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Pyromorphite from
Lydenburg, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lydenburg, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:263885
Long-form Identifier:1:3:263885:0
GUID (UUID V4):6c114a8a-7f86-4981-b85a-821e30509770
Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite
78.0km (48.5 miles) ⓘBelfast, Emakhazeni Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Twenty-three, Number Three Âź Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................and this must have introduced him to many other local mineral collectors and possibilities for further...of this typically natrolite covered material for local dealers as well as himself. He used much of this...lent a distinction to his stock of minerals that local dealers found hard to match. During his time with...later years he just purchased from the miners and local dealers. He did not like to be hurried, and drove
Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...suggestions and advice. Author’s Preface Southern Africa has much to offer the amateur geologist, whatever...best plan is to take local advice wherever you are. 9 In small places try the local police station first...usually helpful and will know it there are any local gem clubs and how to get in touch with them. There
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Mowry Place Tucson, AZ 85741 Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................and this must have introduced him to many other local mineral collectors and pos­ sibilities for further...of this typically natrolite covered material for local dealers as well as himself. He used much of this...lent a distinction to his stock of minerals that local dealers found hard to match. During his time with...later years he just purchased from the miners and local dealers. He did not like to be hurried, and drove
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa, the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in Russia...Maandagshoek farm, in the then eastern Transvaal, South Africa, led to the discovery of the largest known PGE...draining the great layered intrusions (Bushveld, South Africa; Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; Stillwater, USA) that...(PGE) after the Bushveld Complex in neighboring South Africa (Sutphin & Page 1986, Vermaak 1995, Zientek...from 84 kg of sediment <2 mm. Umtebekwe River (South); terrace; close to Moonie Creek. (30°00’35.0”E
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can they most easily be found ? First of all, any local stone quarries should be investigated very thoroughly...greasy orthorhombic aragonite Tsumeb, South-West Africa columnar, hexagonal crystals; coarsely granular...Si30;0] - Mg.[F PO.) Werfen, Salzburg, Seiser Alm, South Tyrol Austria danburite, colemanite, zeolite in...crystalline schists, in alpine cracks Seiser Alm, South Tyrol, Austria THOMSONITE NaCa, [Al,(Al,Si) SisO;o]2...Czechoslovakia SPODUMENE LiAl[Si,OÂą] Chesterfield, South, Carolina, USA QUARTZ SiO, (Rock Crystal) Bourg
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some...Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co ...Germany, with xanthiosite as a furnace product at the South Terras mine, St.Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England
Book (edition)
polysyngreen thetic Libethenite Molybdite Malachite Pyromorphite yes grey to brown although generally isotropic...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĂŒrst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Journal (issue)
involvement in collecting the great Bunker Hill mine pyromorphite bonanza, was born in Spokane, Washington, on...months with collecting crews mining world-class pyromorphite specimens. He then hired on as a consultant...(November-December 1981) and “Pyromorphite from the Coeur d’Alene District, Idaho” (September-October 1982)...Tourmaline with Cleavelandite N Chwaning I Mine, South Africa Stak Nala, Pakistan 10.0 x 6.0 x 3.6cm 4.4 x...northwestern edge of the Findlay Arch mineral district in the northeastern quarter of Paulding County
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the Witwatersrand region, near Johannesburg in South Mrica, which descend to a depth of almost 3500 m...Other important deposits are found in the Cobalt district of Ontario, Canada, as well as in Mexico and Bolivia...gold was discovered in Australia, first in New South Wales and shortly thereafter in Victoria. One nugget...important deposit is Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, which is a fossilized placer of quartz conglomerates...Because of the difficulty of cutting these stones the South African cuUers refer to them as Duive/steene (devil's
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Rigby Limited 30 North Terrace, Kent Town Adelaide, South Australia 5067 Printed in Czechoslovakia by Svoboda...can they most easily be found? First of all, any local stone quarries should be investigated very thoroughly...I ; 88 TARNOWITZITE (Pb,Ca)CO3 Tsumeb, South-West Africa APATITE here HYDROXYLAPA111 E CaJOH.PO,)....in orc deps. DATOLITE CaBlOH SiO.] Sciscr Alm, South Tyrol Austria 5.5 3.1 con­ choidal white I ...garnet ANALCITE Na|AlSi O. | . H.O Seiscr Alm. South Tyrol, Austria vitreous, dull transpar., transluc
Book (edition)
processes Nature has adopted to bring about the local concentration of metalliferous material. The original...part in all the folding and faulting that the district may undergo ; and if in the mass form of a bed...reference to the original structure of of the district, the area. mining districts occupy disturbed...contraction-fissures in greenstone, and at the Haile Mine, South Carolina, in joints traversing diorite dykes. Although...number as simple fracturing, are produced. Where a district has been subjected to shearing, the metalliferous
Book (edition)
processes Nature has adopted to bring about the local concentration of metalliferous material. The original...the folding and and if in the faulting that the district may undergo form of a bed, its outcrop will be...not conform to the outcrops of the rocks of the district, fracture, or with little some but will follow...contraction-fissures in greenstone, and at the Haile Mine, South Carolina, in joints traversing diorite dykes. Although...as simple fracturing, are produced. Where a district has been subjected to shearing, the may have deposited
Book (volume)
' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,...fissures known as 'rucken' in the Mansfeld copper district also contain occasional nickelite, together with... known examples of this type is the cobalt district of Schneeberg, in Saxony, a mountainous region...present. Besides quartz-cobalt veins the Schneeberg district contains quite a 3 variety of vein types, which...Schneeberg, cally important deposits of the entire district. the veins are so crowded together in an area
Book (edition)
ZearanpD GOLD : OvrHER METALS Nw CanLEDONIA AFRICA . ALGERIA . TRon OTHER : . METALS Statistics...MEXICO GOLD AND : SILVER COPPER Mercury TIN SOUTH AMERICA . BRAZIL GoLmp OrHER . METALS Cyalibal...Varaldso ; after Vogt 67.—Cross-section of the “South Vein” at Rio Tinto 68.—Standard Lode and Carbonas...foot level 115,-—Section between the Middle and South Yuba Rivers A oA HD or St OroO OD ND = pe ai...fahlbands, because I cannot but regard this as a local modification of fissure veins which has many analogies
Journal (volume)
Reconstruction ., Bateman's Tin Process Bauxite in West Africa A. E. Kitson (m.d.) Belgian Non-Ferrous Metal Industry...Broken Hill, Prospecting at Broken Hill South Broken Hill South Fire Buena Tierra 131 315 261 101 126...Outputs Platinum and Gold Corporation South Africa Co.'s Claim South Africa Co.'s Mining Department Burma Corporation...180 SCO (m.d.) 133. Coal, Powdered 139, Coal, South African (m.d.) 316 Cobalt, its Occurrence, Metallurgy...H. Johi - Bauxite in West Africa [m.d.) Diamond Discovery in Wert Africa Geology of Southern Nigeria
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JOINT-AUTHOR OF "MINING TABLES," "THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA," AND "THE GOLDMINES OF THE RAND " FOURTH EDITION...occasionally found presenting the crystal form of pyromorphite (phosphate of lead crystallizing in the is ...copper, 2A1 2 O 3 .P 2 O 5 .5H 2 O. Turquoise Pyromorphite chloro-phosphate of lead, 3 Pb 3 (P0 4 ) 2...larger quantity of gold or tin may in any given district be of ore-deposits, as temporarily (' placers...in Australasia (Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, New Zealand), the United States
Book (edition)
Monument, Arizona Sorting diamond crystals in South Africa Metamorphic rock, showing structure of gneiss...the so-called sand crystals from the Bad Lands of South Dakota. Gray in color, rough in texture, but having...suspended fragment will point toward the north and south magnetic poles of the earth. Magnet Cove, Arkansas...Etta mine, near Keystone, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The...of 18 to 27 tons have come from New England and South Dakota. Siberian quartz crystals weighing 10 to
Journal (volume)
Digest." Report. Abbontiakoon's New Shaft {m.d.) Africa, Iron Ore Resources of British African Steel Companies...others (m.d.) Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Anglo-Persian Oil Co's. Profits (m.d.) Antimonial...Labour Troubles 319 Report Broken Hill South *329 Broken Hill South, Concentration at. .V. F. Stanley Low...Pulverizing Machine, Blyth's Coal Resources of South Africa (m.d.). . . (m.d.) .... R. Gahl (m.d.)....Concentration, Electric Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa Consolidated Gold Mines of New Zealand Consolidated
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colourless, monoclinic crystals from Kimberley, South Africa. Named after Mr. Alpheus Fuller Williams, of...O partly replacing (F,OH). 20th List Alkali-pyromorphite. H. Wondratschek, 1963. Neues Jahrb. Min., Abh...United States, for 1913, 1914, part ii, p. 652.) Local trade-name, used by Mr. Joseph Ward, of Barstow...1918. Geol. Survey S. Africa, Mem. no. 12, p. 20 et seq., Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa, 1919, vol. xxi, p...occurs in large amount over a wide area in the Lydenburg and Pietersburg districts, Transvaal. Named from
Journal (issue)
Far East and Australasia, The ~Iiddle East and Africa-each country is covered in a separate contril)ution...Birmingham, Glasgow, Hull, Also : Liverpool, Newcastle, South Wales, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Italy...Fig. I Sketch Map showing Great Lakes of East Africa 216 '' ‱ 217 '' page 214 GeophysicalProspectingfor...conditions of this considerable part of eastern Africa are dependent, at least in part, upon the effects...period showed a somewhat F10. 1.-GREAT LAKES OF EAST AFRICA closer correlation. In 1933 Gillman extended the
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experience has proved to be his period as Councillor for Africa in the IAGOD in the years 1966-68 concerning African...the metallogeny of different granitic types in South East Asia (China), Xu Keqin et al. (1982) recognized...shales, hornfels and granites of the Harzburg district, showed that the amount of boron decreases from...environment and tin metallogeny of granites in South China". The following synoptical extract is quoted...work: "Endogenic tin metallogeny of the granites in South China is closely related to the migration and tectonic
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l'annabergite (du bourg minier d' Annaberg dans le district du Erz). Certains noms, de consonnance latine...pseudomorphoses GALÈNE District minier du Siegerland (Allemagne) GALÈNE Gisement du district minier de Neudorf...GĂ©ologie et district minier des Carpathes Gisements du massif schisteux rhĂ©nan District minier de Freiberg...Freiberg (Saxe) District minier de Schneeberg (Saxe) Gisements stratifiĂ©s de cobalt GenĂšse de la pyrite...109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 PYROMORPHITE BRASII,IANITE VANADINITE VIVIANITE ÉRYTHRINE
Journal (volume)
316 350 127 1.58 (m.d.) 138 316 70 74,330 South Africa Award 8, 263 373 Broken Hill .\ssociated Smelters...CyanideSolutions. Rand (m.d.) ' Coal Problems in South Africa Coal, Pulverized, and Oil 61 113 22, 81 122...Fields Mining Institute Diamond Output in South- West Africa Diamond Pipes, Brazilian , .......(m.d...Corporation Dust in Rock-Drilling. A. J. Ellis West Africa Premier Ores 201 72, 330 327 201 *244 *217 8...Fawcett, The Late J. H Fern, J. B St. Agnes Mining District Ferro-Concrete in Mining Im.d.) Field, S Electrolytic
Book (edition)
crystals from the Dakota. Gray Bad Lands more of South rough in texture, but having a pearly luster, formed...and south A magnetic poles of the earth. Magnet Cove, Arkansas, ity for 92. is a noted local- lodestone...Etta mine, near Keystone, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The...of 18 to 27 tons have come from New England and South Dakota. Siberian quartz crystals weighing 10 to...of "tri-state" areas familiar to geographers and local residents, term means this mineral collector
 
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