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Hemimorphite from
Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hemimorphite
Formula:Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Hopeite
Parahopeite
Tarbuttite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hopeiteā“˜1 photo of Hemimorphite associated with Hopeite at this locality.
Zincolibetheniteā“˜1 photo of Hemimorphite associated with Zincolibethenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hemimorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44332
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44332:0
GUID (UUID V4):3a2dd6d7-17b1-4c4a-9a70-3343e306015c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Tarbuttite Skorpion Mine, LĆ¼deritz District, Namibia T arbuttite, Zn2(PO4)(OH), is...worthy of note: the Kabwe mine in Zambia, the type locality, and the Skorpion mine in Namibia. Both of...Exploration Company that owned the Broken Hill mine, now named Kabwe, and who provided material used to describe...the No. 1 Kopje (hill) deposit at the Broken Hill mine when a tunnel, driven into the hill, intersected...tarbuttite currently known come from the Skorpion mine, located 40 kilometers north of the Orange River
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are formed principally of smithsonite and/or hemimorphite. Three subtypes are recognized: direct-replacement...minerals present are generally smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and sauconite (Fig. 3 and Table...Leadville, United States; 5 = Upper Mississippi Valley district, United States; 6 = Franklin and Sterling Hill...Mississippi Valley-type district, Poland; 16 = Reocin, Spain; 17 = Sardinian Zn-Pb district; Italy; 18 = Larium...Hamman Nā€™BaĆÆls, Algeria; 21 = Zamanti Zn-Pb district, central Turkey; 22 = Angouran, Iran; 23 = Mehdiabad
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
non-sulfide Zn deposits: a reanalysis of the Kabwe Zn-Pb ores (central Zambia) N. MONDILLO1,*, R. HERRINGTON2, A...Editor: Nigel Cook] ABSTR ACT The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (central Zambia) consists of a cluster of mixed sulfide...mineralization, and was carried out on a suite of Kabwe specimens, housed in the Natural History Museum...and W2, and in scarcely detectable amounts in hemimorphite, goethite and hematite. Indium has low concentrations...non-sulfides, Kabwe, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), Zambia. Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the KABWE MINE (ā€œBroken Hillā€) Central Province, Zambia MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...location of Kabwe in Zambia. Prepared by William Besse. Figure 2. Satellite image of the Kabwe mine site, showing... Figure 3. The Kabwe mine site, partially derelict. Michael Brook photo, 2004. T HE CITY OF KABWE, ZAMBIAā€™S...north of Lusaka, the capital (fig. 1). The name Kabwe means ā€œplace of smeltingā€ but refers to the pre-European...in the area (Notebaart and Korowski 1980). The Kabwe lead-zinc deposit was fortuitously discovered in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Turkey), Jabali (Yemen), Cristal (Peru) and Kabwe (Zambia). The petrography of FeO/OH was investigated...ā€œunconventionalā€ metals in FeO/OH (i.e., Cr and Co at Kabwe; Y at Cristal) depending on whether the optimal...optimal pH-Eh conditions are attained. (D) In the Kabwe deposit, FeO/OH records heterogeneous geochemical conditions...Pb hydrous silicates and carbonates, such as hemimorphite, sauconite, smithsonite and cerussite, when...supergene section of deposits. An example is the Apex Mine (Utah, USA), where goethite and hematite contain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(willemite - Zn2SiO4, smithsonite - ZnCO3, hemimorphite - Zn4(Si2O7)(OH)2Ā·H2O, hydrozincite - CR Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6...Ireland, Belgium, Poland, Namibia, Peru, Yemen and Zambia. The data are compared US with Zn isotope compositions...4ā€°). Most of the data observed on willemite, hemimorphite and hydrozincite can be explained with a model...demonstrated that at ambient temperature gahnite, hemimorphite and hydrozincite are amongst the minerals having...either positive or negative fractionations: hemimorphite and hydrozincite would T be isotopically heavier
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Excelsior, Surprise (Lusaka 29 30 31 area, Zambia), Kabwe (Zambia), Berg Aukas and Tsumeb (Namibia); 3. Supposedly...Supposedly supergene deposits: Mumbwa area (Zambia), and Altenberg-Vieille Montagne (Belgium). 32 Textures...statistically 42 inhomogeneous, both at the district and at the deposit scale: high-T willemite from...formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the new mineral...are Vazante (Brasil), Beltana (Australia), Kabwe (Zambia) 79 and Berg Aukas and Abenab (Namibia). These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relevant results have been obtained on a batch of Kabwe specimens from the NHM Ores collection, and on drillcore...Cristal (BongarĆ”) prospect in Peru. Kabwe (=Broken Hill, Zambia) is a carbonate-hosted Znā€“Pb sulphide...supergene environment: smithsonite, cerussite, hemimorphite, sauconite, pyromorphite, Pb-vanadates and Fe-oxy-hydroxides...samples contain high amounts of goethite and hemimorphite. Whole rock chemical analyses and laser ablation...Fe-oxy-hydroxides from the two deposits have shown that Ge at Kabwe is only hosted in willemite, and not in typical
