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


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Wollastonite
Formula:Ca3(Si3O9)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wollastonite 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:605332
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605332:1
GUID (UUID V4):bde21bb0-f525-4d82-9a27-9153fd9e1950
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geologyand Geochemistryof the Waterfall Gorge Section of the Insizwa Complex with ParticularReferenceto...Jurassic-aged mafic rocksfrom the Waterfall Gorge sectionof the Insizwa layered complex,Transkei, range...responsiblefor the compositionalvariationin this unit at Insizwa, however, to accountfor the upward increasein the...the productionof the basalgabbro. Introduction Gorge,the sequenceof intrusiverocksand contact THE Karoo-agedInsizwa...The petrographicand major layered intrusions--Insizwa, Ingeli, Tonti, geochemicalvariationexhibitedthroughoutthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FENNER 409 The geochemical structure of the Insizwa lobe of the Mount Ayliff complex with implications...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa e-mail: goonie.marsh@ru.ac.za P. Allen Department...University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa N. Fenner Falconbridge Ventures of Africa, PO Box 12708, Hatfield...Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa © 2003 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Detailed petrographic...instances) along the southeastern margin of the Insizwa lobe of the Mount Ayliff Complex reveal the existence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
APRIL 1949 KARROO DOLERITES OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA BY FREDERICK WALKER AND ARIE POLDERVAART CONTENTS...Karroo dolerites 685 Outlying areas in Southern Africa 687 Trias-Lias vulcanicity in Gondwanaland 687...System in the Union of South Africa 597 2. Distribution of Karroo System in Africa 600 3. Map and section...Grey sheet, Queenstown 605 5. Map and section of Insizwa sheet, Mount Ayliff 606 6. Map and section of Elephant's...of Mount Arthur (Kokstad) 621 15. Hornfelses of Insizwa (Mount Ayliff) 626 16. Assimilation product at
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)
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 (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;
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
Book (edition)
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)...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
Book (volume)
Omphacite ......... 154 Fassaite ......... 161 WOLLASTONITE.167 PECTOLITE.176 RHODONITE.182 BUSTAMITE.191...hypersthene—diopside—plagioclase hornfels, Aavold Quarry, Oslo district, Norway (Muir and Tilley, 1958). Anal. J. H. Scoon...thermally metamorphosed iron-rich rock, Yu hsi kou district, Manchuria (Tsuru and Henry, 1937). Anal. N. F...lamellar structure in the orthopyroxenes of the Insizwa intrusion, East Griqualand, has been given by Bruynzeel...1957. A petrographic study of the Waterfall Gorge profile at Insizwa. Annal. Univ. Stellenbosch, Shand
Book (volume)
Single-Chain Silicates: 527 Non-Pyroxenes Wollastonite Pectolite Bustamite Rhodonite Pyroxmangite Sapphirine...fissure m chromite pyroxerute, H irose mine, Tari district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan (Kitabara, 1958). Anal...hypersthenc-hornblende dacite, Hudson, Gosfonh area. New South Wales (Wilkinson, l 971). Anal. G . L Z. Kalocsai...top of rbyolite lava, H olmanes, Reydarfjordur, eastern lcelaod (Carmichael, 1963). Anal. I. S. E. Ca.nrucbael...hyperstbene-diopside-plagioclase bomfels, Aavold Quarry, Oslo district, Norway (Muir and Tilley, 1958). Anal. J. H. Scoon
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
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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
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
Report (issue)
........................................... 46 South Kalimantan .......................................platinum-group element prospect, Riam Pinang area, South Kalimantan........................................from the Riam Pinang area, Tanah Laut subprovince, South Kalimantan APPENDIX G: Detailed description of rock...paleochannels, South Kalimantan. Figure 15. Photograph of diamonds from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan....flattened gold and PGM particles from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan. Figure 17. Chromitite occurrences in
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...monoclinic, though apparently not isomorphous with wollastonite. From Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Prepared artificially...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
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
the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...overall subeconomic grade of 0.2% Cu, but containing local rich patches. A thick (135m) zone of secondary chalcocite...between 0.3 and 0.4% Cu. NORTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND In North-Eastern Queensland (Georgetown Inlier and...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
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;
Journal (volume)
trends between 1969 andand 2002 in South trends between 1969 2002 in South Finland localisation of the ore...targets), Thompson Ni belt, Canada (1207/31) and Cape Smith belt, Canada (287/27), the fertility analysis......................................... 207 14.5 Cape Smith belt .......................................After the selection of the exploration area or district, ultramafic and mafic intrusions and extrusions...(Noril’sk), to sulphide-bearing pelites (e.g. Kambalda, Cape Smith. Muskox) and black schists. Graphite-bearing
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
the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...overall subeconomic grade of 0.2% Cu, but containing local rich patches. A thick (135m) zone of secondary chalcocite...between 0.3 and 0.4% Cu. NORTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND In North-Eastern Queensland (Georgetown Inlier and...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
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
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 (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
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg...Chemical and Suspended Metallurgical Society of South Africa. Journal: vol. 1, 1894-date. October, 1899-May
 
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