| | Book | 7 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 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275 | | | Journal (issue) | W. Pinch Famous mineral localities: Klein Spitzkoppe, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 by B...B. Cairncross The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury locality . . . ....cm, from O Stope, 31st Level of the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. William Pinch collection; Jeff Scovil photo...up to the beautifully engraved scenes on mining stock certificates, and the work of modern painters, scattered... in the O stope on the 31st level of the Tsumeb mine, by Hannes Schoombie, who was at that time working | | | Book | .,,., ..,,.... w + ..... . ·. .... . - Namibia Zauberwelt edler Steine und Kristalle ooa Dieses...Erdgeschichte 8 Zur Geschichte des Bergbaus in Namibia 17 Der Brandberg und die Mineralfunde in seiner...blaue Wunder vom Erongo - Auf Aquamarin-Jagd im Innern Namibias 72 Miarolen im Erongo-Granit- ein Eldorado...110 Auf Turmalinsuche in Namibia Die Demantoide von Tubussis in Zentral-Namibia 112 116 Sodalith von...Zeolithe vom Grootbergpaß in Namibia Kamphaugit-(Y) von der Rössing-Mine 120 124 126 136 Das Gahnit-Vorkommen | | | 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...the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20.00 R25... ______ ........ 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | , 1940. NauB: For Mr. Stiepelmann) owner and operator of the Klein Spitzkopje property, who furnished...albite, microcline, fluorite, etc., from the beryl pegmatites of Klein Spitzkopje, South West Africa. | | | Journal (issue) | Urgestein aus dem Erzgebirge • Neuigkeiten aus Namibia • Mineralien vom Morro da Mina, Brasilien • Museum...vor einigen Jahren von Robert Jakob und Markus Klein erstmals auf den Münchner Mineralientagen präsentiert...die USA erreicht hat... meint Ihr Rainer Bode Namibia - was gibt es Neues? 4 Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines -...Flach 68 Neue Mineralien 76 Neuigkeiten aus Namibia 80 ACHAT-MAGAZIN Buchtipp 87 Sammler-Großcabochons...Jahre die Geschichte der Stadt Freiberg und der Region beeinflusst: Um 1168 wurde die große Lagerstätte | | | Journal (issue) | Schneeberg Wulfenit und Descloizit von Marenica/Namibia Mineralien aus der Grube Huinac, Peru Anton Berger/Mödling...Wir berichten erstmals über die Vorkommen in der Region Khur im Zentral-Iran. Seite 91 . IN HALT 2 & Fünilig_...ndel Wulfenit und Vanadinit von „Marenica", Kleine Spitzkoppe -------------------- Die Mineralien aus...- die englischsprachige Ausgabe unseres großen Namibia-Buches wä re oh ne seine Mitarbeit so nicht mögl...lcit (z.T.), MapimfKonichalcit, lllinois-Fl uorit, Erongo-Turmalin ) betrifft. Er sagte mir wörtli ch und | | | Journal (issue) | Actinolite from Namibia by Justin Zzyzx ............................................pg. 15 Abenab Mine by Ernst.........................pg. 23 Quartz Replacing Fluorite by Justin Zzyzx .............................................................pg. 31 Three Aloes Mine by Ernst Schnaitmann .............................Rossing Area by Ernst Schnaitmann ...............................................pg. 47 Otjozondu Mine by...we bring you eleven articles about locations in Namibia that do not receive much publicity. It is easy | | | Journal (issue) | mit „Stengeln" aus stalaktitischem Limonit. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango Mexiko. 11 cm hohe Stufe von Escaut...Ottens Ungewöhnliches Zinnmineral: Arandisit aus Namibia S. 26 Stefan Weiß und Joy Desor Rote Zirkone...die wichtigsten einheimischen Kristallsucher der Region. Am Anfang stand Georg SAMER(1828-1912), vulgo...Ähnlich ausgebildet kommt es auch in der Chengmenshan Mine in der Provinz Jiangxi vor (ebenfalls mit Cuprit...ist Ramsbeck in NRW. Spanien: Die Nueva Virgina Mine, Teruel hat mm-große tafelige Polydymit-Zwillinge | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | containing sulphides, cassiterite, magnetite, titanite, fluorite, biotite and chlorite. The tin content of garent...least four calcareous horizons and, in the Doradilla area, minor intrusions of serpentinite. The skarn horizon...at least 200 m in depth has been delineated. The area is deeply weathered (up to 80 m), covered by Quaternary...chlorite, titanite), oxides (magnetite, cassiterite), fluorite, calcite and MALAYAITE AND TIN-BEARING SILICATES...sulphides (bornite, chalcopyrite), cassiterite and fluorite. The tin silicates, sulphides and cassiterite | | | Book | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | processes ended with the crystallization of quartz, fluorite, and rare sulfides, including stannite. The late...and carbonate rocks in the contact aureoles of granite intrusions [1, 2]. This does not rule out the occurrence...France) and Snbearing titanite from the Stiepelmann mine, Arandis, Namibia (the samples were provided for us...situated in the spurs of Mount Aesop, in the watershed area between the Pravyi Seimchan River (a tributary of...characterize rocks and ores taken from the underground mine and at surface workings. The deposit has practically | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | withfluoriteandcalcium stannoandborosilicates in skarnsandwith fluorite,topaz,andtourmalinein greisens),yet the calcium-tin... (e.g., skarns)it occurredwith axinite (B) or fluorite (F). Further comments on these associations and...composition References 1. Cassiterite Cas SnOa 2. Fluorite Flu CaFa 3. Calcite Cal CaCOa 4. Nordenski61dine...a high-temperaturereaction between calcite (or fluorite) and cassiterite(CaCOa + SnOa-->CaSnOa + COn)...system,be neglected,as will its hydroxyl analogue fluorite) and quartz (see Fig. 8). CaSn(OH)s (Strunz and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | cassiterite formed with magnetite, actinolite and fluorite at the expense of tin-bearing andradite (e.g....carbonate sequences at the contacts of Yanshanian granite intrusions. The Shizhuyuan skarn, for example,...contact-metamorphic zone of the Qianlishan two-mica granite which intrudes the carbonate sequence of the Upper...of skarn; 2. Qianlishan Yanshanian granite; 3. Yanshanian granite porphyry, 4. Yanshanian quartz porphyry;...porphyritic to equigranutar biotite granites. (The term granite used in this study is s e n s u s t r i c t o based | | | Book (edition) | simple twins Bustamite lamellar Rhodonite yes Fluorite polysynthetic Baddeleyite lamellar and complex... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL | | | Journal (issue) | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...common forms seen from most nearby localities in the region. Solid, botryoidal malachite samples are currently | | | Book (edition) | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...named according to chemical composition (e.g. fluorite). to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine)...to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on the polished...only about distance from a better known town in the area but also about the administrative regional units...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country | | | Book | To obtain a full perspective of a metal rich area it is necessary to prepare a series of metallogenic...(G?). TABLE 2.1 IMPORTANT STANNIFEROUS AREAS Region - Province (1) North America Seward Peninsula Alaska...Tertiary P.O. I. P.O. V.V 9 TABLE 2.1 (Cont.) Age Region - Province (6) Australia North-west Tasmania Herberton...Middle Batholithic intrusions of acid and ultraacid granite and their satellites Subabyssal (batholithic group)...IN LATE DIFFERENTIATES OF *APLITE-FINE GRAINED GRANITE' \ v! \ \ \ North-west Tasmania (Blue Tier) Province | | | Book | Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Skarn. 2. Granite. 3. Rocks, Metamorphic. 4. Tungsten ores. 5. Tin...includes granite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, quartz diorite and trondjemite. The term "granite" is used...referring to the specific compositional pigeon hole of granite. "Granitoid" is not an ideal term because the suffix...suffix "-oid" generally means "like" or "granite-like". However, no better term is available. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...includes granite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, quartz diorite and trondjemite. The term "granite" is used | | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | example, more than one York 1985, p.136). tion (C. Klein and C. Hurlbut, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New an...Crystallography, v. 1, Kynoch Press, Birmingham, 1969. (KC) Klein, C., & C.S. Hurlbut, Jr. (1993), Manual of Mineralogy...and Feel 1 Tale 2 3 Gypsum Calcite 4 5 6 Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase a Quartz Soft, greasy feel...to A variety of techniques have been developed Klein (C. tion composi l depending on the size of the...visible light and are notably thermoluminescent. Fluorite, ideally CaF, is the classic fluorescent species | | | Book (volume) | and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...especially since these language groups. ^^ and the region or country is Roumania. Alteration 9. In the...(1822)B. by J. G. Goodchild. Heide (1934). Kleine Meteoritenkunde, by Fritz Heide. 120 pp., Berlin...(1805). 1805; second edition, 1816. Jasche (1817). Kleine min. Schriften, by C. F. Jasche. 12mo, Sondershausen | | | Book | Al)16O34(Cl,SO4,CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The...Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...crystals in skarns in the Solvech fluorite deposit. Karagandin region. Kazakhstan, have a 12-87, c 14-97...aluminous-serpentine, 20th List) from the Lake Superior region [M.A., 15, 411; 19, 268]. An unnecessary name for | | | Book | edition I was informed by the publisher t h a t the stock of the edition was exhausted. This meant t h a t...mineral deposits, and so on ? Is the magma, the granite, a formation of a resurgent nature, of the kind...through the activity of intrusions ? Finally, is the granite, or at least the larger part of its content of...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are... The peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition | | | Book (edition) | Specimens of obsidian San Fernando Valley Gem Company's stock bins Interior of A. G. Parser Company's salesrooms...Pattern selections on agate slab Selecting best slab area for a cab Marking an oval stone for cabochons Proper...treatment, or be durable. The impor- Calcite (R) Fluorite Scapolite Serpentine Gypsum (R) Sinhalite ...weight. At bottom are rough gemstones typical of this area—sapphire, ruby, zircon, spinel, tourmaline, quartz...shops are popular “prospecting” grounds for the stock and Such ama- teur cutter who browses and picks |
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