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Calcite from
Maitland Mines, Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Specimens are small with the biggest crystals maxing out at about 2mm. Most crystals are "dirty" some wash white. In October 2014 a friend of mine showed me a part of mine 2 which I had thought to be inaccessible, here we managed to salvage two beautiful samples of calcite crystals that far out shine any previous finds (at this mine) however these two +-3cm samples were the only samples to be found here and that source is now depleted.
Habit:Dogtooth
Colour:white
Luminescent properties:no
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maitland Mines, Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:908188
Long-form Identifier:1:3:908188:8
GUID (UUID V4):0aeea413-b1ca-4fb6-93d2-b701e0c9b830
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Maarten J. de Wit Editors Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin Regional Geology Reviews...Arthur Fuller with his field equipment exploring the Cape-Karoo on his motorcycle in 1960. Today young geo-scientists...attracted by such basic fieldwork (and freedom), yet the Cape Mountains and Karoo hinterland is a unique natural...of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin 123 Editors Bastien Linol AEON-ESSRI Nelson Mandela Metropolitan...Metropolitan University Port Elizabeth South Africa ISSN 2364-6438 Regional Geology Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-40858-3
Book (volume)
M.A. Director of Public Works and Inspector of Mines, Trinidad. and Legislative Councils, Inst.C.E. ...BELL, M.Inst.C.E. {citan; Hamadan. Author of Eastern Persian Irak. ARTHUR HERVEY. Formerly Musical...A Descriptive Catalogue of the Glass Vessels in South Manufacture (in part) Kensington Museum. ALAN SUMMERLY...Gower. a. Rev. Ducatp Macrapyen, M.A. Minister of South Grove Congregational Church, Highgate. : Congregational...Frank Dyke Greenland. R. Cana. Author of South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union. Francis
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all-important-indeed, indispensable. • Duroc;her, J., Ann. des Mines, vol.ll, p. 217,1857. Roth, J., Gesteins-Analysen...only those essential to a proper understanding of eastern and the extreme western parts of the United· the...that of carbon dioxide also when the presence of calcite or cancrinite or the altered condition of the rock...found in Doelter's analyses of the· augitites of the Cape Verde Islands. These analyses show 16 to 24 per...petrographer who is experienced fresh,' or if ·calcite or cancrinite be present. in rock annJ.ysis can
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C.I.E. General in the Persian Army. Author of Eastern Persian Irak. A. J. G. Rev. Alexander James Grieve...Commander-in-Chief for the British East' Saka. Africa Protectorate; Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar;...Zanzibar; Consul-General for German East Africa, 1900-1904. C. F. A. Charles Francis Atkinson. ( Formerly...Librarian, Oxford, 1884-1903. Author of Liturgies: Eastern and Western) \ &c. t F. G. M. B. Frederick George...{in part). F. R. C. Frank R. Cana. Author of South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union. f J F. S
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Survey Wartime Pamphlet on the 'Water Supply of South-East England from Underground Sources'., 1940. Despite...ORIGINAL Geological Survey Office, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. 11th December 1962 C...Hythe Beds outlier at .. .. .. .. .. Goldwell, south of Hothfield . . Sections to illustrate the structure...east of the Sandling road, one quarter of a mile south of Park House, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Maidstone...PAGE PLATE II. A. Quarry in Tunbridge Wells Sand, south of Stiles Farm, Horsmonden. Thinly bedded siltstones
 
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