 | | Book | | MINERAUX D'URANIUM I t DU HA UT KATANGA iI •! "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belgique)...Notices par C. GUILLEMIN "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belg ique) QUELQUES REMARQUES...SECONDAIRES D'URANIUM DU HAUT KATANGA par J. F. V AE S E differents points du Haut Katanga ont ete rencontres...mineraux d'uraoium mais c'est le gisement de Shinkolobwe (anciennement denomme Kasolo) qui en a livre...consignees ci-dessous. Le mineral primaire d'uranium au Katanga est l'uraninite. Nulle part dans cette region on |  | | Book | | INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was |  | | Book | | difficulties in pronouncing correctly the names vandendriesscheite anmeersscheite. But Johan Wolfgang von Goethe...mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Examples are schoepite and metaschoepite, vandendriesscheite and metavandendriesscheite. The prefix para-...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for |  | | 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) | | SUMMARY.New X-ray powderdata are presented for vandendriesscheite, fourmarierite, masuyite, and w61sendorfite...fourmarierite (Buttgenbach, I924), masuyite, vandendriesscheite, and richetite (Vaes, 1947), w61sendorfite...1957), and the unnamed 'Mineral C' from the Wiseman mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, briefly described...centrale from the uranium deposit of Shinkolobwe, Shaba ( = Katanga), have been systematically re-examined...orange or red. Curite, which is very common at Shinkolobwe, is easily distinguished by its acicular habit |  | | Report (issue) | | • PbU6+ 7 O22 12H2 O Vandendriesscheite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...07(4) b = 40.85(12) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; cannot be distinguished from metavandendriesscheite...Total 100.48 99.24 [100.00] 100.00 (1–2) Shinkolobwe, Congo. (3) Great Bear Lake, Canada; original total... uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Holsljunga, Västergötland. From the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., Arizona; in Leiper’s |  | | Journal (issue) | | net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Six nouveaux mineraux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe (Katanga). Bull. Soc.BelgeGeol.,7O,B 212-225 (1947)...Belgian mineralogist. Mrcrlnr, Ftrrscnnn Vandendriesscheite J.F.Yrrs, op.cit. Small, amber-orange, pseudo-hexagonal...when heated. Occurs at only one place in the Shinkolobwe deposits, associated with fourmarierite and diderichite...died in 1945, who had studied minerals of Belgian Congo. M.F. Richetite J . F. Yrns, op. cit. Small (0.1... formerly Chief Geologist, Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga. M.F. 384 NEW MINERAL NAMES 385 Studtite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bits/cell. The most complex UOH mineral is vandendriesscheite, orthorhombic Pb1.5[(UO2)10O6(OH)11](H2O)11...Spriggite Uranosphaerite Vandenbrandeite Vandendriesscheite Wölsendorfite K2(Ca0.65Sr0.35)[(UO2)3O3(OH)2]2(H2O)5...Metaschoepite Leesite Vandendriesscheite [PDUPUPUPUDPDPD] 10:17 Vandendriesscheite Gauthierite [UDPDPDUPUP]...Metaschoepite Paulscherrerite Heisenbergite Vandendriesscheite Leesite Becquerelite Billietite Compreignacite...minerals. His thorough overview includes vandendriesscheite, Pb1.5((UO2)10O6(OH)11)(H2O)11 (Burns, 1997) |  | | Report (volume) | | ---------- _________________________ . __ Vandendriesscheite. --------- __ ----- _________________________________...Optical orientation. B. A twin crystal ___ _ 5. Vandendriesscheite. A, B. Plane projection on (010) ---6. Richetite...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through |  | | Report (issue) | | Group: [2/m 2/m 2/m or mm2] (by analogy to vandendriesscheite). A very fine-grained alteration product...parallel and threaded with minute tubes, within vandendriesscheite crystals. Physical Properties: Hardness =...= 5.45 D(calc.) = [5.71–5.79] Alters from vandendriesscheite by dehydration. Optical Properties: Transparent...to vandendriesscheite). Optical Class: Biaxial (–) (optics given here are for vandendriesscheite). Pleochroism:...[P mma, P 21 ma, or P m2a] (by analogy to vandendriesscheite). a = 14.07(30) b = 41.31(30) c = 43.33(30) |  | Kanzundu, M, Loris, N, Numbi, B.B, Chabu, M, Kasongo-Numbi, K (1991) Contribution à l'étude de la distribution des minéraux uranifères au Sud-Shaba (Zaïre) Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East), 13 (3) 401-405 doi:10.1016/0899-5362(91)90104-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reconnue clue dans les gisements de Kalongwe et de Shinkolobwe. Les uranates constituent ]es premieres transformations...uranium occurrences of Southern Shaba (formerly Katanga) are subdivided into four groups: - Oxides and... have been encountered only at Kalongwe and Shinkolobwe. Uranates constitute the first products of the...Uraninite U O s - Mineral c o m m u n ~ Lukuni, Shinkolobwe, ainsi que d a n s certains gisements c u p r...c o b a l t i f ~ r e s , n o t a m m e n t ~ Kambove, Kamoto, Musoshi et Rwashi (Cahen et al., 1961; |  | Olds, Travis A., Plášil, Jakub, Kampf, Anthony R., Škoda, Radek, Burns, Peter C., Čejka, Jiří, Bourgoin, Vincent, Boulliard, Jean-Claude (2017) Gauthierite, KPb[(UO2)7O5(OH)7]·H2O, a new uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology. European Journal of Mineralogy, 29 (1) 129-141 doi:10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2586 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | new uranyl-oxide hydroxyhydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology TRAVIS...hydroxy-hydrate mineral from the Shinkolobwe Mine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. It occurs on a matrix...novel topology that is similar to that of vandendriesscheite, but with a unique chain sequence UDPDPDUPUP...crystal structure; topology; oxidation zone; Shinkolobwe. 38 1. Introduction 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46...description of a new mineral from the Shinkolobwe mine (Katanga, Congo, Africa), gauthierite (/go ti: 'ei |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Of the 322 entries*, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) comes out on top with 88; Namibia...indebted to Dr.Joseph Mandarino of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Werner Krause of Hiirth, Germany, who supplied dates...briartite shares with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia, and both djerfisherite and niningerite...Localities (1) Kanemite: Kanem region, Lake Chad. CONGO(3) People (2) Fornacite: Lucien Louis Fourneau (18671930)...(18671930), colonial governor, French Congo. Plunchkite: Mr. PlanchC, French explorer. Localities (1) |  | | Report (issue) | | c = 14.293(9) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 3.562 (100), 3.169 (100), 7.12 (80), 3.523...54 15.13 7.33 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...billietite, dewindtite, phosphuranylite, vandendriesscheite, rutherfordine, torbernite, kasolite, curite...Distribution: Relatively abundant from Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Morogoro...area, Quebec, Canada. In the USA, from the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; |  | | Report (issue) | | 8.390(13) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: “Katanga” district, Congo. 6.28 (10), 3.97 (9), 3.14 (8), 2.55 (6)...43 21.84 3.53 Total [99.22] 100.17 100.00 (1) Congo; average of three analyses, original total given...of uraninite. Association: Fourmarierite, vandendriesscheite, schoepite, soddyite, kasolite, dewindtite... sklodowskite. Distribution: At Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From La...Wölsendorf, Bavaria, Germany. In the El Dorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories; from the |  | | Report (issue) | | remaining FeO and CaO as impurities. (2) Katanga Province, Congo. (3) UO2 (CO3 ). Occurrence: A secondary...schoepite, kasolite, curite, boltwoodite, vandendriesscheite, billietite, metatorbernite, fourmarierite...Tanzania. At Shinkolobwe, from Kalongwe, and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba...Mountain, Acworth, Sullivan Co., and in the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire;...Utah, from the Delta mine, Emery Co., and in the “C” group of claims and the Jomac mine, White Canyon district |  | | Report (issue) | | 08(4) c = 6.970(6) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 8.06 (100), 4.02 (80), 3.488 (70), 3.193...100.00 4.93 4.36 4.13 5.26 10.14 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, average of six analyses...uranophane, wyartite, masuyite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); fourmarierite, vandendriesscheite, studtite, uranophane-beta...Province, China). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo [Shaba Province, Zaire]. Found at...)3 (CO3 )(OH)6 • 3H2 O, nouveau minéral de Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire. Bull. Minéral., 107, 21–24 (in |  | | Book | | . ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical |  | Ferenc, Š., Biroň, A., Mikuš, T., Spišiak, J., Budzák, Š. (2018) Initial replacement stage of primary uranium (UIV) minerals by supergene alteration: association of uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrates and “calciolepersonnite” from the Krátka Dolina Valley (Gemerská Poloma, Gemeric Unit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia) Journal of GEOsciences, 63 (3) 277-291 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 78[(UO2)6O4(OH)5.29]·8H2O (becquerelite II). Vandendriesscheite with unusual chemical composition imitates...transition phase between gauthierite and vandendriesscheite. Negative correlation of K vs. Pb indicates...average chemical composition of the studied vandendriesscheite can be expressed as: (K0.49Na0.02)Σ0.51(Pb1...uranyl-oxide hydroxy‒hydrates (dominance of vandendriesscheite and “calciolepersonnite”) grown on the orange...formed by becquerelite far predominant over vandendriesscheite and leesite-like phase. The upper layer is |  | | Report (issue) | | 731(4) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shaba Province, Congo. 7.35 (100), 3.66 (50), 3.24 (9), 2.446 (9), 2.571...(2) 87.59 12.41 Total 100.00 (1) Shaba Province, Congo; UO3 average of four partial determinations, H2...Association: Uraninite, becquerelite, billietite, vandendriesscheite, fourmarierite, ianthinite, curite, soddyite...soddyite, rutherfordine, uranophane (Shinkolobwe, Congo); paraschoepite, arsenuranylite, metazeunerite, uranospinite...Uzbekistan). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1997 A new uranyl oxide hydrate sheetin vandendriesscheite: Implications for mineral paragenesisand...filril%"ifitiliirxl"*'Historv Ansrnqcr The sffuctureof vandendriesscheite, orthorhomZ : 8, Pb,,7[(UOr),0O6(OH),,](HrO)...Uranyl minerals are products of the oxidation of U mine tailings and they impact upon the releaserates of...fundamental to studies of the alteration of U deposits,U mine tailings, and the UO, in spent nuclear fuel. Toward...of the uranyl mineral vandendriesscheite. tt76 117'1 BURNS: VANDENDRIESSCHEITE TaeLe 1. Crystallographic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in this manner were Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada; Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia; and, probably...probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...generation of formation than the pitchblende. The Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire produced a few very large, to...Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. bismuth, and...Czechoslovakia; Great Bear L a k e in Canada; the Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire; and the deposits at Cornwall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fibers on uranophaneand rutherfordine at Shinkolobwe,Katanga. The optical propertiesgivenby Vaesled to...furnishedX-ray powder spacing data for the mineralfrom Katanga. The optical and X-ray data publishedby Vaes and...precipitate by addition of hydrogen Menzenschwand Shinkolobwe peroxide to a concentratedsolution of uranyl...diffraction data for studtite from Menzenschwandand Shinkolobwe as well as the indexedpattern for the syntheticcompoundare...by Guillemin (1958, p. 48) for the mineral from Katanga differs somewhat from that for the mineral from |  | | Journal (issue) | | tranche unidescenda11te sous dalle de béton à la mine de Margnac (Haute-Vienne) - Photo: COGEMA (GST)... Auj ourd ' hui , il ne reste plu qu' une seule mine d' ura nium en acti vité, à Jouac dans le nord du...Victo r Lassall e décou vre la chalcolite dans la mine du Crôt Blanc près de Gru ry (Saône-etLoire). En...(Haute-Vienne). Pendant ce temps, la mine de radium de Shinkolobwe (Katanga) est réouverte pour l'uranium en...1956 et mis en exploitation en 1958. Au Niger, la mine d'Arlit est exploitée à partir de 1968. Des prospections |
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Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo