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Schorl from
Rooiberg Mine, Rooiberg tin field, Thabazimbi Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcopyriteⓘ2 photos of Schorl associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Malachiteⓘ1 photo of Schorl associated with Malachite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ1 photo of Schorl associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Cassiteriteⓘ1 photo of Schorl associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Ankeriteⓘ1 photo of Schorl associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rooiberg Mine, Rooiberg tin field, Thabazimbi Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1423778
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1423778:0
GUID (UUID V4):543d7454-438c-467c-be1c-9ec055a27ced
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precolonial (1650–1850 CE) tin smelting slags from Rooiberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa ROBERT B. HEIMANN1...Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, South Africa 3 Department of Anthropology, University of...prehistoric tin smelting activities (1650–1850 CE) excavated at Rooiberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa were...concentrations of tin oxide suggesting a low level of metal recovery that resulted in substantial tin losses. In...skeletal cassiterite, and complex spinels, as well as tin prills ranging in size from a few to tens of micrometres
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1995 The tin zone: sediment-hosted hydrothermal tin mineralization at Rooiberg, South Africa A. Rozendaal...7600, South Africa 2 Gold Fields of South Africa, 75 Fox Street, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Received:...December 1994 Abstract. The Rooiberg tin field, also known as the Rooiberg Fragment, is located within...Lebowa Granite Suite. Practically all the significant tin deposits are hosted by arkoses, located towards the...hydrothermal carbonate breccias appear to dominate each mine. Petrological and geochemical investigations of
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;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tapinocephalus atherxtoni, Owen : Karroo formation, S. Africa (greatly reduced). maxillaries, and which were...between 1300 and 1400 feet, there are a number of tin-mines which have been worked 1 Communicated by permission...important lodes; while the heaps of veinstone debris and mine refuse in the valleys combine to make it a picture...mentioned in the text. The ordinary granite of the district is coarsely porphyritic and contains well-formed...individual crystals or stellate patches, or as nests of schorl-rock. In the lode area the ordinary granite has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cassiterite-bearing quartz–tourmaline vein (leftcenter), Geevor tin mine, Cornwall, England. (B) Finegrained tourmaline...intergrown with zoned cassiterite and quartz, South Crofty tin mine, Cornwall. Abbreviations: Cst, cassiterite;...gold-bearing quartz–tourmaline extension vein, Sigma gold mine, Québec (scale is in centimeters). (B) Gold grains...with tourmaline (black) in quartz gangue, Sigma mine. Abbreviations: Au, gold; Qtz, quartz; Tur, tourmaline...distinctive chemical differences that reflect the local host-rock composition. In contrast, secondstage
Journal (issue)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF TIN BY FRANK L. HESS and EVA HESS (PUBLICATION 1987^)...abbreviations used Bibliography arranged by countries: Africa 3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia...California 48 Canada Cape Colony Carolina, North and South 51 Ceylon 54 Chili 55 50 52 China 55 Colorado...123 123 New Guinea New Hampshire New Jersey New South Wales New Zealand 124 124 124 124 132 132 Nigeria...Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E G GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA T FLUORITE MINE he Vergenoeg fluorite mine is located in the Gauteng...Gauteng Province of South Africa, approximately 80 kilometers northeast of Pretoria. The mine is somewhat of...koechlinite has been discovered. In addition, the mine has produced spectacular botryoidal and stalactitic...fluorite mine is located approximately 140 kilometers northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa. Access...Access to the mine is easy via a paved road that leads off from the national N1 Highway, but visits to the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(CIZ) Spain (CIZ) SW England South Africa Rwanda USA (Maine) USA (South Dakota) Sebago Granite Calamity...and Brown 2010) and the Calamity Peak granite, South Dakota (Rockhold et al. 1987), in USA; and (6) several...several much older granitic plutons in Africa, namely, the Archean Sinceni granite from the Barberton... the Late Proterozoic Cape Granite Suite in South Africa (Rozendaal and Bruwer 1995), the Kuiseb Formation...(Table 2) have schorl compositions, with only a few analyses overlapping into the dravite field (Fig. 1a)
Book
EarlyGermanGeologistsand Entrepreneursin South West Africa The People- Mineralogists,Geologistsand Collectors...s Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding...Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254...heritage, which has over the years attracted both local researchers and scientists from all over the world...natural science museums in the World, and our Tsumeb Mine has been labeled the "World's greatest mineral locality"
Book
Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot
Report (volume)
11. Table 1, p. 561: Selected tourmaline-bearing tin +/- tungsten greisens, veins, skarns and replacements...assemblages 376 Tourmaline stability in magmas: Schorl-dravite 377 Acknowledgments 379 References 379...DEPOSITS Introduction Granitoid-related Deposits Tin ± tungsten greisens, veins, skarns, and replacements...Tungsten deposits Uranium deposits Tourmalinites Field relations Mineralogy and petrography Whole-rock...Tourmaline General Broken Hill (Australia) Barberton (South Africa) Evolution of the continental crust and seawater
Report (volume)
11. Table 1, p. 561: Selected tourmaline-bearing tin +/- tungsten greisens, veins, Chapter 11. Table...assemblages...... Tourmaline stability in magmas: Schorl-dravite ..................2..0008 Bare MOW COPIES...eeene tees baie e ta eee vas nse EE Me Anco 560 Tin + tungsten greisens, veins, skarns, and replacements...pentaborate sheet structure from the Tuzla salt mine, Bosnia and Hercegovina. Am Mineral 79:562-569 Beukes...Gaudefroyite from the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. N Jahrb Mineral Mh 1993:385-392 Black PM
Journal (volume)
; > PAGE Abosso Gold Africa, Africa, Report German South-West German South-West African Railways...Railways Air, Moisture in Mine Air, Moisture in Mine Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska S. Rice Whittome...A. C. Gold Mines Mexican Report Perseverance Mine Treadwell Treadwell Treadwell, Fall of Ground at...56 (p.t.) as Precipitant (p.t.) H. Mining District W. Turner {.c.l.) Amalgamated Properties v...Shaft, Recovering the Barnato Group of Mines Bawdwin Mine, see Burma Corporation Bell Reef Report... Bell
Catalog/List
Arsenopyrite Ghana, Ilmenite South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond...x1/, A rare British m i neral. Rich white veins South Bay. Scarborough - · i re Ca Al C0/3 £5 a n d masses...and polished lx2 16 AMBL\'GONITE 2x2 £3 Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. Ix I£ I Pure grey cleavable massive..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass
Book
Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...their hospitality and support for the numerous field trips in China and their patience with the idiosyncrasies...support, even when faced with harsh conditions in the field, abroad and in outback Australia. ix Contents
Book
Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa. both in terms of production and reserves. In this...century when the Gennan Colonial Office in South West Africa appointed Government Geologists to carry out...wait until 1926, when the Geological Survey of South Africa opened a branch office under the direction of...Cobalt-Nickel Copper Iron Lead-Zinc Manganese Molybdenum Tin Tungsten Vanadium 3. Rare metals -:I 3.1 3.2 3...magnetite quartzites and sedex lead-zinc deposits of South Africa (Rozendaal, 1978; 1986; Ryan et al., I986) where
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.11 Tin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6.5 Tin Placers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5.4 Tin Slags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...The Metallurgy of Tin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Tin Artefacts . . . . ...Copper and Bronze . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2.4 Tin Bronze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
A Comparison of Tin and Copper Mineralization in Felsic Igneous RocksWhere are the Tin Exhalites? . ....Badham 29 Geochemistry of South Sardinian Granites compared with their Tin Potential . . . . . . . ....Ireland 85 R. Elsdon and P.S. Kennan Types of Tin-bearing Pegmatites in Phuket, Thailand, with Special...Pluhar Fluid Inclusion Evidence on the Genesis of Tin Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Vokes Hydrothermal Activity in the St Just Mining District, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . N.J
Journal (volume)
Alabama Iron Industry 122 P. C. Fearing (in.d.) Alaska Tin Deposits 266 Alaska Treadwell's New Property 316...Technical Methods of Ore 256 Report Anantapur Gold Field Aramayo Francke Mines Arizona Copper Co Arizona...Bacterial Precipitation of Iron 6 72, 137 Badak Tin Promotion 73 323 Balaghat Dividend Bank? What...Amalgamation Bisichi Tin Bismuth, Estimation Blackwater Mines of Gnggenheims in Bolivian Tin-Silver Mines...Report 10, 138 Bolivia, Bolivian Tin-Silver Ores Bolivian Tin-Silver Ores, Metallurgy of Books, Size
Book (edition)
the Walls of Tin Lodes Order of Arrival of the Minerals in Tin Lodes Association of Tin and Copper Ores...Antimony Deposits Manganese Deposits Gold Deposits Tin Deposits Uranium and Vanadium Deposits CHAPTER ...of Saxony and Bohemia ; Miscellaneous Alluvial Tin Ores - - Platinum and Allied Metals The Rare Earths...processes Nature has adopted to bring about the local concentration of metalliferous material. The original...part in all the folding and faulting that the district may undergo ; and if in the mass form of a bed
Book (edition)
the Walls of Tin Lodes Order of Arrival of the Minerals in Tin Lodes Association of Tin and Copper Ores...Manganese Deposits Metasomatic Gold Deposits Metasomatic Tin Deposits Metasomatic Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...of Saxony and Bohemia - Miscellaneous Alluvial Tin Ores Platinum and Allied Metals The Rare Earths...processes Nature has adopted to bring about the local concentration of metalliferous material. The original...the folding and and if in the faulting that the district may undergo form of a bed, its outcrop will be
Journal (volume)
'62 S27 "69 263 '383 M W (p.f.) Boswin Mine Boswin Mine Equipment Botallack Bowler. L. 115 307 441...Broken Hill Block 14 Broken Hill South Extended Report Broken Hill South Silver Report Broomassie Report...Copper British Ores, Paragenesis of British South Africa , Report Dredging on Gold Coast :. P California...Internal-Combustion Pump Report Balaghat Balcobo Tin Mines Testing for Metallurgical t-roeesses Barr,...Bayldon, H. C Bavliss V. Pearson North Dundas Tin District Beil, -J. Critical Moisture in Tube-Mill Peed
Journal (volume)
Aeroplane, Prospecting by 131, 194 Trade Routes {ni.d.) Africa, East, 313 African & .Australian Co., in Cornwall...Diamonds Arsenic and Antimony Ores in U.K Asam Kumbang Tin Dredging Co Ashanti Goldfields Position Asia Minor...Minor, Mineral Resources of Associated Nigerian Tin Mines Plant Aurora West and Selective Mining Aurora...at Ball-Mills for Fine-Grinding (vi.d.) Bangrin Tin Dredging Co Bantjes Agitation Report Barramia Mining...Fertilizer Bendigo Goldfleld. Benue (Northern Nigeria) Tin Mines (m.d.) Report (m.d.) Blast-Furnace Gases
Journal (volume)
Anaconda, Mining Costs at Anantapur Gold Field Anchor Tin Mine Anonymous *223 70 406 428 426 (p.<.)...Oil w. Coal Berriman, A. E Aviation .... Bisichi Tin Blackwater Mines Report 390 156 212 390 321 448...Moynihan Blasting, Electric 294 Blenkinsop, G. H.. .Tin Deposits of Central Bushveldt 376 Ventilation on...Rand (p.t.) .... 304 H. Bancroft (c.l.) Boli\ian Tin 93 Bonanza, Nicaragua 459 (p.t.) Bore-holes, Air...instead of Water in 386 Report Botallack 37 Braden Mine, Chile 160, 393 Brakpan 293 .... Rand Future of
Journal (volume)
(m.d.) .... 189 Bauxite in West Africa Report. ... 64 Berengiiela Tin Mines 102 Bolivia's Case for the...the League of Xations 2^1 Greenside Mine. Borlase, W. H Emmons and Grnner (m.d.). . 2r)3 Borneo, Petroleum...starts Production .' . . . . British West Africa . . . . . . 137 Co., Collapse Broken Hill...in Report 255 Consolidated Diamond Mines of South Africa Report 318 Consolidated Langlaagtc Mines « 135...Cordoba's Property in India Cornish Kaohn, Ltd Cornish Tin Mines Close-down Cornwall, : Pumping . . 202
 
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