 | | Journal (issue) | | localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia .........................................shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff Scovil photo...the best vesuvianite specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Quebec. In this issue we present a review of...Herodsfoot Mine Work Readers who enjoyed Roy Starkey's superb article on the famous Herodsfoot mine in Cornwall...to the old engine house at the North Herodsfoot mine is being cleared of hundreds of tons of accumulated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rocks & Minerals 2009.84:544-550. Kunene District Kaokoveld, Namibia M any collectors choose to specialize...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...Shattuckite occurs at the New Cornelia open-pit mine in the Ajo district, Pima County, occasionally in...well-crystallized malachite, Kaokoveld Plateau region, Namibia. Jeff Starr specimen, Jeff Scovil photo, courtesy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Quiz 2 King of Kashmir Thallium – Allchar mine Klondike Gold Rush Mineral of the Month: Shattuckite...CHASE THE WIND: Book review THALLIUM AND THE ALLCHAR MINE MINERAL QUIZ No 2 with answers KERNOITE THE KING...labour and women (bal maidens), the tensions between mine owners and miners, mining accidents and the rise...great read! John Pearce THALLIUM AND THE ALLCHAR MINE The element Thallium (Tl) is present in most rocks...discrete and unusual Tl minerals. This is the Allchar mine in Northern Macedonia. (The name Allchar is derived |  | | Book | | Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...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...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | discovered more than two hundred years ago in a remote region of what is now central Kazakhstan. The mineral...1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922)....atacamite, cuprite, chrysocolla, and planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon...heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase...the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. In California it occurs at the Blue Bell mine and with linarite |  | | Book | | .,,., ..,,.... w + ..... . ·. .... . - Namibia Zauberwelt edler Steine und Kristalle ooa Dieses...Erdgeschichte 8 Zur Geschichte des Bergbaus in Namibia 17 Der Brandberg und die Mineralfunde in seiner...Die Typlokalität des Namibit 97 Spessartin vom Kunene-Fluß, Kaokoveld 100 102 108 Edelstein-Turmaline...110 Auf Turmalinsuche in Namibia Die Demantoide von Tubussis in Zentral-Namibia 112 116 Sodalith von...Zeolithe vom Grootbergpaß in Namibia Kamphaugit-(Y) von der Rössing-Mine 120 124 126 136 Das Gahnit-Vorkommen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps....momentum came from my first visit to the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Quebec in 1997. I was fascinated by |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..263 by C. J. Stefano Giroux Point, the Bagdad mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .........................recovered by a miner from the 2800 level of the mine. The miner called the acicular mineral “red copper...copper hair,” thinking it to be acicular cuprite, but Charlie and Rick recognized it as something more interesting...type locality, the 2800 Level of the Tsumeb mine in Namibia—probably the finest specimen of the species...Smith obtained it from a miner who thought it was cuprite, but they recognized it as something new and had |  | | Book | | 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande...hundred kilometers. Most of them orbit the Sun in a region called the asteroid belt, which is between the...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22... Massive sodalite, Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm |  | | Book | | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wise & G. R. Rossman Orpiment from the Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, N e v a d a ............................. 311 by B. K. Lees The Purple Passion mine, Yavapai County, A rizona.................. 323...cm from the Meea trom tne M e 8a pit, Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Mined by Collector's Edge...11 cm across. In 1935 they leased the San Diego mine in the Mesa Grande pegmatite field, in southern...located just around the hill from the famous Himalaya mine, source of gorgeous red elbaite tourmaline crystals |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . .89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . ...White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The...morganite-and-quartz specimen from the Cryo-Genie mine in San Diego County, California. Al’s main interest |
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Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia