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Chalcanthite from
Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcanthite
Formula:CuSO4 · 5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:629726
Long-form Identifier:1:3:629726:8
GUID (UUID V4):31053bb6-0e2d-4ba5-91ff-6142d473be16
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcanthite
70.7km (43.9 miles) ⓘLuishia Mine, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Three Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ....................................J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc...Crescent, it has yielded many valuable specimens. Kipushi is the type locality fo r renierite and kipushite...situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Catalog/List
Tellurium down one side small 2x3 inch (Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico) ÂŁ25 BERYL translucent colourless...Mendips, Somerset) ÂŁ15 CHALCANTHITE rich blue mass on lx2 matrix (Majuba Mine, Nevada USA) ÂŁ6 STRONTIANITE...crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland) lxl ÂŁ5 lx2 ÂŁ10...5mm brown crystals over 2x4 inch surface hardshell Mine, Santa Cruz County Arizona USA ÂŁ I 2 GYPSUM variety...small bubble moves about 5mm inside the plate (Katanga) ÂŁ6 HEMIMORPHITE good covering of attractive pale
Journal (issue)
with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris;...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper...copper, cadmium, germanium and arsenic. The Kipushi deposit is a vein occurrence similar to the one at Tsumeb...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University...azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite, antlerite, and even hornblende have been reported...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline...sometimes of large size, have been found in the Chino mine, Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico. Fine specimens
Catalog/List
Italy. massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety...Index, Washington, USA. crystals ALBITE: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quobcc, Canada. crystals ALBITE: St....good crystal sections AS ,'\BOVE ALGOOONITE:Calumot Mine, Michigan, USA. massive ALL'\NITE: . Quadeville...1-:incrva .i'l Mine, Cavo-ln-Rock, Illinois, USA. good crystals ALT/1ITE: Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountain...Wickcnburg, Arizona, USA. massiv0 ALUNOGEN fuxtor l/7 Mine, san Rafael Sw01l, Utah, USA. massivo AMBER: Phillipina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Halcretes anglesite tsumebite brochantite chalcanthite copiapite gypsum anhydrite sulfate (plus APS...phosphate Phoscretes brochantite linarite chalcanthite jarosite. REEwoodhouseitesvanbergite gypsum...brochantite gypsum antlerite jarosite thenardite chalcanthite sulfate (plus APS minerals) Sulcretes Association...chrysocolla wroewolfeite brochantite langite chalcanthite devilline linarite chrysocolla Cu hydrosilicate
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 ÂŁ25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Report (volume)
of Documents. ANCHORAGE, Alaska--4230 University Dr., Rm. 101 ANCHORAGE, Alaska--605 West 4th Ave., Rm...Virginia--National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125...gneiss-hosted gold model (No. 37c) is based on the Tumco mine group and American Girl-Padre y Madre mines in the...epithermal gold model (37d) is based on the Mesquite mine, southern California, which occurs in breccia fillings...made of the amount of gold remaining when a placer mine changes from smallvolume mining (such as panning
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...Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region
Journal (issue)
clubs plus importants, dont nous par­ lions plus haut, au sein d'une FĂ©dĂ©ration Belge des Cercles GĂ©ologi­...""' d + r cos z l'angle p. nĂŒus l'avons vu plt.Js haut, etant toujou rs tr'Ă«s petit. En effet, traçons...celle s u Soleil, d'aprĂšs ce que nous avons vu plus haut. La planĂšte exerçant la force de marĂ©e la plus forte...gisement a cessĂ© en 1 9 6 0 , aprĂšs l'inondatio n de la mine. L'objet de notre exposĂ© n'est pas de dresser un...pou r la l ocalisation d es gĂźtes c itĂ©s. 1 . - Mine de l'Etoile (Lubumbashi) I l s ' a g i t d ' u n
Book
compiled (as were the following twenty Lists) by Dr L J Spencer, with the object of providing a convenient...arose from the collaboration of one of us (PGE) with Dr Hey in the preparation of recent Lists, and a recognition...Society of Great Britain and by their present compiler, Dr M H Hey. It should be noted in this connection that...1939), which attracted the comment in a review by Dr L J Spencer: ‘Much of the infor¬ mation has been...Magazine and Abstracts’ (M.A. 7, 313). We also thank Dr Hey for his encouragement and many helpful comments
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan and Associated Sandstone...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition...which led to discovery of Perkoa Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (mine under construction). 1990: Recommendation of Cerro
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ..................and mineralization of the Conrad Zone, Yukon Territory – a new Carlin-type gold discovery .. ..........Sr and Nd isotope ratio data of the Nkana and Kipushi deposits and of basement to the Central African...modifications of epithermal silver mineralization at Martha Mine, Deseado Massif, Argentina . . ................
