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Chalcotrichite from
Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite var: Chalcotrichite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteⓘ27 photos of Chalcotrichite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Copperⓘ20 photos of Chalcotrichite associated with Copper at this locality.
Malachiteⓘ2 photos of Chalcotrichite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Chalcotrichite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcotrichite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:673611
Long-form Identifier:1:3:673611:8
GUID (UUID V4):c9217623-ce01-4e2b-a6b5-0d126da840f3
References
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AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...forms that they appear rounded. The variety chalcotrichite is well known to collectors as felted masses...(so-called chalcotrichite) was formerly found in beautiful specimens” at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg...Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Minor chalcotrichite is reported from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals...the Allouez mine, Keweenaw County; good cuprite crystals have been found in the Indiana mine, and cuprite
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with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County.
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Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W.... Image courtesy of the Tsumeb Museum, Tsumeb, Namibia. Tsumeb: The Legacy of Wilhelm Klein (1889–1939)...edu ERNST A. SCHNAITMANN PO Box 9561 Eros, Windhoek Namibia eschnaitmann@gmail.com Dr. Malcolm Southwood...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The...Herr Wilhelm Klein, a senior manager at the Tsumeb mine, and his subject was “Die Mineralien der Tsumeber
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Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
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[(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand region, near Johannesburg...chemical processing. Large quantities of silver, in the farm of chlorides and bromides, are consumed in the photographic...century. Its thatched 3 Native Gold on Quartz Grace Mine, Ontario/Canada Original size 19 x 30 mm Isometric...in 1849, as did the discoveries in the Klondike region, Yukon River, Alaska. Only 2 years later, in 1851
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cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...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...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
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Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL... Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür); PPL D Fine-grained
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
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(Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor: Helen de Villiers Editor and indexer: Tina Mössmer Project...Republic, 6 cm). Figure 1.2 Halite crystals (Namibia, 5.8 cm). 6 section devoted to the display of...(field of view 8 cm). Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). 7 microscopes, or...78 Pt 82 Pb 81 Tl 84 Po 83 Bi 85 At 86 Rn 235 198 169 144 134 130 128 126 127 130 134 149 148 147...in groups 8–12, show marked deviation. In this region of the Periodic Table, electronegativity increases
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Engineering ii ABSTRACT The Kansanshi Cu-(Au) mine exploits a structurally controlled deposit hosted...southern Africa. It is currently the largest active Cu mine in Africa, with a total endowment of nearly 12 Mt...Kansanshi antiform. The deposit occurs within the Domes region of the Central African Copperbelt, where amphibolite...Domain is separated from the overlying Kansanshi Mine domain by the Evaporitic Sequence, a >300 m thick...of vanished evaporites. The base of the Kansanshi Mine domain is represented by the Dolomitic Sequence
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stand out in host rock The Pendleton Quarry by Helen Serras-Herman calcite collecting near Indianapolis...BRACE-THOMPSON MARC DAVIS SCOTT EMPEY BOB RUSH HELEN SERRAS-HERMAN STEVE VOYNICK Regular Contributors...always been a bit of a rockhound, growing up on a farm in the foothills of North Carolina. Beautiful rocks...specimen from the Republic of Congo. (Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi District) August 2015 I live in Arizona...Arizona has been a cornucopia of copper species. The mine at Ajo was found thanks to “copper bloom”, bright-green
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The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the...surrounded on all sides (ex­ Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by...of rare mineral to rise. Who knows how long the mine will continue to operate? species at Tsumeb. In...African Consulate-General.) ,Okakarara^ Usakos i WINDHOEK| IGAME RESERVE\IWILDRESERVAA T Rehoboth /TSWANALAND
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should be of specimens from localities within the region of that museum, or at least from the country concerned...acquisitions, pseudomorphs, and minerals from Tsumeb, Namibia. On the whole, the lighting and labelling are good...Tsumeb, Namibia Grube Wolf, Herdorf, FRG Alston Moor, Cumberland, GB Tsumeb, Namibia Tsumeb, Namibia Tsumeb...Tsumeb, Namibia Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony, GD R Christian-Levin, Essen, FRG Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining
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......... 247 WULFENITE—from level 4 of the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The specimen was collected...FM contacted in early June, and in nearly every Region there Members, If you don’t speak up, your publication...their help, and their country, where a change in mine ownership has also response has been wonderful....Individuals who have con­ sometimes meant a change in mine name. How many sented to serve as members of this... VIOLARITE FROM N IIH tlf A L u ■THE GAP NICKEL MINE by J. A. Speer and E. C. M artin Virginia Polytechnic
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cm high calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic...cm high calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic...acute. This 6. 1 cm wide specimen from Tsumeb, Namibia is in the collection of Francis Benjamin. Photo...largest crystal is 4.3 cm long) is from the Droujba mine in Laki, a small town set in Bulgaria 's Rhodope...most dramatic examples have come from the Elmwood mine near Carthage in Smith County, Tennessee, a locality
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.................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite...1121 B.C. There in 1973 a 3,000-year-old copper mine with smelting facilities was discovered on Mt. Verdigris
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Sherman Avenue, Meriden, CT 06450, USA Phone: 203-235-5467 • WA N T E D : Exceptional Azurite and Cuprite...calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...(samples of these crystals from kimberlites of this region were kindly submitted to the author by Yana Bao...reveal the rubies. Our field crew worked in this region in 1986 and suggested that the geologists use an...as visible aggregates which are of interest fora region-mineralogical collection (crystals, dtuses of crystals
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...really is a matter of life or death when you are in a mine - only a plan will show where water on the floor...even on you. If you are recovering specimens from a mine (few collectors can or should do this) watch the
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dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well...I (Gustav Vasa). The last active iron and copper mine, Biickegruvan, was closed by its owner, Fagerstabruk...district one of the oldest in Sweden. Though the mine was mainly worked for iron ore, copper ore production...important for the gun-making foundries. The Falu mine in the northern Bergslagen area was Europe's most...copper was accounted for by the Falu 188 copper mine. During this time, production at the Riddarhyttan
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Tsumcb, Namibia and Chessy. France. Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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Tsumeb, Namibia and Chessy, France. Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
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Rhodesia, and S.W. Africa: Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, respectively. However, although Madagascar is...and pressure conditions in a most clearly seen region may in rise greatly over a period of time....natural or synthetic but also to indicate the very mine from which it came! Inclusions are the most powerful...1 -20.2 7.9/2.1 8.4 4. 4. Beryl Aquamarine Mine, Brazil dark blue dark blue antique Brazil medium...Brazil Africa cut cut Colombia Colombia Chivor Mine, 8B 3.7/2.3 5PB 5.3/2.8 8. 2B 7.9/2.7 2. 6PB 6
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San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico. A mineral wholesaler who held the lease to this mine during its most...ineral deposits or occurrences within the state or region. Any serious collector should have at least the...INTRODUCTION T he Lavra Jabuti is an old garim po (mine) which has been worked over the years for industrial...and green gem tourm aline. It is an under­ ground mine, worked through tunnels, and the feldspars are largely...wodginite, cassiterite, and tapiolite from the Jabuti mine, Baixio, Brazil FeO 4.68 MnO MgO 1. Wodginite*
 
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