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Parsonsite from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Parsonsite
Formula:Pb2(UO2)(PO4)2
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Dewindtite
Kasolite
Torbernite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Schoepite2 photos of Parsonsite associated with Schoepite at this locality.
Torbernite2 photos of Parsonsite associated with Torbernite at this locality.
Becquerelite2 photos of Parsonsite associated with Becquerelite at this locality.
Metatorbernite1 photo of Parsonsite associated with Metatorbernite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Parsonsite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22830
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22830:5
GUID (UUID V4):c6b614a7-8439-457a-8a79-7c1f2f49a48b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
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
Report (issue)
c = 13.605(2) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; nearly identical to phosphuranylite. 8.01...23.06 8.06 Total 99.70 97.72 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; loss on ignition taken as H2 O. (2) Do.;...Association: Torbernite, parsonsite, dumontite, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); bergenite, torbernite...France). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe and Swambo, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At...Canada. From the Ranger mine, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia. Name: Honoring Dr. Jean Dewindt, Belgian
Book (volume)
., ..J ATLAS DU KATANGA PUBLIE PAR LE ,,, COMITE SPECIAL nu KATANGA / d 'ap�è5 les tr>avaux ·de...remonte à l'âge triasique. rhétien. ATLAS nu KATANGA FASCICULE 2 TABLE DES MATIÈRES GÉNÉRALITÉS...LXXXIII LXXXVII Introduction . La géologie du Katanga Méridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « I...Tenke » Carte géologique du Katanga Méridional LXXXV LXXXIX FEUILLE KAMBOVE Texte. Planches, plans et...de mine Planche géodésique. Planche des minéraux Plan et coupe schématique de la mine de Kambove Planche
Journal (issue)
tranche unidescenda11te sous dalle de béton à la mine de Margnac (Haute-Vienne) - Photo: COGEMA (GST)... Auj ourd ' hui , il ne reste plu qu' une seule mine d' ura nium en acti vité, à Jouac dans le nord du...Victo r Lassall e décou vre la chalcolite dans la mine du Crôt Blanc près de Gru ry (Saône-etLoire). En...(Haute-Vienne). Pendant ce temps, la mine de radium de Shinkolobwe (Katanga) est réouverte pour l'uranium en...1956 et mis en exploitation en 1958. Au Niger, la mine d'Arlit est exploitée à partir de 1968. Des prospections
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in this manner were Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada; Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia; and, probably...probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...generation of formation than the pitchblende. The Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire produced a few very large, to...Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. bismuth, and...Czechoslovakia; Great Bear L a k e in Canada; the Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire; and the deposits at Cornwall
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 (article/letter/editorial)
on kasolite from Shinkolobwe, DRC; (b) chervetite on francevillite from Mounana mine, Gabon. Field of...M37121 M52840 M52841 M52686 M52840 sklodowskite parsonsite saléeite dewindtite francevillite tyuyamunite...Eva mine, Northern Territory, Australia Ranger U mine, Northern Territory, Australia Ranger U mine, Northern...Northern Territory, Australia Ranger U mine, Northern Territory, Australia Sleisbeck U mine, Northen Territory...Territory, Australia Musonoi mine, Shaba, DRC Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba, DRC Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba, DRC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Of the 322 entries*, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) comes out on top with 88; Namibia...indebted to Dr.Joseph Mandarino of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Werner Krause of Hiirth, Germany, who supplied dates...briartite shares with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia, and both djerfisherite and niningerite...Localities (1) Kanemite: Kanem region, Lake Chad. CONGO(3) People (2) Fornacite: Lucien Louis Fourneau (18671930)...(18671930), colonial governor, French Congo. Plunchkite: Mr. PlanchC, French explorer. Localities (1)
Report (issue)
c = 30.3(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 7.63 (FF), 3.81 (m), 3.24 (m), 3.59 (fm)... 76.06 14.36 9.58 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; H2 O by difference, corresponds to UO2 •...kasolite, parsonsite, dewindtite, fourmarierite. Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo...Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In the Marshall Pass district, Gunnison and Saguache Co., Colorado, and...and in the Lucky Strike mine, La Sal Mountains, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. From Wölsendorf, Bavaria, and
Report (volume)
-- _______________________ --------------15. Parsonsite ___________________ ----------- ____________________...(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...urani urn minerals first discovered in the Belgian Congo. The work of the American mineralogist C. Palache
