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Mackinawite from
Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Mackinawite
Formula:FeS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mackinawite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:263350
Long-form Identifier:1:3:263350:3
GUID (UUID V4):384f5931-8f3f-48d0-b9ba-a2141b595bcc
Nearest other occurrences of Mackinawite
7.5km (4.6 miles) Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
55.2 2.4 7.7 Total 101.0 100.5 (1) Insizwa deposit, South Africa; by electron microprobe, average of...vein cutting massive pyrrhotite ore (Insizwa deposit, South Africa); in Cu–Ni sulfide ore (Sudbury, Canada)... altaite, argentopentlandite, chalcopyrite, mackinawite, niggliite, froodite, parkerite, galena, sphalerite...Distribution: From the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, East Cape, South Africa [TL]. In the Coleman...western Siberia, Russia. Name: For the Insizwa deposit, South Africa, where it was discovered. Type Material:
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Book (edition)
Diaphorite Isocubanite yes Bravoite Eucairite Mackinawite Wittichenite Reflection Colour & Ø Reflectance...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür);...grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contaminated by LIL and LRE elements derived from local greywacke-slate turbidites (Peltonen, submitted)...whole-rock chemistry is proposed. Regional and local geology The Fennoscandian (formerly known as Baltic)...north (Nironen, 1989) and probably also to the south. The areal extent of moderate gravity anomaly maxima...VNiB and in particular around the Vammala Mining District, are best depicted as boudins, lenses or pipes...ultimate source of the LIL and LRE elements were local Svecofennian greywackeslate turbidites. The mechanism
Book (edition)
Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Artrocitc, Ivigtul cryolitc deposit. Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK...2iOH)~. Lric.,3 km south of thc mouth of Akatorc Crcek, castcm Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Book
1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees 6.3.3. Anorogenic metamorphism and intraplate...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic
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contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also found...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits...extents 3* 18 T H E ORE MINERALS according to the local conditions. The solutions, up to now fluid (supercritical)
Book
Bushveld chromite–platinum group metals (PGMs), South Africa, Sudbury nickel–copper, Canada, and a few new...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including Australia)...Earth’s element family. The working deposits in South Africa and Russia are by far the largest for the PGM...significant in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa, Brazil, New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia...Caribbean. The largest chromite deposits are in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Finland, and
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;
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the price of Pt...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or...platinum-group minerals (PGM) beginning with a South African publication (Cabri, 1972) and culminating...of PGE deposits, ranging from the very important South African deposits to less well-developed PGE mineralization
Journal (volume)
The Keivitsa intrusion (age 2057 Ma) is located south of the Koitelainen intrusion. Isotopic (Sm-Nd, S-isotopes...east of Koitelainen hill. Photo by TM. A2: View south of Lakijänkä towards Koitelainen fell 5 6 Geological...forests of the southern part of Satovaara hill (eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara complex) was stripclear-cut...only by accident, as in the periglacial landslide gorge at Bonanza. Unfortunately, such rocks include chromitites...Koitelainen intrusion, on the eastern slope of Koitelainen hill and through the eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara
Book
Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
Book
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...tried to retain local names for subdivisions within a given country. For some local names the anglicized...given name is included in parentheses although most local names lack this designation. For example we use...colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(.= 2.646, VIIIA 10....Vitreous orange-brown. Alcatore Creek, Eastern Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. H= 6, Djj4= 3.48
Book
making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...of the Proterozoic, beginning 3,000 m.y. ago in Africa and 2,500 m.y. ago elsewhere. These basins received...iron ores were concentrated (without silica) in local oxidizing sinks on the con¬ tinents. Uranium responded...Precambrian se¬ quences of rocks were deduced for local areas, but correlations between them, except in... . The main period of ore deposition within a district seems to represent a relatively short time span
Book (edition)
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15...15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities section includes a description of the...Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
Book
CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University...colourless, monoclinic crystals from Kimberley, South Africa. Named after Mr. Alpheus Fuller Williams, of...group. Named from the locality, Aldan region, eastern Siberia (18th List). [M.A., 12, 460.] 20th List...Occurs as thin veins in kimberlite from the ‘Lucky Eastern’ pipe, presumably in Yakutia, and has the composition...United States, for 1913, 1914, part ii, p. 652.) Local trade-name, used by Mr. Joseph Ward, of Barstow
Book (edition)
(lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota,
Book (edition)
Japan Chapman Street, & Hall Australia, Thomas South Chapman Melbourne, Nelson Australia, 102 Dodds...14-32 17-43 16 16 16 17 17-44 16 16 16 17 Mackinawite Perovskite Sphalerite Sphalerite Sphalerite (manganoan-ferroan)...21-34 26-38 25-47 28-38 26-48 30 Sternbergite Mackinawite (nickelian) Shadlunite Thalfenisite 25 26 28...Klockmannite CuSe 290 16-41 17 495-576 458 1-15 Mackinawite (Fe,Ni)9Sg 335 17 474 4 Perovskite 16-22...99 536 (Fe,Ni)9Sg. Sternbergite AgFe2S3 Mackinawite (nickelian) Metacinnabar Ags 336 233 367 18
Book (edition)
20-21 20-21 20-21 21-21 16-33 650nm Page Mackinawite Perovskife 3PbO.PbC~ Ba(TiaCr,F~Fe2Mg)019 a-FeO...27 27 24 28-38 26-48 30 29 22 Stembergite Mackinawite (nickelian) Shadlunite Thalfenisite Trevorite...1-15 3 Kamiokite Tungstenite-3R Klockmannite Mackinawite Loveringite Fe2Mo308 WS2 CuSe (Fe,Ni)9S8 (Ca...472 6-5 11-7 4-11 1 3 Cinnabar Stembergite Mackinawite (nickelian) Hemusite (antimonian) Metacinnabar...continued R% 440nm 500nm 600nm 700nm Tugarinovite Mackinawite 16-20 16-19 Loparite-(Ce) Murdochite 17 21-21
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...(ferroactinolite), Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming (nephrite), South Dakota , Minnesota, Pennsylvania (byssolite), Vermont...mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; at Tsumeb , South West Africa; and at Laurium , Greece. Other occurrences
Book (edition)
Aus1rnlia. Thomas Nelson Aus1r.1lia. 102 Dodds S1rce1. South Mdbournc. Vic1oria 3205. Auslr.ilia Chapman & Hall...cha nges at present occurring in cent ral a n d eastern Europe and elsewhere. German reu nification has...9 (for 1 952). p. 99. From (TL) Crackers Well. South Australia. Australia. Deposit located by air-borne...to be chabazitc. Named for Acadia, a tem1 for eastern provinces of Canada. including Nova Scotia. (TL)...1 892) Syst. Mi11., 6th ed .. p. 50. A term of South American origin describing galena in granular form
 
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