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Biotite from
Natas Mine, Natas Farm 220, Gamsberg area, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Natas Mine, Natas Farm 220, Gamsberg area, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:655274
Long-form Identifier:1:3:655274:9
GUID (UUID V4):d5a94ea4-5f4a-4f49-8be1-d887e1ba70a9
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
62.5km (38.8 miles) Duruchaus Farm 249, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
63.5km (39.4 miles) Gurumanas, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
74.8km (46.5 miles) Stalhart volcanic field, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
81.0km (50.4 miles) Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
85.3km (53.0 miles) Oamities Mine, Oamities, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
92.6km (57.5 miles) Regenstein Vent, Auas Mountains Occurrences, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
95.8km (59.5 miles) Gorob Mine, Walvis Bay Rural, Erongo Region, Namibia
99.5km (61.8 miles) Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Highland with Gamsberg 11 lnselberge, Helmeringhausen 2 AiAiba 3 Rail ay station Garub near Aus Nature...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...RossingMountains The Central Escarpment- The Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and
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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l to the walls,with smallplatesof muscoviteor biotite,some blacktourmaline andotherminerals. The middlemaybe...quartz, all of which showedcrystal faces. In the Natas mine in middle South-West Africa such a vein in ...apparentlydepositedat higher temperaturesthan the Natas vein and has decidedlypegmatiticcharacteristics...feetwide,9 feetlongand2 feetthickwasfound on the farm Hella, Stokkendistrict,near Arendal, Norway.•6 ...giantswas a perthiticmicroclinecrystal mined on the farm Tveit, Iveland district, north of Kristiansand.
Catalog/List
crust on matrix .About a large Ix2 area on 2x2 rock. Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma Mexico £20 2. HEMATITE...piece of grey masses in quartz, ½x½ £9 Bambolla mine , Moctezuma, Mexico 8. NATIVE COPPER in calcite...exposed cleavage surface. overall about 2x2 Mission Mine, Pima County, Arizona USA £20 10. NATIVE SILVER...bluish surface due to Bornite coating. La Noria mine, San Martin, Zacatecas Mexico £15 ' 11. NATIVE GOLD...1cm magnetite with minor scheelite, Natas Mine.Okahandja, Namibia £6 13. METEORITE rounded about one inch
Catalog/List
sunbust effect , cut and polished slab 2.5 xl .5 Mine de L' Etoile Congo £20 3. LEPIDOLITE, choice display...NATIVE SILVER thin sheet about lxl.5 inches La Noria mine, San Martin, Zacatecas Mexico £15 , 16. NATIVE COPPER...nice Ix 2.5 inch exposed cleavage surface. Mission Mine, Pima County, Arizona USA £25 17. GRAPHITE, pure...up well for display. interesting location Niobec Mine, Quebec, Canada £25 19. PYRITE a very sharp 2cm...GALENA on PYRRHOTITE platy crystals in a one inch area on 1.5 xl .5 matrix, thin hexagonal plates of Pyrrhotite
Journal (issue)
Börsenereignis besonderer Art fand vom 14.-16. Januar in Namibia statt. Der Bericht steht auf Seite 10. ' Im letzten...Messe-Report mineralien '99 hamburg" 1. Klippenbörse in Namibia Rund um das WWW Der MW-Veranstaltungskalender MW-Fotowettbewerb...großen, transparenten, tiefblauen Topas aus der Xanda Mine bei Virgem da Lapa, Minus Gerais, Brasilien. Weitere...leuchtend orangeroter Wulfenit von der Red Cloud Mine im La Paz County, Arizona/USA, sowie - für deutsche....... ----~ ' .. 1 l ... Klippenbörse .. in Namibia Rainer Bode, Stefan König „25.000 Besucher, mehr
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black...Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Journal (issue)
om h est en , samtidig med den nordiske stein- og mine ralmesse , som NAGS er medarranger avoArsmetet velger...r e t r egi s tre ri ng sa r b ei d utf¢ r t a v Mine r a logi s k- Geologis k museum, Un i ve r s i Le...sterkner. Fluoridene herer derfor til de senest avsatte mine raler p:\ magmatisk dannede forekomste r. Metaller...Maridalen . ~:-2\'~~A o ' _- - -- ,I I \ A natas »» o, ' \ \ '- • " :':' '''; ' /" --.",,...utenfor det elpiditt-forende om rade med sjeldne mine raler er det funnet et mm-stort tetraheder som er
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ilmenit, Rutil, Brookit und Anatas beigetragen. A natas. Der Anatas bildet einen wesentlichen Anteil an...ist der Grund darin zu suchen, dab nicht alle Biotite in die SehwerminerMfraktion gehen, da sie tells...Minerals in the Granitic Rocks of the Yosemite Region. Amer. Mineralogist Bd. 23 (1938) S. 46. - - [4]
Journal (issue)
Slowakei 28 eue Mineralienfunde in Österreich 35 natas und Monazit vom Windbach im Habachtal in Salzburg...Japaner-Gesetz aus Bolivien und Peru )ie Segredo-Mine und die Morganit-Mine bei Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais/Brasilien...Geschichte des Tujetsch werden die Gesteine dieser Region anhand ausgewählter Wanderrouten (im Val Strem...und Kartenausschnitte, 2 Tabellen. Preis 35,- DM, 220,- ATS. ■ ALCHEMIE • Der Traum vom Gold Unter diesem...weiterer chilenischer Fundort ist die Santa Catalina Mine, Sierra Gerda, Antofagasta Provinz, wo das Mineral
Report (issue)
and microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil;...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...circa 1910 view of the old mine portal on the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA....suspicion is, at present, unfounded. The Bower Powers Farm in Pierrepont, New York has been the source of fine...the Sludyanka complex in the southern Lake Baikal region of Russia. Six New Species Today, this team has
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...common and which have practical usage. Here belong biotite (with end-members annitephlogopite), lepidolite...among the most important rockforming minerals (eg: biotite. olivine), or among the important economic ore...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
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was a site on what was known in 1887 as the Yale Farm, about two miles northeast of the town of Litchfield...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
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F'otografie: Fotobanka Granit (l 00), Petr Korbel (220), Geza Kulcsar (16), Jeffry A. Scovil (331 ), Sandor...Tsumeb, Namibia and Chessy, France. Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from
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are dependent upon the geological structure of the area, ie on conditions favourable for the occurrence...local authorities for permis- sion to enter an area and to collect minerals. What the individual collects...with a short description or a small sketch of the area should be put down in the notebook to facilitate...with a provisional label bearing the name of the area, the name of the mineral, a short description of...deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Mach6w (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...where and how are minerals found? sion to enter an area and to collect minerals. What the individual collects...with a short description or a small sketch of the area should be put down in the notebook to facilitate...with a provisional label bearing the name ofthe area, the name of the mineral, a short description of...are dependent upon the geological structure of the area, ie on conditions favourable for the occurrence
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Fptografie: Fotobanka Granit (100), Petr Korbel (220), Geza Kulcsar (16), Jeffry A. Scovil (331), Sandor...Tsumcb, Namibia and Chessy. France. Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Book (edition)
grol3raumigen Anordnung gibt es aber innerhalb einer Region stets Ver­ dichtungen und Verdiinnungen der Mineralvorkommen...Epidot-Prehnit-Zeolith-Paragenese 7 aus der gleichen Region (10g), die umgekehrt den relativ niedrigsten Bildungs­...Bildungs­ temperaturen (und -driicken) dieser Region entspricht. Der Bildmzgsdruck iibt auf die in einer...Aiguilles Rouges), pen­ ninische und ostalpine Region, nordliche Kalkalpenzone und Juragebirge eine flir...Kalkalpenzone, helvetische Region ; 6 Nord­ liche Kalkalpenzone, romanische Region ; 7 Aarmassiv; 8 Gotthardmassiv
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
Book (edition)
chemical to how to clas- analyses to deter- — mine one of the fundamental properties of minerals the... Even if one by collecting them, lives in a region that many specimens, it is possible to find something...the mineral, in an inconspicuous place, a small area of white this is dry, to write a unique number...one end and not the other. Whereas in the past, natas pyroelectricity. This property were used as radio-oscillator...to with the skin, the area of skin affected should be rinsed minimize the area of skin affected. Blowpipe
Book (volume)
Observatory Petrobras Northeastern Production Region John R. Rand Geoffrey O. Dickson Newmont Proprietary...Paleozoic Paleogeography of the South Atlantic Region . V. Mesozoic Basins and Sediments A. The Etjo... of : ate Part ei Goat Tear Faulting in the Region of the ‘Upper Gun The Nigerian Marginal Basin and...(eater Ill. The Precambrian Evolution of the Coastal Area... A® Northetn = Brazilfewy cae ical ane Be Northeasterns...Bakel to Melena 2 Western Mauritania, the Akjoujt Region . lI. The Pan-African Thermotectonic Event to the
Book (edition)
—Interpretation sulpliide waters — Chloride water analyses Mine waters waters— Sulphate waters Oxidation of waters—“Carbonate...distribution-tite deposits of the Lake Superior region The ^*iron formations^’— The iron ores— Form of...veins in basic lavas General features The Kennecott mine, Alaska— ( ’opper sulphide veins in intrusive basic...selenide of selenides base-^metal features region, district district-“' — — — Rico district—Lake...amygdaloids— The veins— Mineral association Origin Mine waters Mining and smelting operations-- The copper
Book (edition)
waters-Summary- Interpretation of ·water analyses-Mine waters-Chloride waters- Carbonate waters-Sulphate...si:fication-Brown hematites of the Appalachian region-Iron ores of Bilbao, SpainResidual ores of Cuba-Distribµtion...CHAPTER XXI HEMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. . . . . . . . 401 General character, ...veins in basic lavas-General features-The l(ennecott mine, Alaska-Copper sulphide veins in intrusive basic...a1nygdaloids-Thc ·veins-1\tlincral association- Origin-Mine \vatcrs-Rock alteration-Mining and srnelting operations-The
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04. 169 1, top /or 175 192 198 *210 216 *220 225 *229 231 Fe 0.32 reaJ Rem. A nal. , is Fe...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... vol. 1-96. Index: 1-100; 101-116; 117-164; 165-220; 221-276; 277-328; 329-380; 381-430; 431-500. Ann
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Experiment AOI87·2 consisted of237 "capture cells" (total area 2.1 m-), each consisting of polished Ge plates 347...turbidite, directed our attention to the Caribbean area. A search of the geologicalliterature on the Greater...modification of an impact crater and its environs. The area of Cuba was once attached to the Caribbean microplate...1968, 1972; Konta, 1971): a) Moldavites from the area surrounding Radomilice (in Southern Bohemia), b)...skimmed the Nullarbor Plain, the Campo del Cielo region and, in particular, the Antarctic Blue Ice. From
 
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