 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 22:02 07 January 2015 Goboboseb Mountains Brandberg Region, Namibia BRUCE CAIRNCROSS Department...collected in the past few decades in the Brandberg region, Namibia. Excellent quartz specimens display a...forms that add to the appeal of specimens from the area. The quartz is well known for its luster, clarity...interest in the minerals of Namibia, particularly from Erongo and the Brandberg region. 442 ROCKS & MINERALS...2001). The Brandberg Mountain is no exception. It is an imposing feature in central Namibia where it is |  | | Report (issue) | | variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains, Erongo Region, Namibia Scott Rudolph collection, Jeff...important amethyst source emerged in the Auvergne region in south-central France, approximately corresponding...scepters Onyang, South Korea Nekemte, Ethiopia Brandberg, Namibia Cavities in iron-skams up to and exceeding...drinking water reservoirs in the world, covers an area of about 1 million square kilometers. During the...the southern Atlantic Ocean opened and the coastal area was strongly uplifted to form the Serra Geral and |  | | Book | | AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 . :~~..,-::__ ::...,.;_...Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...The Central Escarpment- The Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275 |  | | Report (chapter) | | equivalents of the main Kudu gas reservoir in Namibia I. G. S T A N I S T R E E T 1 & H . S T O L L H...Kudu gas reservoir ('Lower Gas Sand') offshore Namibia, interleaved with undated flood basalts, is a prime...fluvio-aeolian Etjo Sandstone, with a central Namibian type area, and comparisons have been made, particularly with...Sandstone, near the Etendeka Plateau base in northwest Namibia, now recognized to be of younger age. We time-correlate...Early Jurassic Kalkrand flood basalts of southern Namibia, situated onshore almost directly opposite the |  | | Journal (issue) | | some localities in the copper, lead, barite mining area in the hills to the south-east of Pontesbury. The... brown calcite crystals, chalcocite and lovely gypsum micro-crystals. Though a shade disappointing from...our parking lot just 50 yards from the collecting area - what service! Geologically, this roadstone quarry...from the Copper Valley mine, Mesopotamia 504, Namibia, consisting of small but very aesthetic blue-green...tuperssuatsiaite from the Aris quarry, South Windhoek, Namibia, both showing exquisite tufts of very dark green |  | | Book | | mineral and lapidary society located in a mineral-poor area. However, this book reflects the very successful...Goanikontes Claim, Araandis, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region, Namibia. Photo: John Hall CALCITE, 15mm crystal...many overseas field trips; to Europe, Siberia, Namibia, the USA & Canada and the Faroe Islands. Practical...olivine, 'leopard ore' (8cm across). Troodos mountains, Cyprus. I must have visited the island about...mine, Northern Macedonia. A site in a sensitive area close to the Kosovo border. I was studying the arsenic |  | | Journal (issue) | | over rough terrain in three 4 x 4 vehicles in Namibia in July. We slept above the ground on camp beds.................................. LANZAROTE TO NAMIBIA: Olivine to Shattuckite Plus our advert appeared...were organised , one to Lanzarote the other to Namibia in south-west Africa. Lanzarote is well known to...world: Hungary, Romania, France, Russia, India, Namibia, Madagascar and China... not to mention specialists...the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Windhoek, Namibia and apart from studying or working in Cuba, Czechoslavakia |  | | Book | | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during |  | | Catalog/List | | CATHEDRAL – MATCHED PAIR Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil This organically shaped Amethyst geode... 38004 AMETHYST & FELDSPAR Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia The size as well as the presence...the ‘True’ Brandberg and as such, is considerably rarer than Amethyst from nearby Tafelkop, commonly referred...referred to as “Brandberg Amethyst’. The colorless Quartz prisms gradually become violet and finally...another tipoff that this piece is not from the Tafelkop. There are occasional green ‘phantom’ inclusions |  | | Catalog/List | | on the button marked “Place Absentee Bid.” A new area on the same page will open up for you to enter your...of the world’s wild sheep. Living in the Bamou Mountains of Iran it is lightly hunted. This mount is a...Urial. This cross occurs naturally in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran and in the Kavir Desert of north-central...Hemitragus jemlahicus Living in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, the tahr can demonstrate remarkable...Greater Kudu, this species lives in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and tends to be brighter in color |  | | Book (edition) | | Bulgaria, G SphaJerite. xx 12 mm, Morococha, Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5...ability of an opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho-...only about distance from a better known town in the area but also about the administrative regional units...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Reference Mineral Description and Feel 1 Tale 2 3 Gypsum Calcite 4 5 6 Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase a...fingers Scratched easily with the fingernail, as gypsum Just scratched by a copper coin, but not normally...Huantaya(*), Chanarcillo(*), and Chanca, Chile; Tsumeb, Namibia. BM DI:96, R:313, P&J:71, ABI:475. 1.1.1.3 Copper...Broken Hill mine, Zambia; Onganja mining district, Namibia. Andacolla, near Coquimbo, and Chuquicamata, Chile;...nm); weakly anisotropic. Bolshoi Anyui R.., Kolyma region, Russia, in gold-bearing alluvium. sm MZ 11(4):88(1989) |  | | Book | | cause it has a meaning in more than one subject area, an abbreviated notation of the particular subject...an orthorhombic or triclinic crystal, ablation area The part of a glacier or snowfield in which, over...c below the equilibrium line. Cf: accumulation area. Syn: zone axis. of ablation. a axis [struc petrol]...solution breccia. ablation exceeds accumulation; the region which is the direction of maximum displacement...tion till, either overlying ice in the ablation area, or resting on abapertural Away from the aperture |  | | Book | | ordinary hyphen is not appropriate, eg e variable-area display mode: veranderlikeoppervlakte-afbeeldingsmodus...context indicator, appear in a specific contextual area in the Dictionary. In such cases the same context...regte) abandoned : verlate (bv delta) abandoned area : verlate gebied abandoned channel : verlate kanaal...ablasie (gletserkunde en geomorfologie) ablation area : ablasiegebied (aletserkunde) ablation breccia...accumulation : opgaring (bv van olie) accumulation area ese (gletserkunde) accumulation mountain (mountain |
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