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Pyrite from
Stiepelmann Mine, Klein Spitzkopje granite stock (Kleine Spitzkoppe; Klein Spitzkoppe), Spitzkopje Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stiepelmann Mine, Klein Spitzkopje granite stock (Kleine Spitzkoppe; Klein Spitzkoppe), Spitzkopje Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:753341
Long-form Identifier:1:3:753341:9
GUID (UUID V4):06e74f6c-727a-4e7a-ad57-902e4d8043a1
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
19.5km (12.1 miles) Hakskeen Farm 89, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
26.4km (16.4 miles) Sandamap Noord gold prospect, Sandamap North Farm 115, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
64.8km (40.2 miles) Rössing uranium mine, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
68.3km (42.4 miles) Khan Mine, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
74.9km (46.6 miles) Navachab Gold Mine, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
75.3km (46.8 miles) Namib Lead Mine, Rössing Mountains area, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
75.9km (47.2 miles) Uis Pegmatites, Uis, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
77.6km (48.2 miles) Uis, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
95.5km (59.3 miles) Twin Hills prospects, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
95.8km (59.5 miles) Giftkuppe, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
References
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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
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
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Actinolite from Namibia by Justin Zzyzx ............................................pg. 15 Abenab Mine by Ernst................................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...deposits such as Tsumeb, the Brandberg region and the Erongo Mountains. Alpine clefts, huge soda can
Report (issue)
hydrothermally altered (Arandis, Namibia). Association: Stannite, pyrite, cassiterite, sulfur. Distribution:...Lagares-do-Estanho tin pegmatite. In the Stiepelmann mine, Arandis, Namibia. From Forestville, Northumberland
Report (issue)
78.73 21.27 Total 100.2 100.00 (1) Maria-Teresa mine, Bolivia; by electron microprobe. (2) SnS. Occurrence:...romarchite, ottemannite, černýite, berndtite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, quartz...Maria-Teresa mine, near Huari, between Oruro and Uyuni, Bolivia [TL]. At the Stiepelmann mine, near Arandis...Arandis, Namibia. From Shinkiura and in the Hoei tin mine, Oita Prefecture, Japan. In Russia, from the Goluboye
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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
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colours of bornite (brown), chalcocite (blue), and pyrite (creme). 2 Reflectance Reflectance relates to...internal reflections. Isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, do not show bireflectance. Left: Radial...anisotropy. In rare cases, isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, may show an anomalous anisotropy due...transmitted light). Left: The polishing hardness of pyrite (creme) is much higher than that of graphite (brownish...grey), which shows grooves at the contact with pyrite, leading to a strong relief. 4 Cleavage Cleavage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with HNO3,FeC[, HgClz,and HzOz. Occunnrncn : With pyrite, cassiterite,stannite, "brown stannite," blende...sulfide. AIso found very sparingly at the Stiepelmann mine, Arandis.SW. Africa. W. F. Fosuec Taosite
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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...extends along the contact of the Baishachong biotite granite, forming a zone 260 m long and about 20 m wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and again by Miyazawa (1940, p. 16) from the Iwato mine, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. These assemblages Cassiterite...here be postulated:it is presumablyincompatible mine, SouthwestJapan, but I do not know if this with...1887 Brogger, 1890, p. 64 analcite, etc. Stiepelmann mine, Arandis, South West Africa Metasomatic tin...tin deposit in mar- ble, near granite contact. Ramdohr, 1934 Ramdohr, 1935 Danburite, tourmaline,...q- calcite. Uchkoshkondeposit, SarydzhazRiver region, E. Kirgizia (Central Asia) USSR Skarn-hydrothermal
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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
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing
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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...to A variety of techniques have been developed Klein (C. tion composi l depending on the size of the...dolomite, apatites, rutile, hematite, magnetite, pyrite, and others. Such minerals constitute at least...listed in Table 5. TaBLe 5 - GeEoLocic Bopies Granite pegmatites, including their oxidized and/or hydrothermally
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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
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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
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edition I was informed by the publisher t h a t the stock of the edition was exhausted. This meant t h a t... The variation which a mineral as "trivial" as pyrite can exhibit is simply baffling. This variation...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
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudo-hexagonal (orthorhombic ?) crystals from Armen mine, Kongsberg, Norway. Named from the locality. [M... resulting from underground fires in the Kalata mine, Kirovgrad, Ural. Named after Mr. S. M. Kirov (C...Ferrohumite). Humito containing FeO 44.47 ~ from Sadon mine, northern Caucasus. This mineral was later referred... resulting from underground fires in the Kalata mine, Kirovgrad, Ural. Named after Mr. S. M. Kirov (C...a lead-grey compact ore abundant in the Porvenir mine, Huanuni, Bolivia. It is presumably boulangerite
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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...skarns in the Solvech fluorite deposit. Karagandin region. Kazakhstan, have a 12-87, c 14-97 A, and a composition...aluminous-serpentine, 20th List) from the Lake Superior region [M.A., 15, 411; 19, 268]. An unnecessary name for
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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...worn the gold or platinum of the settings to the Pyrite Variscite Rhodonite Zoisite point where stones...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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