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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnesite
Formula:MgCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cattierite1 photo of Magnesite associated with Cattierite at this locality.
Siegenite1 photo of Magnesite associated with Siegenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnesite 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:363075
Long-form Identifier:1:3:363075:4
GUID (UUID V4):4178c389-8bb3-40f0-840e-08f1d63fed2f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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)
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
Book
INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise...REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi 11°- Shinkolobwe Luishia...26° LEGEND post-Katangan granite (520 Ma) major mine or deposit post-Katangan cover city Nguba and...Solwezi dome westward to the Kabompo dome. The Shinkolobwe and Swambo U-(Ni) deposits occur between the...metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; Derriks and Vaes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
knownonlyin theShabanprovinceof ZaYre, asat Shinkolobwe, andin theZambianCopperbelt. A surveyby AGIP...Uranium in the Shaban and as it includes the Shinkolobwe mine (Derricks and Vaes, 1956; Derricks and Oosterbosch...Zambian Copperbelt Areas T•F• depositionof the Katanga system,mainly of marine origin, beganbetween840...sequenceis subdividedfrom bottom sompi,Swambo,and Shinkolobwe(Fig. 2). Copperto top into the Roan, Mwashya...upto 1,000m thick, and a predominantly Mashitu, Kambove, Luishya, and many other localdolomiticUpperRoansubgroup
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shales FOLDBEL • • were deposited. Sedimentary magnesite (McGregor, 1960) and solutionbrecciasare widespread...Major Thrust Fault KAMATANDA MinorThrustFault SHINKOLOBWE SHITURU KENGERI \ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent...payablehorizonsis locallyvery large. In the Mufulira mine in Zambiamineralizationis presentin 21 distinctlithologicalunits...hostthe stratiformdeposits The uranium-dominated Shinkolobwe deposit is at the surface or at a depth accessibleto...and truncation planes described from the Mufulira mine (Garlick and Fleischer, 1972) can also be explained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contrasting fluid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky a,⁎, Philippe...Groupe Forrest International, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Post-entrapment reequilibration a b s t r a c t The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known...samples from the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene...least two main hypogene Cu–Co sulfide phases in the Katanga Copperbelt. The first is an early diagenetic typical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in this manner were Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada; Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia; and, probably...probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...generation of formation than the pitchblende. The Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire produced a few very large, to...Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. bismuth, and...Czechoslovakia; Great Bear L a k e in Canada; the Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire; and the deposits at Cornwall
Book
Dolomite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Artinite - Hydro­ magnesite Sulphur Native Sulphur Pyrite Marcasite Gold Native...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some­ times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...lacking spec­ tacular crystals (giobertite or magnesite) may be found in large masses and serve as a magne­...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the...some remarkably beautiful specimens are the royal mine at Konsberg (Norway), which has now been abandoned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whose complete solid solution with isostructural magnesite, MgCO3, is described here for the first time....the Copperbelt found Co-rich dolomite, Co-rich magnesite, spherocobaltite, and kolwezite. Cobalt-rich dolomite...crystals filling void spaces. Members of the magnesite-spherocobaltite solid solution occur as crystals...Central African Copperbelt mines. Keywords: magnesite, spherocobaltite, Co-rich dolomite, Copperbelt...Tenke-Fungurume, D.R. Congo Przibram, Bohemia Peramea, Spain Durango, Colorado Kakanda, D.R. Congo Mashamba West
Report (issue)
in the Athabasca Formation.......28 Northern Territory.................................................mineralogy........................................76 Shinkolobwe................................................Saskatchewan.............53 22. Geology of the Rossing mine area...............................55 iii Illustrations...cross section of Verna and Fay orebodies, Eldorado mine...................................................temperature and & 0 in hydrothermal fluids, Fay mine................................................
Report (volume)
(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through...urani urn minerals first discovered in the Belgian Congo. The work of the American mineralogist C. Palache...occurs in hydrothermal veins, as in the Belgian Congo. The relation between the names uraninite and pitchblende
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
Book
distiict, Colo. (Sims, 1955). Noted in Belgian Congo pitchblende are Pb, Fe, Co, Ni, 1'1o, and Se. Uraninite...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...weighing 20 tons have been found in the Katanga, Belgian Congo,· deposits. Single euhedral to subhedral...deposits; cubes in vugs at Shinko]obvve, Belgian Congo, and partial cubes in veins of some deposits in...Lake, Canada; Joachimsthal, Bohemia; Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo. Somevvhat siinilarly in the Sn deposits
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... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
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
Catalog/List
Excellent rich reddish mass with minor Likasi. Congo (Zaire) Malachite - - - - . --·- . Red brown blades...lxl £8 rich orange coatiing on matrix Moon Anchor Mine,Maricopa ½" £5 Pb Zn CrO SiO F County,_ Arizona...Violet micro crystals on I cm white matrix Fuka Mine. Oicchu-cho, 1cm £8 Ca y11 ~ Q~l__. __ . .. ~a\Vll~mi~gu...Greenish-yellow . relatively rich coating on Moon Anchor Mine. Mariposa 5mm £4 I cm £8 . _P~_Cu_qll(As__~) 011...Russia ½" £7 K Mn Nb Ti SiO OOH -- - ----Lucky Cuss Mine, lxl £8 lx2 £20 479 QUEITITE Many small white blades
Report (issue)
accident in the search for copper in the Belgian Congo, for cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories...Goldfields area, Saskatchewan, Canada; the Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Zafre; and the medium-sized deposits...Joachymov, Czechoslovakia, and at Schwartzwalder mine, Colorado, U.S.A.). Uranium deposits have been found...pi anat ion). 19 Symbol: Name: 1AVM Midnite mine, Stevens County, 80 kilometers northwest of Spokane...Peters lease (or Northwest Uranium mine, also known as the Sherwood mine), Stevens County, Washington, U
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...109, 111 lithiophilite 65 ludwigite 5/7, 53 magnesite 38, 38 magnetite 23, 24 malachite 47, 48 malacon...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...liroconite 74 lithiophilite 65 ludwigite 5/, 53 magnesite 38, 38 magnetite 23, 24 malachite 47, 48 malacon...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...University of Arizona, I quickly discovered that Dr. John Anthony’s mineralogy and crystallography classes...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken
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(
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(NH) London 110/111. 114/115;Kivimuseo Helsinki 74; Dr. Olaf Medenbach 18, 35; Naturhistorisches Museum...Daily, from 9.30-12.30 and from 13.30-16.30 hrs. Free Dr S. Wartel Open Admission Curator Historical Notes...hrs from 16th October to 15th March Free Dr J. Delhal and Dr M. Deliens Notes A temporary "Palace of...Brussels World Exhibition. Building work on the Congo Museum began in 1904, to accommodate collections...opened by King Albert I (1875-1934). After the Congo gained independence in 1960, the interests of the
 
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