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Rasvumite from
Frank Smith Mine, Windsorton, Dikgatlong Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rasvumite
Formula:KFe2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rasvumite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Frank Smith Mine, Windsorton, Dikgatlong Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1208174
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1208174:3
GUID (UUID V4):08aa66de-f112-4a23-af9e-503b23968058
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinopyroxene-ilmenite intergrowth from the Frank Smith kimberlite diatremes. The mineral occurs as ovoid...exceed 4% (wt.). Another potassium sulphide, rasvumite (K6Fe 1aS2a), has also been found in association...sulphide from the Frank Smith diamond mine near Barkley West, Cape Province, South Africa. At this locality...the mineral, but rather refer to it as FSKS (Frank Smith K-sulphide) throughout this oaper. 422 2....others found in kimberlites from Lesotho and South Africa [4,5]. It is a subcalcic diopside and its chemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtained from the mine dumps of the Bultfontein (Group I, or archetypal) kimberlite (South Africa) and comprise...Roberts Victor orangeite (or Group II kimberlite; South Africa). 3. Nine kimberlite rock samples from the Udachnaya-East...Bultfontein kimberlite (Group I), Kaapvaal Craton (South Africa) ~ 84 Ma (Allsopp and Barrett 1975) Petrography...orthopyroxene, garnet, Cr–spinel and Craton (South Africa) minor clinopyroxene. Olivine and orthopy128...Ma roxene are commonly replaced by serpentine (Smith et al. 1985) and to a lesser extent calcite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-Ni-Cusulphides in xenoliths from the Yakutian and South African kimberlites (Dobrovol’skaya et al., 1975;...diamonds and xenoliths in the Yakutian and Frank Smith (South Africa) kimberlites (Fig. 5). Djerfisherite from...520–630oC. For comparison, the study of the Frank Smith xenolith suggested that K-sulphide formed under...deep-seated xenoliths from the Yakutian and South Africa kimberlites (Dobrovol’skaya et al., 1975; Dmitrieva... Angelo Peccerillo, Prof. Roger Mitchell, Dr. Frances Wall and anonymous reviewer significantly improved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yakutia, Russia, contain abundant to accessory rasvumite, KFe2S3, and djerfisherite, K6Na0–1(Fe,Ni,Cu)24S26Cl...described in the groundmass of the host kimberlite. Rasvumite occurs in chloride–“nyerereite” and carbonate...sequence of crystallization was found: pyrrhotite ! rasvumite ! djerfisherite, reflecting an increase in the...of Cl in the evolved melt. The composition of rasvumite from the Udachnaya-East pipe is close to ideal...and <0.15 wt.%, respectively). Analyses of the rasvumite by the LA–ICP–MS technique indicates the presence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
near-vertical stock. It was unsealed by an open-pit mine at a depth of 420 m as late as 2001. Unlike most...picroilmenite), sulfides (pyrrhotite, pentlandite, rasvumite, djerfisherite), carbonates (calcite, dolomite...(djerfisherite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and, probably, rasvumite KFe2S3) (Golovin et al., 2008). alogy under an...kimberlites in different regions of the world (Africa, East Siberia, Table 5) suggests that the metasomatic...Xenocrysts/megacrysts 4 Frank Smith Kaapvaal (South Africa) Northern Cape Province MZ Mantle xenoliths
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrite coexists with rasvumite and there are pyrite–rasvumite–KFeS2 and pyrite–rasvumite–pyrrhotite equilibria...pyrite and rasvumite react to form K ­ FeS2 and pyrrhotite, limiting the pyrite–rasvumite association...nature were discussed. Keywords K–Fe–S system · Rasvumite · Potassium–iron sulfide · Phase relations · Cl-bartonite...K–Fe–S system described in nature at the moment: rasvumite ­(KFe2S3) (Sokolova et al. 1970) and bartonite...(Mitchell 1997). Py pyrite, Po pyrrhotite, Ras rasvumite, Bt bartonite, Mur murunskite Natural abundance
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Sciences, 683006 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology...daartemyev@gmail.com (D.A.A.) Geological Department, South Ural State University, 76, Lenin Avenue, 454080...distribution of crack-filling Fe-K sulfides (rasvumite, djerfisherite, and bartonite). Keywords: contact...bank of Figure map sampling siteand (A)south andoutcrop south outcrop photos (B–E) the the Kochumdek...ofand thelow-grade Kochumdek river floodplain (from south to north). Scattered blocks of recrystallized marly
