 | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe Budd photo. Tourmaline with cleavelandite, 4.3 cm...Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd photo. Middle...Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd photo. Topaz, 2.6 cm, from Katlang, Mardan Dist...Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania |  | | Journal (issue) | | mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................Wilson COVER: RHODOCHROSITE crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978...(2015–2016) Scott A. Rudolph Paradise Woods (2008–2016) John Dabney (2015–2016) Daniel J. Record Irv Brown (2009–2015)...(2016–2017) Eric D. Long Barry M. & Beth Kitt (2011–2016) John Schneider (2016) Dylan Stolowitz Steve Maslansky...com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals International |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...their own with the stunning rhodochrosite that came from the same district. From a Historic Perspective |  | | Catalog/List | | 1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong, China 7.5 cm tall x 11 cm...AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia 7.6 cm tall... Aquamarine with Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm tall x 15.2...1/18/21 11:02 AM Scheelite on Muscovite Pingwu Beryl Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan,...example, mined 25 years ago from the Pingwu Beryl Mine, is one of the most remarkable of the species. Scheelite |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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................................. 313 COVER: RHODOCHROSITE crystal group, 10 cm, from the N 'C h w an in...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pluton, La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Montérégie, Québec, Canada, is part of the...elpidite, natrolite, birnessite, ranciéite, rhodochrosite, and siderite. Serandite is rarer in other geological...(better known to collectors as the Kola Peninsula), northern region, Russia (Pekov 2000). The massif is a layered...minerals. The Shkatulka pegmatite in the Umbozero mine (now flooded), Alluaiv Mountain, has produced the...In the Sirenevaya pegmatite, also in the Umbozero mine, serandite occurs as clusters of semiparallel yellowish-pink |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Olmiite N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Republic of South Africa T here was a time when...Olmiite from its type locality, the N’Chwaning II mine, was initially identified as spectacular poldervaartite...MINERALS its own nearby type locality, the Wessels mine (Cairncross, Gutzmer, and Pretorius 2002). The...valuable poldervaartite specimens from the original Wessels mine discovery during the period of its supposed...continue to be recovered from the N’Chwaning II mine, Guest columnist Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Shigaite Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape Province, South Africa...described and named from the type locality, the Ioi mine in Shiga Prefecture, Japan (Peacor et al. 1985)...Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia (Pring, Slade, and Birch 1992), the Wessels and N’Chwaning...in the Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Cairncross and Balayer 2007; Cairncross...varied, depending upon the locality, and include rhodochrosite, barite, pyrochroite, calcite, sussexite, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have superb examples of bright pink and red rhodochrosite in his or her collection. Nothing matches the...needle-pointed crystals from the Kalahari Desert of Africa. Few carvings are as vibrantly colorful as the...the brilliant, rich pink, banded masses of rhodochrosite from Argentina. In the window of the Collector...carved in Idar-Oberstein from Argen tinian rhodochrosite. In his book Gem and Crystal Treasures, Peter...attractive, crys tallized rhodochrosite: Pasta Buena, Peru; the Home Sweet Home mine, A l m a , Colorado; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University RO. Box 524 AucWand Park, 2006 Gauteng, South Africa . . .*.’. Corresponding author: bc @na.rau...just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...including many of the world’s finest specimens of rhodochrosite, hematite, hausmannite. sturmanite. and other...of the Transvaal Supergroup rocks (black) in South Africa. B: Enlarged portion of Griqualand West showing...and one of the few economic centers of the Northern Cape Province. Kuruman is also the preferred home |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm high, Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; Becky Sterbentz...Figure 1. Rhodochrosite, 3.7 cm high, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province...Province, South Africa; Patrick Mayer specimen. Figure 3. Fluorite with quartz, 9.8 cm high, Riemvasmaak,... Kakamas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; Eric Long specimen. Jeffrey A. Scovil, a well-known...carats, South Africa; Martin Zinn specimen. Figure 6. Ettringite, 2.7 cm wide, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za All photos by author Figure...photographing some fine mineral specimens from various South African mineral collections. These include private...manganese field in South Africa are still producing mineral specimens. The N’Chwaning mine is especially noteworthy...a contract to legally recover specimens at this mine. Some of the specimens shown here originated from...fluorite from Riemvasmaak in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa; Balayer is also mining for fluorite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ettringite N’Chwaning II Mine, Northern Cape Province Republic of South Africa C oncrete, that manmade...N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. This specimen...to 2 mm, some associated with calcite. The Clara mine, Ober Wolfach, Schwarzwald (Black Forest), Baden-Württemberg...