 | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY NAMIBIA 1990 Open File Report MRS 12 2 Abstract Niobium-tantalum mineralisation in Namibia occurs...by-products of Tin-mining operations in central Namibia (Uis, Nainais, De Rust). Prominent niobium-tantalum...pegmatites occur in the Tantalite Valley in southern Namibia and have been mined for a long time on a small...2.2.3.7 Pistelwitz pegmatites 2.2.4 Sandamap - Erongo pegmatite belt 2.2.4.1 Gossow pegmatites 2.2.4...4.8 Davib South 2.2.4.9 Brabant (van der Made, Erongo Schlucht) pegmatite 2.2.4.10 Okawayo pegmatites |  | | Book | | Twyfelfontein 7 AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree ...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits |  | | Report (issue) | | MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NAMIBIA I 1990 Open File Report MRS 05 2 Abstract A...wide variety of semi-precious stones occur in Namibia, namely amazonite, the beryl varieties, chrysocolla...the most important semi-precious stones found in Namibia. The major deposits of these semi-precious stones...Introduction Since the German colonial period Namibia has been well known for the occurrence of semiprecious...throughout Namibia. 1. AMAZONITE The most important occurrences of amazonite in Namibia are those in |  | | Field Trip Notes | | the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia II I -Ā· --Ā· ...... ----Ā·----, Editor: M. Niall...the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia -- - -- .. --- ----ā¢ ā¢ Ā·- ā¢ā¢ -1 Ā· ~. ,. :...DAMARA OROGEN G.LC. Schneider Geological Survey or Namibia, P O Box 2168, Windhoek 1.0 Day 1 - Monday, 22...Windhoek - Otjihase Mine 1.2 08:00 - 12:00 Otjihase Mine 1.3 12:00 - 12:30 Otjihase Mine - Windhoek 1.4 12:30-...16:00 Windhoek-Karibib 1.6 16:00 - 17:00 Capra Hill Marble Quarry 1.8 Overnight: Karibib 3 4 7 7 7 8 9 |  | | Book | | REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries |  | | Book | | .,,., ..,,.... w + ..... . Ā·. .... . - Namibia Zauberwelt edler Steine und Kristalle ooa Dieses...Erdgeschichte 8 Zur Geschichte des Bergbaus in Namibia 17 Der Brandberg und die Mineralfunde in seiner...blaue Wunder vom Erongo - Auf Aquamarin-Jagd im Innern Namibias 72 Miarolen im Erongo-Granit- ein Eldorado...110 Auf Turmalinsuche in Namibia Die Demantoide von Tubussis in Zentral-Namibia 112 116 Sodalith von...Zeolithe vom GrootbergpaĆ in Namibia Kamphaugit-(Y) von der Rƶssing-Mine 120 124 126 136 Das Gahnit-Vorkommen |  | Melcher, Frank, Graupner, Torsten, GƤbler, Hans-Eike, Sitnikova, Maria, Henjes-Kunst, Friedhelm, OberthĆ¼r, Thomas, Gerdes, Axel, Dewaele, Stijn (2015) Tantalumā(niobiumātin) mineralisation in African pegmatites and rare metal granites: Constraints from TaāNb oxide mineralogy, geochemistry and UāPb geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 64. 667-719 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zimbabwe) 4.3.3. Orange River Pegmatite Belt (Namibia, South Africa) AC 4.3.3.1. Radiometric data 4...Radiometric data 4.4.3.2. Mineralogy 4.4.4. Damara Belt (Namibia) 4.4.4.1. Radiometric data 2 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT...Alto-Ligonha Province (Mozambique) 5.4.4. Damara Belt (Namibia) 5.4.5. Older Granites (Nigeria) 5.4.6. Madagascar...and the Tantalite Valley pegmatites (southern Namibia). Large compositional variations through Fe-Mn...Nigeria and some pegmatites in the Damara Belt of Namibia. CGM, AC tapiolite, wodginite and ixiolite accommodate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (mainly Rwanda and the DR Congo), around the Kenticha mine (Ethiopia) and in the Alto Ligonha Province (Mozambique)...and the Tantalite Valley pegmatites (southern Namibia) and Ā Large compositional variations through Fe-Mn...Nigeria and many pegmatites in the Damara Belt of Namibia. Trace element concentrations in CGM and other...Nigeria Rwanda Africa total World mine production % Africa/world Ta mine production 2008 2009 2010 2011...182 83 256 761 976 78 24 132 109 40 70 202 577 799 72 56 161 116 38 78 262 711 874 81 91 176 118 184 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado and Russia. Having trave led oft en in Namibia, I was thrilled to see the recently identified...Mineralien Welt 14(6). p.15) and metanovacekite from the Erongo Complex. (Continues on page 2) Occurrence of Irhtemite...Occurrence of irhtemite and adelite at the Mercur Mine, Tooele Co., Utah; the western hemisph ere's first...specimens. not just the spectacular show pieces. The "Erongo Complexā¢Ā· is huge and you do no t j ust back up...good specime ns do exist. Maybe nex t year ... Namibia had also produced some dioptase specimens from |  | | Report (issue) | | crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite, and phosphates...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite...nothing more of interest seemed to come out of the region until November 2002, when people from around Mandrosonoro...Madagascar to study some pegmatites in the Betafo region. Observing the exceptional tourmaline rough arriving |  | Graupner, T., Melcher, F., GƤbler, H.-E., Sitnikova, M., BrƤtz, H., Bahr, A. (2010) Rare earth element geochemistry of columbite-group minerals: LA-ICP-MS data. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 691-713 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.691 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consideration (e.g. Rongi (Rwanda); Uis (Namibia); Rubikon (Namibia); Hagendorf (Germany)). References are...Homestead pegmatite, Tantalite Valley, Namaqualand, Namibia, Neoproterozoic (Kibaran) in age; (2) the Shori...Western Australia, Australia Volta Grande (Mibra mine), Nazareno, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sao Joao del Rei...Li-F-rich granites, Transbaikalia, Russia Nuweibi albite granite, Eastern Desert, Egypt Bowden and Kinnaird...tantalite-(Mn) G 14, Nkumua mine, Kanzambi, Shabunda, Kivu, DRC Bionga mine, Shabunda, Kivu, DRC Tanco |  | Marquez-Zavalia, M. F., Galliski, M. A., Cerny, P., Chapman, R. (2012) AN ASSEMBLAGE OF BISMUTH-RICH, TELLURIUM-BEARING MINERALS IN THE EL QUEMADO GRANITIC PEGMATITE, NEVADOS DE PALERMO, SALTA, ARGENTINA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (6) 1489-1498 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.6.1489 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Harris 1978). In the same petrogenetic family, the Rubikon and especially the Swartberg pegmatites of southern...(a) is 5 cm thick, fine-grained and composed of albite and quartz, with accessory muscovite, fluorapatite...medium-grained wall zone (b) consists of quartz, albite and muscovite, with accessory tantalite-(Mn), fluorapatite...intermediate zone (c) is composed of K-feldspar, albite, quartz and muscovite, with accessory tantalite-(Mn);...(Windhoek), CD Extended Abstr. (CD-ROM), Geol. Surv. Namibia. Cook, N.J. & Ciobanu, C.L. (2003): Lamellar minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | out is called saprolite. Examples from the Weiss Mine, Germany, show this transition. There are types...landscape shows the well-known Rubikon (Rubicon) Nb/Ta pegmatite in Namibia (Fig. 6f) (Moore, 2000). Episodically...N-S in the area. One of them is made up of the Rubikon pegmatite which extends in NW-SE direction and...USA (80), Volta Grande, Brazil (30), Rubicon, Namibia (60), Manono-Kitolo, DR Kongo (25), Naje, Nepal...valleys and eventually to a dissected peneplain. The region most closely resembling the valley- and plain- |  | Novak, M., Cerny, P., Cempirek, J., Srein, V., Filip, J. (2004) FERROTAPIOLITE AS A PSEUDOMORPH OF STIBIOTANTALITE FROM THE LASTOVICKY LEPIDOLITE PEGMATITE, CZECH REPUBLIC; AN EXAMPLE OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AT CONSTANT Ta/(Ta + Nb) The Canadian Mineralogist, 42 (4) 1117-1128 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.42.4.1117 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Qtz) evolving to (iii) blocky K-feldspar, (iv) an albite unit (Ab + Qtz + MsāLpd + SrlāElb), and (v) a lepidolite...part of the albite-dominant unit. A large crystal of manganocolumbite (~ 2 cm) from an albiteāquartz aggregate...associated with lepidolite in the inner part of albite unit was described by StaneĢk (1973). METHODS...manganotantalite replaced by ferrotantalite from the Rubikon pegmatite, Namibia (Baldwin 1989), in holtite replaced by...from rare-metal pegmatites in South Africa and Namibia. Mineral. Mag. 53, 571-581. BERLEPSCH, P., ARMBRUSTER |  | | Conference Proceedings (Volume) | | Symposium 2: Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry 72 2.5 Oxygen isotopes in white mica from the Larderello... or partial re-equilibration of K-feldspar and albite in patch perthite veins (Parsons et al. 2010; Fitz...Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich Bor is a mine site in Eastern Serbia located in the Late Cretaceous...method. To narrow down the magmatic activity at the mine site, three main intrusions were dated with ID-TIMS...inclusions) with SCA alteration (sericite-chlorite-albite) ā associated with the bulk of Cu deposition as |  | | Book | | systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide...(Gariep Belt) cropping out in the western borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic...concerning the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of this region during the Precambrian. Major tectonometamorphic...tectonostratigraphic domains and structures of the region are presented, together with implications for the... They emphasize the enormous potential of this region in terms of base (Cu, Pb, Zn, Co, Ni), precious |
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