Report (issue)
318(8) c = 5.031(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kabwe, Zambia. (ICDD 37-465). 4.568 (100), 2.853 (65), 9.12...16.1 (2) 30.98 53.29 15.73 Total 100.0 (1) Kabwe, Zambia. (2) Zn3 (PO4 )2 ā€¢ 4H2 O. 100.00 P2 O5 ZnO...Association: Tarbuttite, hemimorphite, spencerite, smithsonite, vanadinite (Kabwe, Zambia); triphylite, ferrisicklerite...robertsite, hydroxylapatite, sphalerite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA). Distribution: Found at Vieille...Vieille Montagne (Altenberg), Moresnet district, Belgium. In Germany, at Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract A reanalysis of the Kabwe Zn-Pb nonsulphide ore (central Zambia): preliminary results N. Mondillo1...Federico II, Napoli, Italy The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit, in central Zambia, was discovered in 1902 and mined...235 t Cd and 64 t Cu were extracted from the Kabwe mine during its lifespan, leaving 1.9 Mt of Zn-silicate...question, we decided to conduct a reanalysis of the Kabwe ores, speciļ¬cally focusing on the particular behaviour...here the ļ¬rst results from the study of a batch of Kabwe ores specimens, Ā© 2016 Institute of Materials,
Report (issue)
276(5) Ī± = 93ā—¦ 250 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kabwe, Zambia. (ICDD 24-1461). 7.53 (100), 2.981 (80), 4.44...53.29 15.73 Total 100.2 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Kabwe, Zambia. (2) Reaphook Hill, Australia; by electron microprobe...hydrothermal mineral deposits. Association: Hemimorphite, tarbuttite, hopeite, scholzite, spencerite...pyromorphite. Distribution: From Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Hudson Bay mine, Salmo, and on the Oxide... Cumbria; in the Turf Pits mine, Grassington Moor, and the Cockhill mine, Bewerley, northern Yorkshire
Report (issue)
102ā—¦ 510 Ī² = 102ā—¦ 460 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kabwe, Zambia. (ICDD 36-410). 6.17 (100), 2.058 (30), 2.782...67.05 3.71 Total 99.6 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Kabwe, Zambia; corresponds to Zn1.98 (PO4 )0.99 (OH)1.02 ...zinc-bearing deposits. Association: Hopeite, hemimorphite, smithsonite, parahopeite, hydrozincite, scholzite...From Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Lueca vanadium mines, Angola. From the Kef Semmah mine, near...Hudson Bay mine, Salmo, British Columbia, Canada. At an undefined locality in Guangdong Province, China.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
willemite prospects of the Zambezi Metamorphic Belt (Zambia) Maria Boni & Rosario Terracciano & Giuseppina...The most important orebodies are located around Kabwe and contain both sulphides and willemite in dolomites...willemite showings in Zambia may be part of a much bigger, and still unexplored, zinc province. Keywords Willemite...Willemite . Zn-spinels . Zambia . Hypogene/ Hydrothermal Introduction Many carbonate-hosted nonsulphide...West, Namibia, ca. 3.5 Mt @ 15ā€“25% Zn; Kabwe and Star Zinc, Zambia, ca. 13 Mt @ 20ā€“25% Zn; and Beltana,
Report (issue)
c = 15.0257(22) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kabwe, Zambia. 2.760 (100), 3.55 (50), 1.703 (45), 2.327 (25)...0.07 (2) 35.10 64.90 Total 100.26 (1) Aachen district, Germany. (2) ZnCO3 . 100.00 CO2 ZnO MgO CaO...constitute an ore. Association: anglesite. Hemimorphite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite... Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals at Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. Abundant in fine specimens with large...Pennsylvania; in the Joplin district, Jasper Co., Missouri; from the Rush Creek district, Marion Co., Arkansas;
Report (issue)
99.92 99.31 (1) MoraĢvicza, Romania. (2) Arakawa mine, Japan; corresponds to (Cu1.77 Zn1.24 )Ī£=3.01 (PO4...mineral Association: Pseudomalachite, malachite, hemimorphite, pyromorphite, kipushite, vauquelinite, libethenite...libethenite, quartz, iron oxides (Kipushi mine, Congo); hemimorphite, malachite, aurichalcite, brochantite...Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Hisaichi...Hisaichi (Arakawa) mine, Akita Prefecture, and the Kamioka mine, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In the USA, large
Book
.^aU I i GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA SIMPLIFIED ,J^ljTangonyiko LEGEND ā–” 200 M^Iq"... In the same series A guide to the Insects of Zambia Elliot Pinhey and Ian Loe A guide to the National...DWoecraite of Zambia by GERALD COORAY, PhD, DIC, FGS Professor of Geology, University of Zambia and ANDREW...PhD Formerly Lecturer in Geology, University of Zambia colour illustrations by GOODFELLOW PHIRI Group...rocks Industrial minerals Outline of the Geology of Zambia 34 14 Radioactive minerals METALLIC MINERALS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Vazante, Brazil, ca. 28.5 Mt @ 18% Zn; Kabwe and Star Zinc, Zambia, ca. 13 Mt @ 20 to 25% Zn; Berg Aukas... such as cerussite, anglesite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite etc., which clearly represent...processes, by comparison with similar ores occurring in Zambia (e.g., Star Zinc, Sweeney et al., 1991). The economically...18Ā°15ā€²36Źŗ E (Cairncross, 1997). The ore grade of the mine averaged Fig. 3. Simplified paragenetic sequence...surface, but was mined only to a depth of 600 m. The mine ceased operation in 1978. The Berg Aukas deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consists mostly of smithsonite, hydrozincite, and hemimorphite; some exotic species of interest to mineral...Smithsonite Hydrozincite Franklinite Gahnite Hemimorphite Sauconite Fraipontite Willemite Zincite ZnCO3...Furthermore, there are additional nongeologic resources in mine dumps, flotation tailings, and smelter residues...Km Dublin Irish District London Berlin Brussels Warsaw La Calamine Polish District Paris Vienna Alpine...Alpine District Reocin Madrid Rome Thassos Cartagena Iglesias District Athens Laurion FIG. 1. Location
Report (issue)
c = 11.208(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Hudson Bay mine, Canada. (ICDD 35-631). 9.34 (100), 3.491 (50),...60.34 13.35 Total 99.96 100.00 ā€¢ (1) Hudson Bay mine, Canada. (2) Zn4 (PO4 )2 (OH)2 3H2 O. Occurrence:...Association: Hemimorphite, hopeite, smithsonite, cerussite. Distribution: Found in the Hudson Bay mine, about...Kootenay district, British Columbia, Canada. At Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Turf Pits mine, Grassington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals...crystals that vary from relatively dark blue near the central part or base of the group progressively to a paler...including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A good discussion...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale blue rosettes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include Padaeng in Thailand (supergene smithsonite-hemimorphite) with original reserves of 4.59 Mt at a grade...many similarities to Vazante in Brazil and Kabwe in Zambia (Hitzman et al., 2003). Beltana is one of a...31Ėš15ā€™S Callanna Beds (Diapir) Mt Painter Province X Mine (willemite) Willemite deposits Other mineral...Callanna Beds Willemite occurrence na oo Ar X N Mine (willemite) 1000 m t ul Fa 6608000N Reliance...drill traverses at and along strike of the Beltana mine (96 holes, 15,159 m) and at Reliance, which is situated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minor occurrences in the wider Rosh Pinah ore province was investigated and is compared with that of...calculated l2- and x2-values for the Rosh Pinah ore province (around 10.2 and 42, respectively) are higher...V (Wartha and Genis 1992). The Rosh Pinah ore province has become famous for the Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb sulphide...Otavi Mountain Land (OML) and the Rosh Pinah ore province (RP) known reserves (Borg et al. 2003; Wartha...Luļ¬lian Arc (Central African copperbelt of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia), where the ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association consists mainly of smithsonite and hemimorphite replacing both primary ore minerals and carbonate... B) 2009 VOL 118 NO 1 21 Abstracts Hemimorphite occurs in two generations: early and late diagenetic...host rock. Additionally, sauconite replaces hemimorphite and smithsonite deposited in earlier diagenetic...weathering of K-feldspars, but it occurs locally as hemimorphite and smithsonite (very rarely). In small quantities...prospects. In the Accha-Yanque belt, smithsonite and hemimorphite represent the most easily leachable phases that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0.084 13.6 13.60 South Africa Mapochs Mine Rhovan Mine 1.5 0.52 1.5 1.06 1.60 Generally, VTM...(PO4 )2 (OH)4 Willemite Zn2 SiO4 Silicate - Hemimorphite Zn4 Si2 O7 (OH)2 Ā·H2 O Chrysocolla (Cu2āˆ’x Alx...elements [37,38]. For example, the Broken Hill Plant (Zambia) extracted cadmium as by-product from the hydrometallurgical...vanadate ore from Abenab West Mine, Namibia. After the closure of the Berg Aukas Mine and stoppage of the flotation...mined in commercial quantities in Spain, Namibia, Zambia, USA, Mexico, and Argentina [59,60]. The major
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur dā€™Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS...are reported, as are those of apatite, galena, hemimorphite, hinsdalite, plumbogummite, and vauquelinite...species can include cerussite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, anglesite, malachite, leadhillite, descloizite...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton...Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once
 
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