 | | Book | | INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was |  | | Book | | MINERAUX D'URANIUM I t DU HA UT KATANGA iI •! "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belgique)...Notices par C. GUILLEMIN "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belg ique) QUELQUES REMARQUES...SECONDAIRES D'URANIUM DU HAUT KATANGA par J. F. V AE S E differents points du Haut Katanga ont ete rencontres...mineraux d'uraoium mais c'est le gisement de Shinkolobwe (anciennement denomme Kasolo) qui en a livre...consignees ci-dessous. Le mineral primaire d'uranium au Katanga est l'uraninite. Nulle part dans cette region on |  | | Report (issue) | | 31Mg0.19)Pb4.86[U5+(U6+O2)17O18(OH)14](H2O)~19.5 Richetite Crystal Data: Triclinic, pseudohexagonal. Point...α = 68.800(2)° X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo. 3.122 (100), 7.12 (80), 3.55 (60), 3.47...100.00 (2) 79.48 15.51 5.01 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo; average of eight electron microprobe analyses...zone of a hydrothermal uranium deposit (Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo). Association: Uraninite, uranophane, becquerelite...kasolite, rutherfordine, wölsendorfite (Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo); metazeunerite, nováčekite, zeunerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT Crystal structure of richetite revisited: Crystallographic evidence for the presence...crystal structure of the rare U-oxide mineral richetite provided crystallographic evidence for the presence...presence of pentavalent U. The structure of richetite, space group P1, a = 12.0919(2), b = 16.3364(4),...one, very long U–O bond (2.9 Å). The color of richetite also supports the presence of U5+ in the structure...that a-U3O8 type of sheet can incorporate U5+. Richetite is the third mineral containing pentavalent uranium |  | | Journal (issue) | | mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960 |  | | Book | | mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Buttgenbach, I924), masuyite, vandendriesscheite, and richetite (Vaes, 1947), w61sendorfite (Protas, 1957), and...and the unnamed 'Mineral C' from the Wiseman mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, briefly described...centrale from the uranium deposit of Shinkolobwe, Shaba ( = Katanga), have been systematically re-examined...species except richetite and 'Mineral C' were recognized. Of the seven species, richetite has never been...orange or red. Curite, which is very common at Shinkolobwe, is easily distinguished by its acicular habit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Six nouveaux mineraux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe (Katanga). Bull. Soc.BelgeGeol.,7O,B 212-225 (1947)...when heated. Occurs at only one place in the Shinkolobwe deposits, associated with fourmarierite and diderichite...1945, who had studied minerals of Belgian Congo. M.F. Richetite J . F. Yrns, op. cit. Small (0.1 mm.), black... formerly Chief Geologist, Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga. M.F. 384 NEW MINERAL NAMES 385 Studtite... geologist, who published a geological map of Katanga in 1913' M.F. Diderichite I. r-.v^Es, op. cit. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metavandendriesscheite Paulscherrerite Protasite Rameauite Richetite Sayrite Schoepite Spriggite Uranosphaerite Vandenbrandeite...Mineral – Protasite Billietite Becquerelite Richetite Agrinierite Masuyite Compreignacite b-U3O8 [DRU]...Billietite Compreignacite Gauthierite Fourmarierite Richetite Protasite Masuyite Agrinierite Rameauite Curite...Vandendriesscheite Becquerelite Compreignacite Fourmarierite Richetite Protasite Masuyite Curite Sayrite Wölsendorfite...on fine prismatic needle-like studtite. Shinkolobwe mine, Congo, Africa. Field of view (FOV) 2 mm (photo |  | | Report (issue) | | 960(2) c = 14.533(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 3.113 (100), 3.512 (90), 7.01 (80), 3.052...72 22.70 4.58 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, average of ten analyses;...uranophane, richetite, masuyite. Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Province, Zaire). Name: To honor Dr. David Sayre (1924– ), American crystallographer, State University |  | | Journal (issue) | | net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal |  | | Book | | . ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...............6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties |  | | Report (volume) | | ________________________________________ . _ Richetite _____________________ ----------- ___ ____ ___...Vandendriesscheite. A, B. Plane projection on (010) ---6. Richetite. A. A twinned crystal. B. A repeated twin ___...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Uranyl minerals are products of the oxidation of U mine tailings and they impact upon the releaserates of...fundamental to studies of the alteration of U deposits,U mine tailings, and the UO, in spent nuclear fuel. Toward...PrecambrianU deposits. It was first described from Shinkolobwe (Congo) by Vaes (1947). Protas (1959) examinedseveralcrystals...crystals from a single specimen from the Shinkolobwe (Congo) deposit and observedthat most crystals contained...total of vandendriesscheitestudied is from Shinkolobwe (Congo) 53227 reflections were collected, of which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fibers on uranophaneand rutherfordine at Shinkolobwe,Katanga. The optical propertiesgivenby Vaesled to...furnishedX-ray powder spacing data for the mineralfrom Katanga. The optical and X-ray data publishedby Vaes and...precipitate by addition of hydrogen Menzenschwand Shinkolobwe peroxide to a concentratedsolution of uranyl...diffraction data for studtite from Menzenschwandand Shinkolobwe as well as the indexedpattern for the syntheticcompoundare...by Guillemin (1958, p. 48) for the mineral from Katanga differs somewhat from that for the mineral from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | shows a schoepite crystal from Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, with a prominent (001) face slightly...drawing of a prismatic crystal of schoepite from Katanga on which the [100], [010] and [110] edges define...typical rectangular crystals of schoepite from Katanga (http://webmineral.com/data/schoepite.shtml). The...to that of crystals from Kasolo, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (Walker 1923, Palache 1934). (c)...Schoepite crystals from Kasolo, Democratic republic of Congo (Perloff 1998), together with a sketch of a crystal |  | Olds, Travis A., Plášil, Jakub, Kampf, Anthony R., Škoda, Radek, Burns, Peter C., Čejka, Jiří, Bourgoin, Vincent, Boulliard, Jean-Claude (2017) Gauthierite, KPb[(UO2)7O5(OH)7]·H2O, a new uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology. European Journal of Mineralogy, 29 (1) 129-141 doi:10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2586 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | new uranyl-oxide hydroxyhydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology TRAVIS...hydroxy-hydrate mineral from the Shinkolobwe Mine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. It occurs on a matrix...crystal structure; topology; oxidation zone; Shinkolobwe. 38 1. Introduction 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46...description of a new mineral from the Shinkolobwe mine (Katanga, Congo, Africa), gauthierite (/go ti: 'ei...geologist, mineralogist, and a true connoisseur of Katanga minerals (King, 2006). The new mineral and its |  | Plášil, Jakub, Škoda, Radek, Čejka, Jiří, Bourgoin, Vincent, Boulliard, Jean-Claude (2016) Crystal structure of the uranyl-oxide mineral rameauite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28 (5) 959-967 doi:10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2568 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Margnac mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. The Margnac mine is located in the...rich in uranium (more than 10 kg/t). The Margnac mine provided about 8,600 t U in ore. The primary mineralization...compreignacite, and rameauite, for which the Margnac mine is the type locality. The studied sample was a chip...Metavandendriesscheite Paulscherrerite Protasite Rameauite Richetite Sayrite Schoepite Spriggite Uranosphaerite Vandenbrandeite...solid line. (online version in colour) 2002), richetite (Burns, 1998a), compreignacite (Burns, 1998b) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurs in schoepite (Finch et al. 1996), and the richetite-type sheet occurs in becquerelite (Pagoaga et...fourmarierite anion-topology, (g) richetite anion-topology, (h) richetite, (i) vandendriesscheite, (j) vandendriesscheite...hydrates wölsendorfite sayrite curite fourmarierite richetite vandendriesscheite * This study. † Piret et al...crystal of wölsendorfite from Shinkolobwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, but was only able to propose...Canadian Museum of Nature is from Shinkolobwe, Democratic Republic of Congo. It contains several tabular crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Burns & Finch 1999), wölsendorfite (Burns 1999b), richetite (Burns 1998a), compreignacite (Burns 1998b), vandendriesscheite...described from the Shinkolobwe uranium mine, Likasi, in Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, by Deliens &...different specimens, both of which were provided by Dr. Mark Feinglos of Duke University. The first crystal...The specimens used in this study were provided by Dr. Mark Feinglos, Duke University. The manuscript was...carbonates hydrates d’uranyle et de terres rares de Shinkolobwe, Zaïre. Can. Mineral. 20, 231-238. ________ & |  | Ferenc, Š., Biroň, A., Mikuš, T., Spišiak, J., Budzák, Š. (2018) Initial replacement stage of primary uranium (UIV) minerals by supergene alteration: association of uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrates and “calciolepersonnite” from the Krátka Dolina Valley (Gemerská Poloma, Gemeric Unit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia) Journal of GEOsciences, 63 (3) 277-291 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ten contain Pb as a fundamental constituent (richetite, masuyite, spriggite, fourmarierite, meta-/ vandendriesscheite...K2O were found in vandendriesscheite from Shinkolobwe, Congo (Finch 1994). More significant potassium...carbonate–silicate, was described from the Shinkolobwe deposit, Congo (Deliens and Piret 1982). According to...its name was modified to lepersonnite-(Gd). Shinkolobwe until now remains the only locality with the...new uranyl-oxide hydroxy–hydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology. Eur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Von Foullon's specimensthrough the courtesy of Dr. A. Schiener, Curator of Mineralogy of the Natural...column 4 of Table 1, and supplied for examination by Dr. George Switzer of the U. S. National Museum, was...presenceof uranophane (?) is noted in material from Angel mine (analysis 16, which lacks CaO), and this mineral...deposits, including the Colorado Plateau region, Katanga, Great Bear Lake, and Joachimsthal, undergoes an...of uraninite on a geologic scale. Thus, in the Katanga deposits the uraninite alters first to hydrated |  | | Report (volume) | | Gross (1956) on material from the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah. d(A) I 9...and Murata (1951) on material from the Hillside mine, Yavapai County, Ariz. d(A) I *(A) 13.0 9.51...and Murata (1951)*on material from the Hillside mine, Yavapai County, Ariz. Bayleyite dehydrates readily...Cuttitta (1953) for material from the Katanga district, Belgian Congo. A virtually identical pattern is given...BILLIETITE BaO-6UO3-llH2O Material from Shinkolobwe, Katanga, Belgian Congo. See also J. W. Frondel and Cuttitta |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | significant primary uranium mineralization. Svornost mine, Jáchymov; photo P. Škácha. c – “Gummite” – residual...replaced by orange masuyite. Dump of the Rovnost mine, Jáchymov. The width of the sample is 4 cm. Photo...vandendriesscheite fourmarierite agrinierite richetite masuyite protasite curite sayrite wölsendorfite...masuyite → sayrite → curite → wölsendorfite → richetite → spriggite. b) The system that does not contain...during the post-mining processes, known as the Acid-Mine Drainage (AMD) (e.g., Brugger et al. 2003) (Fig |
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Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo