 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | Catalog/List | | heavily coated, but the other just fine. .£8 4. DATOLITE good small piece with crystals to Icm 011 2.5...with micros of blue Kinoite in places £4 Christmas Mine, Arizona USA J 7. MAGNETITE , black lustrous octahedral...pale green clinochlore plates palabora Pit Phalaborwa Transvaal South Africa l x2.5 £6 18. ENARGITE rich...this is a compact mass, quite solid. Selasvatn south Norway £ I 0 20. SCAPOLITE translucent single yellowish...good short-wave FLUORESCENT white . Yellow Pine mine, Clark County Nevada USA 2x1.5 £8 22. CALCITE white |  | | Catalog/List | | 4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...mass 4x4 and l cm thick Wiperminga Hill, Olary South Australia £8 39 STILPNOMELANE on QUARTZ thin brown...with a small amount of quartz 4x3.5cm £26 Erongo district Namibia 3 .,, ,r ·" .. ; :t.: 1-,: • - � |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | issue), datolite has been suggested as the topic of this Connoisseur’s Choice feature. Datolite crystals...green, and pink to white and colorless; nodular datolite is typically white or pastel shades of pink, yellow...fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic (2/m) crystals...of some datolite and is derived from the Greek word dateisthal meaning “to divide.” Datolite is a calcium...CaBSiO4(OH) and is a member of the gadolinite-datolite group. Most analyses show very minor amounts of |  | | Catalog/List | | grey-black rich crystalline mass 3x4 Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia £8 4 VANADINITE orange brown crystals...fibrous mass 5x3 Edwards, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA. £7 6 MOHAWKITE...all over 4x4 surface. It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...Cornwall £10 15 BA YLDONITE green, small scale botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary...SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm Wessels mine, North Cape Province South Africa £8 31 CLINTONITE two or three small |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and, occasionally, sulfides...calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite are recorded from the railroad tunnels through...minerals in the syenite quarries at Granite Mountain south of Little Rock, Pulaski County (Howard 1987; Smith...Rhode Island mine (crystals to 5 cm), and the Centennial mine, Houghton County; the Phoenix mine (pink copper-included...cm), the Central mine, Northwestern mine, Cliff mine, Seneca mine, Garden City mine (red crystals with |  | | Catalog/List | | ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals in volcanic rock exposed about 2 miles south of Railroad Pass in the McCullough Range, Clark...and quartz in gold-bearing veins of the Olinghouse mine, Washoe County, Nevada (Castor and Ferdock 2004)...as small radial fibrous aggregates at the Engels mine, Plumas County, and at Crestmore, Riverside County...distributed crystals to 4 cm with calcite and datolite at Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Panczner...occurrences include the famous Palabora carbonatite in the Transvaal, South Africa, where the mineral occurs |  | | Catalog/List | | ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire...Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Rich mass of black...Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Unusual...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) |  | | 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... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FeO"OH Cl 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire A rare British mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | sent with the parceL Eilarama,Ruanda, Central Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA...Amphibolc IxI £3 Norway South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE...Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals well covering Basall...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish |  | | Catalog/List | | mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil)...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½...Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture.Japan Venice Dome, Lousiana, U |  | | Journal (issue) | | dollars. Foreign Payments Remittance may be maae in local currency, without surcharge, to the following people:...Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...It seemed like old times to meet the bunch at the mine. Nothing had changed much. I met Bronkie and was...having a lot of trouble with the equipment at the mine. So much of the equipment he doesn’t know what it...morning I was up a little after 7:00 and to the mine a lit tle after 8:00. March suggested that I go |  | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Book (edition) | | Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL...matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Wessels mine, South Africa ............365 by J. Gutzmer & B. Cairncross The Parker mine, Notre Dame...HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS Local tradition credits the first use of The Geysers to the local Indians, who bathed...fumaroles or openings and outlets in a volcanic district. As the first visitors at this California Hecla...1925, but the project failed for lack of adequate local demand for electric power. The deepest of these...in the area before 1940, no doubt several of the local collectors must have recognized the abundance of | | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) 1953/000441/07 Reg. No. The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Book | | Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...in framework aluminosilicates is always (Ca + Mg+ Ba + NaZ+ KZ)/AI = 1. Zeolites differ from all the other...general formula for a zeolite mineral is (Ca,NaZ,KZ,Ba,Sr,Mg,CsZ,LiZ)a[AlaSi n_a 0Zn] •xHZO The part in...positively charged cations (Ca, K, Na, Li, Mg, Sr, Ba, Cs) to produce an electrically neutral stable mineral...for example, can be written in a number of ways (Ba-rich phillipsite, barium-rich phillipsite, barian | | | Book | | Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...in framework aluminosilicates is always (Ca + Mg+ Ba + NaZ+ KZ)/AI = 1. Zeolites differ from all the other...general formula for a zeolite mineral is (Ca,NaZ,KZ,Ba,Sr,Mg,CsZ,LiZ)a[AlaSi n_a 0Zn] •xHZO The part in...positively charged cations (Ca, K, Na, Li, Mg, Sr, Ba, Cs) to produce an electrically neutral stable mineral...for example, can be written in a number of ways (Ba-rich phillipsite, barium-rich phillipsite, barian |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate...Group) rich fawnmassive. Xrayed meial. (Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan, Sweden) lxl fl.50 lx2 E3 2x2 E6 053 |  | | Catalog/List | | Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE...in one small area on blue Chrysocolla. (Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, lrrizona ,USA) lx2ins f.4.50 l'i6...Scetland) 1xi ~Op lx2 El. 30 070 BREWSTFRITE Sr Ba C2 Alurnino Silicate. Zeolite Group Goodccverage |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins |  | | Journal (issue) | | Marie, Munchen or by post: ARC DE SANT Mаr1i 79 Local, 08032 Barselona, Spain • KUSTOS- Jonh S. White...barite, beryl (morganite), wollastonite, danburite, datolite, quartz, calcite, corundum, microcline, plagioclase...calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...silicates — andalusite; clinozoisite; chloritoid; datolite (+!х1); dumortierite; epidote (х1); fayalite;...THE FORMER USSR W H I C H OCCURED IN THE CRIMEA Datolite — in the now derelict broken-stone quarry situated |
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Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa