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Fluorite from
Bultfontein Mine, KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bultfontein Mine, KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1240520
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1240520:8
GUID (UUID V4):9ae479c8-1574-4cd1-8545-e59bedcd2839
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani, Ashton Soltys...isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), Chemical Geology (2016),...geochemistry of the SC RI PT Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani1,2,3*, Ashton...hypabyssal sample (BK) from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South MA Africa). Sample BK consists of...Sr/86Sr ratios to perovskite in the Bultfontein and the other Kimberley kimberlites, i.e. magmatic values
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
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from 16 intrusions in Lesotho, the Republic of South Africa, and Tanzania have been investigated. The following...some cases, zircon contents of about 25 g/t (Bultfontein, cf. HOLMLS 1936; Rietfontein, A. G. BLOOMER...material studied (especially the zircons from the Kimberley mines) was subangular in shape, with one or a...predominate. Zircons from the Kimberley group of intrusions (i.e., Kimberley, Dutoitspan, De Beers, Wesselton...Wesselton and Bultfontein mines) and Nzega (Tanzania) are greyish, which might be attributed to their high
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EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...of-interest co amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Concril?ucions or suggestions for articles...------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN SPAIN David I. Green... MINERAL NOTES SIEGENITE FROM ERGLODD MINE, TALYBONT, DYFED, WALES RGLODD Mine is located 200 metres east of...sphalerite (Livingstone l'I al., 1976); in the South Wales Coalfield it is found in clay-ironstone nodules
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stationery while vacationing on the Natal Coast of South Africa. Wilson uses it as a symbol of the Ivory Coast...Institute of Anieriea wanted to update its diamond mining and reeovery inlormation, we asked the assistance...blood, my father (a distinguished editor ol the Cape Times) having been one ol lour sons ol a sullragan...became imbedded in the Witwatersrand formation in South Africa . 98 Continental Shields of the Earth. 101...108 The Hope Diamond (Color Plate). 129 Map of South Africa . 133 Distribution of known kimberlite occurrences
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OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic Geology...of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
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DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS RALPH S. G. STOKES Latk Mining Editor, Rand Daily Mait, Johannesburg, S.A. WITH... TO THE PIONEERS TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL OF THE MINING INDUSTRY WHOSE ENERGIES HAVE CONSTITUTED THE CHIEF...to rank as factors of considerable moment in the mining world. So vast is the subject as a whole that in...classified by natural than national distinc tions, mining fields are closely linked by the bonds of mutual...established abundantly throughout the colonial mining world. The bulk of this volume is based upon observations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill Complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 6 Department of Geology, University...emplacement coeval with other kimberlites of the Kimberley SC RI cluster. The Benfontein sills are characterised
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorine-bearing hydrous calcium silicate from South Africa. By Jom~" PARRYl (chemical study), ALPIIEUSF...WILLIAMS, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Kimberley, Union of South Africa, and F. E. WRICItT (erystallographieal...or 1904 on the 480-foot level of the Bultfontein mine at Kimberley. It occurred, associated with calcite...in the Dutoitspan mine, which is located about half a mile from the Bultfontein mine; he presented his...MacGregor Museum at Kimberley. Recently, Mr. Miller, Underground Manager of the JagersIontein mine in Orange River
Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...©E.K. Macintosh Cover design by Neville Poulter, Cape Town Lithographic reproduction by Tien Wah Press...Ltd, Singapore Photoset by McManus Bros (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town Printed and bound by Interpak, Pietermaritzburg
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DIAMOND-BEARING ALLUVIAL GRAVELS OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA DIAMOND-BEARING GRAVELS DRAINAGE WEATHERING...SYSTEMS THE ORIGIN OF THE ALLUVIAL DIAMONDS THE SOUTH-WEST AFRICA DIAMOND DEPOSITS THE VAAL RIVER ALLUVIAL GRAVELS...Plate No. 96. THIN SECTION (359, X 12) FONTEIN MINE BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM JAGERS­ facing page 368...FROM BuLTFONTEIN - following plate MINE THIN SECTION (8, x 12) BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM BuLTFONTEIN 98...98. MINE ,, ,, 99. THIN SECTION MINE - (3, X 12) BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM BOLTFONTEIN 102. THIN SECTION
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of the diamond, rock crystal, ruby, zircon, and fluorite. Some diamonds are much more phosphorescent than...carat in ten thousand emerald crys- taken from a mine in North Carolina was transparent. In some respects...carats. Its weight (Plate XVI.) The " Star of the South" was found July, 1853, in the western part of Minas...ÂŁ80,000. The " Star of South Africa" was the first large stone found in the Cape (1869). It weighed in...and nine and one-fourth carats came from the same mine. It is said an illicit diamond buyer bought this
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found at the p. 127, line 5. Premier Mine, Transvaal, South Africa. It weighed 3106 carats in the rough...production and almost 56% of world annual production. South Africa is p. 159, line 17. ; ADDENDA Vlll (1968)...stones of smaller sizes. South Africa diamonds Congo Other large producers in Africa are is still the major...producer of stones of gem quality. Ghana, Southwest Africa, Sierra Leone, and Angola. At the present time...Australian opal locality of Lightning Ridge, New South 384, line 4. Wales, was discovered. In 1915 precious
