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Adamite from
Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Adamite
Formula:Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Colour:Yellow
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22837
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22837:8
GUID (UUID V4):b8b13d81-4357-41e7-94e4-2aaf4876060c
References
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Journal (issue)
Three Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ....................................J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc...Crescent, it has yielded many valuable specimens. Kipushi is the type locality fo r renierite and kipushite...situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Report (issue)
\ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)...Vanadium-gennanite Co-adamite Lithium-tourmaline W-gennanite Co-dolomite Low-Cu adamite Yttrio-fluorite...Yttrio-fluorite Co-fleischerite LU Y-fluorite Cu-adamite Maigruen Zinc-lavendulan Cu-austinite Mangano-apatite...from the Tsumeb deposit (Namibia) and the Clara mine, Schwarzwald (Germany). At Tsumeb, the phase occurs...zone along 30 Level. The material from the Clara mine is a sulphate-rich variety. 13 --, Type mineralogy
Report (volume)
Germanium-Gallium Mine, Washington County, Utah Geology and Mineralogy of the Apex Germanium-Gallium Mine, Washington...Geology and mineralogy of the Apex GermaniumGallium mine, Washington County, Utah (U.S. Geological Survey...Abstract 1 Introduction 1 Germanium and gallium 1 Apex Mine 1 Acknowledgments 3 Methods 3 Geologic setting 3...References 8 FIGURES 1. Map showing location of Apex Mine and generalized geology of surrounding region 2...2 2. Photograph showing main adit of Apex Mine and gently dipping beds of the Callville Limestone 3
Report (issue)
vtou/p fre). GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE APEX MINE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH 'B R af t by Lawrence...Apex mine 10 Table 2. Chemical analyses of some nearly monomineralic samples from the Apex mine 11...FIGURES Figure 1. Map showing location of the Apex mine and generalized geology of the surrounding region...Figure 2. Photograph showing main adit of the Apex mine and gently dipping beds of the Callville Limestone...crystals from the 5330 level, Apex mine 14 Abstract The Apex mine, in Washington County, Utah about
Catalog/List
best attention at all times. FEBRUlIRY 1974 1. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Small, sharp...Limonite mmtrix. 3x2". £8. 10. BARYTES. Haile Moor Mine, Nr. Egremont, W. Cumberland. Superb, intergrown...association. 2~xlt". £2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine...from the deep levels of Cormla II's richest tin mine. 3x2~xli". £2. =. 17. C",-SSITThITE variety "TOr...sample. 2xltxlt". £1.25. 19. CBALCOCITE. Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornw 11. h single 3 mID. sized sharp
Report (issue)
bodies of Tsumeb, Kombat and Abenab. The Tsumeb Mine produced germanium in 1922 and from 1950 to 1968...2. Occurrences 2.1. Germanium 2.1.1. The Tsumeb Mine 2.1.2. Other occurrences 2.2. Gallium 3. References...The Tsumeb Mine The only mine in Namibia that has ever produced germanium is the Tsumeb Mine. A comprehensive...willernite between 0.05 and 0.128%, olivenite-adamite up to 0.28% and duftitebayldonite up to 0.11% germanium...6% (Geier & Ottemann, 1970). Ore from the Tswneb Mine contains on average 50 ppm germanium. The distribution
Catalog/List
massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold...Index, Washington, USA. crystals ALBITE: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quobcc, Canada. crystals ALBITE: St....good crystal sections AS ,'\BOVE ALGOOONITE:Calumot Mine, Michigan, USA. massive ALL'\NITE: . Quadeville...1-:incrva .i'l Mine, Cavo-ln-Rock, Illinois, USA. good crystals ALT/1ITE: Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountain...Wickcnburg, Arizona, USA. massiv0 ALUNOGEN fuxtor l/7 Mine, san Rafael Sw01l, Utah, USA. massivo AMBER: Phillipina
Journal (issue)
Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...University of Arizona, I quickly discovered that Dr. John Anthony’s mineralogy and crystallography classes...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken
Book (edition)
Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr & Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hanel Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter...Joachim Lorenz Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik Dr. Frank Melcher☆ & Dr. Simon Goldmann & Dr. Thomas Oberthür Dipl...-Min. Sebastian Möller Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Peter Röper☆ Prof. Dr. Supriya Roy✝ Dr. Thomas Seifert Dipl...-Geol. Jana Wazeck & Prof. Klaus Thalheim Dr. Thomas Witzke Prof. Dr. Fathi Zereini Mitteljörn 14a, D-24536... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
district, TN), and (c) the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from treatment of slags of the Lubumbashi Cu-Zn...and in part from slags 156 originated from Kipushi). Germanium grades in these deposits range between...fleischerite, schaurteite), arsenates (olivenite, adamite), and silicates (willemite) (Melcher 2003; Höll...sphalerite, using the Ge concentration of 57.8 ± 2.6 ppm (Dr. Stephen Wilson, personal communication, in Belissont...(Song 1984; Song and Tan 1996). The Tres Marias Mine in Mexico, considered a low-temperature MVT ore
Catalog/List