(1984) notes that ettringite crystals from the Clara mine may be mistaken for aragonite, and vice versa. Italy...N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Scott Rudolph |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...California. Lower left: Rhodochrosite, 2.5 cm, from the N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right:...right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Back cover: Some thumbnail specimens on the covers...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). • Good crystals...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted...striated epidotes in matrix, from the Calumet iron mine, Colorado. Epidote was described in 1801 by Haüy...collectors. Within the United States, the Green Monster mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has yielded superb |  | | Journal (issue) | | Apatite-Jonathan Allred collection, page 17; Rhodochrosite-Rick & Sharrie Ely collection, page 87; RhodochrositeSam...Lavinsky collection, page 173. (right colurnn) Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76;...Elbaite-Jack Olivier collection, page 204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith...Bristol Kevin & Mark Brown Keith & Diane Brownlee Joe Budd Sam & Sarah Cooper Marc & Janis Countiss Thad...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...lnc.) Bill Stone Richard Strecker (sponsored by Joe Dorris) Jack & Kaye Thompson George Witters Martin...collector species like amazonite, smoky quartz, rhodochrosite, fl uorite, gold and silver minerals are found...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,... Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple Creek District Museum, and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Wessels mine, North Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. 2.752 (100), 2.594 (76)...04 3.30 101.23 (1) Wessels mine, North Cape Province, Republic of South Africa; average electron microprobe...00. Mg-rich zone. (2) Wessels mine, North Cape Province, Republic of South Africa; average electron microprobe...andradite, henritermierite, rhodochrosite. Distribution: From the Wessels mine, near Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese...Manganese Field, North Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Name: For a member of the vesuvianite |  | Origlieri, Marcus J., Downs, Robert T., Hoffman, Derek R., Ducea, Mihai N., Post, Jeffrey E. (2021) Marshallsussmanite, NaCaMnSi3O8(OH), a new pectolite-group mineral providing insight into hydrogen bonding in pyroxenoids. Mineralogical Magazine, 85 (3) 444-453 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Marshallsussmanite...phases, in the Wessels mine at Black Rock, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The Wessels mine lies within...Kalahari Manganese Field; collectively, the Wessels mine and the adjacent N'Chwaning mines are type locality...minerals. Mr. Sussman periodically visits southern Africa to acquire mineral specimens. On one such visit...bond path is sought, which is a continuous path of local maxima of electron density between the two atoms; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Figure 1. Location of N’Chwaning mine in South Africa; map prepared...of view 1.7 cm, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Bruce Cairncross specimen and... Nchwaningite N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field South Africa N chwaningite, Mn22+SiO3(OH)2·H2O...N’Chwaning II mine (Nyfeler et al. 1995). Later specimens were also identified from the adjacent Wessels mine...calcite, bultfonteinite, and chlorite. At the Wessels mine, nchwaningite was associated with calcite and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Laval] at 20:02 10 July 2014 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia F or mineral collectors introduced...Sterling Hill, New Jersey, and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The recent discovery of fine gem-quality...both common and rare species such as calcite, rhodochrosite, spessartine, magnetite, willemite, franklinite...occurs in compact masses with kutnohorite, rhodochrosite, quartz, and minor sulfides (Dunn 1976). Rhodonite...rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field of view 8 cm |  | | Journal (issue) | | ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition... A. 2(1):21-24 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW. Carr, P., Perkins, M., Chenhall, B., Pemberton...1(2):27 Minerals from. t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P...P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit |  | | Report (issue) | | c = 32.83–33.074 Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ioi mine, Japan. 10.89 (100), 5.47 (90), 2.457 (90), 3.664...(3) 13.95 13.32 37.08 2.70 32.95 100.00 (1) Ioi mine,Japan; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3...Association: Rhodochrosite, sonolite, manganosite, pyrochroite, jacobsite, hausmannite, galaxite (Ioi mine, Japan);...Japan); rhodochrosite, leucophoenicite, gageite, caryopilite (Wessels mine, South Africa); arsenoclasite...From the Ioi mine, about 25 km east of Kyoto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. In South Africa, at the N’Chwaning |
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Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa