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Millerite from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:363078
Long-form Identifier:1:3:363078:5
GUID (UUID V4):e11d042a-38c4-48eb-88d3-50522375815f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nickel sulfides precipitated in two main stages: a millerite-vaesite-pyrite assemblage that formed disseminations...replacements in vuggy textured rocks, and a later millerite-bravoite-(molybdenite) assemblage in quartzkyanite...metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise...REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi 11°- Shinkolobwe Luishia...26° LEGEND post-Katangan granite (520 Ma) major mine or deposit post-Katangan cover city Nguba and
Journal (issue)
mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whereasmackinawite, pentlandite,cobaltpentlandite,millerite, and mezone (Legg, 1973). Major depositsand numerous...Major Thrust Fault KAMATANDA MinorThrustFault SHINKOLOBWE SHITURU KENGERI \ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent...payablehorizonsis locallyvery large. In the Mufulira mine in Zambiamineralizationis presentin 21 distinctlithologicalunits...hostthe stratiformdeposits The uranium-dominated Shinkolobwe deposit is at the surface or at a depth accessibleto...and truncation planes described from the Mufulira mine (Garlick and Fleischer, 1972) can also be explained
Report (issue)
42.14 Total [100.00] 100.3 100.00 (1) Grünau mine, Germany; recalculated to 100% after deducting gersdorffite...(Ni2.83 Fe0.22 Co0.03 )Σ=3.08 S3.92 . (2) Madziwa mine, Zimbabwe; by electron microprobe, corresponds to...Association: Chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, millerite, gersdorffite, ullmannite, sphalerite, galena...siderite. Distribution: In Germany, in the Grünau mine, Daaden, near Siegen [TL], and at Ramsbeck, North...Miliken (Sweetwater) mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri; and at the Copper King mine, Gold Hill district, Boulder
Report (issue)
Group: F d3m. a = 9.41 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mine la Motte, Missouri, USA. 2.86 (100), 1.670 (80)...corresponds to (Co1.33 Ni1.60 Fe0.03 )Σ=2.96 S4.00 . (2) Mine la Motte, Missouri, USA; corresponds to (Co1.04...Chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, millerite, gersdorffite, Distribution: In Germany, from...In the USA, in the Mine la Motte, Madison Co.; fine crystals from the Buick mine, Bixby, Iron Co., and...Miliken (Sweetwater) mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri. In Canada, from the Langis mine, Cobalt-Gowganda area
Book (edition)
Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr & Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hanel Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter...Joachim Lorenz Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik Dr. Frank Melcher☆ & Dr. Simon Goldmann & Dr. Thomas Oberthür Dipl...-Min. Sebastian Möller Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Peter Röper☆ Prof. Dr. Supriya Roy✝ Dr. Thomas Seifert Dipl...-Geol. Jana Wazeck & Prof. Klaus Thalheim Dr. Thomas Witzke Prof. Dr. Fathi Zereini Mitteljörn 14a, D-24536...native Polarite yes Nickelskutterudite yes Millerite Arsenopalladinite Stibiopalladinite Reflection
Catalog/List
Tellurium down one side small 2x3 inch (Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico) £25 BERYL translucent colourless...CHALCANTHITE rich blue mass on lx2 matrix (Majuba Mine, Nevada USA) £6 STRONTIANITE yellowish. strongely...crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland) lxl £5 lx2 £10...5mm brown crystals over 2x4 inch surface hardshell Mine, Santa Cruz County Arizona USA £ I 2 GYPSUM variety...small bubble moves about 5mm inside the plate (Katanga) £6 HEMIMORPHITE good covering of attractive pale
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
Catalog/List
overall. £45. 3. BARITE and MALACHITE. Shinkolobwe Mine, Shaba, Congo. A matrix partly covered in green mamillary...CALCITE and DOLOMITE. 12 Level Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A small intergrown group of...45x35x18mm. £9. 6. CALCITE (Co). Kolwezi Mine, Shaba, Congo. A 40x20mm area on matrix showing a crust...colour. 50x30x25mm. £15. 7. CARROLITE. Kamoya Mine, Congo. A calcite matrix showing five lustrous silver...(b) 30x20x10mm. £4. (c) 9. CASSITERJTE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Shallow cavity in quartz/killas
Report (issue)
in the Athabasca Formation.......28 Northern Territory.................................................mineralogy........................................76 Shinkolobwe................................................Saskatchewan.............53 22. Geology of the Rossing mine area...............................55 iii Illustrations...cross section of Verna and Fay orebodies, Eldorado mine...................................................temperature and & 0 in hydrothermal fluids, Fay mine................................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite, glaucodote, gersdorffite, bismuthinite, millerite, bravoite, rutile, apatite, chlorite and sericite...K2O were found in vandendriesscheite from Shinkolobwe, Congo (Finch 1994). More significant potassium...carbonate–silicate, was described from the Shinkolobwe deposit, Congo (Deliens and Piret 1982). According to...its name was modified to lepersonnite-(Gd). Shinkolobwe until now remains the only locality with the...new uranyl-oxide hydroxy–hydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology. Eur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high-temperature 1 -0.01 1 phase (e.g., from a kyanite mine near York, South Car-0.13 4 olina, U.S.A.) is isotropic...also that the low-temperaturephase(e.g.,from Itaya mine, 2 0.20 -0.11 3 Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) is anisotropic...0.2581 0.635 0.865 men ROM 19163 from the Hiaco mine, Colquechaca, Bolivia, and the Geological Survey...originally described from the Kasompi mine, Shinkolobwe,Katanga,Z'aie,by Kerr ( I 945). The GeologicalSurvey...'t4.4 0.9 1.0 1.7 9.7 8.6 16.5 Vaesite:GSC Shinkolobwe,Zaire 0.9 0.9 43.9 44.8 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 1