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Premier diatreme root (Cullinan Diamond Mine, South Africa): New insights to mineralogical-genetic classifications...the Premier diatreme root (Cullinan Diamond Mine, South Africa): New insights to mineralogical-genetic classifications...the Premier diatreme root (Cullinan Diamond Mine, South Africa): New insights to mineralogical-genetic classifications...University of AN Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa US 1 CR Ashish Dongre1, * and Sebastian...Introduction The ca. 1153 Ma Premier kimberlite pipe in South Africa is a classic example of a large (~32 hectares)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archaean Kraaipan granite-greenstone terrane, South Africa CARL R. ANHAEUSSER’,* and FE0 WALRAVEN2s3 ...WITS 2050, South Africa 2Council for Geoscience, Private Bag Xl 12, Pretoria 0001, South Africa ABSTRACT-Field...the western edge of the Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa. The Kraaipan greenstone belts, consisting of metamorphosed...3250-3030 Ma ages reported for gneisses in the Kimberley and other areas on the western edge of the Kaapvaal...and extend from the Schweizer-Reneke area in the south to the Botswana border and beyond in the north.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Schaller (1918 ; 8th List) and contains many trivial, local, and trade names which are not included in the present...felspar containing BaO 5.5 %, from Broken Hill, New South Wales. Barium-muscovite. L . H . Bauer and H. Berman...F. Foshag, Amer. Min., 1931, vol. 16, p. 338.) Local name for a borate mineral in California, since identified...triclinic needles from the Bultfontein diamond mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Named from the locality....173 (Caesium biotite). A variety of biotite from South Dakota. containing Cs20 3.14 %. [M.A. 5-192.] Chrome-beidellite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Greenland kimberlites (SCOTT, 1979); Premier Mine, South Africa (ELTHON and RIDLEY,1979). The first seven...micas in ultramafic nodules from the Kimberley pipes, S. Africa. Igneous, metamorphic and metasomatic...during partial melting of mica-Janet-lherzolite. Local increase of temperature, and infiltration of fluids...1126 Jagersfontein, 1141A Bultfontein, Rock S. Africa S. Africa S. Africa sO 0 0 0 P 1 1154B Cr-spine1...Monastery, S. Africa Lesotho S. Africa 1544 Lashaine, 2125 Mothae, 73-598 Bultfontein ” lherzolite
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Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Mineralogia e Petrologia Program with abstract ·.joint 01111110/ meeting of the GAC. ,\L.J.Cand CSPG Pennskiye...Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de Alineralogia-Roma...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
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men. Minerals of the Scratch Awl Mine PhilipsburgMining District, GraniteCounty, Montana Larry B. French...59301 french@midrivers.com The Philipsburg Mining District, immediately east of Philipsburg, Montana,...renamed the Hope mine (Albright, 2005). Silver was the primary metal produced by the district, but after 1916...1916, the Philipsburg district became the nations' leading producer of manganese. Lead, zinc, and some...some gold were also recovered from the district ores. The Flint Creek Range was created by several of granitic
Report (issue)
Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, KimberÂŹ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite cany, Italy...MineralÂŹ Feldspar ogy of Three Sulphate Deposits of Northern from Soda Anorthite Chile. American Mineralogist...(M. Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, AriÂŹ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition...Aluminocopiapite NMNH 93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island...the Jarosite American Mineralogist, 12:424-426. Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada Copiapite TusÂŹ See reference
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
where bultfonteinite (Ca4(Si2O7)(F,OH)2) and fluorite commonly replace olivine. CE In order to examine...fluids to produce PT the observed bultfonteinite/fluorite assemblages. Based the compositions and daughter...e. AC bultfonteinite (Ca4(Si2O7)(F,OH)2) and fluorite (CaF2)) replacing olivine. In order to constrain...sometimes partially replaced by bultfonteinite or fluorite (Fig. 3; see section 2.3). PT Monticellite is...Damtshaa kimberlite (Botswana; Buse et al., 2010). Fluorite is a rare (<1 vol.%) phase that replaces olivine
Journal (issue)
Diamonds Sapphire from Mogok, Myanmar Gemstone Mining in Vietnam Winter 2013 VOLUME 49, No. 4 EDITORIAL...formation. 223 Blue Sapphires from the Baw Mar Mine in Mogok Hpone-Phyo Kan-Nyunt, Stefanos Karampelas...Burmese sapphire. pg. 223 233 Update on Gemstone Mining in Luc Yen, Vietnam Pham Van Long, Vincent Pardieu...combined weight of the piece, retrieved from South Africa, is 314.47 carats. This specimen is part of...Mar area in Mogok, Myanmar; an update on gemstone mining in Luc Yen, Vietnam; and the characteristics of
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FINANCIAL TIMES INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOKS MINING 1992 RMSE E70 TRAN SOWATEMA >,) Wherever there are...JAMES’S SQUARE, LONDON SW1Y 4LD Financial Times Mining International Year Book 1992 C20 \b\ SB bI2 ...The main titles in the series cover Oil and Gas, Mining, Hotel and Insurance sectors. There are also books...447 467 491 Company Index 503 Tables: World Mine Production of Gold, Silver and Base Metals 5A2...{ , 'einlht > : Paar _ “pA Preface The Mining Year Book, now in its 105th year of publication
Report (issue)
(25m) .. Preliminary grade and tonnage model of fluorite veins (26b) ....................................Advocate Asbestos Hill Asbestos Island Baryulgil Bell Mine Belvidere Bird-Ginn (Matheson) Black Lake British...Canadian Caley Carey/East Broughton CanaBrava Cassiar Mine Clinton Creek Coalinga Continental Copperopolis...Havelock Mine Hedman Ingessana Hills Jeffrey King-Beaver Mine Kinlock Kolubara-Azbet Kudu Asbestos Mine Country...Shihmien Steele Brook Tuolumne Windsor Woodsreef Mine Ziiani Serpentine-hosted Asbestos 1.0 0.0 0.0016
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boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...government may even decide to go directly into mining, as Saskatchewan has done with potassium minerals
 
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