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Montmorillonite from
Abenab Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Abenab Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:647692
Long-form Identifier:1:3:647692:2
GUID (UUID V4):3ded4ad7-2d7d-4dbd-a1cc-585e87e2f284
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘAbenab West Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
38.7km (24.1 miles) ⓘTsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
References
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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unpublished.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
Report (chapter)
southern margin of the Congo Craton, northern Namibia: facies, palaeogeography and hydrocarbon perspective...Ghaub Formation diamictite interval in northern Namibia and the major environmental change in the aftermath...peri-Gondwanan areas apart from the formerly glaciated region of northern Africa. In the Palaeozoic post-glacial...the late Cryogenian Ghaub glaciation of northern Namibia, a classical field location for research on this...Kennedy (2007). Geological overview In northern Namibia continental rifting occurred in the Late Neoproterozoic
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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
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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 W°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)
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
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:...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, 4 160° oo 40° ~~ ‱ ~ 1400 ?0" Heath~V.............. 16°10' S. 33°31' E. Magmatic Abenab-Abenab West........... Supergene 1923 to 1947 Berg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nonsulfide deposits with successful applications in Namibia, Peru, and Morocco. Supergene non-sulfide zinc...base metal sulfides (Fig. 1b, c). At the Bou Arhous mine, located in the footwall of the BGrand Accident^...exploration campaigns in the 1960s, the Bou Arhous mine has been exploited by Managem since the early 2000s...Bou Arhous Cu Mine Zn Zn Pb Zn N32°16’ Pb Pb Pb Pb Pb N32°17’ Iboughalene Zn Mine Arhous Range...W3°47’ Pb Pb Pb Pb Atchana “Grand Accident” Mine N32°15’ Pb N32°15’ Thrust Figure 1C Pb 1
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Neoproterozoic in North Africa, India, Spain, Namibia and South America. Many people helped to make the...southern margin of the Congo Craton, northern Namibia: facies, palaeogeography and hydrocarbon perspective...in Mauritania, Algeria and Mali; the Anti-Atlas region of Morocco and the Cyrenaica, Kufra and Murzuk...complexities of the Lower Palaeozoic sequences in the region and, in particular, to understand the Upper Ordovician...main targets of hydrocarbon exploration across the region. With time, and with an appropriate level of focus
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papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi Greisen System.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Navachab, Namibia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Cu Deposits of the Matchless Amphibolite Belt, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7...Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-V Deposits of the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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............................................U22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................U25 Mine Closure...........................................V/L microgram of vanadium per liter AMD acid mine drainage Ga giga-annum HSLA high-strength, low-alloy...sandstone-hosted vanadium] Country District, region, or State/ Province Latitude Longitude Deposit...reserves Source of data ID Deposit 1 Lueca Mine Angola NA Vanadate –7.92 13.65 n.d. n.d.
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stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...waters for a longer period than did any other in the region, the bright new cerussite crystal group at its...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket
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stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...waters for a longer period than did any other in the region, the bright new cerussite crystal group at its...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket
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 Noril’sk region of the SLIP the basalts stand up as mesas above
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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... V. D. R. Mina de vanadio "Nelly" [The vanadium mine, "Nelly"]: Argentine Direcci6n Nac. Geologia y Minerla...vanadium-uranium deposits in sandstone in the Colorado Plateau region. 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 00989 Bain, G. W. 273-323, I950
