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Orientite from
Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orientite
Formula:Ca8Mn103+(SiO4)3(Si3O10)3(OH)10 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orientite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262745
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262745:8
GUID (UUID V4):5f831ce0-4187-4b08-906b-4588b612603a
References
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Report (issue)
inesite, orientite, quartz (Wessels mine, South Africa). Distribution: In the Christmas copper mine, Christmas...N'Chwaning and Wessels mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: For Joe Ana Ruiz, of Mammoth...crystal structures of ruizite, macfallite and orientite. Amer. Mineral., 70, 171{181. All rights reserved
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affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian...Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................Thomssen, Walt Risch, Star Northam, Carolyn Wilson, John Muntyan and Wayne DeBrusk assisted with record keeping...Brazil) Pierre and Nellie Bariand (Paris, France) F. John Barlow (Appleton, WI) Ron Bentley (Windsor, CT)...Cureton, David Wilber, Miguel Romero, Richard Webster, John Barlow and Rustam Kothavala made cash donations
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Inesite Wessels Mine, Northwest of Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese District Cape Province, South Africa I ...inesite: Broken Hill mines, New South Wales, Australia; Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California; Kalahari...Kalahari manganese district, Cape Province, South Africa; and Fengjiashan mine, Hubei Province, China...China. Of these, the Wessels mine within the Kalahari manganese district has yielded a sufficient number of...stunning rhodochrosite that came from the same district. From a Historic Perspective Because inesite was
Report (issue)
Ca2Mn2+ Mn3+ 2 Si3 O10 (OH)4 Orientite ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data:...Distribution: In Cuba, in Oriente Province, about 10 km south of Bueycito; and near Banes, north of Antilla. In...Michigan. In the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona...References: (1) Hewett, D.F. and E.V. Shannon (1921) Orientite, a new hydrous silicate of manganese and calcium...J. Ito, and I.M. Steele (1979) MacFallite and orientite: calcium manganese (III) silicates from upper
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Sweden (Sverige) Gladhammar mine, nickel-rich carrollite, 737 Harstig mine, Pajsberg, sarkinite, 681 Norr6...Norr6, arrojadite (hiihnerkobelite), 23o Sjo mine, Grythytte Parish, Orebro, xantharsenite, polyarsenite...analcime, 76I Castleton, Derbyshire, fluorite (Blue John), 243 Crook Hill brickyard, Cbickerell, near Weymouth...Cornwall, luxullianite, 441; 442 Scar Crag, Lake District, arsenopyrite, alloclase, glaucodot, cobaltian...Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, arsenical marcasite, gersdorffite
Report (issue)
8.20 (1) Quinault, Washington, USA. (2) Equity mine, Colorado, USA; original total given as 100.10%...Creek mine, California, USA); datolite, pectolite, apophyllite, ruizite, orientite, quartz (Wessels mine...mine, South Africa). Distribution: In Germany, from Nanzenbach, near Dillenburg, Hesse. At Lº angban and...and in the Harstigen mine, near Persberg, VÄarmland, Sweden. From Sa̧ca̧r^amb (Nagy¶ag), Romania. · At...Slovakia. From the Wessels and N'Chwaning mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the USA, from
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85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne...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...d e r n M in e r a l C o l l e c t io n CURATION John Sampson White Department of Mineral Sciences Smithsonian
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of spectacular rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. I even had Bryan Lees autograph this...programs or small guidebooks available at these local, regional or national events. Most of these are...(January 29, 1996) entitled '·The Gravel Page" by John McPhee. - a famous forensic geologist who would...from November 16, 1961. Perhaps 100 were printed. Mine is signed by the meeting honorcc - J. Robert Oppenheimer...mention of heliodor makes me think of the Roehling mine in New Milford, Connecticut. There have been a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described by Williams and Duggan (1977) at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona, U.S.A. It is associated with...report ruizite from the Wessels mine in northern Cape Province, South Africa, where it is associated...associated with inesite, orientite, quartz, datolite, pectolite and apophyllite. I became interested in ruizite...presented here. Experimental Crystals of the Wessels mine ruizite were o_btained from Pete Dunn, Department...t l o c a t e d during the refinement, and the local g e o m e t r y suggests t h a t h y d r o g e n
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FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix...Six Articles Hubeite, a new mineral from the Daye mine near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China . . . . . ... . . . . 473 by R. H. Currier The Nueva Vizcaya mine, Burguillos del Cerro Badajoz, Spain . . . . . ...by J. S. White Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White Notes from the Editors . . . . ....specialization, such as the minerals of a certain state or mine, the minerals of a particular metal or compositional
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September 18, 2007, my Teacher, Mentor and Friend. Joe Mandarino passed away after a long battle with failing...of Minerals and the next edition of the Glossary, Joe asked me if I would be willing to take on the responsibility...9th edition of the Glossary in 2004. Unfortunately Joe passed away beforc wc could finish this collaboration...for sure if I have found all e material sent to Joe, and so, if I have missed anyone, and any other corrections... Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the
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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
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Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix...Los Angeles, CA Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama...Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .....................................served as a part-time teacher and was very active in local school sports. His greatest passion remained mineral...Delores La Beau Lynn & Francis Mason Jan & Bob Mehney John Pierce Lucy Reeves Pete & Ruth Rittersdorf Dana
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talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's
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with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK - CHICHESTER - WEINHEIM...printed on acid-free paper. Copyright ©1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published...should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York,...(1844) and all but one other have been published by John Wiley. The System was the first book Wiley (then...Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain, France. F. John Barlow: Appleton, Wisconsin. Peter Bayliss: Mineralogy
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book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support to...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some
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Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...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...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...MEMORY OF 2. HELEN KEMPNER < i FROM ye = JOHN & ELAINE WOODARD oe le sy n-- alor anima ...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Nancy Smith, preparation and entry data for Groen John and , Chapman Gary Caballero, Craig ous amount of
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite... Encyclopedia of Minerals HELEN KEMPNER FRCM JOHN & ElAINE WOODARD . . . N CYCL·OPEDIA OF INERALS...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Carey Kucera, Gary Caballero, Craig Chapman, and John Groen for data entry and preparation of the final
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Aus1rnlia. Thomas Nelson Aus1r.1lia. 102 Dodds S1rce1. South Mdbournc. Vic1oria 3205. Auslr.ilia Chapman & Hall...9 (for 1 952). p. 99. From (TL) Crackers Well. South Australia. Australia. Deposit located by air-borne...1 892) Syst. Mi11., 6th ed .. p. 50. A term of South American origin describing galena in granular form...44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...(Doklady) Acad. Sci. URSS, 22, 433. (TL) Mt Tkhach. northern Caucasus. USSR. Adinole. syn. of albite. F.S.
 
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