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Dolomite from
Rosh Pinah Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite3 photos of Dolomite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Dolomite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Baryte1 photo of Dolomite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Marcasite1 photo of Dolomite associated with Marcasite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rosh Pinah Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:655920
Long-form Identifier:1:3:655920:5
GUID (UUID V4):0bbf23c2-83d5-47e0-ab8f-ecb5962e80af
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
64.5km (40.1 miles) Karingarub Intrusion, ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
around the Rosh Pinah massive sulphide deposit in the external Pan-African Gariep Belt, Namibia H. E. Frimmel...Pan-African Gariep Belt, with emphasis on the Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb sulphide deposit, demonstrated that the...pre-Gariep basement near the volcano-sedimentary Rosh Pinah Formation. These are explained by derivation...Very rare pre-orogenic fluids discovered in Rosh Pinah mine samples display markedly different composition...host rock. The good preservation of the syn-rift Rosh Pinah ore bodies during the Gariep orogeny is explained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan-African, Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb deposit, southwestern Namibia D.J. Alchin Kumba Resources...Grahamstown, South Africa e-mail: J.Moore@ru.ac.za “Rosh Pinah” – The stone which the builders refused has become...genesis of the Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb deposit in southwestern Namibia. During continental rifting...rifting at ~740 Ma, an intracratonic rift (Rosh Pinah Graben) became detached from the main Gariep depository...fluid populations – a pre-orogenic, riftrelated Rosh Pinah ore-forming fluid dominated by MgCl2- and CaCl2-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic units in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, Namibia Hartwig E. Frimmel "*, Chris J.H. Hartnady a, Friedrich...units in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia, presented in this paper, provide the basis for...within-plate affinity along an embryonic rift graben (Rosh Pinah Formation) and 4s found within the older sediment... Both complexes are separated by turbidites (Oranjemund Complex), which are interpreted as continental...stretching from Liideritz in the southwestern part of Namibia to the northern part o f the South African west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate beds in the Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Formation, Namibia: Implications on depositional setting...altered carbonate rocks are an important host to Rosh Pinah-type base metal sulphide mineralisation in the...the PanAfrican Gariep Belt in southern Namibia. In order to elucidate the genesis and environment of formation...other being in a more distal position at the Rosh Pinah mine, revealed a primary sedimentary origin for...for the Rosh Pinah Formation. Introduction Two major base metal ore deposits, the Rosh Pinah ZnPb sulphide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
19 Stratigraphic setting of the metalliferous Rosh Pinah Formation and the Spitzkop and Koivib Suites...Suites in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia D.J. Alchin Kumba Resources, P O Box 1224, Postmasburg...proposed for the Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Formation in southwestern Namibia. The formation forms part of...hosting two major economic base metal deposits at Rosh Pinah and Skorpion. It is characterised by the presence...failed intracratonic rift graben in the east (Rosh Pinah Graben) that was separated by a basement horst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediment-hosted Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in the Pan African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia Abraham Rozendaal...ABSTRACT Limitations on the life-of-mine of the sediment-hosted Rosh Pinah deposit urged exploration for extensions...from detailed lithogeochemical traverses on the C Mine and Eastern Orefield, coupled with mineralogical...of a large (n > 400) multielement data set of the mine area, showed that the extent of wall rock alteration...Indices devised for the various lithologies of the Rosh Pinah deposit, such as the Barium Alteration Index
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract New Pb-Pb age data obtained on stromatolitic dolomite from the oceanic Marmora Terrane in the Pan-African...attempt was made to date a stromatolitic reef dolomite in the Marmora Terrane that has been interpreted...rifting phase. While the eastern rift graben (Rosh Pinah Graben) failed, a half graben to the west evolved...growth fault along the eastern boundary of the Rosh Pinah Graben. These rocks are interpreted as representing...high (Aurus horst) that separated the failed Rosh Pinah Graben in the east from the proper Gariep Basin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kingston"] at 08:22 13 August 2013 Rosh Pinah LEAD-ZINC MINE Figure 1 (above). Transparent yellow...the Rosh Pinah mine (foreground) with the village in the background. Gisela Hinder photo. Namibia 398...at 08:22 13 August 2013 he Rosh Pinah mine is located in southern Namibia, 20 kilometers north of the...and the farms Namuskluft 88 and Spitzkop III. The mine is somewhat isolated, and in order to get to it...need to be spent driving the roads in southern Namibia. The main access road branches off from the tarred
Report (chapter)
formations, Port Nolloth Group, in South Africa and Namibia HARTWIG E. FRIMMEL1,2 1 Department of Geological...Pan-African Gariep Belt (Port Nolloth Zone) in southern Namibia and western South Africa. It contains two glaciogenic...Formations are exposed at several sites in southernmost Namibia and in the adjoining part of South Africa (Fig...from Lüderitz in Namibia, across the Orange River to the western Richtersveld region of the Northern Cape...NW –SE trending thrust fault system, with the Rosh Pinah Fault being a good example. Along those faults
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the outer margin of the Gariep Belt at Rosh Pinah, southern Namibia M. M. Brayshaw and M. K. Watkeys Geological...the Pan-African Gariep Belt, East of Rosh Pinah in southern Namibia, displays a transpressional deformational...particularly in the arkose dominated sequence of the Rosh Pinah Formation. Tight F1 minor folds with an accompanying...fold and thrust belt, stretching from Lüderitz, Namibia in the northwest, to Kleinzee, South Africa, in...ARCHITECTURE OF THE OUTER MARGIN OF THE GARIEP BELT AT ROSH PINAH, S O UT H E R N NA M I BIA Thrust (Davies and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of smithsonite from Skorpion and Rosh Pinah Zn–(Pb) deposits (Namibia): preliminary results G. Arfé1,...London, UK The Skorpion and Rosh Pinah Zn–(Pb) deposits in southern Namibia, approximately 40 km north...(sauconite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, tarbuttite). Rosh Pinah is typical sediment-hosted Zn massive sulphide...completely removed. The secondary minerals at Rosh Pinah are: smithsonite, hemimorphite, Cu-oxidised phases...with the more limited weathering present in the Rosh Pinah © 2016 Institute of Materials, Minerals and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks of the c. 750 Ma Rosh Pinah Formation in the Gariep Belt in southwestern Namibia, a post-glacial carbonate...carbonates from the Otavi platform in northern Namibia, which include both an older post-glacial carbonate...Cryogenian carbonates in the Gariep Belt The Rosh Pinah Formation forms part of the Hilda Subgroup in...Gariep Belt, the Port Nolloth Zone, in southwestern Namibia and western South Africa (Fig. 3). This part of...fall during which an eastern failed graben, the Rosh Pinah Graben, became separated from a western half-graben
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation is unconformiblyoverlain by the younger at Rosh Pinah. Hilda Series of the Gariep Systemwhich is in...The mining area of Rosh Pinah is situatedap- to the northwest. consist of dolomite alternated with quartzite...few kilometers Huns Mountains to the east of Rosh Pinah. The scantyvegetationconsists mainlyof succulents...otherxerophyticplants. to the south and southeast of Rosh Pinah. The Kapok Formation •RegionalGeological Setting...pyroclasticswith THE Pb-ZnDEPOSITOF ROSHPIN,4H MINE 307 I LOCALITY MAP. Windhoek / • SOUTH WEST
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICHAEL D. MCMILLAN 3 Exploration history of Rosh Pinah and Aggeneys Michael D. McMillan 18 Derry Road...Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa The discovery of Rosh Pinah © 2005 Geological Society of South Africa The...of mapping the Witputs - Sendelingsdrif area in Namibia in 1963. This coincided with the start of the Precambrian...outcropping mineralisation that resembled a kind of dolomite rock weathering to a light to dark brown “ouklip”...VOLUME 108 PAGE 3-4 4 EXPLORATION HISTORY OF ROSH PINAH AND AGGENEYS From the field work now covering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and 558 pages later, ending with the Van der Plas mine. There is more, however, in the form of a chapter...10 percent of the photographs used in the first Namibia book are repeated here, so most are new. Many of...map showing its location in Namibia. Furthermore, unlike the first Namibia book that had multiple reference...reference lists after each region, there is one composite reference list at the end of the book making it...pages), 3 photos; Aris (23 pages), 33 photos; Rosh Pinah (10 pages), 18 photos; Tsumeb (158 pages), 265
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan-African Gariep and Saldania Belts in southern Namibia and South Africa. Carbonate rock powders were dissolved...Belt stretches along the coast from Luderitz in Namibia to Kleinzee in South Africa. It ¨ continues towards...bimodal continental riftrelated volcanism in the Rosh Pinah Formation ŽFrimmel et al., 1996b.. A minimum...Formation. and a near-shore volcanic facies ŽRosh Pinah Formation.. Evidence of magmatism related to crustal...bimodal, predominantly felsic volcanism in the Rosh Pinah Formation. Dolomitic stromatolites, pisolites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structurally related to calcite and dolomite, was discovered in the Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming where it occurs...in a newly discoveredzinc-lead-copperdepositat Rosh Pinah, situated about 100 miles south-eastof Aus in...OccURRENcE The principal gangue of the deposit is dolomite. From data collected from bore-holecoresthe norsethiteappearsto...norsethiteappearsto be of hydrothermal origin; it occurs in the dolomite as irregularly shaped veins, as a large body ...or lessequal quantities.Except for ore-minerals,dolomite and to a lesserextent qttartz are always associatedin
Book
WINDHOEK ----------- MP mineral perspectives NAMIBIA This current report has been prepared by the Bureau...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
natural norsethite from L~ngban (Sweden) and Rosh Pinah (Namibia). The Raman spectrum of synthetic norsethite...interest because of its analogy to the mineral dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) whose widespread occurrence is still...Charalampides,1988; Sundius and Blix; 1965) and from Rosh Pinah, Namibia (Steyn and Watson, 1967), respectively. Besides...Besides norsethite, sample 830005 also contained dolomite, braunite, and minor ericssonite and barytocalcite...description of the occurence of norsethite at Rosh Pinah (Steyn and Watson, 1967), sample M847 was a mixture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ratios have been found in both the calcite and dolomite fractions within partly dolomitized limestone...measured ␦18 O ratios in some of the early diagenetic dolomite are comparable to those in the corresponding limestone...Fig. 1 to illustrate this. Both the calcite and dolomite fractions within limestone that was partly or...ratios typical of seawater or even higher. The dolomite fractions tend to be enriched in 18 O by about...with the suggested isotope fractionation between dolomite and calcite (2.8‰, Zhou and Zheng, 2006). Late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The four Neoproterozoic glaciations of southern Namibia and their detrital zircon record: The fingerprints...The four Neoproterozoic glaciations of southern Namibia and their detrital zircon record: The fingerprints... The four Neoproterozoic glaciations of southern Namibia and their detrital zircon record: The fingerprints...Geological Survey of Namibia, 1 Aviation Road, P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia 3 Private Bag X607...western margin of the Kalahari Craton in southern Namibia underwent rifting at c. 750 Ma, caused by the break-up
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA: HYDROTHERMAL EXHALATIVE VERSUS HYDROGENETIC (INCLUDING...Department of Geology, University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia e-mail: b.mapani@unam.na M...such as the penecontemporaneous Tsongoari and Rosh Pinah deposits. SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY,...GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA Figure 1. Simplified geological map of the Pan-African...Pan-African Damara orogenic belt of Namibia (Miller, 2008), with the Otjosondu ferromanganese deposit located
Report (issue)
75(2) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA. 3.015 (100), 3.860 (35), 2.656 (35)...99.9 [100.00] 100.00 54.44 (1) Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA; CO2 by evolved gas analysis; after...00 (CO3 )2 . (3) BaMg(CO3 )2 . Mineral Group: Dolomite group. Occurrence: A rare authigenic mineral...(Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA). Distribution: In the USA, in the Westvaco trona mine, about 30 km west... Sweden. In the Rosh Pinah Zn–Pb–Cu deposit, about 160 km southeast of Aus, Namibia. Name: Honors Keith
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...crystals over most of the surface Sefrou, Fes-meknes region Morocco £25 26 BANALSITE brown massive with some...some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb" green...remarkably solid piece for this species Erongo region Namibia 6x5 £25 37 P AL YGORSKITE very light weight
Book
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...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science
 
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