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Cubanite from
Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Cubanite
Formula:CuFe2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Parkerite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cubanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:263814
Long-form Identifier:1:3:263814:0
GUID (UUID V4):c740d1e6-5c49-4172-b00f-9cf4ac148cb7
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Report (issue)
37.83 Total 99.3 99.66 100.00 (1) Insizwa deposit, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding... parkerite, insizwaite, cubanite, pyrrhotite (Insizwa deposit, South Africa); stannopalladinite, hessite...Distribution: From the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, Eastern Cape, South Africa [TL]. At Monchegorsk
Report (issue)
corresponds to Ni3.18 Bi2.12 S2.00 . (3) Insizwa, South Africa; by electron microprobe; corresponds to... bismuth, bismuthinite, tetradymite, hessite, cubanite, maucherite, nickeline, sperrylite, gold, chalcopyrite...Distribution: In South Africa, from the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, Eastern Cape, South Africa [TL],...deposit, northwest Vietnam. At Kambalda, 56 km south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Name: After Professor
Report (issue)
55.2 2.4 7.7 Total 101.0 100.5 (1) Insizwa deposit, South Africa; by electron microprobe, average of...vein cutting massive pyrrhotite ore (Insizwa deposit, South Africa); in Cu–Ni sulfide ore (Sudbury, Canada)...Canada). Association: Pentlandite, cubanite, hessite, altaite, argentopentlandite, chalcopyrite, mackinawite...Distribution: From the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, East Cape, South Africa [TL]. In the Coleman...western Siberia, Russia. Name: For the Insizwa deposit, South Africa, where it was discovered. Type Material:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Noril'sk-Talnakharea, the Duluth Complex,the InsizwaComplex,andthe Cape Smithbelt. Someof the marginalsulfidesat Muskoxare...RegionalGeologicSetting The country rocks to the south, east, and west of the Muskox intrusion are paragneissesand...suggested that the rifting event and the openingof Local Geology the oceanwere associatedwith a mantle plume...by 11 km wide in the north by 100 m wide in the south andpossiblybefore mostof the CoppermineRiver flood...(Hornal, 1968). Thus, the surfaceexposurerepreMa Cape Smith deposits(Franciset al., 1983; Barneset sentsa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals (pentlandite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and cubanite), to establish whether the elements show a preference...concentrations are highest in chalcopyrite and cubanite. Gold and platinum showed no preference for any...mss) and the low levels of these elements in the cubanite and chalco- Communicated by T. L. Grove S.-J...enrichment of Ag, Cd and Zn in chalcopyrite and cubanite also supports the mss fractionation model these...pentlandite and iss exsolves into chalcopyrite ± cubanite plus pentlandite. During, exsolution PGE and other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic sulfide ores from Sudbury, Canada and the Insizwa complex, Transkei are not consistent with derivation...although the Cu-rich ores of the Noril’sk-Talnakh district, Russia could have evolved through a complex sequence...Transkei (LIGHTFOOT et al., 1984), Noril’sk-Talnakh district, Russia (DUZHIKOV and DISTLER, 1992; CZAMANSKE...assemblages of the Sudbury district, Canada (NALDRETT et al., 1982; LI et al., 1992), Insizwa Complex, EXPERIMENTAL...mss (Table 3) and stoichiometry close to that of cubanite (CuFe&). In polished section, it is isotropic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
went through the Norwegian fjords and took a North Cape trip, of which he had many pictures showing the...Griqualand and Pondoland. Trans. Geol. Sac. So. Africa, vol. 39, pp. 186 189, 1937. Neun: In honor of...and KCN negative. Occunnnnca: Associated with cubanite, sperryiite, gaiena, chalcopyrite, blende, pentlandite...frorn dumps at Waterfall Gorge, fnsizwa, associated with sperrylite, chalcopyrite, cubanite and several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extremities of one of the ore-bodies in the Sudbury district, Ontario. Obtained in crystalline masses by fusing...Although the original description of parkerite from South Africa (Scholtz, 1936) is too indefinite to permit...a new nickel sulphide from the nickel oresof South Africa. A closercomparison of the properties of the...native bismuth, bismuthinite, tetradymite, hessite, cubanite, maucherite, niccolite, sperrylite, and gold,...Griqualand and Pondoland, South Africa. Limited material from waterfall Gorge, Insizwa, studied in Ziirich
Book (edition)
