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Malachite from
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Shattuckiteⓘ36 photos of Malachite associated with Shattuckite at this locality.
Dioptaseⓘ34 photos of Malachite associated with Dioptase at this locality.
Calciteⓘ18 photos of Malachite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ7 photos of Malachite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cupriteⓘ7 photos of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Plancheiteⓘ5 photos of Malachite associated with Plancheite at this locality.
Cobalt-bearing Dolomiteⓘ1 photo of Malachite associated with Cobalt-bearing Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7361
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7361:5
GUID (UUID V4):5fa2b848-19c2-4aae-a4fc-d6e9f335a4ac
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
0.7km (0.5 miles) ⓘShinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
19.0km (11.8 miles) ⓘKamoya prospect, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
19.5km (12.1 miles) ⓘKambove West Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
20.0km (12.4 miles) ⓘKambove Principal Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
20.5km (12.7 miles) ⓘKamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
22.1km (13.7 miles) ⓘLikasi Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
23.6km (14.7 miles) ⓘM'sesa Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
24.2km (15.0 miles) ⓘKabolela Mine, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
27.1km (16.8 miles) ⓘKamatanda prospect, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
27.5km (17.1 miles) ⓘShangulowĂ© Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
., ..J ATLAS DU KATANGA PUBLIE PAR LE ,,, COMITE SPECIAL nu KATANGA / d 'apïżœĂš5 les tr>avaux ·de...remonte Ă  l'Ăąge triasique. rhĂ©tien. ATLAS nu KATANGA FASCICULE 2 TABLE DES MATIÈRES GÉNÉRALITÉS...LXXXIII LXXXVII Introduction . La gĂ©ologie du Katanga MĂ©ridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « I...Tenke » Carte gĂ©ologique du Katanga MĂ©ridional LXXXV LXXXIX FEUILLE KAMBOVE Texte. Planches, plans et...de mine Planche gĂ©odĂ©sique. Planche des minĂ©raux Plan et coupe schĂ©matique de la mine de Kambove Planche
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Associated secondary minerals include chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite...1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922)....planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In...associated with heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County...the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. In California it occurs at the Blue Bell mine and with linarite
Report (issue)
100.00 Chemistry: 54.34 4.61 (1) Mindouli, Congo. (2) Cu8 Si 8O 22 (OH)4 ÂČ H2 O: Occurrence: A rare...deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, dioptase, malachite, conichalcite, tenorite. Distribution: From Mindouli...Tshiniama, Congo Republic. In Congo (Zaire), ÂŻne material from Tantara, Mindigi, and M'sesa, near Kambove, Katanga...of Windhoek, Namibia. In England, at the Driggith mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; the Gunheath china clay...Arizona, from the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, and the Azurite mine, Tortolita Mountains, Pinal
Report (issue)
joite, malachite, quartz, hematite. Distribution: In the USA, in Arizona, in the Shattuck mine, Bisbee...Bisbee, Cochise Co., the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., the San Manuel and Mammoth-St. Anthony mines,...district, Mineral Co., Nevada; from the Buckhorn mine, Red Cloud district, Lincoln Co., New Mexico. From...Tsumeb, Namibia. From Tantara and M'Sesa, near Kambove, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire)...Greece. Name: For the type locality, the Shattuck mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Type Material: National
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
few millimeters in length. It is orthorhombic (2/ Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining...minerals formed in the oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...associated minerals include chrysocolla, ajoite, malachite, quartz, and hematite. It is unknown in the eastern...the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tenke-Fungurume, D.R. Congo Przibram, Bohemia Peramea, Spain Durango, Colorado Kakanda, D.R. Congo Mashamba West...R. Congo Tantara, D.R. Congo Kamoto, Musonoi, and Kabolela, D.R. Congo Mupine, D.R. Congo Kambove, D...D.R. Congo Konkola, Zambia Chibuluma, Zambia Tsumeb, Namibia Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo Reported species...Copperbelt of northern Zambia and southeastern D.R. Congo (Fig. 1) is one of the world’s largest Cu and Co...with the carbonate from the dolomite to form malachite (Fig. 2). Chrysocolla, heterogenite, pseudomalachite
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...Democratic Republic of Congo Back cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right:...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Worldwide Collection Private Worldwide Collections Congo Tourmalines  My Life in Minerals by Will Johnson...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently it...University of Arizona, I quickly discovered that Dr. John Anthony’s mineralogy and crystallography classes...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
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Report (issue)
some copper deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, malachite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite...the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, at Ray, and in the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, Pinal...Pinal Co., and from the Harquehala mine, Harquehala Mountains, La Paz Co. (formerly Yuma Co.); in California...Pimbi, Congo Republic. At Tantara and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba...Lomagundi district, the Inez mine, Hartley district, and the Midway mine, Fort Victoria. Many other minor
Book
Cuprite 94 Cumengeite .... 94 Caledonite .... Malachite 96 96 Azurite Cyanotrichite Brochantite - Cale­...Kasolite 124 Lazurite (Lapis-Lazuli) . . 38 96 Malachite Marcasite............................... 60 Masuyite...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some­ times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the...some remarkably beautiful specimens are the royal mine at Konsberg (Norway), which has now been abandoned
Journal (issue)
pseudomorphs after calcite from the Tantara copper deposit, Republique du Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Toronto Technical College. He learned that the Tsumeb mine in South-West Africa was producing some very beautiful...the miners was nothing new at Tsumeb; they would mine around crystal pockets until lunchtime, then go...fill their oversized lunch boxes with specimens. Mine management looked the other way as long as operations...website: Abstracts of New Mineral Species prepared by Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino, former Chairman of the International
Catalog/List
lustrous showy xl 5. .. > BARITE ON WITHERITE. Raggs Mine,;Alson Moor, Cumberland. Nice intergrown group of...side. 25x20x25mm. £30. 8. CALCITE. Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Co Durham. A 70x30mm area of calcite...Label. 45x45x15mm .£60. ‱-* 10. Penbertriy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Areas of red to brown CARMINITE...matrix. 50x50x20mm. £22. 12 CASSITERITE. Poldory Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Lovely group of about 50 jet...40x40x18mm. £28. Odd 14. CHALCOCITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. A 90x45mm area of veinstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphs after malachite. It was first found in the Shattuck Arizona Copper Company's mine at Bisbee (Cochise...forming pseudomorphs after malachite. It is also found at Tantara, Belgian Congo, Africa. It is not a rare...than common. It was named after the above Shattuck mine. terial for sale. It is quite different from the
Journal (issue)
Dino out". De lezing zal verzorgd worden door Prof. Dr. Philippe Claeys, van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel...van 1897 het Congo Paviljoen stond. Leopold II wilde de interesse in onze kolonie Congo Vrijstaat stimuleren...malachieten van Katanga, dioptaas van Tantara, carrolite van Kambove, cornetite van L’étoile du Congo, om nog...een knoert van een wulfenitekristal van Mfouati (Congo-Brazzaville) dat toch 5cm ribbe heeft. Er waren...radiaalvormige cornetitekristallen van L’étoile du Congo-mine en zelfs enkele hele zeldzame stukken zoals elektrisch
Book
Cette Exposition est placee sous le Haut Patron de Monsieur Hubert Curien, Ministre de la Recherche...quelques uns des premiers cristaux sur roche de la Mine Premier en Afrique du Sud (sur kimberlite alteree...Une nagyagite {mine d'or arsenicale de Nagyag) s'est payee 122 livres ; une proustite {mine d'argent rouge...a 72 livres a !'exception d'un "grand plateau de mine de plomb verte de Fribourg" paye 300 livres ! Le...a 300 livres, de meme qu'un grand morceau de malachite en stalactite conique : 240 livres. Crocoite
Catalog/List
collection, a lot of it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably... SESSION ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment...Estimate: $600-$800 57003 Malachite Pseudomorph after Azurite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia...to come from the Tsumeb Mine were the fine replacement pseudomorphs of Malachite after Azurite. This one
Journal (issue)
Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than
Journal (issue)
Jmarch06@comcast.net SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER: Dr. Don Buchanan; dbuch7326@aol.com MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...Pegmatite Mine The early-day history (1896-1913) of gem tourmaline mining at the Himalaya mine, San Diego...“The Early Mining History of the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine,” as described above was serialized in the January...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caracolite from Challacollo mine, Iquique, Tarapaca Prov., Chile, Compliments of...Dakota Matrix. Carrollite from Kamoya South mine, Katanga, Congo, Compliments of Miner- alpedia, Dakota
Journal (issue)
(Perthshire) and as a biproduct at the Glebe fluorspar mine (Derbyshire). It’s main use is as a heavy drilling...4th “ Prize Winner Madagascan ammonites Malachite from Congo Azurite from Tsumeb Spanish pyrite cube...together with selenite gypsum from the commercial mine at Mountfield in E. Sussex. Four specimens came...cabinet included ‘cogwheel’ bournonite from Herodsfoot Mine in Cornwall, liroconite also from Cornwall and the...the mimetite variety campylite from the Dry Gill mine in the Caldbeck Fells in the Lake District. Some
Journal (issue)
clubs plus importants, dont nous par­ lions plus haut, au sein d'une FĂ©dĂ©ration Belge des Cercles GĂ©ologi­...""' d + r cos z l'angle p. nĂŒus l'avons vu plt.Js haut, etant toujou rs tr'Ă«s petit. En effet, traçons...celle s u Soleil, d'aprĂšs ce que nous avons vu plus haut. La planĂšte exerçant la force de marĂ©e la plus forte...gisement a cessĂ© en 1 9 6 0 , aprĂšs l'inondatio n de la mine. L'objet de notre exposĂ© n'est pas de dresser un...redressĂ©s et faillĂ©s ; dans la rĂ©gion centrale (Kambove), les anticli­ naux se rejoignent ou se dĂ©dou blent
Journal (issue)
Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...mutual exchange of knowledge. We are grateful to Dr. Federico Pezzotta, curator of mineralogy at the...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps.
Book (edition)
This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...by Strunz (1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung...arisen with localities in Congo-Zaire: the country, named Democratic Republic of Congo since 1960, was changed...Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region
Journal (volume)
Winter, 1972. MINERAL DIGEST, Volume 4. 74 Malachite of the Congo by Russell P. MacFall Kotango green 92...with us. That was also true of the minerals. If one mine became exhausted, another wou·ld be discovered....nickel and cobalt. Present estimates indicate that to mine such deposits will cost no more than 20% of the...by Horry Pol, Regina Fisher ("Moloch,te of the Congo") hod been "l1v1ng twenty-three years," as she put...Design. Ruuell P. MacFall ("Molochile from the Congo") hos been on avid collector of minerals, gems and
 
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