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Magnetite from
Abenab West Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Abenab West Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12657
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12657:5
GUID (UUID V4):5c0c8846-d735-43b3-aae2-5ddb5372e776
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Abenab Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
36.6km (22.7 miles) ā“˜Hoba meteorite, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
39.3km (24.4 miles) ā“˜Tsumeb smelter slag locality, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
39.5km (24.6 miles) ā“˜Tsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
61.1km (38.0 miles) ā“˜Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of Vanadium Ores in the Otavi Mountainland, Namibia MARIA BONI,ā€  Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra...mottramite, and vanadinite) in the Otavi Mountainland, Namibia, once were considered the greatest vanadium deposits...Belgium. 0361-0128/07/3663/441-29 Mountainland, Namibia. Mining for vanadium, following the exploitation...Auros Fm Auros Fm Auros Fm Gauss Fm Karavatu Tsumeb West Tƶnessen Baltika Gross Otavi Uris Uitsab pit Friesemberg...Friesemberg Tigerschlucht Olifantsfontein Abenab pipe Okorundu pipe Abenab West Harasib 3 Wolkenhauben Berg Aukas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibiaā€”a review and regional interpretation A.F. Kamona...GĆ¼nzel b a b University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia Ongopolo Mining Ltd., Main Street...Street, P.O. Box 40, Tsumeb, Namibia Received 16 May 2004; accepted 10 April 2006 Available online 4...(Pbā€“Cuā€“Znā€“Ge), Kombat (Cuā€“Pbā€“Zn), Berg Aukas (Znā€“Pbā€“V), Abenab West (Pbā€“Znā€“V) all occur in Otavi Group dolostones...carbonate-hosted Pbā€“Zn deposits in the Abenab Subgroup at Berg Aukas and Abenab is not well constrained, but the
Journal (issue)
Actinolite from Namibia by Justin Zzyzx ............................................pg. 15 Abenab Mine by Ernst................................pg. 31 Three Aloes Mine by Ernst Schnaitmann ............................................................pg. 47 Otjozondu Mine by Ernst Schnaitmann .............................we bring you eleven articles about locations in Namibia that do not receive much publicity. It is easy...legendary deposits such as Tsumeb, the Brandberg region and the Erongo Mountains. Alpine clefts, huge soda
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0.084 13.6 13.60 South Africa Mapochs Mine Rhovan Mine 1.5 0.52 1.5 1.06 1.60 Generally, VTM...Russia and the Chinese deposit in the Panzhihua region contain resources of 13.6 and 10.4 million metric...[16], stone coal [12,17], and vanadium-titanium magnetite concentrate [18] are intensively investigated...vanadate ore from Abenab West Mine, Namibia. After the closure of the Berg Aukas Mine and stoppage of the...1950 and 1970, iron concentrates obtained from magnetite and titanomagnetites ore gained increasing importance
Book
REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
Book
The EarlyGermanGeologistsand Entrepreneursin South West Africa The People- Mineralogists,Geologistsand Collectors...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zn, Zambia; 28 = Skorpion, Namibia; 29 = Berg Aukas and Abendab, Namibia; 30 = Padaeng (Mae Sot), Thailand;... In extremely arid climates, such as those in Namibia (Tsumeb deposit: Lombaard et al., 1986; Hughes...exist of tonnages and grades that can be cited Namibia Poland Silesian Crakow district Skorpion Spain...dolostone by smithsonite with minor hematite. Tucson mine, Leadville district, Colorado, United States. b...Massive smithsonite replacing limestone. Wolftone mine, Colorado, United States. c. Coarsely crystalline
Journal (issue)
75236 Uppsala, Sweden Water Science GROSBOIS Region III, Pennsylvania 19103, USA Consortium, Inc...Quantitative Hydrology DoNnALD Jor BENSON Nuclear Davip Region III, Hydrogeology STEPHEN H. Stow Oak Ridge...climatic features of Bangladesh vary from region to region and season to season. During the monsoon...to this region) to more than 2030 mm in the south-eastern (one study area belongs to this region) and north-eastern...shales and claystones in the geosynclinal foredeep region (east and southeastern part of Bangladesh) contain
Report (issue)
------------------6. Proportions of total world mine production of vanadium accounted for by countries...7. 8-9. Estimated world cumulative and annual mine production of vanadium, contained in ore and concentrate:...vanadium pentoxide. Deposits of the titaniferous magnetite type are the most economically important, and...larger, than was established when the decision to mine was made. Experts who have a sound knowledge of...deposits, for example Mina Ragra, Peru, and Abenab, Namibia, 4 160Ā° oo 40Ā° ~~ ā€¢ ~ 1400 ?0" Heath~V
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brazil, ca. 28.5 Mt @ 18% Zn; Berg Aukas and Abenab West, Namibia, ca. 3.5 Mt @ 15ā€“25% Zn; Kabwe and Star...or have started in the east and propagated to the west towards the similarly aged Damaran Belt (Laukamp...geological map of the central-southern African region showing the location of the various tectonic units...regard to the real metamorphic grade(s) in the region. For example, it is difficult to envisage, based...al. 2007). Geology of the Lusaka area The Lusaka region (Figs. 2 and 3) was mapped in the 1960s by geologists
Journal (issue)
. .... ... ... . 15.00 Tellurium, Railroad Boy Mine, Colo. In small distinct xis. in rock. 2 x l 1/4...Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·-Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·-Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·-Ā·Ā· 223 NEW LONDON COPPER MINE, MARYLAND. By V ernon / . J\1ilfer ...............by, such as Sunshine, Salina, and the crow flies) west of Boulder, i. the the Sugar Loaf D istr;cr. Fringing...Fringing the picturesque little mining town of Gold region are the Ward, Jamestown, and Hill. Altbo not perhaps...the trip) are Cenrral City and Idaho Ā·Springs. region around this western mining camp It is l:owever
