 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large |  | | Report (issue) | | Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Sector (MPS) (retired); Sebastiaan J. Van Graan, South African Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs... Of these resources, some 71 percent are in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. The principal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za I T HAPPENS FROM TIME TO TIME...known were collected at the Palabora mine, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Southwood and Cairncross 2017)...formula of iowaite using crystals from the Palabora mine. Dr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of...the Linwood mine in Scott County, a Figure 2. Iowaite crystals from the Palabora mine, Limpopo Province...Province, South Africa. The crystals are on calcite that contains tiny magnetite inclusions. The field of view |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | Catalog/List | | with admixed Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Wales. Chocolate brown massive, with minor rock...rich greenish yellow with white Barytes Whitesmith Mine Strontian Scotland lx2 £10 17. SCAPOLITE translucent...collected in the J960's Bjordammen, near Kragero South Norway A) large 3x2 £20 B) lesser piece 2x2.5 £12...small magnetite crystals too. Palabora Pit Phalaborwa Transvaal South Africa large lx2 £12 25. RUIZITE fairly...sparse red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 26. SPHALERITE lustrous |  | | Book (edition) | | OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30...Choice, R.B. Cook: Beryl, Variety Emerald, Chivor Mine, Chivor, Colombia, 332-34; Demantoid, Val Malenco...Fluorapatite, Inna Nala, near Fighar Village, Nagar District, Pakistan, 112-14; Microcline, Variety Amazonite...Park County, Colorado, 248-50; Pyrite, Park City District, Utah, 394-96; Rhodochrosite, Alma, Park County |  | | Report (issue) | | INrr~~Rl()R • IJ Rl◄:1\ lJ lT () I◄~ l\11 N l◄:s AFRICA *Algiers Tunis • NISIA Tripoli Cairo* ALGERIA...Windhoek* Gaborone * Pretoria * Mbabane REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRIC1' \ Maputo * LESOTHO MAURITIUS (J Port... MINERALS YEARBOOK MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF r, AFRICA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF MINES...reports and one world overview: Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries of Asia and the Pacific, Mineral...137 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Sudan . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | concrete, etc., may be of exceptional local interest. In addition to local utilisation, there may also be export...COl\-11\ION\VEALTH COUNTRIES Union of South Africa South-West Africa • Southern Rhodesia • Canada • • India...FOREIGN COUNTRIES • • • Europe Portuguese East Africa Madagascar • • United States • • Argentina • •...required to convert it into a usable product, find a local use in domestic and industrial thermal insulation...interest was made in 1913 in the Turrett mining district in Colorado1 by W. B.. Thomas, but the enterprise |  | | Report (issue) | | Crown Copyright Queen’s Printer BY TELEPHONE: Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext.... 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United States)...Couronne Imprimeur de la Reine PAR TÉLÉPHONE : Local : (705) 670-5691 Numéro sans frais : 1 888 415-9845...415-9845, poste 5691 (au Canada et aux États-Unis) Local : (705) 670-5691 Numéro sans frais : 1 888 415-9845 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Find of Kunzite at the Historic Katerina Mine Pala District, San Diego County, California Jesse Fisher...Introduction - The Katerina Mine (also known as the Katrina or the Catherina Mine) is located on a Li-Be-Phosphate...of four hills which make up the Pala pegmatite district in north-central San Diego County, California...the first decade of the 20th centu, the Katerina Mine was one of the original sources of kunte, a previously...previously unknown gem variety of spodumene. The Pala District is one of the best known of the numerous pegmatite |  | Swayze, Gregg A., Lowers, Heather A., Benzel, William M., Clark, Roger N., Driscoll, Rhonda L., Perlman, Zac S., Hoefen, Todd M., Dyar, M. Darby (2018) Characterizing the source of potentially asbestos-bearing commercial vermiculite insulation using in situ IR spectroscopy. American Mineralogist, 103 (4) 517-549 doi:10.2138/am-2018-6022 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, 206 Kendade, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 1 2 Abstract...Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Enoree, South Carolina; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China, were measured...measured with a portable spectrometer. The mine sources for these vermiculite ores were identified based...from other commercial sources in the U.S.A. and South Africa do not contain nearly as much elongate amphibole...Mountain Mine near Libby, with the remainder likely supplied by (2) the Virginia Vermiculite Mine in Louisa |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nineteen, Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This...Chichibu mine” (by Kuniaki Kato and Hidemichi Hori), “ Collecting report: Hikagezawa gold mine, Shizuoka...Avenue Sun City, Arizona 85351 he Tonopah-Belmont mine is a micromounter’s paradise. An un common suite...sulfates, molybdates and chromates can be found at the mine. The abundance of species makes it an ideal introduction |  | | Catalog/List | | an shale, some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...of Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal...80 lxl f.9 platy qrey-brown 5mm f.2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured...Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No 2 Mine, Chibougamau, lem rock. (Mt micros w1th Unusual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brief overview of South Africa's mineral industry: world context and changing local circumstances Received:...important South African mineral resources clearly demonstrates that, omitting hydrocarbon fuels, South Africa...PO Box 74883, Lynnwood Ridge, Pretoria 0040, South Africa and later the kimberlite pipes discovered at...1889, the forerunner of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa (COM), whose member companies were ultimately...opencast and underground mines and quarries in South Africa. Of these workings, 57 produced gold, 62 exploited |  | | Book | | do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette, Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...resulting in well-formed collectible crystals such as gypsum (page 252) and epidote (page 221). Solid crystal-filled...ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves the...mineral’s physical properties in order to identify Gypsum it. Many minerals have very characteristic physical |  | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Report (volume) | | iSP:~.,~r of'Atrica Fluorspar Resources of Africa By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE and PAUL G. SCHRUBEN GEOLOGICAL...resources of Africa. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1487) Bibliography: p. 1. Fluorspar-Africa. I. Schruben...17 18 18 21 ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Map of Africa showing the location of fluorspar and carbonatite...1 . Comparison of fluorspar production from South Africa with total African fluorspar production, 1918-76...16 TABLES Page TABLE 1. 2. 3. 4. Fluorite in Africa------------------------------------------Selected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Brandberg and Erongo) related to the opening of the South Atlantic and the Paraná–Etendeka large igneous province...exceptionally well-preserved Kruidfontein and Goudini in South Africa, Mount Weld and Gifford Creek ferrocarbonatite...many of the non-carbonatitic complexes of southern Africa (Woolley, 2001; Woolley and Kjarsgaard, 2008)....carbonatites from Namibia (Brandberg, Erongo), South Africa (Kruidfontein, Goudini), Western Australia (Mount...B, F), REE and LILE incompatible elements (P, Zr, Ba, Nb, U, Th, Sn, Ta and W) (Bailey et al., 1974; Bailey |  | | Book (edition) | | Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal |  | | Report (issue) | | for foreign countries, if a given name refers to a mine or deposit, a nearby location or administrative...names may be used to refer to a single deposit or mine. For large deposits or mineralized areas, a 3 single...Deposit/Site_Name, is meant to identify the area, deposit, district, mine, or occurrence to which the geologic, economic...duplicates, for some areas we report information for a district or area, as well as for specific deposits or mines...149-158. Birch, G., 1990, Phosphorite deposits on the South African continental margin and coastal terrace, |  | | Book (edition) | | Mineral Söhngeite Dzhalindite cruciform and Vshaped Gypsum Erythrine Topaz simple twins Bustamite lamellar... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL |  | | Book | | Thomas Schlüter Geological Atlas of Africa With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology,...since the inception of the Geological Atlas of Africa Project, I have been fortunate to have had support...the compilation of geological overview maps of Africa grew out from the conviction of my late supervisor...Verlag, photographs 2; 4. Geological Society of South Africa, photographs on ps 62; 193; 217. Harry N. Abrams...invaluable mass of information on the geology of East Africa. To Dr. Wolfgang Wramik (Rostock) I am indebted |  | | Book | | Lithium minerals 246 252 Sodium carbonate 120 Gypsum Iron oxide Sillimanite minerals 153 161 295...major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...Belgium, barite from Ireland to the US Gulf Coast, gypsum from Mexico to California, and feldspar from Finland |  | Dietzel, Christian A.F., Kristandt, Tim, Dahlgren, Sven, Giebel, R. Johannes, Marks, Michael A.W., Wenzel, Thomas, Markl, Gregor (2019) Hydrothermal processes in the Fen alkaline-carbonatite complex, southern Norway. Ore Geology Reviews, 111. 102969 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.102969 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 250 Nelson-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa *Joint first authorship **Corresponding author:...1 km long tunnel leading to the former Tufte Nb mine that was situated in the centre of the Fen complex...patite vein 5 on the western side wall of the mine, which is strongly enriched in monazite and REE-F-carbonates...174 m, 241 m, 278 m and 345 m. At the Gruveåsen mine dump (X2 on Fig. 1) several loose blocks of silicified...rødberg sample was collected at the dump of the Vasker mine (X3 on Fig. 1). A further 13 samples derive from |
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