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Azurite from
Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachiteⓘ1 photo of Azurite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:62714
Long-form Identifier:1:3:62714:4
GUID (UUID V4):e991fc96-d2bb-4d08-a26b-9315d8ea8b55
References
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Catalog/List
it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably...desert-like "Sperrgebiet" area of the southern coast of Namibia, with its fabulous wealth of gem diamonds. One...Ian’s interest stems from the family trips to Namibia, including the mines of Tsumeb. He worked with...ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment point
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA J.M. MOORE Geology Department, Rhodes University...Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Onganja copper deposit is hosted by quartz-biotite-plagioclase...Formation in the Southern Zone or Khomas trough of the Damara Orogen in Namibia. It comprises a sheeted-vein...enrichment is related to the African erosion cycle. The Onganja copper deposits formed from NaCl-CO2-rich metamorphogenic
Book
AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an
Book (volume)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 14 Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 19 (Cuproadamite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb...Tsumeb, Namibia, 21 Amethyst Crystal Park, Park Co., Montana, 42 La Sopressa Claim, Guerrero, Mexico, 11 (“Scepter”...Jalgaon, N. Maharashtra, India, 44 Aquamarine Pioniera Mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 15 Shigar...Areas, Pakistan, 4 (with Schorl), 54 Azurite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 48, 55 Beryl (see also Aquamarine...Aquamarine, Morganite, Emerald) Calcite 884 Mine, near Leiping, Guiyang Co., Hunan Prov., China, 32 (with Stilbite)
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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)
pseudohexagonal twinned crystals, 23 × 20 cm, Cianciana mine, Agrigento, Italy. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 5...large crystal group, 50 × 50 cm, from the Anahi mine, La Gaiba district, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia...aggregate of red crystals, 13 × 10 cm, Dolores Tercera mine, Chañarcillo, CopiapĂČ, Atacama, Chile. Adalberto...and green elbaite crystals, 35 × 15 cm, Pederneira mine, SĂŁo JosĂ© de Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto...Figure 13. Azurite crystals, partly pseudomorphed to malachite, 25 × 20 cm, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
student and had managed to find a summer job in Namibia. The geologist in charge of our camp was an ardent...and on the odd occasion when we could travel to Windhoek, he always made a point of stopping at the House...home to South Africa with a few specimens from Namibia. I couldn’t tell a dioptase from a cerussite at...specimens, all from Tsumeb-a mimetite, dioptase, azurite, and cerussite. I still have them in my collection...contributions he had made to the mineralogy of Namibia. When Tsumeb was at its zenith (for some), Sid
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...from the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20... ______ ........ 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 (issue)
Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. ‱ 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: ‱ 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently Bou Azzer and Imiter...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated...and east of Schlema, 2014 Tucson show. The Imiter mine began its modern producing many quality specimens...outcrop them”. next to the La Estrella The most famous mine, in Pardos, locality for this type Guadalajara (Spain)
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Although the collection focuses primarily on the Tsumeb mine and the Kalahari manganese field, other “classic”...as Klein Spitzkoppe, Kombat, Tschudi, Erongo, Onganja, Berg Aukas, Rosh Pinah, the Alto Ligonha district...wolframite specimens from the Krantzberg mine close to Omaruru in Namibia—that caught his son’s fancy. During...Beeshoek mine close to Postmasburg in the Northern Cape Province. He also visited Black Rock mine, located...on schorl, 2.9 cm, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Figure 3. There are three exceptional Tsumeb
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved
Report (issue)
deposits. Association: Copper, tenorite, malachite, azurite, calcite, brochantite, antlerite, atacamite, chrysocolla... Germany. In Namibia, large crystals from the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb...Tsumeb. At Likasi, Ruwe, and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire)...South Australia; large crystals in the Red Dome mine, Chilliago, Queensland. Name: From the Latin cuprum
Report (issue)
Silver, chalcocite, bornite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, iron oxides, many other minerals. Distribution:...deposits in Arizona including those at the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; the Copper Queen and other mines...in the Chino mine at Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico. In Namibia, at the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast...northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb. In large crystals from the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains...North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Friedrichssegen mine, near Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate. In fine specimens
Report (issue)
locally may be an ore of copper. Association: Azurite, cuprite, cerussite, chrysocolla, calcite. “limonite”...Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, and elsewhere, with large crystals from the Mashamba West mine. In Namibia, from...and as large crystals at the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek. In Australia, from Broken Hill
Journal (issue)
the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Back...Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...the world’s finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite, atacamite, and a host of other minerals...as are malachite, copper, tenorite, atacamite, azurite, allophane, calcite, and pyrrhotite pseudomorphs...formerly found in beautiful specimens” at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper...Minor chalcotrichite is reported from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals to 7 mm and cuprite-included
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Smithsonite. (7 × 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite...Figure 6. Anglesite (5 × 3 cm; D49920), Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Figure 7. Pyromorphite...(4.7 × 3 cm; D49966), 17 Level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. specimens from these...10. Malachite (32 × 21 cm; D50673), Great Cobar mine, Cobar, New South Wales. pounds (Henley 1988)....thanks to contacts he made with both the miners and mine managers. However, it was in the Broken Hill pubs
Journal (issue)
aus glasglĂ€nzendem reliktischem Baryt. Shangulowe Mine, Kambowe, Kongo. Fund aus den 1990er Jahren. Foto:...öffentlich gemacht , d as Schweizer Fernsehen und Region alzeitungen bericht eten a usfĂŒhrlich . D ie Hauptkluft...hatte das Typmaterial bereits 1944 in der Franklin Mine im US-Bundesstaat New Jersey entdeckt, konserviert...Schmuck- und Heilstein ist heute Jnagli in der Aldan-Region, Sibirien, Russland (hier auch ausgezeichnetes...Kristallklasse: Pegmatit östlich der Stadt Coocepciön, Region Bio Bio. Das Mineral kommt Gitterkonstanten:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W.... Image courtesy of the Tsumeb Museum, Tsumeb, Namibia. Tsumeb: The Legacy of Wilhelm Klein (1889–1939)...edu ERNST A. SCHNAITMANN PO Box 9561 Eros, Windhoek Namibia eschnaitmann@gmail.com Dr. Malcolm Southwood...2. A fine group of large, lustrous, blue-black azurite crystals on a powdery, friable matrix consisting...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County
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Left: Internal reflections of hematite (red), azurite (blue), and malachite (green). Common Habit Many...bornitechalcocite/covellite-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native copper and cuprite are less common in this...8 dark grey; 8 Mineral yes Högbomite yes Azurite Barite Yukonite yes Chamosite dark grey; 7 ... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of Cu sulfide deposits, ‱ meteorites not known Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Cuprite, Domeykite, Fe-oxides
Catalog/List
Dykstra 16601; Samuel Foose 11727; Alissa Ford 17104; Helen Goblirsch 17508; Kathleen Guzman 16142; Gregory...A beautiful Crystallized Gold from the “16-to-1” Mine ‱ A huge cut and polished Apache Agate weighing...Meteorite Slice Iron - IAB Complex Novosibirsk Region, Russia - (54° 20’N, 84°12’E) The find of the Maslyanino...Meteorite occurred on May 25, 1992 in the Novosibirsk Region of Russia, when an agronomist discovered a 26 kg...likely before settlers arrived in the Ryazan Oblast region in 1200. Classified as an Ataxite, it is an Iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens found there in the ore cars and in the mine itself. Even today Sr. Folch’s collection is, by... West Cumberland iron field, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England. Figure 5 (above)...8. Samsonite, main crystal 1.1 × 0.3 cm, Samson mine, Saint Andreasberg, Saint Andreasberg district,...(below). Azurite, 33 × 17 × 11 cm, Touissit, Touissit district, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco...(top). Phosgenite, 8.0 × 7.5 × 5.3 cm, Monteponi mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University...MINERALS pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite...associated with silver, chalcocite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and a variety of other secondary minerals...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline
 
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