293-2255 May 1988 LIST of REFERENCEMINERALS 1. ADAMITE Tsumeb, South West Africa Choice light pale green...1-1/4xl-3/4" $ 20.00 3. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb pale blue-white...excellent form. 2x3xl-1/2" $ 15.00 4. ACANTHITE Rayas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico Superb lustrous dark black globular...dolomite. 2x3x3/4" $ 50.00 15. CALCITE Mandawaska mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada Select dark tan 4 mm...sulfides. 2xl-3/4" $ 35.00 25. CHALCOCITEMusonoi mine, Shaba, Zaire Choice lustrous terminated gray metallic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plus pseudomalachite and reichenbachite from Kipushi, Shaba, Zaire, were purchased from Summit Minerals...material. Pure pseudomalachite from the West Bogan mine, Collerina Hall, NSW, Australia, was obtained from...Infrared spectroscopic analysis of the olivenite – adamite series, and of phosphate substitution in olivenite...J. J. (1995): Famous mineral localities: the Kipushi Mine, Zaire. – Mineral. Rec. 26: 163 – 92. Williams
Journal (issue)
Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor...aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Freilich Collection. ♦ 4
Book (edition)
Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank Melcher & Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655...D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität... Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians Universität...cengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 München, Germany Dr. Thomas Seifert TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute...Geology, Brennhausgasse 14, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany Dr. Thomas Witzke Urho-Kekkonen-Str. 9, D-18147 Rostock
Catalog/List
9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix...MALACHITE, . . . $120.00 AESCHYNITE-Y Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire. •82834 (a) Excellent green...specimens set attractively for display.) Hillveit Mine , Setesdal District, Norway. (a) Large (4.2 x 1.... . . . . . . . . . $750.00 MARTHOZITE Musonoi Mine , Kolwezi , Shaba , Zaire. Exceptional triangular...(c) 4.5 - 5 mm . . . $20.00. PENROSEITE, Pacajake Mine, near Hiaco , Bolivia. Pure mass of penroseite with
Catalog/List
with red cavity. 2. 3. ALSTONITE, Fallowfields Mine,Hexham,Northumberland. Sharp,creamy,small spikey...00. 11 length) ;'cross". ANGLESITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Tsumeb 1 0tavi,S.W.Africa. Choice,gemmy,flattened...3x2x11; 1', 25. 00. 16. ARSENOPYRITE.P endarves Mine , Camborne , Cornwall . Si 1 very ~e ll. ••f oraie...11 ,~15.oo. • .. 18. 19 • AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Gila Co.,Arizona,U.SrA, Lustrous turquoise-blue...~10 00. ·* AURICHALCITE/HEMIMORPHITE, Golconda Mine, Brassinr;ton, Derbyshire. Rich gree~ish radiating
Journal (issue)
The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the...surrounded on all sides (ex­ Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by...social upheaval. Mean­ locality in northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Tsumeb belongs while mining progresses...of rare mineral to rise. Who knows how long the mine will continue to operate? species at Tsumeb. In
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£10 2x2 £15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black...Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DI (2007) Zincolivenite CuZn(AsO4)(OH): a new adamite-group mineral with ordered distribution of Cu and... II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York Peacor DR, Dunn PJ, Ramik RA, Sturman BD, Zeihen LG (1985)...of kipushite, a new copper-zinc phosphate from Kipushi, Zaire. Can Mineral 23:35–42 Sabelli C, Zanazzi...2017.081.037 Toman K (1978) Ordering in olivenite-adamite solid solutions. Acta Crystallogr B 34:715–721
Book
minerals were named when Zaire was called the Belgian Congo; this old term and similar ones are retained in...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...studied meteorites; described numerous new minerals. adamite, Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881), French mineralogist;...its crystal-chemical relationship to the mineral adamite (named for Gilbert Joseph Adam), they thought the...formula for eveite is Mn2(As04)(0H) while that for adamite is Zm (AsCHXOH). Laurite was named by Friedrich
Journal (issue)
clubs plus importants, dont nous par­ lions plus haut, au sein d'une Fédération Belge des Cercles Géologi­...""' d + r cos z l'angle p. nüus l'avons vu plt.Js haut, etant toujou rs tr'ës petit. En effet, traçons...celle s u Soleil, d'après ce que nous avons vu plus haut. La planète exerçant la force de marée la plus forte...gisement a cessé en 1 9 6 0 , après l'inondatio n de la mine. L'objet de notre exposé n'est pas de dresser un...pou r la l ocalisation d es gîtes c ités. 1 . - Mine de l'Etoile (Lubumbashi) I l s ' a g i t d ' u n
Catalog/List
£5 lx2 £10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with...£8 2x3 £12 236 1129 • ALMAN DINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained solid grainlike
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...mining period between 1907 and 1996, although the mine produced about 30 Mt of ore grading 10 % Pb, 4.3...units. Continent-continent collision between the Congo and Kalahari Cratons resulted in deformation and...young karst pipes and breccias, e.g. the Abenab Mine (1.85 Mt @ 1.03 % V2O5 mined; CAIRNCROSS, 1997);...mineralization is known from several locations. The Tsumeb mine in the northern part of the OML (Fig. 1) is the
 
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