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountains, Antarctica), SAH 97096 (Sahara Desert, Africa), and Peña Blanca Spring; (2) to characterize the...djerfisherites plotted in Figures 3 and 4 (e.g., Frank Smith kimberlite, Clarke et al. 1977; Elwin Bay, Clarke...(Dmitrieva and Illyukhin 1976); Kimberlites: Frank Smith, Elwin Bay, Udchanaya (Clarke et al. 1977, 1994;...M.G., and Dmitrieva, M.T. (1979) New data on rasvumite and djerfisherite. American Mineralogist, 64,...from Nakkaalaaq, the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin
Book (volume)
S. R. Hart, I. D. MacGregor, R. H. Mitchell, D. Smith, J. Ro Smyth, H. Go Wilshire The MantleSample...development since the First Kimberlite Conference, held in Cape Town in 1973, has come in the interpretation of...Diamond-Graphite Ecologite From the Roberts Victor Mine, C. J. Hatton and John J. Gurney .................Granulites and Eclogites From Lesotho, Southern Africa, W. L. Griffin, D. A. Carswell, and P. H. Nixon...Garnet Harzburgite XenolithsFrom the Premier Mine, South Africa, R. V. Danchin ........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
partial overprinting by secondary processes at the local scale. Carbonates in southern African Group I (or.... . . . . . . 2.2.3. Local variations of C–O isotopes: Kimberley (South Africa), Lac de Gras (Canada)...Kimberlites sensu stricto or Group I kimberlites (Smith, 1983) are hybrid olivine-rich rocks consisting...1986; Nowell et al., 2004; Paton et al., 2009; Smith, 1983; Tappe et al., 2011, 2012; Woodhead et al...al., 2009). Orangeites or Group II kimberlites (Smith, 1983; Mitchell, 1995) differ from the archetypal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
co-variations among Group I kimberlites from Siberia, South Africa and Canada (Price et al., 2000; Vasilenko et...“nodules” were recovered from ∌470–500 m depths of the mine. Kimberlites in our study are dark massive rocks...the field defined by most group-I kimberlites (Smith, 1983; Fraser et al., 1985; Weis and Demaiffe, 1985)...common type-I (Mitchell, 1989) or group-I (Smith, 1983; Smith et al., 1985) kimberlite. However, the studied...Udachnaya-East pipe. The assumed depth of their origin in the mine pit is ∌500 m. The nodules vary in size from a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
: the origin of potassic sulphides at the Frank Smith mine. in The Mantle Sample: Inclusions in Kimberlites... G. and Dmitrieva, M. T. (1979): New data on rasvumite and djerfisherite. Amer. Mineral., 64, 776–778
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
syenites - carbonatites; the carbonatites occur in northern (3 km 2) and southern (5 km 2) units (Kapustin...and the origin of potassic sulphides at the Frank Smith mine. In: Boyd FR, Meyer HOA (eds) Kimberlites...Dobrovol'skaya MG, Dmitrieva MT (1979) New data on rasvumite and djerfisherite. Am Miner 64: 776-778 Dawson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chondrites (Clay et al. 2012). Potential mechanisms for local heating and cooling of such objects include shocks...and the origin of potassic sulfides at the Frank Smith Mine. In Boyd FR, Meyer HOA (eds) The mantle sample:...Dobrovol’skaya MG, Dmitrievea MT (1979) New data on rasvumite and djerfisherite. Am Mineral 64:776–778 Desch...Meteorites 1:51–64 Kracher A, Kurat G, Buchwald VF (1977) Cape York; The extraordinary mineralogy of an ordinary
Book
the East African rift in northern Tanzania near the Kenya-Tanzania border, south of Lake Natron, and was...were erupted starting about 1250 a from a new northern crater, which has been the siie of subsequent...lasting about 8-10 years, during which the active northern crater has been filled. The ash eruptions have...youngest of the Neogene-Quaternary volcanoes in northern Tanzania (Fig. 1). It is one of a group of ne...are overlain by Oldoinyo Lengai tuffs in an area south-east of the volcano (Macintyre et al. 1974). The
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Frank N. Blanchard: Dept. of Geology, University of Florida...Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...Skinner: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dorian G. W. Smith: Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta...numerous text such as Slater, J. C., and H. H. Frank, Electromagnetism, McGrawHill, New York, 1947. The...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15
Report (issue)
Geochemistry and formation at low temperatures. ACANTHITE. Smith, Mineral. Pa. 18-19 (1978). Occurrence in Pa. ADAMITE... 43, 389-395 (1979). Probe analyses (11) from northern England. ALLOCLASITh. Besson and Picot, Notes...4b;. X-ray data, rnarcasite-like. ALLOCLASITE. Smith, Mineral. Pa. 20-21 (1978). Occurrence in Pa. X-ray...72 (OH)18.92, from Kagoshima Pref. DTA. ALUNITE. Smith, Mineral. Pa. 22-23 (1978). Occurrence in Pa. ALUNITE...Volcanol. 41, 513-528 (1978). Probe analyses (3), Northern Taiwan. AMPHIBOLE. Chen, Proc. Geol. Soc. China
 
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