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Violarite from
Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Violarite
Formula:Fe2+Ni23+S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Violarite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:104412
Long-form Identifier:1:3:104412:6
GUID (UUID V4):44234055-433a-4f1f-9062-a472d380b7e4
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phoscorite–carbonatite association at Phalaborwa, South Africa Lorenzo Milani 1 & Robert Bolhar 1 &...of the phoscorite–carbonatite association at Phalaborwa. We trace the behavior of the compatible elements...Witwatersrand, PVT Bag 3, Wits,, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch...Stellenbosch University, PVT Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University...the Western Cape, PVT Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa revealing an evolutionary trend of decreasing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphides from the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa phoscorite-carbonatite Complex, South Africa Robert Bolhar a,∗ , Martin...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm...Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa d Department of Geology, University of Maryland...Oxidation Event sulphur isotopes lead isotopes Phalaborwa Complex sub-continental lithospheric mantle magmatic...and carbonatites of the ca. 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex in South Africa. Additionally, sulphide mineral separates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e complexes of the Kovdor (Russia) and Palabora (South Africa) alkaline-ultrabasic massifs have comparable...and Loolekop phoscorite-carbonatite pipes in the Palabora massif have similar sequences of sulfide formation...formation, and the copper specialization of the Palabora massif can be caused by higher water content in...phoscorite-carbonatite pipe in the Palabora (Phalaborwa) massif, South Africa (RSA) is a typical example of...Kovdor massif is one of the richest. Like the Palabora massif, the Kovdor massif predominantly concentrates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PalaboraIgneousComplex' A Brief Review PALABORA •{INING COMPANY LIMITED AND MINERALOGICAL MINE GEOLOGICAL STAFF Abstract...innumerable primitiveworkingson Loolekop, 177 178 PALABORA MINING COMPANY 15' LIMITED P..5' 35' ,...•...,..•" • • "..-.. PALABORA I,GNEOUS"---•._ ,.-.• s o ur • L,. AFRICA ! ..'• • • .", i J -"...1. Location map of the Palabora Igneous Complex in the Republic of South Africa. from which the Bantu...Corporationand NewmontMining Corporation. The Palabora Mining Company Limited was consequently formed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfides from the carbonatite of the Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa, exhibit only minor variations in...area of approximately 100 km2, situated ca. 7.5 km south of the border between Angola and Namibia (Fig. 1)...(Drüppel 2003, Drüppel et al. 2005). Flow-banding and local magmatic folding are common structures of these...precursor ferrocarbonatite and late-stage, REE-, Ba- and Sr-rich fluids. Magnetite is the dominant mineral...associated with thiospinel of the polydymite–violarite series, which hosts distinct lamellae of millerite
Book (edition)
grey isotropic Bornhardtite Hauchecornite Violarite strong very strong, white, yellow, violet, blue... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL
Book (edition)
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...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for diopside from a kimberlite in Dutoitspan, South Africa. The name diopside is from the Greek δις (double)...violan, a name applied to blue diopside; and violarite (named by Clark), an iron-rich dioside (Bayliss...carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with
Book (edition)
Polydymite II/D.01-30 322 Carrollite II/D.01-40 324 Violarite II/D.01-70 326 Siegenite II/D.01-80 328 Indite...(light cream); West Driefontein, Johannesburg, South Africa [c]; Nic. // Irregular gold grain (yellow) between...between stibnite (light grey); Murchison Range, South Africa [g]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum (yellowish white)...white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum (yellowish...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum
Book
Kuopio, Finland P. Heino Yara Suomi Oy, Siilinjärvi Mine, Siilinjärvi, Finland R.J. Herrington The Natural...US T. Huhtelin QP-FRB Outokumpu Ferrochrome Kemi Mine, Kemi, Finland E. Hyvönen Geological Survey of Finland...Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland J. Kinnunen Mawson Resources...Oulu, Finland Contributors T. Mäki Pyhäsalmi Mine Oy, Pyhäsalmi, Finland H.V. Makkonen Geological...Taipale Palsatech Oy, Rovaniemi, Finland Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland, Finland O.T. Rämö University
Report (issue)
world ............ 3 Platinum deposits in South Africa ............. 3 Major platinum deposits in...PRODUCING AREAS OF THE WORLD Canada, Colombia, South Africa, and Russia have been the major producers of...resources by the U.S. Bureau of Mines indicate that South Africa has over 2,000 million ounces; U.S.S.R., 400...Columbia, 5 million ounces. Platinum Deposits in South Africa The Bushveld Igneous Complex, a stratiform intrusion...major mines in the Merensky Reef include Bafokeng South, Bafokeng North, and Widebeestfontein operated by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polydymite (Ni3S4), 1318 the canadian mineralogist violarite (FeNi2S4) and fletcherite [Cu(Co,Ni)2S4)]. Defining...and L2 (2p1/2) structure. The spectra reflect the local electronic structure of the transition-metal atom...Republic of Congo, and chalcopyrite from Palabora, Republic of South Africa. Sample purity was confirmed by X-ray-diffraction...nomenclature in the light of new data from the Siegerland District, Germany. Can. Mineral. 37, 545-558. Y. (2008):
Book
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
Book
t a t e d Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of t h e U S S R ) a n d Australasia...him. I have tried to include all ore districts in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the U.S.S.R.)> and Australasia...incluir todos los distritos mineros conocido en Africa, Asia (con exclusion de la Union Soviética), y...npOCTO npOtIMTaTb 3TH a8Meq8HMH. Bo BBeneHMH 60nee Ba~H~e HCTOtlHHKH CCMnOK B 6H6nHorpa~HRX p8cnono~eH~...nHH~rpeHa. BKn~qeH~ HeKOTopMe CXeM8THQeCKHe KapTM, nOK83~Ba~mMe npH6nHaHTenbHMe MeCTonono~eHHR pynooTnoxeHHM
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1905, 120–123 von Eckermann H (1948) The alkaline district of Alnö Island. Sver Geol Unders Ca 36:176 Weidendorfer...magmas. Geology 45, 507–510 Woolley AR, Kjarsgaard BA (2008) Carbonatite occurrences of the world: map.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.11 Old Iron Mine at Stavsätt Farm in Släda . . . . . . . . . 4.12...materials from kimberlites in Finland, southern Africa and India. Parts of these efforts were presented...meeting (and prior to indulging in a visit to the local casino in Sundsvall) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
Hydrometallurgical Processing of Low-Grade Sulfide Ore and Mine Waste in the Arctic Regions: Perspectives and Challenges...hydrometallurgical processing of low-grade sulfide ore and mine waste in the Arctic regions. The paper presents...Hydrometallurgical Processing of Low-Grade Sulfide Ore and Mine Waste in the Arctic Regions: Perspectives and Challenges...Mountains of the Taimyr Peninsula, and from the south, by the Putorana Plateau. The maximum width of the...southern margin of the Taimyr fold belt, and in the south to the northern part of the Siberian craton. Therefore
Book
metallogeny, on relationships between regional and local ore-bearing structures of various ages, on marginal...Characteristics Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, Bushveld and Palabora Complexes Akitkan Volcanic Belt Tectonometamorphic...without geosynclinal preparation (for example, the Limpopo Belt, dated 2.6 Ga). The next (third) stage (2...high-grade regions (West Greenland, Labrador and Limpopo elts); II—Archaean greenstone belts (Swaziland...and subdivided them into periods of global and local activisation. In particular, the most important
Book
prior to the meeting and the Sludyanka phlogopite mine at Irkutsk afterwards. Precambrian Mineral Deposits...studies in beneficiation and metallurgy, design of mine and process plant, and, last but not least, the...description of newly discovered metal bearing zones in Africa; exploration techniques in tropical, as well as...evidence on the origin of the Shamrock v 11 N o copper mine, Rhodesia", Min. Deposits« > « 3 , pp. 298-310....identified in the Canadian Shield and then in South Africa, Western Australia and India (Wilson, 1972)
Book (edition)
communities to be plunged into unemployment because a mine or mines have become unprofitable, a need to earn...for diamonds is worldwide but that for bricks is local. Formal organized markets have developed in various...for, and hence the price of, the mine product, well in advance of mine development. A useful recent discussion...critical in the USA, but in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), a major source of all three, they are...producers have spent vast sums of money on exploration, mine development and production but have paid too little
Book
recognition criteria of uranium mineralizations on a local (individual deposit) and regional scale (uranium...individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...(general), Bernik J. (Yugoslavia), Brynard S.A. (South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA)...Saucier A.E. (Grants Region, N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado...Intragranitic Vein Uranium Deposits: Limousin/La Crouzille District, France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (volume)
approach (from outcrop through to orebody and district scales, to support textural interpretation), the...and minor copper sulfides (colored). Rub606, Geevor Mine, Cornwall, UK (dsp). c Dissemination of fine-grained...aggregate of marcasite. Rub1075, Friedrich der Grosse Mine, Germany (dsp) Fig. 1.12 Very-fine-grained limonitic...with the naked eye. Rub1075, Friedrich der Grosse Mine, Germany (dsp) 1.2 Classification Criteria for...Metamorphic massive sulfide ore. M031200.10, Piquitos II Mine, Moeche, Coruña, Spain (dsp) 30 1 Intergrowths
Book
been a tendency among those who search for and mine industrial minerals to call them ‘ore’ and to measure...reluctance to allow large isolated have mines or mine a because ment unemploy into plunged communities...with many metals during this century has been to mine lower and lower grade ores. This has led to the...and uranium is an important by-product of many South African gold ores. The properties of a mineral govern...For example, to develop the large RTZ copper-gold mine at Bougainville, at 1979 prices. Papua New Guinea
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...Complex in the vicinity of the Steelpoort fault, South Africa – petrogenetic implications ..................alteration of the Uitkomst Complex, Mpumalanga, South Africa ..............................................the UG-2 chromitite, western Bushveld Complex, South Africa .........................................
Book
block I experienced recently when visiting a gold mine in virtually unmetamorphosed ground. A fault cuts..."common sense" observations described from the gold mine with the chert and the organic matter. Another potent...Alterations of Conglomeratic Uranium Ores, Pronto Mine, Ontario, Canada E.Wm. Heinrich (With 1 Figure)...Pre-Witwatersrand and Witwatersrand Conglomerates in South-Africa: A Mineralogical Comparison and Bearings on...Observations on Ore Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote
 
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