 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralogical studies of the deposit, firstly in the mine between 1963 and 1973, and later she documented...phlogopite lode, 250 100 m in size at the +174 m mine level, has the shape of an ellipsoid. According...mapping and interpretation of photographs of the mine walls, show that mineralogical zoning only occurs...phlogopite and diopside. Adapted from a photograph of the mine walls, as were Figures 4 and 5; 1,2,..,7: scale...phlogopite of generation 1. Only a decrease in the Ba content from 1.1% BaO in the core zone of large crystals |  | Swayze, Gregg A., Lowers, Heather A., Benzel, William M., Clark, Roger N., Driscoll, Rhonda L., Perlman, Zac S., Hoefen, Todd M., Dyar, M. Darby (2018) Characterizing the source of potentially asbestos-bearing commercial vermiculite insulation using in situ IR spectroscopy. American Mineralogist, 103 (4) 517-549 doi:10.2138/am-2018-6022 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, 206 Kendade, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 1 2 Abstract...Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Enoree, South Carolina; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China, were measured...measured with a portable spectrometer. The mine sources for these vermiculite ores were identified based...from other commercial sources in the U.S.A. and South Africa do not contain nearly as much elongate amphibole...Mountain Mine near Libby, with the remainder likely supplied by (2) the Virginia Vermiculite Mine in Louisa |  | | 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; |  | | Book | | Techniques of Saponite Recovery from Diamond Processing Plant Water and Areas of Saponite Application Reprinted...Hydrometallurgical Processing of Low-Grade Sulfide Ore and Mine Waste in the Arctic Regions: Perspectives and Challenges...techniques of saponite recovery from diamond processing plant water and the areas of saponite application...application, including modified saponite-based products. The Arkhangelsk-area diamond deposits are considered as...hydrometallurgical processing of low-grade sulfide ore and mine waste in the Arctic regions. The paper presents |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vermiculite were mined from Mikese in Morogoro Rural District and processed in Dar-esSalaam where an experimental...to the difficulty of establishing a satisfactory local market for the product. Another vermiculite deposit...quality is to be found at Kwekivu area in Kilindi District but it is not mined due to the high costs associated...collected at the Mikese area in Morogoro Rural District (sample MK1: 06º47’08’’S and 37º54’35’’E and sample...village in the Kilosa District (sample MS: 06º12’32’’S and 37º10’24’’E). Palabora Europe Ltd also provided |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ridge, Carbon Hill, Taylor Ridge, and Taylor Ridge South (Fig. 1). The total measured and indicated resource...Carbon Hill (C), Taylor Ridge (T), and Taylor Ridge South (TS). Dashed gray box shows the region detailed...area in 1972 with the objective of exploring for Palabora-type, carbonatite-hosted Cu mineralization (c...Molycorp (then the operator of the Mountain Pass Mine in California) as a joint venture (JV) partner....Limited Newmont acquired a small land package in the district and drilled 10 reverse circulation (RC) holes |  | | Catalog/List | | ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -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...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden |  | | Catalog/List | | ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire...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...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) |  | | Catalog/List | | massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FeO"OH Cl 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire A rare British mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | sent with the parceL Eilarama,Ruanda, Central Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA...Amphibolc IxI £3 Norway South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE...Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals well covering Basall...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish |  | | Catalog/List | | £10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...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 |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves the...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 Talc...Hardness 10 Quartz Diamond Diamond, Kimberley, South Africa * 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm | 19 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resources of the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa; the latter have relatively low Ni (-Cu-Au)...to determine whether this prospect is economic to mine. The mining industry generally minimizes exploration...resources to mineable reserves during the lifetime of a mine, rather than incurring the prohibitive expenditure...Greece 0.9 Russia 6 6 9.2 Venezuela 0.49 0.63 South Africa 3.7 3.7 12 Zimbabwe 0.26 Other 4.5 4.6 6...(NRC, 1944−2010); China (Hongtao et al., 2011); South Africa (CMSA, 2005−2013) 1 Totals rounded down to two |  | | Catalog/List | | 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...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal |  | Argüelles, A., Khainakov, S. A., Rodríguez-Fernández, J., Leoni, M., Blanco, J. A., Marcos, C. (2011) Chemical and physical characterization of iron-intercalated vermiculite compounds. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38 (7) 569-580 doi:10.1007/s00269-011-0429-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | determined by Goodman et al. (1988) for intercalated saponite. Magnetic susceptibility The temperature dependence...study of vermiculitization in the Palabora Complex, Republic of South Africa. Clay Minerals, 35:653–663 Badreddine...vermiculites from Béni Bousera, Morocco and Palabora, Republic of South Africa. Clay Minerals 37:367–376 Bergaya...Saskatchewan. Clays and Clay Minerals 37(2):164–172 Goodman BA, Helsen JA, Langouche G (1988) Mössbauer spectra...spectra of exchangeable Fe2?–Fe3?-ions on saponite. Hyperfine Interact 41:799–802 Grim RE (1968) Clay mineralogy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resilication product in bauxite, Alabama Street Mine, Arkansas 139 SiO2/Al203 ratio, effect on surface...hydrogen positions in dickite 483 Attaberg limit saponite, Ballarat, California 147 497 BACKHAUS, K.-O...associated with lignite, tonstein, abundance of Ti, Zr, Ba, St, A1 259 associated with lignite, tonstein, IR...375 nontronite, Garfield, Washington 350, 357 saponite, BaUarat, California 147 smectites, relation to...talc-containing Ultisol, for Ca, Mg, K 227 vermiculite, Palabora, Na-, K-, Ca-forms 311 zeolite Y, Co-, Ni-exchanged |  | | Book | | major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...comfort. Users of chromite, who must the USSR, South Africa, Albania, and wish that chromite deposits were...Republic of South Africa by the Department of Mines and the Geological Survey of South Africa; such profiles |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins |  | | Book (volume) | | Y4—6^g02o(OH,F)4 where X is mainly K, Na or Ca but also Ba, Rb, Cs, etc. Y is mainly Al, Mg or Fe but also Mn...muscovite are as follows: For K: Na, Rb, Cs, Ca, Ba. For octahedral Al: Mg, Fe+2, Fe+3, Mn, Li, Cr, Ti...[Manganoan muscovite (b)j [Alurgite (c) Phengite Na Ba (H30)+ — — Octahedral Al replaced by — _ _ _ ...24(0,OH,F) Si A1 A1 Ti Cr Fe+» Zn Fe+a Mn Mg Li Ca Ba Na K Rb Cs (H.O) F OH 88}*“ 3-975\ 6’05°"i l-95o/800...24(0,OH,F) SI Al Al Ti Cr Fe+” Zn Fe+> Mn Mg Li Ca Ba Na K Rb Cs (H.O) F OH 6-0331 1-967 J[>8-00 3-1131 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydration, Illite, Montmorillonite, Nontronite, Saponite, Sauconite, Stevensite, Vermiculite. INTRODUCTION...Ions AG~ (kJ/mole) Li + Na § K§ Rb + Cs + NH4 + Ba z+ Sr 2+ Ca 2+ M g z§ Fe e* M n 2+ Cu 2§ Co a+ Ni...215)Ore(OH )~ Nontronite, Saponite, Beidellite, Vermiculite, and Glauconite Palabora Vermiculite t~ H Libby...Mg-Beidellite TM Ca-Beidellite ~4 K-Saponite 14 Na-Saponite ~4 Mg-Saponite ~4 Ca-Saponite ~'~ K-Nontronite ~4 Na-Nontronite...minerals Table 6. Values of A~O M~+(1) for Cs +, Rb +, Ba 2+, Sr~+, and H § in the interlayer site obtained |  | | Catalog/List | | ~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...ALUMOHYDROCALCITE A rare British mineral. Rich white veins South Bay, Scarborough ½x ½ £3 Ix½ Ix! £10 C.!_~_15_013 |  | | Catalog/List | | mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn |  | | Book (edition) | | communities to be plunged into unemployment because a mine or mines have become unprofitable, a need to earn...for diamonds is worldwide but that for bricks is local. Formal organized markets have developed in various...for, and hence the price of, the mine product, well in advance of mine development. A useful recent discussion...critical in the USA, but in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), a major source of all three, they are...producers have spent vast sums of money on exploration, mine development and production but have paid too little |
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