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Laumontite from
Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Laumontite
Formula:CaAl2Si4O12 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Laumontite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13090
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13090:3
GUID (UUID V4):12f9333c-07d7-4d70-a6c0-aed0d52d90a7
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
XIS" I I LAWSONITE " 18 RDIERITE I / ~ LAUMONTITE \ LLIMANITE ..... ..... PREHNITE \ •c METAMORPHIC...Kyanite show intersecting textures. Diamantina District, Minas Gerais, Brasil. 84A6(a) 5 x 5 cm 5.00 Highly...grade 84A3(c) 15.00 7.50 White Kyanite Clover, South Carolina. Quartzite (6 x 9 cm) with pyrite grains...over the fore-section amethyst crystals. The Irai District, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. combination is a delight...hydroxyl-apatite with large niobian perovFaraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine), crystal specimens, these two were worthy
Journal (issue)
Nineteen, Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This...Chichibu mine” (by Kuniaki Kato and Hidemichi Hori), “ Collecting report: Hikagezawa gold mine, Shizuoka...Avenue Sun City, Arizona 85351 he Tonopah-Belmont mine is a micromounter’s paradise. An un­ common suite...sulfates, molybdates and chromates can be found at the mine. The abundance of species makes it an ideal introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCE OF MAGNATITE CRYSTALS FROM THE BALMAT DISTRICT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S . C. Chamberlain...2500-foot level of the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine near Balmat, New York. This occurrence was brought...OF THE PALABORA MINE, PHALAultramicrotome, and imaged again. Images from both BORWA, SOUTH AFRICA. W. A...result either from partial rounding rocks at the Palabora mine. Chondrodite is Volume 68, March/Aprill993 ...Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California (Minerals of California, p. 492); the Clark mine, near Copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported. Analcime is...crystallized and include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite...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
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cowlesite, epistilbite, gismondine, goosecreekite, laumontite, stellerite, wairakite, and yugawaralite. Scolecite...pink 15-cm scolecite spray with associatedwhite laumontite crystals from Nashik, Maharashtra, India. Dr...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
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
Book
Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...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
Book
Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...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
Catalog/List
2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal
Journal (issue)
EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH... MINERAL NOTES SIEGENITE FROM ERGLODD MINE, TALYBONT, DYFED, WALES RGLODD Mine is located 200 metres east of...sphalerite (Livingstone l'I al., 1976); in the South Wales Coalfield it is found in clay-ironstone nodules...(1985) Siegenite in clayironstone nodules from the South Wales Coalfield. Joumal of the Russell Society 1
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
Book
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
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
Journal (issue)
formed by the action of natural weathering in mines, mine spoil, and so on, will still be regarded as minerals...creating new species. Those formed by the action of mine fires however, will no longer be accepted as minerals...east of the dyke. ollectors and mine historians visiting the Lake District should be aware that the Caldbcck...Quarry and Mining Museum can be reached by turning south on the A66 Penrith co Keswick road at Threlkeld...Similar material has also been found at nearby Mexico Mine. Tsumcbitc associated with well crystallised brochantite
Catalog/List
nuggets Peprossite Ce, Purpurite,Stilbite and Laumontite from Mull, Tremolite crystals from Madagascar...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________
Book
major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...comfort. Users of chromite, who must the USSR, South Africa, Albania, and wish that chromite deposits were...Republic of South Africa by the Department of Mines and the Geological Survey of South Africa; such profiles
Book
Kuopio, Finland P. Heino Yara Suomi Oy, Siilinjärvi Mine, Siilinjärvi, Finland R.J. Herrington The Natural...US T. Huhtelin QP-FRB Outokumpu Ferrochrome Kemi Mine, Kemi, Finland E. Hyvönen Geological Survey of Finland...Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland J. Kinnunen Mawson Resources...Oulu, Finland Contributors T. Mäki Pyhäsalmi Mine Oy, Pyhäsalmi, Finland H.V. Makkonen Geological...Taipale Palsatech Oy, Rovaniemi, Finland Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland, Finland O.T. Rämö University
Journal (issue)
Marie, Munchen or by post: ARC DE SANT Mаr1i 79 Local, 08032 Barselona, Spain • KUSTOS- Jonh S. White...calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...gmelinite (!5d), harmotome (x1), heulandite (!xl), laumontite (!xl) and all products ofits dehydration, being...Crimea, and zeolites (natrolite, heulandite, laumontite, and analcime) are abundant. Gornostaevskii broken-stone...1898); heulandite (t1) (Popov, 1898); gmelinite, laumontite, mesolite (!t1) (Zaitsev, 1910); mordenite (t1)
Book
Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
Book
t a t e d Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of t h e U S S R ) a n d Australasia...him. I have tried to include all ore districts in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the U.S.S.R.)> and Australasia...incluir todos los distritos mineros conocido en Africa, Asia (con exclusion de la Union Soviética), y...npOCTO npOtIMTaTb 3TH a8Meq8HMH. Bo BBeneHMH 60nee Ba~H~e HCTOtlHHKH CCMnOK B 6H6nHorpa~HRX p8cnono~eH~...nHH~rpeHa. BKn~qeH~ HeKOTopMe CXeM8THQeCKHe KapTM, nOK83~Ba~mMe npH6nHaHTenbHMe MeCTonono~eHHR pynooTnoxeHHM
Book (volume)
386 Chabazite, Gmelinite, Levyne ...... 387 Laumontite-Leonhardite, Mordenite, Gismondine . 401 Zeolite...Table 2. Cell parameters of alkali felspars aA bA cA Sanidine 8-5642 13-0300 7-1749 90° Orthoclase...ions which may be present in limited amounts include Ba, Ti, Fe+3, Fe+2, Mg, Sr and rarely Mn. Analyses of...separately in Table 9: for the remaining felspars the Ba is considered to substitute for K, while for all...D 14° — Si A1 Fe+1 2 3 4 * 6 7 8 Ti Mg Na Ca K Ba 11-719 4-249 0-024 0-011 0-027 2-916 0-227 0-748
Journal (issue)
............ ........ .... ............. ... 7 South-West Branch ........................................................................... ...... 9 South-EastBranch .......................................Howson; Norman Perry; and, rejoining, Andy M c Ginn South-East Branch: Lindsay and Mark Alexander; Ann Barrett;...Johnstone-Brown; Christopher, Carol, John and Richard Naughton South-West Branch: Paul, Jane, Michaela and Jack Anderson;...mineral which I had enquired about from that kindly mine of info rmation which was Peter. He was always willing
 
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