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Chalcopyrite from
Tsumeb West Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tsumeb West Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12699
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12699:1
GUID (UUID V4):6bc0cea2-de89-4037-a0ce-c371a682be14
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
4.5km (2.8 miles) ā“˜Tsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
13.9km (8.6 miles) ā“˜Alt Bobos Mine, Uris Farm 481, Guinas, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
18.4km (11.4 miles) ā“˜Tschudi Mine, Guinas, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
39.6km (24.6 miles) ā“˜Khusib Springs Mine (Khuiseb Springs Mine), Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
41.9km (26.0 miles) ā“˜Abenab Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
46.5km (28.9 miles) ā“˜Kupferberg Mine, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
47.2km (29.3 miles) ā“˜Gross Otavi Mine (Gross Otavi prospect), Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
50.8km (31.6 miles) ā“˜Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
53.1km (33.0 miles) ā“˜Guchab-Rodgerberg area, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
65.6km (40.7 miles) ā“˜Berg Aukas Mine, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...Deposits like Tsumeb (Pbā€“Cuā€“Znā€“Ge), Kombat (Cuā€“Pbā€“Zn), Berg Aukas (Znā€“Pbā€“V), Abenab West (Pbā€“Znā€“V) all...Cuā€“(Ag) or Cuā€“(Au) mineralization, respectively. The Tsumeb deposit appears to have been concentrated after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GES. 148 (2003) THE OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND IN NAMIBIA: TSUMEB, GERMANIUM AND SNOWBALL EARTH by Frank Melcher...carbonate successions in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia, host a large number of polymetallic (Cu-Pb-Zn)...mineralogical data are presented for Ge-bearing ores in the Tsumeb and Khusib Springs deposits, and are compared to...to the ores of Kombat and Berg Aukas. At Tsumeb, local pockets of germanite and reniƩrite-rich ore assaying...structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals New to Tsumeb R.J. BOWELL1 and H. MOCKE2 1 SRK Consulting, Churchill House, Cardiff CF102HH... Wales 2 Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek Abstract: The Tsumeb polymetallic carbonate-hosted replacement...replacement deposit in northern Namibia, although now closed, is a world-renowned deposit of unusual...deposit approximately 337 minerals occur for which Tsumeb is the type locality for 72 of these minerals....through the deposit and during operations into the mine workings, even during early mining, often with different
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
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W....far right. Image courtesy of the Tsumeb Museum, Tsumeb, Namibia. Tsumeb: The Legacy of Wilhelm Klein (1889ā€“1939)...ERNST A. SCHNAITMANN PO Box 9561 Eros, Windhoek Namibia eschnaitmann@gmail.com Dr. Malcolm Southwood has...discovered by Sam Gordon during his 1929 visit to Tsumeb. MGMH specimen 110889 (Klein 976), Malcolm Southwood...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The speaker
Journal (issue)
d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...while shallow seas were receding and the land to the west continued its uplift to form the Rocky Mountains...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...zone during exploration drilling at the Brewer Gold Mine in South Carolina in the early I990s. Those crystals...Reed, Published by Cambridge University Press, 40 west 20th St., New York, NY 10011-4211, 326 pages, b&w
Book
Ci. Sohnge TSUMEB a historical Sketch l!I!-) ļæ½ 0 z ::s:: 0 0 ļæ½ 0::: w 0::: u Ā§5 I :::c ::s::... SCIENTIFIC RESEARCI-:I IN SOUTI-I WEST AFRICA (5n-1 SERIES) G. SOHNGE TSUMEB A HISTORICAL SKETCH <5 figures...signs portray the main chemical elements of the Tsumeb ore deposit and symĀ­ bolize from top to bottom:...1906-1946 . Tsumeb Mine . Ore Concentration and Smelting Ra:ilway and Communications The Tsumeb Way of Life...43 44 48 53 55 61 IV. Toward the Summit under Tsumeb Corporation 63 Limited, 1947-1966 63 The Awakening
Book
celestine 55, 56 chalcanthite 59 chalcolite 74 chalcopyrite /0, 11 artinite 5/7, 53 ascharite 53 chalcotrichite...use as chief deposits are in the Adirondack region Its high melting point makes it suitable a refractory...is usually found in association with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and arsenopyrite in quartz veins. ā€œThe typical...a different yellow from that of pyrite or chalcopyrite, and sometimes it tends towards white due to...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite
Journal (issue)
.......... ......... . .... 610 DIAMOND LEDGE, WEST STAFFORD, CONN. By Peter Z odac................... ................................617 GRIQUALAND WEST CONTRIBUTES MANGANESE TO AMERICAN DEFENCE RESERVES...other thing to note- the Carbola Chemical Co.'s mine road leads Jeft off the Blanchard School road just...bags at In ending this long ramble I wish to trus mine, drive on across the swale and pay as fine a compliment...them but what was cordial, not one the Carbola Co's mine, has a few min- but what gave me the heartiest invitation
Journal (issue)
Morelandite Pseudomorph of Yanadinite La Aurora Mine Chihuahu, Mexico Fornacite DH Claims Gila County...due to a thorough study of the mine- Fig. 1 Descloizite, La Aurora Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico, SEM photo... depending on the exact Cu:Zn ratio. La Aurora Mine While wandering through the dealers' motel rooms...interest and use. Lanny Callenberg Mine reopening The Callenberg Mine at Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany is...will be the first mine to be operated for specimens in Germany, and also the first mine to open since WW
Report (issue)
communications to the Geological Society of America 419 West 117 Street, New York 27, N. Y. The Memoir Series...HYDROTHERMAL AND MAGMATIC MINERAL DEPOSITS Page Magma, Mine,;Superior (oo. ciges Rocttactek ors eno os es snl...one mine to another within the district are so generally the same that what is said of one mine will...Geologica dā€™Italia Metasomatische Probleme (Book) Mine and Quarry Engineering Mineral Deposits of South...of structure to ore deposition at the Britannia mine: Canadian Inst. Min. and Met. Tr., v. 38 (Bull.
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want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...imagesā€™ of each other Left: Cerussite from South-West Africa, forming multiple intergrowths Far left:...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...distinguish quartz from calcite, or pyrite from chalcopyrite. For this purpose a good steel knife-blade is...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for
Journal (issue)
Articles The 100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . ...known as ā€œthe Wreath,ā€ 6 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting...war Bill served in the U.S. Navy as skipper of a mine sweeper stationed in Cold Bay, Alaska. After his... Our collecting trips with him to the Grandview mine in the Grand Canyon and to the White Mountains were
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
Journal (issue)
immature beans have been used as a vegetable in the West Indies and elsewhere, and that no untoward symptoms...wheat flour attempts are being made in the British West Indies to replace part of the flour imported by...has been cultivated experimentally in the British West Indies and in Nyasaland, and three samples of "...Dutch Guiana, on the south and south-west l?y Brazil, and on the west by Venezuela. The colony may be divided...and swampy belt of marine alluvium-the coastal region. This rises gradually from the seaboard and extends
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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...m ..i,1111.cral deposits Within any part icular region in which mineral deposits are formed , what determines...Commonly the veins are no t in a m ajor fault of a region, but a re in smaller faults , shears, and fracture
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Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, Editorial...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Pressure In smelting Co., Colorado Mine, Victor, Colorado, electric mine-signal system.. 49 Olancho county...Innoko and Iditarod districts Kovukuk-Chandalar region Lode mining in interior Matanuska coalfields Metalliferous
 
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