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fine-grained mass. The rock illustrated is from a region near Oslo, Norway. Samples of it were brought to...first described) or after a landscape, county, or region in which the type locality was situated. Aragonite...it was first described.) Field of view: S77 16 mine WHAT IS A MINERAL? Figure 11. Phillipsite from...x 76 mm. Figure 38. Wulfenite from St. Anthony Mine, Mammoth-Tiger 10x 18mm. District, Pinal County... CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Figure 70. Prehnite from Brandenberg, Namibia. Prehnite is mostly seen in botryoidal aggregates
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]‱6HzO
Journal (issue)
and redeposition along the major faults of the region. New analyses of the 12 Letter from Prof. F. A...Zircons from nepheline-syenite-gneiss, south of Mine Camp, Tambane apparent ages of four samples: 515...from an albite-aegirine rocl( 2 miles north-west of Mine Camp, Tambane apparent age: 542 m.y. Average apparentage...South-West Africa-(ordinary 1 (a) Tsumeb (galena) (b) Abenab (descloizite) 18. Galena, SouthernRhodesia-( ordinary...conventional ages (average 665 m.y.) of the Tsumeb and Abenab lead minerals (Nos. 17a and b), both of which are
Journal (issue)
daher eine besondere Freude und Ehre, ein neues Mine r a 1 nach Wilhelm VIERLING zu benennen. Wenn Wilhelm...blasser als Keckit, der krĂ€ftig gefĂ€rbt ist. Das Mine ral tritt in polykristalline n Aggregate n auf,...gestreiftes Rhombendodekaeder. Im Handbuch der Mine ralogie von HINTZE, l 897, sind schwĂ€rzlichgrĂŒne...Sckundarc Phosphat- und Sulra1- Mineralien bzw. Mine ralumbild ungen im hydrothermalen Nachhall des unteren...14. 8. Exkursion m it Bus. Besichtigung der Kahn-Mine rahensammlung 1m Mineralienkabinett Braunschweig
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interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...Czechoslovakia in clays, in volcanic tuff MONTMORILLONITE compact, massive, earthy, friable masses monoclinic...late formation in ore veins quartz, mica montmorillonite, pyrophyllite greasy opaque white, greasy...organic sediments porous trigonal kaolinite, montmorillonite, cf. No. 51 to 54, 170, 319 silky, very good...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in
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Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Nelson, Westland, Otago, and Southland. Emperor mine, Vatukuola, Fiji. Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea. In...localities in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador; Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, MG, Brazil. sm DI:90, R:321, P&J:281
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
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interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...as late formation in orc veins quartz, mica montmorillonite, pyrophyllite KAOLINITE Al, [(01-I),Si40,o]... organic sediments clay, flint kaolinite, montmorillonite, cf. No. 51 to 54, 170, 319 Calcite variety...HYDRO­ ZINCITE ZnKOHhCOj. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia colourless, white, yellowish...Ba)Un (O. SiOJ . 5H.O (Uranium Ochre) Flat Rock Mine, Carolina, USA foliated, needleshaped, scaly crystals;
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subgraywacke facies of upper Rhondda Beds, Northeast region, old qua_rry, Sebastopol, Abertysswg, near Ebbw...in subgraywacke facies of Rhondda Beds Northeast region. Old quarry, Sebastopol, Abertys: swg, near Ebbw... EAST REGION na181 NORTH EAST REGION CENTRAL REGION n ‱120 n ‱ 7"'6 N N N SOUTH REGION NORTH...NORTH REGION BASIN AGGREGATE n ‱ 2 58 n ‱1609 4.-Rose diagrams, based on semi-octant classes or cross-strata...Experience gained in ampling the ,veil expo ed Central region suggested minimum acceptable requirements of 2
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exist in geologic science. Geologic study in any region starts with the accumulation of observation data...sub-erath em of the Precambrian. Naturally, any larger region is to have its own local stratotypes including...Isotope "relict" datings of Katarchean rocks NN Region Objects of dating Method Age in m.y. References...Europe 1 2 3 4 Kola Peninsula, Monchegorsk region Kola Peninsula, Central part Kola Peninsula, Chuna-Volch'y...1978) 17 Eastern Sayan Pb-Pb 3700 18 Baikal Region Rb-Sr 3750 Volobuyev et al. (1977) Sandimirova
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50, p. 164-168 Heim, Α., 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...la region des Guidmioua (Atlas de Marrakech, Maroc): Libr. ĂŒnivers. Geneve, 88 p. Notes The mine at Azegour...after 1956; the interest that the geology of the mine has aroused is shown by the large number of publications...the most important of which contains the Azegour mine, and (4) the Toulkine band that abuts against the
 
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