 | | 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) | | mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibiaāa 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...(PbāCuāZnāGe), Kombat (CuāPbāZn), Berg Aukas (ZnāPbāV), Abenab West (PbāZnāV) all occur in Otavi Group dolostones...carbonate-hosted PbāZn deposits in the Abenab Subgroup at Berg Aukas and Abenab is not well constrained, but the |  | | 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unpublished.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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | precious stone. Opalbanya is the name of the original mine location. Possibly Magyar, ancient Hungarian. These...are fine Some aren't unpacked yet -a few are now mine! But rocks in the garage and more in the shed, Were...for Vitec, our contact for our visit to the Tsumeb Mine. It has to be said that some of that time was spent...Figure 1 Headframe of the De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb 1 Namibia Handbook (Footprint) p324 -7- SMLS Journal 176...and diversity of mineral resources throughout Namibia. Although widely ranging and distributed, a large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Northern Platform of the Pan-African Damara Belt, Namibia: geochemical and ĀÆuid inclusion evidence from carbonate...a base metal sulphide ore province in northern Namibia where deposits are hosted by platform carbonates...edge of the PanAfrican Damara Belt in northern Namibia (Fig. 1). Over 600 occurrences of base metal sulphide...OML are Tsumeb (exhausted), Kombat, Berg Aukas, Abenab and the relatively recently discovered Khusib Springs...position relative to Neoproterozoic rifts in the region. W Windhoek. (After Frimmel et al. 1996) deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINER.GES. 148 (2003) THE OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND IN NAMIBIA: TSUMEB, GERMANIUM AND SNOWBALL EARTH by Frank...carbonate successions in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia, host a large number of polymetallic (Cu-Pb-Zn)...structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...jungproterozoischen Karbonatabfolgen des Otavi Berglandes (Namibia) sind zahlreiche polymetallische (Cu-Pb-Zn) Sulfidvorkommen...this is more than the name of a small town in Namibia and a polymetallic copper deposit: Tsumeb is renown |  | | Book | | Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House WĀ°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OTAVI MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTAFRICA N. L. MenrHAM, Grootfontein,Soulh West Afri'ca has recently An interesting...the Otavi Valley about 40 miles South West of Grootfontein. Dolomites of the Lower (?) Tsumeb Stage of...secondarysulfides.The associatedminerals are malachite, conichalcite, duftite, mottramite, descloizite...mineralisationhas many similaritiesto that of the nearby Tsumeb Mine, the sulfide ores being characterised by an abundance...in sphalerite-rich sulphide ores from the nearby Abenab West and Berg Aukas Mines but it is of rare occurrence |  | Silin, Ivan, Hahn, Klaus, GĆ¼rsel, Devrim, Kremer, Dario, Gronen, Lars, StopiÄ, SreÄko, Friedrich, Bernd, Wotruba, Hermann (2020) Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Treatment of Lead Vanadate Ores. Minerals, 10 (2) 197 doi:10.3390/min10020197 | 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...(PO4 )3 Cl Zinc Copper Smithsonite ZnCO3 Malachite Cu2 (CO3 )(OH)2 Hydrozincite Zn5 (CO3 )2 (OH)6...vanadate ore from Abenab West Mine, Namibia. After the closure of the Berg Aukas Mine and stoppage of the...been mined in commercial quantities in Spain, Namibia, Zambia, USA, Mexico, and Argentina [59,60]. The |  | | 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 |  | Hitzman, M. W., Reynolds, N. A., Sangster, D. F., Allen, C. R., Carman, C. E. (2003) Classification, Genesis, and Exploration Guides for Nonsulfide Zinc Deposits. Economic Geology, 98 (4) 685-714 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.4.685 | 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) | | Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia .............................................................. 539 by T. P. Moore COVER: MALACHITE (non-pseudomorphous) crystal sprays on shattuckite...1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff Scovil photo. See...the best vesuvianite specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Quebec. In this issue we present a review of...Herodsfoot Mine Work Readers who enjoyed Roy Starkey's superb article on the famous Herodsfoot mine in Cornwall |  | | Catalog/List | | Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price Ā£1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 Ā£2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 Ā£1...Quebec (Cook) Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais...Cornwall Tennantite Parvs Copper Mine, Anqlesey Sphalerite Louisa Mine, Glendinninq, Dumfrieshire Stibnite |  | | Journal (issue) | | can:ie info~ consid_e~able praise. The Florence Mine was one of the best thought out and most interesting...Lee from SMLS, delayed his fishing holiday to Namibia for a day (yes - FISHING!!) in order to give a...his classic "half-hour" lectures on the Florence Mine and West Cumbrian Minerals, which was authoritative...magnificent gemmy dioptase on calcite from the Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Many thanks to SMLS members, Show dealers,...hot it might be collecting specimens on an exposed mine dump at midday. Wrth luggage collected and customs |  | | Book | | Minen- und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft: 1906-1946 . Tsumeb Mine . Ore Concentration and Smelting Ra:ilway and Communications...School, Tsumeb. The South West Africa Company of Grootfontein kindly loaned their files on outside exploration...truth is that in total metal production the Tsumeb mine has become one of the foremost on the African continent...staĀ tistics do, however, reveal why the Tsumeb mine has attained world status as a base metal producer...the Otavi Upland showed the outcrop of green malachite to a wandering Bergdama who knew how to smelt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and origin of the vanadium minerals at the Lueca Mine, and of the associated tarbuttite ZnTPO4OHand volborthite...lime-green streak. F. Mottramite (near end-member), Uris Mine, Tsumeb, South-West Africa. Grassgreen crystalsl...similar to the sphalerite occurring in the Tsumeb Mine in south-west Africa. Of the secondarysupergeneminerals...occurrence of the vanadium minerals at the Lueca Mine shows general geologicalsimilarities with other...vanadium deposits in SouthWest Africa. At Grootfontein and Abenab the more common type of 772 ANI:HONY |  | | Book (edition) | | vanadinite pp. 6-7, gold p. 73, azurite and malachite p. 86; A.C.G. Hutchings, Cape Town, clear quartz...A splendid specimen of wulfenite from Tsumeb, Namibia Half-title: Quartz, Nababeep Opposite: Mimetite...world famous Tsumeb mine Overleaf: Crystalline incrustations of vanadinite, Namibia Contents Acknowledgements...attached list of working mines. The geological map of Namibia which shows the mines and also farm boundaries...Goodhousc on the Orange River cast of Vioolsdrif. In Namibia amethyst can be found north-east of Otjiwarongo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the information about cinnabar from the Red Devil Mine of Sleetmute, Alaska, and thought you might like...siderite have been found in the Junction copper mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS ā A black mass...sphalerite (gem quality) from the famous Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo. Some small specimens...us ā very nice material. "From the Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain...Mountain Reservoir. Some galena xls also found here. "Mine temporarily closed again due to low price of zinc |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...stated the directions for getting to visit his "mica mine". A week later I the Old Reese farm as wdl as they...written. Which leaves me only the So I never saw his mine. But I advise necessity of adding a few trimmings |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals, which include opal, limonite, anatase, malachite, axinite, pseudomalachite, aragonite, copper,...and Genesis of the Lead-Zinc-Vanadium Deposit of Abenab West in the Otavi Mountains, South West Africa...D. T. Otto The Geology of the Klein Letaba Gold Mine, Sutherland Range, North-East Transvaal by B. F |  | | Catalog/List | | Masses with polished surface ā¢ from the Patapsco Mine. About ax 2Ā¼", $4.00. CASSITERITE. A tin oxide...sulfide. CINNABAR. ā¢ Southwest Africa. Xis on malachite, Alaska. Dark red high grade masses, 2 x choice... U x 2i", $2.50. Nevada. Massive, vein, with malachite, azurite, etc., 2 x 2", $.66; 3 x 3:.1", $1.36;...xis coating rock, 2 x 2", $.35; 2 x 3", $.46. Abenab Mine, Southwest Africa. Xled and massive on and in... Ā· coSALITE. A sulfide of lead and bismuth. Abenab Mine, Southwest Africa. Partly British Columbia. Xline |  | | Journal (issue) | | The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the...surrounded on all sides (exĀ Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by...of rare mineral to rise. Who knows how long the mine will continue to operate? species at Tsumeb. In...Nations by which Southwest Africa was renamed āNamibiaā; the Security CounĀ cil was requested to take |  | Mondillo, Nicola, Accardo, Mariafrancesca, Boni, Maria, Boyce, Adrian, Herrington, Richard, Rumsey, Mike, Wilkinson, Clara (2020) New insights into the genesis of willemite (Zn2SiO4) from zinc nonsulfide deposits, through trace elements and oxygen isotope geochemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 118. 103307 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103307 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zambia), Kabwe (Zambia), Berg Aukas and Tsumeb (Namibia); 3. Supposedly supergene deposits: Mumbwa area...formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the new mineral...(Australia), Kabwe (Zambia) 79 and Berg Aukas and Abenab (Namibia). These deposits occur in Neoproterozoic to...Belgium (Coppola et al., 2008; Choulet, 2019), Namibia and Zambia 96 (Terracciano, 2008; Schneider et...Zambia), Kabwe (Zambia), Berg Aukas and Tsumeb (Namibia); 3. Supposedly supergene deposits: Mumbwa area |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W.... Image courtesy of the Tsumeb Museum, Tsumeb, Namibia. Tsumeb: The Legacy of Wilhelm Klein (1889ā1939)...ERNST A. SCHNAITMANN PO Box 9561 Eros, Windhoek Namibia eschnaitmann@gmail.com Dr. Malcolm Southwood has...largely of massive smithsonite, conichalcite, and malachite (all XRD confirmed). The specimen measures 13...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The |  | Verhaert, MichĆØle, Bernard, Alain, Dekoninck, Augustin, Lafforgue, Ludovic, Saddiqi, Omar, Yans, Johan (2017) Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of supergene CuāPbāZnāV ores in the Oriental High Atlas, Morocco. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 1049-1068 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0753-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | formation of oxidized minerals in the saprolite (malachite, azurite, brochantite) where the environment becomes...minerals, Cu minerals (chalcocite, covellite, malachite), and a CuāPbāZn vanadate (mottramite). Galena...edge of the Oriental High Atlas (Fig. 1). This region is characterized by the alternation of high Jurassic...mining district. (b) Geology map of the Bou Arfa region showing the location of Jbel Klakh and Jbel Haouanit...Wadjinny (1998), the exploitation of the Jbel Haouanit mine, until its closure in 1954, yielded 150,000 tons |
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