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The chemistry of magmatic ore fluids from South West England David Banksa, Bruce Yardleyb School of Earth...obvious importance of Cu as a mobile ore metal in the region. Chloride concentrations are variable, with values...rocks), direct atmospheric leaching of the run of the mine (5ROM) ore with sulphuric acid will not be economically...melting of supracrustals (RoĢˆssing alaskites, Namibia), or from extreme fractional crystallization of...surficial deposits like calcretes (Langer Heinrich, Namibia). In the Olympic Dam IOCG deposit, Southern Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluids. The processes by which the precursors of magnetite in these iron formations were precipitated are...of green rust to magnetite. The overall reaction for the precipitation of magnetite may well have been:...has been more usefully applied to exploration and mine development in the Witwaterstrand basin than the...rounded grains are replacements inter alia of magnetite and ilmenite, but the Re-Os age of some pyrite...suggested that the Styudyanka deposits in the Baikal region of Russia are Archean in age, and Bushinsky (1969)
Report (volume)
commonly enriched in vanadium-most titaniferous magnetite deposits contain nearly 0.5 percent V20 5 (about...such as "Balsley, J. R., Jr. Vanadium-bearing magnetite-ilmenite deposits near Lake Sanford, Esse"!{ County...base-metal vanadates, and the Colorado Plateau region, where vanadium-uranium deposits in sandstone are...geographic units, such as the Colorado Plateau region. "The Statesman's Yearbook," 19651966, 102d edition...Industrial, Boletim. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Mine and Quarry Eng.-Mine and Quarry Engineering. London, England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
These, and probably the deposits of the East Sayan region (e.g. Zun Holba, Sora, Aksug), are part of the...formed, potentially at a similar time, but this region is dominated by deformation and plutonism associated...km along the eastern Asian Pacific margin. This region of lithosphere loss has a remarkable association...formation. The Kupol epithermal gold deposit Chukotka Region, NE Russia H. C. Golden 11/13 Proletarskaya Street...(ELIP>6105 km2; TLIP52?56105 km2). In the Norilā€™sk region of the SLIP the basalts stand up as mesas above
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
br/dnpm/sumarios/zinco-sumario-mineral-2014). The Vazante mine has been in operation since the 1960ā€™s, when it...(Zn2SiO4) deposit in the world and the largest zinc mine in Brazil, with estimated total resources of 40...as Beltana, Star Zinc, Kabwe, Berg Aukas and Abenab West, the studies were carried out mostly on the mineralized...eastern portion of the Tocantins Province and at the west border of the SĆ£o Francisco craton (SFC), and extends...thrust slabs that converged to the east against the west portion of the SĆ£o Francisco-Congo platform (Valeriano
Book
(mantovani@usp.br) R.McG. Miller PO Box 11222, Windhoek, Namibia (rmmiller@mweb.com.na) A. Misi Centro de Pesquisa...2004 in SaĢƒo Paulo (Brazil), 2005 in Windhoek (Namibia), 2006 in Punta del Este (Uruguay), 2007 in Stellenbosch...and Numees (Frimmel et al., 2002) formations of Namibia and the Jacadigo Group and Puga Formation of the...thermally subsiding basins, such as in northern Namibia, South Australia and northwestern Canada. The so-called...problematic fossil Otavia in middle Cryogenian rocks in Namibia as a sponge (Brain et al., 2001, 2003, 2008) and
Book
CANADA Pergamon of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust...Kronberg-Taunus Pferelstrasse 1, Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany Copyright Ā© 1976 John Drew Ridge All Rights...Morocco 3 Nigeria 1 Rhodesia 4 South Africa 20 South West Africa... 1 Tunisia 1 Zaire 3 Zambia _2 35 This...50, p. 164-168 Heim, Ī‘., 1 9 3 4 , The molybdenum mine at Azegour: Soc. Econ. Geol., v. 29, p. 76-83..., Allanite et epidote dans des corneennes de la mine d'Azegour, Haut-Atlas: Serv. Geol. Maroc. Notes
Book (volume)
South Africa-F. E. KEEP . rr. The Messi6a copper mine-W. I. SPENCE 123 12. Tin mining in South Africa-E...borehole resultsD. G. KRIGE 5. Recent advances in mine sampling and underground valuation practice in South.... . . . . . . page 775 Protective treatn1ent of mine timbers- A. L. JAMES . 793 Rock n1echanics research...called here was followed outwards to the east and west, came a period of almost .frenzied formation of...underground conditions vary widely and they do not all mine the same reefs. As you visit our mines in the course
Book
considered to be a natural accumulation of useful mine ra l materials that can be profitably extracted...series of episodes in the geologic history of the region in which it occurs, and the kind of deposit formed...formed is dependent on the geologic history of the region. The broad, general picture of the history of the...commercially Chromite, native platinum, some magnetite and ilmenite; d iamond; corundum Lithium-bearing...m ..i,1111.cral deposits Within any part icular region in which mineral deposits are formed , what determines
Journal (issue)
Central Ranges of the Ruwenzori Mountains, looking west . . . . . Plate III Geological and Scenic Features...PHYSIOGRAPHY . . GEOMORPHOLOGY . . GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS West Nile Group . Ruwenzori Group . Karagwe-Ankolean...widespread formations on Ruwenzori belong to the West Nile Group of the Archaean Basement Complex, and...much the same pattern of forces has acted in the region from the earliest (Ubendian) diastrophism and successive...intimate acquaintance witl1 the geology of the region. After some preliminar)r work on the northern portion
 
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