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Limonite from
Brandberg West Mine, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite1 photo of Limonite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Limonite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brandberg West Mine, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:648534
Long-form Identifier:1:3:648534:4
GUID (UUID V4):a5a92e93-4415-4ea3-87a8-fe2dd4213417
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
19.5km (12.1 miles) Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
83.3km (51.8 miles) Lofdal-Bergville REE deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....The EarlyGermanGeologistsand Entrepreneursin South West Africa The People- Mineralogists,Geologistsand Collectors...Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding
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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unpublished.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 (article/letter/editorial)
Gobobo-Sib Mountain s, vest for Brandberg, Namibia. Her .. Limonite coated Vejen til rosettes and single...Kombat Mine, Kombat, Namibia med Bornit maIm i vceggen. Vanadium brud nord f or Tsumeb, Namibia, po vejen...Under j orden i Kombat Mine, Kombat , Namibia. Cuprit med Malakit fra Onganya, Namibia. Stykket er i Uta Ulrieke...ser man aldrig i Namibia. Indsamling af Gips roser po Agate Beach, Luderitz, Namibia. . Phonolit bruddet...bruddet ved Aris ncer Windhoek, Namibia. De sma hulrum ca. midt i vceggen indeholder Tuperssuats iait, Makatit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sn ore district, one of the largest Sn producing area (300Mt @1 wt% Sn) in the world, is located in the...granular texture. Ore minerals include hematite, limonite, goethite, cassiterite, malachite, scheelite,...Yangtze Block to the north and the Simao Block to the west (Fig. 1a, b). In the Gejiu ore district, the major...Granitic rocks are widely distributed in the Gejiu area and include alkali-feldspar granite, porphyritic...irregular banded, lenticular and veinlet shapes Limonite, cassiterite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, cerussite
Journal (issue)
Secretary: Colin Brough 1 William Allen Lane LINDFIELD West Sussex RH16 2SA Peter Moore Royal Russell School...some localities in the copper, lead, barite mining area in the hills to the south-east of Pontesbury. The...Westcott copper mine, comprised three separate collecting sites in two short adits and the mine dump. Nearby...Nearby was the Badger Level section of the Huglith mine complex, which was our other location. We were too...a layby in the forestry surrounding the Huglith mine. When we did so later in the day there were some
Journal (issue)
Secretary: Colin Brough 1 William Allen Lane LINDFIELD West Sussex RH162SA Peter Moore Royal Russell School...over rough terrain in three 4 x 4 vehicles in Namibia in July. We slept above the ground on camp beds.................................. LANZAROTE TO NAMIBIA: Olivine to Shattuckite Plus our advert appeared...organised , one to Lanzarote the other to Namibia in south-west Africa. Lanzarote is well known to the British...world: Hungary, Romania, France, Russia, India, Namibia, Madagascar and China... not to mention specialists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tectonic alkaline magmatism in Saudi Arabia and West Africa. For the remainder ol the Phanerozoic, folding...carhonatites with oversaturated magmatism such as in Namibia. Angola, and the East African rift system. Despite...Phanerozoic Cameron Niger Nigeria Sudan Saudi Arabia Namibia 1. Introduction Most of the African continent...Phanerozoic in Saudi Arabia (Drysdall et ul. 1986) and West Africa (Liegeois et al, this volume). Recent detailed...1986). Thus the most important feature of this region is the sequential development of granitic rock
Book
papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...Nova Scotia, Canada . 4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Navachab, Namibia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Cu Deposits of the Matchless Amphibolite Belt, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7...Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-V Deposits of the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
tvers . Tordal Heftetjern: Artikkel om det nye mine- Diopsidlaystall, ea 5 em hoy, fra Atangen, Kragere...utstillinger butikk,kafe. Sulitjelma Gruvemuseum Mine ralsamling ,sjeldne maimer, gruvehistorisk saml...Gobobo-Sib Mountain s, vest for Brandberg, Namibia. Her .. Limonite coated Vejen til rosettes and single...Kombat Mine, Kombat, Namibia med Bornit maIm i vceggen. Vanadium brud nord f or Tsumeb, Namibia, po vejen...Under j orden i Kombat Mine, Kombat , Namibia. Cuprit med Malakit fra Onganya, Namibia. Stykket er i Uta Ulrieke
Report (issue)
crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite...village of Mandrosonoro, in an undeve loped area of central west Madagascar. I first heard rumors of the...reputation of the area had. For a while, nothing more of interest seemed to come out of the region until November...Madagascar to study some pegmatites in the Betafo region. Observing the exceptional tourmaline rough arriving
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated W-Sn-Be mineralization in the Xuebaoding area, Sichuan Province, China Yongwang Zhang a, b, *...minerals include zircon, apatite, pyrite, rutile, limonite, scheelite, tourmaline, and cassiterite. The Pankou...hydrothermal gold deposits in the Kalgoorlie-Norseman region, western Australia. Econ. Geol. 94, 423–438. Gill...evidence for the origin of the Brandberg West area Sn-W vein deposits, NW Namibia. Miner. Deposita 41, 671–690...its source rocks: the Erongo granite and tourmalinites in the Damara Belt. Namibia. Contributions to Mineralogy
Book
magmatism of the eastern margin of the Atlantic (Namibia, Angola) or the western African kimberlites do...both parts, one and two. The second part discusses West-African magmatism associated with the early opening...of the processes operating in the mantle beneath West Africa is also illustrated in this second part and...Northeastern Africa .............................. 4.3 West Central Africa .............................. 5...Physical, Petrographic and Chemical Features of South West Ugandan Quaternary Volcanism ... 9.1 Physical..
Book
Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia 198 3.5.3. Carbonatites 199 3.5.4. Kimberlites...metamorphism in the Central Zone ofthe Damara Orogen, Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees...that metals, oxides and silicate dominated in the region between Mercury and the asteroid belt. Details...crystallographic axes will aceeierate in the given region, thereby providing another way of mapping out hot...other of the above cases dominating in a given region. More recently, measurements of crustal Poisson's
Book
systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide...require when beginning investigations in a particular area and are encouraged to include as much information...(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...Ediacaran-Ordovician after McWilliams (1981). Equal area projection, reconstruction after Smith and Hallam
Book
10523 Pergamon of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1 Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 19...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are... The peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border...("solutions", "melts", and " v a p o r s ' " in this region are not sharply distinguishable). However, this
Report (issue)
holdings. Prior to 1978, the development of complete mine property cost evaluations was impeded by still evolving...tool. Systems design work also continued on the mine simulation (MINSIM) program, an economic evaluation...reserves. These include implications that because a mine is operating it is profitable, that reported reserves...prices, which are variable over the life of the mine. Economic evaluation is complicated by the presence...and economic variables on viability of individual mine properties (17-18). Nonproducing deposits Producing
Book
quite a perfect sphere. The planet has a surface area of 510 x 10 6 km 2, of which some 29 per cent is...shelf which surrounds the continents, the total land area is nearly 35 per cent of the whole surface. In other...124°20' Fig. 1.2 Map of submarine canyons off the West coast of California. At depths greater than about...mainly of iron. Surrounding this heavy core is the region known as the mantle (Fig. 1.3); and overlying that...circum-Pacific belt, and about 22 per cent in the Alpine area. Many smaller shocks also occur in zones of submarine
Book (edition)
The surface area of the planet is 510 x 10 6 km 2 ( 197 x 10 6 square miles), and of this area 29 per cent...the continuents are added, the total continental area is nearly 35 per cent. Surface relief is varied:...Fig. 1.2 1 o' Map of submarine canyons off the west coast of California. depth result in the rock-material...of iron and nickel. Surrounding the core is the region known as the mantle (Fig. 1.3) and overlying that...thrown upwards. The intensity at points within the area affected can be marked on a map, and lines of equal
Report (issue)
northern Lesotho. Right in the heart of this desolate area, at Letseng-la-Terai, nestles the world’s highest-lying...highest-lying diamond pipe. Commissioning Letseng mine at 10 500 feet during the last two years has called...Whatever you're mining, wherever you're mining, mine it on Bridgestones Bridgestones — for all the variables...Operating conditions differ enormously from mine to mine. Not only are there variations in the kind of...Whatever you’re mining, wherever you’re mining, mine it on Bridgestones. iaaseinn Money — BRIDGE STONE
 
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