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Brochantite from
Kabolela Mine, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Comments:Bright green sharp needles to 5 cm in open divergent sprays on heterogenite matrix.
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Heterogeniteā“˜9 photos of Brochantite associated with Heterogenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kabolela Mine, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (32 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:213816
Long-form Identifier:1:3:213816:9
GUID (UUID V4):53a36cd7-800b-4696-8d17-1d49ce4ae8e5
Nearest other occurrences of Brochantite
11.0km (6.9 miles) ā“˜ShangulowĆ© Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
13.8km (8.6 miles) ā“˜Kambove Principal Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
14.0km (8.7 miles) ā“˜M'sesa Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
14.8km (9.2 miles) ā“˜Kakanda North Mine, Kakanda deposit, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
16.9km (10.5 miles) ā“˜Kakanda deposit, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
23.8km (14.8 miles) ā“˜Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
33.8km (21.0 miles) ā“˜Likasi Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
43.2km (26.9 miles) ā“˜Mindingi Mine, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
46.3km (28.8 miles) ā“˜Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...acicular copper minerals were routinely labeled brochantite, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of such specimens...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times... and although the once implied abundance of brochantite may be burned permanently into the minds of older
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tenke-Fungurume, D.R. Congo Przibram, Bohemia Peramea, Spain Durango, Colorado Kakanda, D.R. Congo Mashamba West...Mindingi, D.R. Congo Tantara, D.R. Congo Kamoto, Musonoi, and Kabolela, D.R. Congo Mupine, D.R. Congo Kambove...Kambove, D.R. Congo Konkola, Zambia Chibuluma, Zambia Tsumeb, Namibia Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo Reported species...Copperbelt of northern Zambia and southeastern D.R. Congo (Fig. 1) is one of the worldā€™s largest Cu and Co...heterogenite, pseudomalachite, and rare cornetite, brochantite, and libethenite are also present among the supergene
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compreĀ­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his lifeā€™s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (issue)
com) has some very nice acicular (coarse fuzzy) brochantite of a bright dark green color in small miniature...attractive new specimens from Kabolela M ine, Congo. From the Shanguluwe Mine, Congo, there were malachite pseudomorphs...fine cuprosklodowskite specimens from Kakanda Mine, Congo. ,Aiese have nice ac icular crystal sprays covering...Malachite pseudomorph of barite, from the Shanguluwe Mine, Congo, front crystal about 3 inches. A Quick Trip...inches long. These a re from the No. 2 Sovietsky Mine. Dal Ā·negorsk. C hri s also had some very fine specimens
Journal (issue)
crystals to 5 mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960. ā€œ Shabaā€ means ā€œcopperā€ in...1880ā€™s, Leopold II conceived of establishing a Congo Free State which would come under his sole sovereignty...determined that Katanga would remain part of the Congo Free State. In 1885, Leopold II was finally able
Journal (issue)
Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Shannon Minerals Top Gem Minerals 3520 N. Rose Circle Dr. Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 Tel/Fax: (602) 946-5826...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a ā€œcopper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................the Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ā€™Passa in the Peopleā€™s R eĀ­ public of the Congo and Kipushi...is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60Ā°W...Kasompi { Kalongwe ā€” Mindingi ^ ā€¢ Kalabi Mā€™sesa Kabolela ā€¢ ā€¢ T Kamoya ā€¢xKambove Kamatanda Ludjiba ā€¢ LIKASI...of the first prospecting mission to the Zambezi Congo border organized by Robert W illiam sā€™ Tanganyika
Book (edition)
This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...by Strunz (1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung...arisen with localities in Congo-Zaire: the country, named Democratic Republic of Congo since 1960, was changed...There is also a country called Republic of Congo or simply Congo (capital Brazzaville). Information about
Journal (issue)
crystals to 4 cm, with calcite, from the arsenic mine near Shimen in Hunan Province, China. Mike Bergmann...Australian mineralogy. T H A N K YOU! We are indebted to Dr. M iguel R om ero o f Tehuacan, Puebla, M exico,...special issue on Mineral Books (Julyā€”August 1995). Dr. R om ero, w ho also contributed to our 25th Anniversary...ā€™s more unusual wulfenite occurrences, the Finch mine, inhere crystal groups are commonly found covered...covered by a thin layer o f drusy quartz. This mine and the various other adjacent properties and workings
 
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