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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sturmanite
Formula:Ca6Fe23+(SO4)2.5[B(OH)4](OH)12 · 25H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Bruciteⓘ5 photos of Sturmanite associated with Brucite at this locality.
Calciteⓘ3 photos of Sturmanite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K)ⓘ3 photos of Sturmanite associated with Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) at this locality.
Manganiteⓘ2 photos of Sturmanite associated with Manganite at this locality.
Hematiteⓘ2 photos of Sturmanite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Andraditeⓘ2 photos of Sturmanite associated with Andradite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ2 photos of Sturmanite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Charlesiteⓘ1 photo of Sturmanite associated with Charlesite at this locality.
Gaudefroyiteⓘ1 photo of Sturmanite associated with Gaudefroyite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sturmanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (27 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13154
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13154:0
GUID (UUID V4):a9cc6822-5dd4-4ac4-af2c-4e38b47426f6
Nearest other occurrences of Sturmanite
2.5km (1.5 miles) ⓘN'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘN'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
2.9km (1.8 miles) ⓘN'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
3.0km (1.9 miles) ⓘBlack Rock Mine, Black Rock, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
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mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...(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
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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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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-WĂŒrttemberg...(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
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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
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Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Von bez ing ite Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape...Cape Province, South Africa C onnoisseurship in mineral collecting pertains to someone having a great...the type locality, the Wessels mine in the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. It is unique to the...Bezing, a medical practitioner from Kimberley, South Africa (Cairncross 2012). Upon discovery, the species...discovery was made in 1986 in block 17 at the Wessels mine, and von Bezing obtained samples of the mineral
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Johannesburg PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Karl-Ludwig von Bezing (b....from the Wessels mine in the Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Originally...bultfonteinite, calcite, gypsum, barite, and sturmanite, with sturmanite being the most abundant associated species...Austria, and his parents emigrated in 1949 to South Africa and settled on a farm close to Lydenburg in...1500 b.p. and have remained unique in southern Africa (see von Bezing and Inskeep 1966 in bibliography)
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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...specimens of rhodochrosite, hematite, hausmannite. sturmanite. and other species. Location The Kalahari manganese...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
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SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
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mineral from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa Xiangping Gu*1 , Hexiong Yang2...School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China; 2Department...and 4Plot 968, Alheit, Kakamas 8870, Northern Cape, South Africa Abstract A new phyllosilicate mineral...N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It occurs...Kalahari Manganese Fields in the North Cape Province of South Africa hosts the largest manganese resource
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c = 22.063(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Wessels mine, South Africa. 3.393 (100), 3.120 (85), 3.188 (65)...87 35.07 15.02 Total 100.5 100.00 (1) Wessels mine, South Africa; by electron microprobe, average of six...azurite, sturmanite, calcite, gypsum, bultfonteinite. From the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province...Province, South Africa. Name: To honor Karl-Ludwig von Bezing (1945– ), Austrian-South African mineral collector...O mineral from the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Amer. Mineral., 77, 1292–1300. All rights
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Bryan K. Lees (2008) Stephen Neely (2008) Anne & Joe Ondraka (2008) Daniel Trinchillo (2008) Stuart Wilensky...Robinson Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Renato Pagano Joe Polityka Associate Photographers Jeffrey A. Scovil...Famous mineral localities: The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany . . . . . . . ...Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa . . . . . . . . . 373 by R.... . . . . . . . . 350 by C. J. Stanley Founder John Sampson White Editing & Advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama
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Al, Mn2+)2 (SO4 )2 [B(OH)4 ](OH)12 ‱ 25H2 O Sturmanite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version...21.79(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kuruman district, South Africa. 9.67 (100), 5.58 (70), 3.89 (70), 2.582...8.84 1.30 25.6 46.7 101.0 (1) Kuruman district, South Africa; by AA, B2 O3 spectrophotometrically, H2...Kuruman district, with large crystals in the Wessels and N’Chwaning II mines, Cape Province, South Africa...Peacor, D.R., P.J. Dunn, and M. Duggan (1983) Sturmanite, a ferric iron, boron analogue of ettringite
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het uitgestrekte mangaanertsveld in het Kuruman district, Noordelijke Kaap Provincie, Zuid-Afrika. Hedendaagse...parageneses op specimens, afkomstig uit het Kuruman district in de Republiek Zuid-Afrika. We kregen het type...uitgebaat door Associated Manganese Mines of South Africa.” Om uit de aanwezigheid van “rijkelijk” bariet...Rock-, Wessels-, N'Chwaning I- en N'Chwaning II mijn worden samen gecatalogeerd als “Wessels-type” mijnen...12//151 kristallen. Allen waren afkomstig uit de Wessels mijn en sommige vondsten dateerden al van 1978
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2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Hausmannite N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese...Manganese Field Northern Cape Province, South Africa B lack minerals are generally not considered highly desirable...hausmannite is Öhrenstock, Langewiesen, Ilmenau district, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany. Originally...180 years to the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa (Wilson and Dunn 1978; von Bezing et al. 1991)...on andradite, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Steve Smale specimen, Jeff
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Afrikaans Universi& RO.Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa. Klein Spitzkoppe topaz was first described...collector market and gem trade have been excavated by local Damara diggers. A granite quarry used to encounter...2006, South Africa. The Kalahari manganese field is located in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It...sedimentary ore, the Mamatwan-type, named after the mine where it is exploited. This contains 20-38 weight...percent manganese metal. The other is a high-grade, Wessels-type ore with 45-60 weight percent manganese. The
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1403-1409 (2002) DTA, TG, AND XRD STUDIES OF STURMANITE AND ETTRINGITE SYTLE M. ANTAO Center for High...carried out on sturmanite and ettringite from the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. The TG trace...trace for sturmanite, approximately Ca6(Fe3+1.5Al0.3Mn2+0.2)âŒș2.0{[B(OH)4]1.2(SO4)2.3}âŒș3.5(OH)12‱25H2O, indicates...1349°C, and the residue melts at about 1154°C. In sturmanite, a polymorphic transition occurs at about 627°C...liberation of both H2O(g) and SO3(g), whereas sturmanite melts after the liberation of H2O(g). The loss
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MANGANESE ORES IN THE KALAHARI MANGANESE FIELD, SOUTH AFRICA VOLKERLODERS? GeoForschungsZentmm Potsdam...Fluidinclusions in hematite andhausmannite fromhigh-grade Wessels-type orefromtheKalahari manganese fieldwerestudied...thickothergangueminerals presentin Wessels-type ore are not ermost ness of about 45 m at Mamatwan mine and 4 to 8 m at appropriate...appropriate to be fluidinclusion hostminerals.Someof the mine(Fig.1). The braunitclutiteis typically microoxideminerals...microoxideminerals, whichareopaque in visiblelight,havephysi- Wessels crystalline and finely laminated. It is composed
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in the area to the north of the Hisarcık open-cut mine in Quaternary alluvium of the Kocaçay River. The...rock interbedded with the borate unit in the Emet district (Helvacı & Alonso 2000). Overall, the eight known...rocks. The sedimentary units of the Emet borate district consist, in ascending order, of a thin-bedded... 1983); Wessels-type manganese ore, Kalahari field, South Africa (charlesite and sturmanite, Cairncross...charlesite, and sturmanite, are members of the ettringite group, but only the structure of sturmanite has been
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