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
better known to collectors historically as Katanga, Belgian Congo. It was purchased at the Munich Show in...in the 352 ROCKS & MINERALS mid-1980s by Dr. Marvin Rausch, in whose collection it remains. Although...as having originated at Shinkolobwe,it is more likely from the Musonoi mine in the same district. The...important in the upper parts of the Katanga deposits in what was the Belgian Congo. The occurrence of either primary...from the Markey No. 3 mine, White Canyon district, Utah, as well as the Skyline mine in the Monument Valley
Report (issue)
Parsonsite Pb2 (UO2 )(PO4 )2 • 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...260 β = 98◦ 150 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA. 4.25 (10), 3.28 (8), 2.13 (6)...15.59 49.03 3.96 Total 100.00 100.00 (1) Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Pb2 (UO2 )(PO4 )2 • 2H2...kasolite, dewindtite (Kasolo, Congo); autunite, phosphuranylite (Ruggles mine, New Hampshire, USA); pyromorphite...(Lachaux, France). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Wölsendorf
Report (issue)
= 13.702–13.790 X-ray Powder Pattern: Flat Rock mine, North Carolina, USA; nearly identical to dewindtite...uranophane, uranophane-beta, becquerelite, curite, parsonsite, torbernite, metatorbernite, saléeite, sabugalite...North Carolina; in the Ruggles mine, near Grafton, and the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co...Fairfield Co., Connecticut; at the Barker (Ferguson) mine, five km southeast of Keystone, Pennington Co.,...Sardinia, Italy. From the La Crouzille mine and Margnac mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, and at Bois
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)
Original paper The question of water content in parsonsite: a model case – occurrence at the Červené žíly...gangue, containing rich crystalline aggregates of parsonsite, was recently found at the outcrop parts of the...research proved that in the crystal structure of parsonsite from Jáchymov is present a higher content of...ascertained in the infrared spectrum of studied parsonsite sample, suggesting that H2O molecules are involved...hydrogen-bonding network in the crystal structure of studied parsonsite. Inferred hydrogen bond lengths can vary in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nZ:1.585, 2Y-65", r)2. Sal6eite from Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, has 2V 0' to 10". Novacekite and sal6eite...(IX): SALEEITE AND NOVACEKITE 681 bwe, Belgian Congo, suggeststhat this particular material corresponds...of autunite. Two specimens of sal6eite from Shinkolobwe, one originally from the collection of A. Schoep...the structure of the fully-hydrated phase. The Shinkolobwe and Portuguese material has practically identical...orientation such as is shown by the original Shinkolobwe material. The optical properties of air dried
Journal (issue)
tra11che 11nidesce11dame s011s dalle de bé1011 à la mine de Margnac (Ha11te-Vie1111e) - Photo: COGEMA (GST)...siècle. Aujourd·hui. il ne reste plu qu·une eule mine d"uraniurn en acti ité. à Jouac dan le nord du département...Klaproth découvre cc nouveau métal dan du minerai de mine de Jachymov (Joachimsthal). le baptisant du nom...l925. Victor La aile découvre la chalcolite clan la mine du Crôt Blanc prè de Grury (Saône-et­ Loire). En...cc temp . . la m i n e de ra d i u m de Shinkolobwe (Katanga) e t réouverte pour l'uranium en 1 9-l:i
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unnamed phase Pb(Ce,REE)3(PO4)3(OH)2 . nH2O, parsonsite, phosphuranylite, plumbogummite, pseudomalachite...atmosphere, flow rate of 10 ml.min-1; sample weight of parsonsite was 0.836 mg, sample weights of saléeites were...churchite-(Y) are often covered by orange-brown parsonsite crystals. The chemical composition of churchite-(Y)...covered in turn by crystalline aggregates of parsonsite (Fig. 11). The unnamed phase has a red-brown...lustre (Fig. 12). They occur in association with parsonsite, metatorbernite, saléeite, dewindtite, churchite-(Y)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
haiweeite (Burns 2000b), boltwoodite (Burns 1998c), parsonsite (Burns 2000a) and agrinierite (Cahill & Burns...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. ________ &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Musonoi and Shinkolobwe mines in DR Congo [6], two of the minerals were only found in the Repete mine (San Juan...from the Musonoi, DR Congo. The samples of haynesite originate from the Repete mine, Utah, UT, USA. 2...of the copper-cobalt deposit of Musonoi (Katanga, DR Congo). The first mineral was named after the general...general director of the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), co-founder of the International Mineralogical...O2 ](H2 O)8 [3,29], was also found in the Musonoi mine within a few years after, and named to honor Aimé
Report (volume)
Novacekite___________________________________________________ Parsonsite ____________________________________________________...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
way are chiefly the phosphates meta-autunite, parsonsite, and phosphuranylite, and the silicates uranophane...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...way are chiefly the phosphates meta-autunite, parsonsite, and phosphuranylite and the silicatesuranophane
 
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