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Jeremejevite from
Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Jeremejevite
Formula:Al6(BO3)5(F,OH)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Schorl2 photos of Jeremejevite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Smoky Quartz2 photos of Jeremejevite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Foitite1 photo of Jeremejevite associated with Foitite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Jeremejevite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (55 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:387174
Long-form Identifier:1:3:387174:4
GUID (UUID V4):4c3e4817-5b25-4415-a567-625c518905ee
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Erongo Mountains, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....cm, with schorl and feldspar, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Desmond Sacco collection; Bruce Cairncross...on the mineralogical treasures of the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. Uli’s financial support made possible...Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Tsumeb, Southwest Africa (Namibia). He had a mini-van-like truck loaded with minerals...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: g{x Erongo Mountains Namibia Bruce Cairncross Department of Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
36 STEIN 3-2013 Trip Report från Namibia turen 2012 Av Lennart Borg, Foto: Gunnar Jenssen Från Arlanda...dolomit, falköga, fenakit, götit, hyalinopal, jeremejevite, kalcit, kvarts (dolphiné, faire=grå spirit...kring nästa dag, då vi skulle passera gränsen mot Namibia, och började prata om pass. En av oss hade så klart...föreståndaren George på hans kontor. Av honom köpte vi jeremejevite- och ru l kristaller. Hos en tysk familj handlade...mineralbu ker och privata mineralsamlare. Roessing Mountains passerade vi samt Kleine- och Grosse Spitzkoppe
Book
AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 . :~~..,-::__ ::...,.;_...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains The RossingMountains The Central Escarpment- The ...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE ERONGO SUB-VOLCANIC GRANITEMIAROLITIC-PEGMATITE COMPLEX, ERONGO, NAMIBIA ALEXANDER U. FALSTER§...early Cretaceous anorogenic, sub-volcanic Erongo Granite, Namibia, was emplaced into metasedimentary rocks...Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Damaran Orogeny. The Erongo Granite contains pegmatitic miaroles containing...quartz-tourmaline orbicules and the geochemistry of the Erongo Granite. Erongo miarolitic pegmatites are famous for spectacular...schorl, foitite, aquamarine, topaz, fluorite, and jeremejevite. Mineral samples from three areas where artisanal
Journal (issue)
Volume Thirty-three, Number Four Articles Jeremejevite from Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....22/#6 Wagholi cavansite (India), Kombat mine (Namibia), Madan mines (Bulg.),Beltana mine $12 v.23/#1...Seravezza Marble (Italy) $12 v.27/#2 Onganja mine (Namibia), Lac Nicolet mine (Quebec), Afghanite $12 v.27/#3...Platinum (Russia), District! Special Otavi Mtn. Land (Namibia), OUT SOLD Issue $12 Repair & Restoration $12 v...Italian minerals, pegmatite minerals 287 Jeremejevite from Namibia Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
Hemimorphite from Congo • Jeremejevite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia • New morganite mine in Madagascar...encountered in Namibia • Plastic and steel pearl imitations • Gem cutting factories in Namibia • Conference...states were transported by glaciers from a specific region in Canada (the James Bay Lowland; figure 3). Isolated...(Kennady Lake); (14) Dry Bones Bay; (15) Birch Mountains; (16) Buffalo Hills; (17) Mountain Lake ultrabasic...“Indicator lake”; (30) Otish Mountains; (31) Wemindji; (32) Torngat Mountains aillikite dikes; (33) Saglek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Raspite from the Erongo Mountains Figure 1. A view of the Erongo Mountains in Namibia, viewed from the...outcrop is exposed. All photos by Bruce Cairncross Namibia D uring mid-2006, one of us (UB) obtained several...several samples of small crystals from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. The specimens were described as barite... 3) but some are in small vugs imbedded in the Erongo granite matrix (fig. 4). They did not appear to...resemble barite or any other known species from the Erongo (Cairncross and Bahmann 2006), so we analyzed the
Report (issue)
rare, always-popular aluminum borate-fluoride jeremejevite, from a pocket opened late in 2010. For the...the locality Rob gives only “Erongo Mountains, Namibia” but on the Marin Minerals website (cited above)... attributes them to the “Ameib Ranch, Arandis, Erongo 2 ============================================================...==================== Region, Namibia.” This sounds familiar, for jeremejevite crystals resembling these...new tourmaline-group species: apparently the jeremejevite crystals were found as floaters in pocket fillings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, particularly certain species from Tsumeb in Namibia and the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa...shown here for the first time. Examples are from Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania. All the... Reproduced with permission Reproduced with permission Namibia Reproduced with permission Reproduced with permission...mine is located close to the southern border of Namibia and South Africa and has produced outstanding specimens...permission Figure 4. The Okorusu fluorite mine in Namibia was arguably the source of the country’s finest
Report (issue)
Jeremejevite Al6 (BO3 )5 (F, OH)3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal...Russia; by electron microprobe. (2) Cape Cross, Namibia; by electron microprobe, (OH)1− calculated for...Albite, tourmaline, quartz, gypsum (Cape Cross, Namibia). Distribution: Large crystals from Mt. Soktui...Adun-Chilon Mountains, Siberia, Russia. In the Kukurt massif, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan. In Namibia, gem crystals...100 km north of Swakopmund, and from Ameib, Erongo Mountains. At Wannerköpfe and Emmelberg, near Üdersdorf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
73:378-99. POCKET PARAGENESIS OFTHE ERONGO PEGMATITES, NAMIBIA. R. M. Gentry’, M. A. W i d , and R....Place, Alexandria, VA 22304. The Erongo Mountains, located in western Namibia, is an area of recent mining...specimen-grade beryl, tourmaline, topaz, and jeremejevite. These minerals occur in miarolitic cavities...mineralogically simple pegmatites hosted by the Erongo Granite. A suite of minerals acquired from the...pale blue, pale violet, and, rarely, yellow jeremejevite occurs as an extremely rare accessory phase
Catalog/List
the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in the 1970s. You will...village near the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, in South Africa. His love of rock climbing soon...an exciting trip by Land Rover into the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) to visit the...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably...desert-like "Sperrgebiet" area of the southern coast of Namibia, with its fabulous wealth of gem diamonds. One
Journal (issue)
van enkele cm hoog (Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Arusha, Tanzania), dat je had kunnen kopen voor...als Geonieuws 37(10), december 2012 243 Erongo Mountains Mile 72 jeremejewiet. Dit werd later bevestigd...Tubussis en de stad Usakos, aan de zuidkant van het Erongo gebergte. Tijdens de MKA-reis van 2010 naar Namibië...op de kop tikken (en veel ander lekkers uit het Erongo-gebied). MKA-reis naar Namibië 2010. Foto © Rik...Rik Dillen. Rechts : De steile helling van het Erongo gebergte, waar de small scale miners in het harde
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kèshíkèté Qi County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Limpid complex fluorite crystals displaying...coloration. The fluorite mines of the Asturias region, in Spain, have produced some incredibly striking...often at shows as they once were. The Asturias region has three districts that are the most productive...Konrad 1984). Fluorite specimens from the Piemonte region of Italy are little known to most collectors in...(in German) or Krušné Hory (Czech), the Ore Mountains region that straddles the border between Germany
Show/Event (guide)
Frederick A. Canfield 4 4 Minerals from the Erongo Mountain, Namibia by Georg Gebhard 6 3 We warmly welcome...1010+/-7 to 1007+/-4 Ma) in the Hudson Highlands region of New York. Many shear zones with widths of 1-2...Fe-REE), developed in the New York Hudson Highlands region and extend to New Jersey and to Pennsylvania's...Italy 3, Japan 3, Mongolian People's Republic 1, Namibia 1, Norway 2, Peru 1, Republic of South Africa 2...Kommune structure to what is simply Tunu Admistrative Region/East Greenland (Werner Bjerge alkaline complex)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Myanmar; Yichung, China; Brazil; and probably Erongo, Namibia. The pegmatites at Ehrenfriedersdorf, Germany...00/DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2943 minerals found in the region of the Mogok Stone Tract has led to further visits...with pink elbaite; this pegmatite also yielded jeremejevite [Al6(BO3)F3] (Kyaw Thu, personal communication)...Sourcing of elbaite, topaz, beryl, amblygonite, jeremejevite, and fluorite from the herderite localities...phase. The F-rich pegmatite at Davib-Ost farm, Erongo, Namibia yielded a pale-blue herderite phase associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
important gem deposits in Africa (Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia) and Asia (Afghanistan...pegmatite core zone or in the core margin, the region around the core. Typically, only parts of these...“Urals-type” deposits, such as those in the Ural Mountains of Russia, the Kafubu area of Zambia, and the...ct), bicolored pink and blue elbaite tourmaline (Namibia, 9.88 ct), and lilac-pink kunzite spodumene (Madagascar...topaz (China, 375 g), and quartz (smoky quartz, Namibia, 219 g). SPECIMENS COURTESY OF B ILL L ARSON, PALA
Catalog/List
with the parcel. Erongo, Namibia Plumelin,Morbihan.Brit1any, France 182 ■ JEREMEJEVITE single clear crystal...---- ·- ----·-- ---Arnaib Fam. Erongo Mountains, Namibia 861 ■■ JEREMEJEVITE single tem1inated crystal 2...shell-like, light-weight mass about 2x3 inches Tsumeb Namibia £ I 0 1 4. ERYTHRITE pinkish crust on 8mm rock
Journal (issue)
on a mountain-climbing vacation in the remote mountains of Patagonia, the authors stumbled upon a remarkable...South American region known as Patagonia, a barren tableland between the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic...called “the Pampas”—a very rugged and windswept region which nevertheless is home to various flora and...condor, seen mainly amidst the craggy peaks of the mountains. The condor, with a body length of over a meter...in 1985 in order to maintain possession of the region and its tourism income. In the summer months the
Journal (issue)
mine, Ruoqiang County, Bayinguoling Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, China. Ken Donn photo. Azurite “rose...Scovil photo. Prehnite, 13 cm, from Sandare, Kayes Region, Mali. Jeff Scovil photo. 10 Supplement to The...on chrysocolla, 13 cm, from Inca de Oro, Atacama region, Chile. Jeff Scovil photo. Smithsonite, 17 cm...Mottramite, 14 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Goethite, 18 cm, from...Black Widow mine, Cimarron district, Sheridan Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. Joe Philpott collection;
Journal (issue)
fiskeøglen fra Holzmaden? av Edi Hasic Trip Report från Namibia turen 2012 av Lennart Borg Aragoni av Ingulv Burvald...975 11 694 36 STEIN 3-2013 Trip Report från Namibia turen 2012 Av Lennart Borg, Foto: Gunnar Jenssen...dolomit, falköga, fenakit, götit, hyalinopal, jeremejevite, kalcit, kvarts (dolphiné, faire=grå spirit...kring nästa dag, då vi skulle passera gränsen mot Namibia, och började prata om pass. En av oss hade så klart...föreståndaren George på hans kontor. Av honom köpte vi jeremejevite- och ru l kristaller. Hos en tysk familj handlade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pressure and temperature conditions near the critical region of the H2O system (Norton & Dutrow 2001). Fibrous...the 319 Alabashka Pegmatite Field of the Ural Mountains, Russia (Lyckberg & Hawthorne 1997). The pocket...north of the city (e.g., Cassedanne 1983). This region is famous as the locality of the mineral brazilianite...(1983) lists tourmaline from several mines in this region mostly as schorl, but also ‘‘green gem tourmaline’’...cleavelandite and massive pink tourmaline. The Minas Gerais region is home to extensive pegmatites that comprise most
Journal (issue)
the Columbia River. Although the surrounding mountains are heavily timbered, the immediate city area...is moderate compared to that in the adjacent mountains. Butte, a community of about 30,000, sprawls over...the largest stream in an otherwise arid mountain region. By 1867, approximately $1.5 million in gold had...description can be given here. The mineralized region around Butte, Montana, measures about 12 km east-west...lot. The Cohen tungsten mine in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise Co., opened during World War II, had
Journal (issue)
York and Carlsbad More on jeremejevite from Namibia In response to “Jeremejevite: A gemological update”...points about the recent production of jeremejevite from Namibia. From December 1998 to February 2001,...Khan River Mining & Exploration (Pty.) Ltd.’s jeremejevite project at Mile 72 on the Namibian coast (72...fishing campground at Mile 72. The production of jeremejevite from Mile 72 dates back to the 1974 –1976 mining...Windhoek gem and mineral dealer. Facetable blue jeremejevite, like the stones pictured in figure 2 of the
Journal (issue)
Green augelite from Peru • Bicolored beryl from Namibia • Diopside from Afghanistan • California jadeite...distorted region it is refracted or diffused due to the difference in R. I. between that region and the...light. Such haziness may occur in a very small region, but it typically is seen throughout most of the...along slip planes is intense within a very narrow region. When these slip bands are viewed with reflected...bulbs have output in the long-wave ultraviolet region of the spectrum which, on rare occasions, could
 
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