Journal (issue)
The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the...surrounded on all sides (ex­ Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by...social upheaval. Mean­ locality in northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Tsumeb belongs while mining progresses...of rare mineral to rise. Who knows how long the mine will continue to operate? species at Tsumeb. In
Catalog/List
lx2 ÂŁ2 lxlÂŁ3 2x2ÂŁ12 lx2ÂŁ5 lxl ÂŁ1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxlÂŁ2 2x3ÂŁ6 3x4ÂŁ8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5...2x3ÂŁ15 Gamet Âœ" ÂŁ3 ALTHAUSITE ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Modum, Buskerud,Norway 975 44 Brown-purple
Book
minerals were named when Zaire was called the Belgian Congo; this old term and similar ones are retained in...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...political divisions are labradorite (Labrador Territory) and andalusite (Andalusia, a province of Spain)...naming new minerals is to incorporate the name of the mine or deposit in which the mineral was first found...antlerite, Antler mine, Mohave County, Arizona. bultfonteinite, Bultfontein diamond mine, Kimberley, South
Book (edition)
co-author, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino. -Malcolm E. Back Fleischer's...they are: Dr. Peter Bayliss, Dr. Ernst A.J. Burke, Dr. Anton and hakhmouradian,Robert Gault, Dr. Julian...LÄszl6 HorvÄth, Dr. Uwe Kolitsch, Locock,Gaspare Malet.to,Dr. Roger Mitchell, Renato Pagano. Dr. Ole Petersen...Robert Ramik,Andy Roberts, hallit, Dr. Chris Stanley,Tony Steede and Dr. ThomasWitzke. upport and encouragementof...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Trepc=a mine, Stari Trg, Kosovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.9 cm, on calcite, from Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. This specimen...chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Cowles, was quite disgruntled over the trend. He...that was eventually given to Sidney by the family. Dr. Edward Kraus at the University of Michigan also...especially during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Dr. Sidney A. Williams was a Fellow of the Mineralogical
Journal (issue)
Hird (2013–2019) Bob & Maria Schreiber (2013–2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013–2019) The Schick Family (2014–2019)...mineral-forum.com (2017–2019) Christophe A. Gobin (2017–2019) Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017–2018) GĂŒnter Grundmann (2018–2019)...involvement in collecting the great Bunker Hill mine pyromorphite bonanza, was born in Spokane, Washington...mined by a Phelps Dodge subsidiary as the Sherwood mine. His career was interrupted by the draft in November...Black Pine mine in Phillipsburg, Montana (the type locality for phillipsburgite), but the mine quickly ran
Book
Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin...natural science museums in the World, and our Tsumeb Mine has been labeled the "World's greatest mineral locality"...World's largest hard-rock tin mine and the World's largest open pit uranium mine. Geotourism and collecting...impressions.Whichever the case,pleaseenjoy this book. Dr. GabiIC Schneider Director GeologicalSurveyof Namibia...the work of Hermann Niesz, a mining engineer and mine surveyor from Freiberg.HermannNieszwas the first
Book
distiict, Colo. (Sims, 1955). Noted in Belgian Congo pitchblende are Pb, Fe, Co, Ni, 1'1o, and Se. Uraninite...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...weighing 20 tons have been found in the Katanga, Belgian Congo,· deposits. Single euhedral to subhedral...deposits; cubes in vugs at Shinko]obvve, Belgian Congo, and partial cubes in veins of some deposits in...Canada; Joachimsthal, Bohemia; Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo. Somevvhat siinilarly in the Sn deposits of Cornwall
Journal (issue)
PYROMORPHITE crystal group, 6 cm tall, from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Idaho. James and Dawn Minette collection;...fro m the locality. INTRODUCTION The Higher Pitts mine is situated near to the village of Priddy in the...meters below. The shallow, dry valley in which the mine workings are located leads via Dursdon Wood to Ebbor...include the Higher Pitts mine workings. The area surrounding the Higher Pitts mine has long been used for...out in the immediate vicinity of the Higher Pitts mine from very early times. This activity peaked during
Book
mineralogie du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance. Si dans le haut Moyen-Age Jes Europeens ne produisirent que quelques...t:, 1 J/jJ') dr-,lontin J et indefin1, JI faut 1 , ,11 11 11.:,r::...lesquels les mesures comparatives exposees plus haut ne sont pas applicables, la valeur de J'indice peut...liquide ayant une densite decroissante du bas vers le haut grace a un appareillage tres simple schematise par...de Pierre Curie, Franklinite Zn Fe 2 0 4 : de la mine de Franklin Furnace dans le New-Jersey (U.S.A.)
Book
1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
Book
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 ‱nH20, ¼ Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
 
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