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Cuprite from
Justice Mine, Obuasi Gold Project, Ashanti Region, Ghana


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Justice Mine, Obuasi Gold Project, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1230414
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1230414:9
GUID (UUID V4):dd363bda-854d-4b4e-b865-8a32be3a9274
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana R. J. Bowell a a Department of Geology...Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana, International Geology Review, 36:8, 732-752...Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana1 R. J. BOWELL Department of Geology,...At the Justice mine, in the Ashanti goldfields of southwestern Ghana, chemical weathering of gold-bearing...geochemical features that are diagnostic. In this type of gold mineralization, the most abundant sulfides are arsenopyrite
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...(deceased) Philip G. Rust (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2019) Paradise Woods (2019)
Journal (issue)
JULY–AUGUST 2022 Articles Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan ..................................... Moore COVER: BORNITE, 3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection;...(deceased) Philip G. Rust (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2021) Paradise Woods (2019)...(AsO4)5(PO4)3·14H2O), 2-mm view, from the White Elephant mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Tom Loomis (Dakota Matrix)...w w w. FineMineral.com Rhodonite Mina do Morro Mine, Brazil 7 cm Rhodonite is a manganese mineral named
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................RECORD MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...(deceased) Philip G. Rust (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2019) Paradise Woods (2019)
Journal (issue)
Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This...Old Dominion mine, the Morenci-Metcalf district, the San Manuel mine, the Inspiration mine, Monument Valley
Journal (issue)
Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire ....................................Lhoest, G. J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ................................ COVER: CUPRITE with malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne...fo r Historic Preservation o f the Sterling Hill Mine, provides the following news on the ongoing efforts...efforts there to preserve the recently privatized mine and open it as a tourist attraction:] As the curtain
Report (issue)
Mountain …………………………………………………………………………… Colorado-Justice claims ……………………………………………………… North Magdalena district...Cap vein ……………………………………………………………………… Cuprite or Wheel of Fortune mine …………………………………………… Old Soldier vein...Possibilities ………………………………………………………………… Buckeye mine …………………………………………………………………… Wall Street mill ………...Joyita prospect …………………………………………………………………… Dewey mine (Jenkins prospect) ……………………………………………… Copper prospects...of the Hansonburg Lead mine …………………………………… Vicinity of the Hansonburg Copper mine ………………………………… Order of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a school teacher and in the summer works in the mine there in Town, so he knows about the ways of mines...wouldn't go into a mine to get minerals unless we have someone who knows the mine and knows if it is...is safe. A person should never go into a mine that he doesn't know if he values his life. Now Sam be­ ing...at the Ray Pit, which is a huge open pit copper mine. After a long evening and fine fel­ lowship with...of rock and there stood the most beautiful red cuprite x l I had ever seen, not big but very nice and
Journal (issue)
motorways. He was involved in the Channel Tunnel Project, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Stonehenge, the... Beyond this is an anomalously slow wave speed region called D". A diagrammatic illustration of this...the mineralogical complexity occurring in this region: conversion of the calcium silicate component of...in the D" transition zone, but this interesting region is still a matter of continuing research. In the...presented, which I doubt I have been able to do justice to in this report! It was clearly evident that
Journal (issue)
................. 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ....................................... 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ...........................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................123 L. Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona .................................... 147 W. E. Wilson & Mark Hay The Ford mine, Pinal County, Arizona ........................
Journal (volume)
Arizona Strike *257 W. R. Feldtmann Ashanti Gold IMines 127 Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Report. 124...Australian Metal Position H. R. Sleeinan. 33 Australian Mine Tax . . . . . . . . *206 47 247 Report...Boovsens 126 218 Boston Creek, Ontario Bradeu Copper Mine, Smelting at. (m.d.) ... 117 344 Bragg. W. H X-rays...110 {m.d.) .... Balaghat Developments Balaghat Gold . ; . . .- . . . . . Hill, Xorth ....Institute and a Charter Canadian Mine Taxes 187, F. H. Hamilton. Canadian Mine Taxes Cape Copper Report ..
