Dioptase associated with heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district,...the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. In California it occurs at the Blue Bell mine and with linarite...identified filling vugs in malachite at the Cornucopia mine, Blind Springs district, Mono County (Murdoch and
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
Catalog/List
of Mounana, Gabon and Shaba, Zaire (then Katanga, Belgian Congo). Mr. Gilbert Gauthier, a noted mining...of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered...Uranium-Vanadium _Deposit_ of Mounana, Gabon ". Shinkolobwe ahd other southern Zaire uranium deposits are...Africa CUPROSKLODOWSKITE, META-VANURALITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Very attractive emerald-green... . $40.00 FOURMARIERITE and RUTHERFORDINE, Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire Bright orange fourmarierite in
Report (issue)
• • • • • • • • • • • Congo Republic (former Belgian Congo) • Former French Equatorial African...flowsheet of electrolytic process at Shituru plant, Katanga . . . . . . . . ,, 23 Fig. 5 Cobalt content of...and treatment plant, Katanga . . Outline flowsheet of Kolwezi concentrator, Katanga Cobalt mining areas...Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.; Dr. F. R. Morral,...A., Belgium; Dr. A. Gosseye of the former Direction du Service Geologique, Belgian Congo; Mr. R. A. Wells
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...brownish to bluish grey Diaboleite common Heterogenite polysynthetic and parquetlike Chrisstanleyite
Book (edition)
IV/F.06-90 744 Lithiophorite IV/F.07-10 746 Heterogenite IV/F.07-30/40 748 Guyanaite IV/F.07-60 750 IV/F... Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank Melcher & Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655...D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität... Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians Universität...cengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 München, Germany Dr. Thomas Seifert TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute
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
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
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
 
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