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Chalcocite from
Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:321627
Long-form Identifier:1:3:321627:9
GUID (UUID V4):9ed51ab2-2a95-4220-8769-b0decf00c6cf
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
30.4km (18.9 miles) Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
39.7km (24.7 miles) Oamities Mine, Oamities, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
45.2km (28.1 miles) Otjihase Mine, Von Francois Farm 60, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
81.0km (50.4 miles) Natas Mine, Natas Farm 220, Gamsberg area, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
84.2km (52.3 miles) Otjisongati Mines, Okamuvia Farm 144, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
91.3km (56.7 miles) Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
References
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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unpublished.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)
COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA...Formation in the Southern Zone or Khomas trough of the Damara Orogen in Namibia. It comprises a sheeted-vein...517 + 3 and 518 + 3 Ma. Late-stage supergene chalcocite-brochantite enrichment is related to the African...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara...Damara Orogen, some 65 km north-east of Windhoek, Namibia (Figure 1). It operated intermittently throughout
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mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibia—a review and regional interpretation A.F. Kamona...Günzel b a b University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia Ongopolo Mining Ltd., Main Street...Street, P.O. Box 40, Tsumeb, Namibia Received 16 May 2004; accepted 10 April 2006 Available online 4...Neoproterozoic Damara mobile belt in northern Namibia (Fig. 1). The northern part of the metallogenic...of the Tsumeb Subgroup is the same in northern Namibia (Table 1). However, the Mulden Group in the OML
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Central African Copperbelt, and the Damaran Belt in Namibia, which hosts a considerable number of base-metal...rocks making up the Damara Orogen cover most of Namibia and consist of coastal and northeast-trending branches...of the Katangan Supergroup, which dominate the region, comprise a lower sequence of subaerial and shallow-marine...considerable evidence for thrust tectonics in the region, the previously accepted stratigraphic correlations...Mozambique Belt in Kenya and further south. Here the region comprises a complex sequence of accreted juvenile
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subduction accretion in the Pan-African Damara Belt of Namibia Shawn Kitt a,⁎, Alexander Kisters a, Nick Steven...South Africa Rockwater Consulting Namibia, PO Box 27344, Windhoek, Namibia c International Base Metals Limited...and Explorations, PO Box 81136, Olympia, Windhoek, Namibia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Accepted 16 October 2015 Available online 2 December 2015 Keywords: Copper mineralisation Chalcocite Shear...discovery in the Pan-African Damara Belt of central Namibia. The deposit is situated in Mesoproterozoic gneisses
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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 . :~~.....Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
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Kabwe (PbZn) and Tsumeb (Pb-Zn-Cu) in Zambia and Namibia, respectively, have been measured and found to...Kamona (&) University of Namibia, Science Faculty, Private Bag l3301, Windhoek, Namibia J. LeÂveÃque Centre...mean l-value of 10.25 ‹ 0.12 in the Copperbelt region of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo...deposit in Namibia which are shown to be related to upper crustal source rocks in the region. The isotopic...by-products of Ag, Cd, and V have been produced from the mine. At least 1.8 Mt (million tonnes) Zn and 0.8 Mt
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SIERRA LEONA AMIBIA 0 WINDHOEK ----------- MP mineral perspectives NAMIBIA This current report has...provide the latest available data and information on Namibia. Comments, revisions, and additional information... Thispublication hasbeencataloged asfollows: Namibia (Mineral pcrspecri vcs) Bibliography: p. 47-55...of Docs. no.: I 28.37/2: 1. Mineral indusrrics-Namibia. I. Coakley, George J. iI ! I l I I TN19...••••..••••••.•.••••.••• Rights of landowners and mine owners•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Special
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contribution in the early stage of the Damara Orogen, Namibia: New constraints from combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes...sources. The Goas Magmatic Complex in Central Namibia consists of a suite of variably metamorphosed gabbros...according to the subduction model, the ocean floor (Khomas Ocean) and the Kalahari Craton were subducted under...et al., 2011); (4) the Southern Zone (SZ, also Khomas Zone), a low-T high-P zone (Kasch, 1983) containing...the Khomas Ocean with NW-verging subduction. An accretionary prism of sea-floor sediments (Khomas schists)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as covellite as cases in point. (CuS) or chalcocite (Cu 2 S), to precipitate and increase overall...311–316 311 O C TOBER 2015 zone (e.g. cuprite, chalcocite, digenite, covellite, berzelianite, umangite)...mining district (FIG. 2). The “chalcocite blanket,” composed of chalcocite and native copper, marks the...(CuFeS2) growing on white fluorite – Erika Mine. (C) Chalcocite (Cu2S) coating chalcopyrite in yellow brown...– Wölsendorf Mine. (D) Covellite (CuS) covering chalcopyrite in quartz – Wölsendorf Mine. (E) Cuprite
Report (issue)
Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia) MINISTRY OF MINES...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA Director: B.G. Ho al BULLETIN 1 Type mineralogy of Namibia by Vaughan C. Daltry...from the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20... ______ ........ Abstract The type mineralogy of Namibia is reviewed. One hundred and thirty-nine (139)...Twenty-three (23) unnamed phases are also listed. Namibia ranks second to Zaire as the most productive African
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MINER.GES. 148 (2003) THE OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND IN NAMIBIA: TSUMEB, GERMANIUM AND SNOWBALL EARTH by Frank...carbonate successions in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia, host a large number of polymetallic (Cu-Pb-Zn)...structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...jungproterozoischen Karbonatabfolgen des Otavi Berglandes (Namibia) sind zahlreiche polymetallische (Cu-Pb-Zn) Sulfidvorkommen...this is more than the name of a small town in Namibia and a polymetallic copper deposit: Tsumeb is renown
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systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide...(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...tectonostratigraphic domains and structures of the region are presented, together with implications for the... They emphasize the enormous potential of this region in terms of base (Cu, Pb, Zn, Co, Ni), precious
Book (edition)
A splendid specimen of wulfenite from Tsumeb, Namibia Half-title: Quartz, Nababeep Opposite: Mimetite...world famous Tsumeb mine Overleaf: Crystalline incrustations of vanadinite, Namibia Contents Acknowledgements...properties of minerals 12 Major rock-forming minerals 16 Minor rock-forming minerals 34 Igneous rocks ...mines. The geological map of Namibia which shows the mines and also farm boundaries. Both these maps show...Goodhousc on the Orange River cast of Vioolsdrif. In Namibia amethyst can be found north-east of Otjiwarongo
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(mantovani@usp.br) R.McG. Miller PO Box 11222, Windhoek, Namibia (rmmiller@mweb.com.na) A. Misi Centro de Pesquisa...Africa), 2004 in São Paulo (Brazil), 2005 in Windhoek (Namibia), 2006 in Punta del Este (Uruguay), 2007 in...southwestern Gondwana. Developments in Precambrian Geology, 16, Elsevier, pp. 3211. 1 2 3 4 Departamento de Geologı́a...Africa. Developments in Precambrian Geology, Volume 16 ISSN 0166-2635, DOI 10.1016/S0166-2635(09)01601-6...and Numees (Frimmel et al., 2002) formations of Namibia and the Jacadigo Group and Puga Formation of the
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of Textures Chapter 14 Tectonic Effects Chapter 16 Leaching, Diffusion and Element Concentration 103...of the granite-gneissic Precambrian rocks of the region and of manganese mobilized by leaching of basalts...controlled by the structurally superimposed unwrapping region. This engendered the decisive conditions in the...granitized material itself. The wide country rock-region may in many cases be a significant contributor...in a series like pyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite-chalcocite and in the formation of complex sulfosalts in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
closely link geomorphological (land)forms in a region with the climate during a certain period of time...supergene or secondary sulfides, such as covellite, chalcocite, and Ag minerals to precipitate and to be preserved...and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner... Cu sedimenthosted (sandstonehosted) Kalengwa Mine, Zambia Cu-Co stratiform and vein-type REE-(Zn-PbCu)...al. 2001 malachite azurite cuprite Joumbira Namibia Cu sedimenthosted (sandstonehosted) Pb-Cu-Zn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(after Oveisi 2001) and location of the Bavanat mine in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran. Zarasvandi et...meta-sedimentary rocks and meta-volcanics. In the Harat region, the Toutak and Surian complexes form the lower...and rutile from the Bavanat mine. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Sample No. SiO2 TiO2...98,39 No. 1 to No. 10: Plagioclase; No. 11 to No. 16: Ilmenite; No. 17 to No. 18: Rutile The Bavanat...pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite from the Bavanat mine. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Sample No
Report (chapter)
lyellcollection.org/ at University of Otago on March 16, 2015 Proterozoic geochronology and tectonic evolution...buried, NE-trending orogen present in the Kalahari region. Orogenesis in the same time frame farther north...discussion focuses on the major Proterozoic belts of the region, although some events affecting the adjacent cratons...structural framework throughout much of that vast region remains poorly known. More complete geophysical...distribution of Proterozoic belts in the Kalahari region (Fig. 1; Hutchins & Reeves 1980; Meixner & Peart
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R ON G Crustal recycling in the Damara Belt, Namibia, and interaction of the Congo and Kalahari Cratons...southwestern Central Zone of the Damara Belt (Namibia) are used to decipher the process of remobilization...Congo Craton The Congo Craton crust in northern Namibia and Angola is made up of Archaean-Siderian orthogneisses...Craton in Angola (Delhal et al., 1975; 1976). In Namibia, whole-rock Sm-Nd model ages and xenocrystic zircons...ages of Congo Craton basement inliers in northern Namibia and northwestern Botswana; 2022 ± 15 Ma (Grootfontein
Report (issue)
south of the Wardner district of the Coeur d'Alene region. Only a small part of it was included in the area...drains a small basin west of Pine Creek. Relief. The region is mountainous, and the maximum relief is about...to the Highland-Surprise mine, on Stewart Creek, and to the Constitution mine, on the East Fork of Pine...Pine Creek. Each mine is about 9 miles distant by wagon road from the station, and the Northern Light,...of the district. Ore is hauled from the Hypotheek mine down French Gulch to Kingston, 4 miles to the north
Report (issue)
of the HENE CHEEK AREA, COEUR D f ALENE I-TEiniG REGION Sheshone County, Idaho J. D. Forrester and Vincent..... Trapper Creek Fault ............. Amy and Matchless Faults ........... Faults confined to the Prichard^argillite...Constitution Mine ................. Douglas Mine ................... Highland-Surprise Mine ................. Sidney Mine .................... Little Pittsburgh Mine .............. Denver Mine ....................... Nevada Stewart Mine ................ Lookout Mountain Mine ............... Lynch-Pine Creek
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the Committee of the S.W.A. Scientific Society Windhoek 1967 Cover design by Petro Smit. The alchemistic...Schriftleitung: Postfach 67, Windhoek, S.W.A. Druck: John Meinert (Pty.) Ltd., Windhoek, S.W.A. TABLE OF CONTENTS...Minen- und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft: 1906-1946 . Tsumeb Mine . Ore Concentration and Smelting Ra:ilway and Communications...truth is that in total metal production the Tsumeb mine has become one of the foremost on the African continent...sta­ tistics do, however, reveal why the Tsumeb mine has attained world status as a base metal producer
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papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi Greisen System.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Navachab, Namibia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....The Besshi-Type Cu Deposits of the Matchless Amphibolite Belt, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-V Deposits of the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Phosphates and vanadates 209 15 Tungstates 216 16 Silicates 220 Nesosilicates Sorosilicates Cyclosilicates...Republic, 6 cm). Figure 1.2 Halite crystals (Namibia, 5.8 cm). 6 section devoted to the display of...(field of view 8 cm). Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). 7 microscopes, or...block 13 14 15 16 17 5 B 6 C 7 N 8 O 9 F 10 Ne 13 Al 14 Si 15 P 16 S 17 Cl 18 Ar 2...7 7s5f 6d 1 18 1 H 2 He 32 2 13 14 15 16 17 93 3 Li 4 Be 5 B 6 C 7 N 8 O 9 F 10
 
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