various Cu-Fe-S-phases (e.g., chalcopyrite bornite, cubanite, and others) in a bi-directional redox reaction...Penroseite polysynthetic Carrollite Cosalite yes Cubanite Shandite yes Diaphorite Isocubanite yes Bravoite...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür);...grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1986), O'Toole, Brazil (Marehetto, 1990), Waterfall Gorge, Pondoland (Tischler et al., 1981), Ivrea-Verbano...melonite, hessite, arsenopyrite and cobaltite, cubanite, and galena (Cabri and Laflamme, 1981). Thompson...striking northeast and plunging steeply to the south. Mine workings include the T-1 and T-3 underground...whereas the T-3 mine and the open pit are on the eastern limb (Fig. 2). The locus of the Ni sulphide ore...of about 5 kin, with local concentrations along the southern portion of the eastern limb of the fold, around
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contaminated by LIL and LRE elements derived from local greywacke-slate turbidites (Peltonen, submitted)...whole-rock chemistry is proposed. Regional and local geology The Fennoscandian (formerly known as Baltic)...north (Nironen, 1989) and probably also to the south. The areal extent of moderate gravity anomaly maxima...VNiB and in particular around the Vammala Mining District, are best depicted as boudins, lenses or pipes...ultimate source of the LIL and LRE elements were local Svecofennian greywackeslate turbidites. The mechanism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxidation product of eosphorite, from Karibib, SW. Africa, has a 13"32, b Io"497, c 6.969 A,/3 90 ~ 22',...Massive sulphides at Mooihoek Farm, Lydenburg District, Transvaal, include a chalcopyrite-yellow orthorhombic...pyrrhotine ore from the Insizwa deposit, Waterfall Gorge, Pondoland, South Africa, are cubic with a 6"625/~...contact of quartz and native bismuth at Sokhondo, eastern Transbaikal. Named to follow joseite B (Peacock...prisms with zincian chalybite from Tsumeb, SW. Africa, have a IO.4i , b II'95, c 9"86 A, ~ II3.9 ~ /3
Book
1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees 6.3.3. Anorogenic metamorphism and intraplate...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic
Book
Bushveld chromite–platinum group metals (PGMs), South Africa, Sudbury nickel–copper, Canada, and a few new...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including Australia)...Earth’s element family. The working deposits in South Africa and Russia are by far the largest for the PGM...significant in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa, Brazil, New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia...Caribbean. The largest chromite deposits are in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Finland, and
Book
contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also found...forming the sulphides pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and cubanite. Skeletal ilmenite proves the nature of the process...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits
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;
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the price of Pt...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or...platinum-group minerals (PGM) beginning with a South African publication (Cabri, 1972) and culminating...of PGE deposits, ranging from the very important South African deposits to less well-developed PGE mineralization
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...Isotope Studies on the Platreef SHEBA’S RIDGE, EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX EAST BULL LAKE INTRUSIVE SUITE...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg...Chemical and Suspended Metallurgical Society of South Africa. Journal: vol. 1, 1894-date. October, 1899-May
Book
Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
Journal (volume)
The Keivitsa intrusion (age 2057 Ma) is located south of the Koitelainen intrusion. Isotopic (Sm-Nd, S-isotopes...east of Koitelainen hill. Photo by TM. A2: View south of Lakijänkä towards Koitelainen fell 5 6 Geological...forests of the southern part of Satovaara hill (eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara complex) was stripclear-cut...only by accident, as in the periglacial landslide gorge at Bonanza. Unfortunately, such rocks include chromitites...Koitelainen intrusion, on the eastern slope of Koitelainen hill and through the eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara
Report (issue)
4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C. Composition close...11; Z = 4 521 (Cu/Ni)—Germanson Landing, Omineca district, B.C. (about 80 per cent silver). Pattern similar...On°-Fm3m; a = 3.872; 1333 (Cu/Ni)—Sheep Creek, district, Yukon (ferrian platinum) Z = 4 Kluane Cell...trict, Yukon; East fork of Nansen Creek, Carmacks district, Yukon; and Red Cloud Boulder d(calc.) Soil...Clear Creek, McQuesten district, Yukon (placer); Highet Creek, Mayo district, Yukon (placer); Windpass
Journal (volume)
trends between 1969 andand 2002 in South trends between 1969 2002 in South Finland localisation of the ore...targets), Thompson Ni belt, Canada (1207/31) and Cape Smith belt, Canada (287/27), the fertility analysis......................................... 207 14.5 Cape Smith belt .......................................After the selection of the exploration area or district, ultramafic and mafic intrusions and extrusions...(Noril’sk), to sulphide-bearing pelites (e.g. Kambalda, Cape Smith. Muskox) and black schists. Graphite-bearing
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota,
 
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