Catalog/List
crystal section. ¼"$2. 50. ANDORITE San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia. Select rich gray metallic mass...11 $2. 00, $2. 50 and $3. 50. ARGENTITE Ra.yas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Choice dull gray modified cubic...¾x%"to ¾x½11 $3. 50 and $5. 00. ARSENOLITE White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nye Co., Nevada. Select lustrous snow-white...4X¼" $1. 50, $2. 00 and $2. 50. i BOLEITE Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Mexico. Choice bright blue...$2. 50 and $3. 50. DIABOLEITE Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona. Bright sky-blue veins
Book (edition)
Freboldite Polarite Sobolevskite Cherepanovite Millerite Covellite Klockmannite Idaite Valleriite Tochilinite... Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank Melcher & Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655...D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität... Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians Universität...cengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 München, Germany Dr. Thomas Seifert TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(with H. O. Wood): A CrystallographicStudy of Millerite-,4 mer. Iour' Sci' (4) 18, 343359;Zeits.Krist...Aaska-Tread#el i4ine; Notes on the Geologyof the Mine and Vicinity-flarriman Alasha Exped..,4t 59-66....(with W. F. Jenks): Le Gite d'Uranium de Shinkolobwe-Kasolo(Katanga) by J. Thoreau and R. du Trieu deTerdonck;areview-Amer
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...Låszl6 Horvåth, 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 (article/letter/editorial)
Switzerland; Chuquicamata, Chile; Musonoi and Shinkolobwe, Zaire; Tsumeb, Namibia; Colquechaca, Bolivia;...Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety...pursued mineralogical studies vigorously, learning from Dr. Abraham Rosenzweig many advanced techniques. The...fluorite crystals on grey galena crystals, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Tennessee (5 cm). Figure 17: Transparent
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...Lake, Canada; Joachimsthal, Bohemia; Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo. Somevvhat siinilarly in the Sn deposits
Report (issue)
accident in the search for copper in the Belgian Congo, for cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories...Goldfields area, Saskatchewan, Canada; the Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Zafre; and the medium-sized deposits...Joachymov, Czechoslovakia, and at Schwartzwalder mine, Colorado, U.S.A.). Uranium deposits have been found...pi anat ion). 19 Symbol: Name: 1AVM Midnite mine, Stevens County, 80 kilometers northwest of Spokane...Peters lease (or Northwest Uranium mine, also known as the Sherwood mine), Stevens County, Washington, U
Catalog/List
Excellent rich reddish mass with minor Likasi. Congo (Zaire) Malachite - - - - . --·- . Red brown blades...lxl £8 rich orange coatiing on matrix Moon Anchor Mine,Maricopa ½" £5 Pb Zn CrO SiO F County,_ Arizona...Violet micro crystals on I cm white matrix Fuka Mine. Oicchu-cho, 1cm £8 Ca y11 ~ Q~l__. __ . .. ~a\Vll~mi~gu...Greenish-yellow . relatively rich coating on Moon Anchor Mine. Mariposa 5mm £4 I cm £8 . _P~_Cu_qll(As__~) 011...Russia ½" £7 K Mn Nb Ti SiO OOH -- - ----Lucky Cuss Mine, lxl £8 lx2 £20 479 QUEITITE Many small white blades
Book
(NH) London 110/111. 114/115;Kivimuseo Helsinki 74; Dr. Olaf Medenbach 18, 35; Naturhistorisches Museum...Daily, from 9.30-12.30 and from 13.30-16.30 hrs. Free Dr S. Wartel Open Admission Curator Historical Notes...hrs from 16th October to 15th March Free Dr J. Delhal and Dr M. Deliens Notes A temporary "Palace of...Brussels World Exhibition. Building work on the Congo Museum began in 1904, to accommodate collections...opened by King Albert I (1875-1934). After the Congo gained independence in 1960, the interests of the
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...group 104 mica, white 104 microcline 112, //3 millerite 12, /2 mimetite 68, 68 mizzonite 114 molybdates...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Niccolite, millerite Niccolite, NiAs, is a hexagonal arsenide of nickel
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...group 104 mica, white 104 microcline 112, /13 millerite 12, /2 orpiment 18 orthoclase 93, 95, 101, 103...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Niccolite, millerite Niccolite, NiAs, is a hexagonal arsenide of nickel
Book
COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504 KATANGA] 257-320 321--416 M-S--HlLAlRE ] CARNEGlE]...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
Report (issue)
• • • • • • • • • • • Congo Republic (former Belgian Congo) • Former French Equatorial African...flowsheet of electrolytic process at Shituru plant, Katanga . . . . . . . . ,, 23 Fig. 5 Cobalt content of...and treatment plant, Katanga . . Outline flowsheet of Kolwezi concentrator, Katanga Cobalt mining areas...Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.; Dr. F. R. Morral,...A., Belgium; Dr. A. Gosseye of the former Direction du Service Geologique, Belgian Congo; Mr. R. A. Wells
 
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