Catalog/List
5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee­ brown...APATITE (Var: Francolite) - Holmbush Form. Holmbush Mine, Nr. Callington, East Cornwall. Vuggy Quartz/Chloritic... APATITE (Var: Francolite). Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Pale coloured, fine textured
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...scepter quartz Aragonite Aurichalcite Azurite and cuprite . 1X , • Azurite and malachite Azurite and...enclosing cuprite Caledonite Cerussite and dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...granting of a sabbatical leave during which this project was begun. We are pleased to acknowledge the contribution...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite 16 2 Cuprite (chalcotrichite) in calcite 19 Photographs Wulfenite
Book (edition)
granting of a sabbatical leave during which this project was begun. We are pleased to acknowledge the contribution...Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...calcite Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite Cuprite ( chalcotrichite) in calcite Malachite in calcite...calcite Malachite replacing an azurite crystal Cuprite Cerussite Cerussite on dioptase Cyanotricbite Ajoite
Book (edition)
zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...scepter quartz Aragonite Aurichalcite Azurite and cuprite il Ee Azurite and malachite Azurite and malachite...enclosing cuprite Caledonite Cerussite and dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla
Journal (issue)
microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam­ beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...Tredwell to carefully document the localities by mine and sometimes by level. It also afforded him superior...uppermost level of the San Carlos mine, while the large, lustrous Rayas mine acanthites (with nearly zero...zero selenium) are from the deepest levels of that mine. Polybasite, pearceite, stephanite, pyrargyrite and
Book
first human who noticed a lump of bright yellow gold in a stream course, picked it out, balanced it in...groupings are copper, lead, zinc; gold and silver; silver and lead; copper and gold; tin, tungsten, and molybdenum;...area of the western United States, the tin-bearing region of Malaya, and the silver-producing belt of Mexico...the quartz of Brazil; the diamonds of Africa; the gold of the Transvaal; the tin of the Malays; the chrome...Recognition 4 Metals Used by Early .Man ■ GOLD Gold-shining in stream beds-was probably one of the
Report (issue)
development of the geological structure of the region. ___ . 97 Distribution of the faults ___ .... ____...-- - ___ •••• _•. _•.. _. ___ . ___ . __ . Grey mine _. . . . ___ . _____ . _.. ____ .. _. ___ . ___...mines-Continued. United Globe mines-Continued. Buffalo mine _. .- . _____ ..... _... ______________________...Billings mine _____________ . ______________ . __ .. _____ .. _____________ . _____ Big Johnnie mine _____.... ____________· _. __ .. ____________ ~ Buckeye mine ..... ______ .... _. _________________ . ___ .:
Journal (issue)
C. van Loon. Diary of Events 4 2 6 Llywernog Mine and Museum S.J.S. Hughes. ADVERTISING Peter Briscoe...also ask whether the new displays will do full justice to the variability in minerals (where there is...way as, say, in the animal kingdom) or indeed do justice to the depth of the Natural History Museum's remarkable...Great Consols. Sculls in Devon Great Consols copper mine supporting the hanging wall of the lode. When copper...subsequent extraction of this sulphide from the mine, the lower levels remained untouched, since most
Book (edition)
the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain...Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional minerals...to the many people who have contributed to this project. The following have contributed to this list: John...hydrothermal deposits. Yavapai County: Monte Cristo mine, as an alteration of nickeline and skutterudite
Journal (issue)
Neumann which he claimed were from Bedford United Mine. The x-ray results (powder photographs) showed one...Upper Brandy Gill, now known as Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Over succeeding years, he forwarded specimens purportedly...Lindgrenite, descloizite etc., from Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Lindgrenite has been searched for by many collectors...and the Heritage Lottery Fund in respect of the project known as the 'Bromley Millennium Rocks and Dinosaur...675, the Society has undertaken to deliver the project, which will involve giving each of the 45,000
Journal (issue)
-3- SMLS Journal 171 May/June 2001 THE TSUMEB MINE With the SMLS expedition to Namibia and Tsumeb (fig...Despite great problems of obtaining labour in the mine, two world wars, and building the longest single-track...after the second World War when ownership of the mine passed into the hands of the Tsumeb Corporation...arsentsumebite after mimetite, bayldonite after azurite, cuprite after copper and tennantite after enargite. The...sulphates, carbonates and silicates. The Tsumeb mine has produced a wealth of amazing minerals and within
Journal (issue)
morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level but virtually never giving any more detail...parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the position of the locality...contained a number of perfect and very gemmy red cuprite crystals - the first for Kent no doubt! Spreading...Swnmer Programme. Northern Branch C urato rial Project Please note that the Cow Green trip in Upper Teesdale
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W...As with many copper deposits cropping out in the region, the history of Kipushi traces back to the Bantu...fact, they went on trying to locate the richest (gold T h e M in e r a lo g ic a l R e c o r d , v o lu...Kolwezi, Shinkolobwe and Broken Hill. The Rokana mine is located near Kitwe. deposits in order to establish
 
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