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


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Xonotlite
Formula:Ca6(Si6O17)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Xonotlite 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:264834
Long-form Identifier:1:3:264834:7
GUID (UUID V4):6f29bc0a-43e5-49f4-bbb1-b48ff83e2727
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
sent with the parceL Eilarama,Ruanda, Central Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA...Amphibolc IxI £3 Norway South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE...Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals well covering Basall...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish
Book (edition)
Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...F OH 2x2 £10 -------------------------Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 16 AMBLYGONITE Pure grey cleavable...LiNaAIP0/4FOH 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in Syenite
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
1905, 120–123 von Eckermann H (1948) The alkaline district of Alnö Island. Sver Geol Unders Ca 36:176 Weidendorfer...magmas. Geology 45, 507–510 Woolley AR, Kjarsgaard BA (2008) Carbonatite occurrences of the world: map.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.11 Old Iron Mine at Stavsätt Farm in Släda . . . . . . . . . 4.12...materials from kimberlites in Finland, southern Africa and India. Parts of these efforts were presented...meeting (and prior to indulging in a visit to the local casino in Sundsvall) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins
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
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...the vicinity of the Petropavlovka Village, 3 km south of the town of Simferopol'. Volcanites o f the Bodrak—Karadag...shore cliffs of Staиrnyn-Buren Mountain, 0.5 km south of the village, beautiful druses of rock crystal...km from west to east, and 117 km from north to south. The total area is 2540 km'. There are many artificial
Book
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...(Canada); Markku Lehtinen (Finland); Bob Smith (South Africa); and Jay Zaveri (India) gave help. Marcelle...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy
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
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...(Canada); Markku Lehtinen (Finland); Bob Smith (South Africa); and Jay Zaveri (India) gave help. Marcelle...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy
Journal (issue)
the Wessels mine, South Africa ............365 by J. Gutzmer & B. Cairncross The Parker mine, Notre Dame...HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS Local tradition credits the first use of The Geysers to the local Indians, who bathed...fumaroles or openings and outlets in a volcanic district. As the first visitors at this California Hecla...1925, but the project failed for lack of adequate local demand for electric power. The deepest of these...in the area before 1940, no doubt several of the local collectors must have recognized the abundance of
Book (edition)
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15...15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities section includes a description of the...Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
Journal (issue)
and takes place normally. Pathology arises when local distortions (of structure, orientation, form), interacting...(apices and edges) and the retardation of others. Local bendings of faces arise (Fig. IA, B). But bent areas...uneven faces development, uptake of inclusions, local violations of composition, dislocations formation...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...have been found in Finland, the Republic of South Africa, Myanma (Burma), the Swiss Alps, and Kenya.
Book
non-metallic raw materials to the front ranks in the mine industry. Scientific fundamentals of the laws governing...characteristics are of systematic character, condition the local geochemical background. As a result of geological...other activities, elements are redistributed in local zones of rocks that were subjected to the effect...elements. Endogenic geochemical anomalies form in local zones with a distinctly different content of elements...orientation study made to find out the nature of the local factors which have contributed to dispersion in
Book (volume)
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...(“cryptoperthite”), nordmarkite, Spalen, Nordmark, Oslo district, Norway (Oftedahl, 1948). Anal. Lars Lund. 3.
Report (issue)
Average composition from various types of ore, Thierry mine, Ont. ACANTHITE. Sakharova and Bryzgalov, Mineral...87M/2325 (1987) Analyses (not in abs.) from'Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan AIKINITE. Boldyreva (Zap. Vses...Tibet. AMPHIBOLE. Glikson, (Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 89, 263-283) (1986) Microprobe analyses (12) from...and actinolite. AMPHIBOLE. Pouclet et al., (Jour. Africa Earth Sci. 6, 29-43) (1987) (French) Microprobe...analyses (1) from kimberlite, Jagersfontein, S. Africa. AMPHIBOLE. Smith et al., J. Volcanol. Geothermal
Book (edition)
differentiated teschenite sill near Gunnedah, New South Wales’, Geol. Mag., vol. 93, p. 441. Tephroite...of about 0-6, and a zircon from Karibib, south-west Africa, has been reported with 31 per cent HfO,....substitutions are thus: Calcium: Na, rare earths, Mn, Sr, (Ba). Titanium: Al, Fe+°, Fe+?, Mg, Nb, Ta, V, (Cr)...0:85, Y203 0-18). + Includes Sr 0-024. t Includes Ba 0-002 (rare earths are Ce 0-147, Y 0-110). § Includes...occur in manganese ores such as those in South-West Africa. Substitutions which can take place in the
Report (volume)
rock).369 European iron ore miners.370 Gold miners (South Dakota).371 Gold miners (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia)...Tract.427 Particles in the Conducting Airways.431 Local defensive mechanisms against deposited particles...however, the background exposure also includes a local component that will change depending on bedrock...an acronym for the company “Asbestos Mines of South Africa.” Hand specimens of amosite and crocidolite...trade), Penge, Transvaal Province, Republic of South Africa (b) Crocidolite, an asbestiform variety of riebeckite
Book (edition)
2 3 4 Forsterite, serpentinite, Douglas Creek, South Island, New Zealand (Cooper, A.F., 1976, J. Geol...21588). Knebelite, metasomatized limestone, Blue Bell Mine, British Columbia, Canada (Mossman, D.J. & Pawson...includes K2O 0.01, H2O 0.05. 5 Tephroite, Benallt Mine, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK (Smith, W.C. et al....Ultramafic nodules from the Kimberley pipes, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 42, 13671382...metamorphism of the Biwabik IronFormation, East Mesabi district, Minnesota. Memoir of the Geological Society of
 
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