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Andradite from
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Andradite
Formula:Ca3Fe23+(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Baryte
Bementite
Clinochlore
Hausmannite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hausmannite96 photos of Andradite associated with Hausmannite at this locality.
Hematite55 photos of Andradite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Gaudefroyite51 photos of Andradite associated with Gaudefroyite at this locality.
Baryte34 photos of Andradite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Calcite25 photos of Andradite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Oyelite13 photos of Andradite associated with Oyelite at this locality.
Braunite10 photos of Andradite associated with Braunite at this locality.
Celestine8 photos of Andradite associated with Celestine at this locality.
Manganvesuvianite8 photos of Andradite associated with Manganvesuvianite at this locality.
Braunite-II7 photos of Andradite associated with Braunite-II at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andradite data
Locality Data:Click here to view N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (32 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:259906
Long-form Identifier:1:3:259906:9
GUID (UUID V4):f5d7f1a9-0158-48cd-a0e2-09460a7d9c2e
Nearest other occurrences of Andradite
0.6km (0.3 miles) N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
1.8km (1.1 miles) N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
2.7km (1.7 miles) Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
3.1km (1.9 miles) Black Rock Mine, Black Rock, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
deposits of Elsmore, New England district of New South Wales. Rankin, John, Sharpe, James L. and Williams...associated minerals from the Barrington Tops area, New South Wales. Graham, Ian T., Pogson, Ross E. and Colchester...8(1):3-8 Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams...suite of secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and...ribbons associated with thomsonite from Borambil, New South Wales. Graham, Ian T. and Pogson, Ross E. 7(2):S7-61
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University RO. Box 524 AucWand Park, 2006 Gauteng, South Africa . . .*.’. Corresponding author: bc @na.rau...just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...(black) in South Africa. B: Enlarged portion of Griqualand West showing distribution of the mines in the...and one of the few economic centers of the Northern Cape Province. Kuruman is also the preferred home...miners who work in the manganese mines. but most tend to live in the mine villages of Hotazel and Black
Journal (issue)
FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...Asselbom collection. Joe Budd photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas...Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection; Joe Budd photo. (upper right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine...Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe Budd photo. This special supplement was funded entir~ly...rnain driving elements that were present in the local area. One of these was the influence of the Houston
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. In this issue also: Twin Creeks mine, USA Scott KLEINE, Bryan K. LEES & Malcolm SOUTHWOOD...Spectacular orpiment specimen from Cut 62 in Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, USA; 9.6 cm high. Azurite Corporation specimen...well-crystallised orpiment at the Twin Creeks mine in Northern Nevada, USA, and it's subsequent extraction...them the mining company that owns and operates the mine, and the other a company that spe- Marshallsussmanite...the 2011 find at the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. Marshall Sussman with a specimen
Catalog/List
Racecourse 5 ETTRINGITE N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Kuruman, South Africa. 12x10x9mm. £58...Afghanistan. Crystals to 15mm. 23x23x23mm. £22 4 GREEN ANDRADITE GARNET Gulbahar, Ghazin Province, Afghanistan...10mm. 40x34x18mm. £32 7 VESUVIANITE Khak Khan district, Siro Mts, Zabul Province, Afghanistan. 30x30x30mm
Report (issue)
tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa...Cover: Grossular on diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul... H. Albert Gilg Mickey Gunter, Jaroslav Hyrs 1, John I. Koivula, Jiri Kourimsky, Bertold Ottens Pete...Bainbridge, Modris Baum, Dan Behnke Dudley Blauwet, Joe Budd, Thomas Calligaro, Matteo Chinellato, Rick Cowley...Hochleitner Richard Jackson, John I. Koivula, George F. Kunz, Arthur Lakes, John Lucking Hans Jorg Mullenmeister
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyroxene-relatedchain silicate from the N'chwaning mine, Kalahari manganesefield, South Africa D.lNrtr, Nwnr.nnoTHonmsAnrvrnnusrrn...Geological Survey, PB Xl 12, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa Vr,lnrurn BnnueNnc Department of Mineralogy...at N'chwaning mine, located in the Kalahari manganesefield, northern Cape Province, South Africa. The...in size. Nchwaningite is named after the mine N'chwaning II, where it was found first. Nchwaningiteis...deposit on the Earth, located in the northern Cape Province, South Africa. Three Mn layers are interbedded
Journal (issue)
Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...Mineralogical Museum of Naples, today part of the Frederick II Naples University (Ghiara and Petti, 2008); the Mineralogy...University of Torino, supported by Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy; and the collections of numerous scholars...COLLECTING FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY TO WORLD WAR II After the wars and political events associated with...began to take place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the
Journal (issue)
the Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria CONTENTS.... 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P. Elliott .................. 57 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW P. Carr, M. Perkins, B. Chenhall, f. Pemberton...from Spring Creek, South Australia. The crystal is 3.5 mm across. Specimen: South Australian Museum,...finds in Africa (Vol. 2, 1 and this issue). Bruce co-authored the superb "Minerals of South Africa" book
Book
-~~1---------- 1960-2015 by Thom.as P. Moore Volume II I-Z Published by the Mineralogical Record, Inc....talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite
Book
65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ARIZONA-II] [ 129-200 201-272...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336...regarding the type of ABANDONED MINES Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G.
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Bag XOll, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa vanadium deposit, Wilson Springs, Garland County...cavities in rhyolites at Squaw Creek, Black Range district, Catron County and in Willow Spring Draw, Sierra...crusts (up to 0.5 mm) on quartz at the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A; mcalpineite...minerals. Also recorded from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A. Cu3TeOo6.H20. Cubic,...1994. Can. Min., 32, 839. Mount Mica pegmatite, South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A. NaCs(Be,Li)Zr~(PO4)4
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...~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
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...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
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...·- ·- · - ·-• -·· ·- -- - --- -- -·· · --·· 5 ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 31 CHLORAPATITE Odegardensverk...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group
Journal (issue)
specially, and other interesting items from the Northern Sahara desert, many collected by himself and his...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization in the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa D. A. D. EVANS,† Tectonics Special Research...University, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa AND J. L. KIRSCHVINK Division of Geological...enrichment in the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa, in order to assess mineralogical aspects of...(Mn3O4), accompanied by some recrystallized hematite (II), Fe-poor bixbyite ((Mn,Fe)2O3), and Mn calcite....controlled hydrothermal alteration is restricted to the northern part of the Kalahari deposit, an area affected
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
Catalog/List
ANDESI NE Fel ds par AN DORITE Pb Ag Sb S ♦ ANDRADITE garnet group ♦ ANGLES ITE Pb SO/4 ANHYDIUTE Ca...Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan 3mm... x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...50p A rare British mineral. Rich wh ite veins and South Bay, Scarborough ½x½ masses in matrix. Yorkshire
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
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crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, • Brasil). The...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic...malachite - which would go well with the "copper mine" explanation, but I did not like the fact that the...boulders were collected from a dump at a copper mine. Time will tell. By now I needed that beer ... beer
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Book (edition)
September 18, 2007, my Teacher, Mentor and Friend. Joe Mandarino passed away after a long battle with failing...of Minerals and the next edition of the Glossary, Joe asked me if I would be willing to take on the responsibility...9th edition of the Glossary in 2004. Unfortunately Joe passed away beforc wc could finish this collaboration...for sure if I have found all e material sent to Joe, and so, if I have missed anyone, and any other corrections... Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the
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