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Variscite from
West Driefontein cave, Carletonville, Western Sector, Far West Rand, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Variscite
Formula:AlPO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Variscite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Driefontein cave, Carletonville, Western Sector, Far West Rand, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1222275
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1222275:7
GUID (UUID V4):5b9414c8-daa1-40d0-8a67-c0c0e50bc41d
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Report (issue)
46.03 Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: West Driefontein Cave, South Africa; fully hydrated. 11.52 (100), 2.901...[32.98] Total 99.44 [100.00] (1) West Driefontein Cave, South Africa; corresponds to (Al5.77 Fe0.18 Ca0...reacting with clay minerals in cave soil (West Driefontein Cave, South Africa; Skipton lava tube caves, Australia);...in slate (Cheshunt, Australia). Association: Variscite, strengite, phosphosiderite, leucophosphite, apatite...Distribution: In West Driefontein Cave, Carlstonville, west Transvaal, South Africa. In Australia, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from West Driefontein Cave, Transvaal, South Africa J. MARTINI Geological Survey of South Africa, private...private bag • I la, Pretoria, South Africa s u MMARY. A new mineral, sasaite, occurs as white chalky nodules...nodules in the soil of a dolomitic cave and seems to be derived from the action of bat guano on clay minerals...reddish soil of the dolomite cave of West Driefontein near Carlstonville, western Transvaal (Martini et al...mud-cracks in the Deep Range Chamber, in the same cave. It is also found in the Apocalypse pothole, located
Report (issue)
Variscite AlPO4 • 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic....metavariscite, forms a series with strengite. Variscite group. Occurrence: Typically deposited from phosphate-bearing...Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, about nine km west of Fairfield, Utah Co., on Utahlite Hill, about...and Genesis mines, Lynn district, and the Gold Quarry mine, Maggie Creek district, Eureka Co., Nevada; From...Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the West Driefontein Cave, Transvaal, South Africa. From Snake Hill, Voi, Kenya
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e r i t e ,e l c , i n t h e Paramirim region, south-central Bahia state, Brazil. The averageof four...m i n e r a l f r o m W e s t Driefontein Cave, Transvaal, South Africa. Mineral. Mag ,42, 401-404. Sasaite...white chalky nodules in the soil of a dolomitic cave, apparently derived from the action of bat guano...from South Africa SpeleologicalAssociation, the members of which explored West Driefontein Cave for the...mineralfrom the The mineraloccurswith sabugalite,variscite,pyrite,and quartz in the oxidizedzone of a Permianuranium
Report (issue)
Anakies Mount Noorat Kennon Head, Phillip Island West Head, Flinders Deddick Lake Bullenmerri Mineralogy...B.) V 65 65 67 67 78 79 81 82 83 The Greta South Turquoise Field 90 (JL.,W.B.) 91 Lancefield/Romsey...116 117 117 117 118 CH. 7. PHOSPHATE MINERALS IN CAVE DEPOSITS. D. Vince, P. Hall and W. Birch 121 123...Parwan Lava Cave (P.H., W.B.) Starlight Cave, Warrnambool (P.H.) 150 Scrooge's Vault Cave, Buchan (P.H... Mafic Rocks Sulphide Sedimenta,y Deposits/ Cave Dc:lrital Deposits Deposits Quutz Veins Autunite
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ancient workings of turquois were located on the south slopes of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur...exceptional size, but is porous and full of flaws. A far purer and finer stone is found in Carmania. In both...brecciated metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence...County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in pegmatite at Chanteloube,...size. Found at many places in the Black Hills, South Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County
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Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara, Brazil, H Rhodocbrosite...anions, and a few organic species. Mineral species By far, the largest number of minerals described in our...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some
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1981), the Bibliography of the Geology of the Western Phosphate Field of the United States (Harris and...regulations; taxation and royalties. There is some but far from complete overlap between the IGS bibliography...Bertha P., 1954, Bibliography of the geology of the western phosphate field: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin...=EGYPTiSEBIMENTARY PETRQLOGYiPHQSPHORITE+CRETACEQUS+SOUTH+SEDIMENTARY ROCKS+COHPOSITIONISILTSTONEtSANDSTONEtLIMESTONE+MI...CONSIDERATIONS OF THE AREA AROUND KUDADA, SINGHBHUH DISTRICT, BIHAR source =QUART, J, OF GEOL,, HIN,, AND HETALL
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colourless, monoclinic crystals from Kimberley, South Africa. Named after Mr. Alpheus Fuller Williams, of...for a green gem-stone from Utah, consisting of variscite, utahlite, or wardite, or a mixture of these,...Shepard, 1857, of doubtful occurrence in a Tennessee cave. 19th List Ammonioborite. W. T. Schaller, 1931....1918. Geol. Survey S. Africa, Mem. no. 12, p. 20 et seq., Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa, 1919, vol. xxi, p...initial letters of the company ‘Asbestos Mines of South Africa’. 8th List [Original material is Actinolite
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England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(.= 2.646, VIIIA 10....orange-brown. Alcatore Creek, Eastern Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. H= 6, Djj4= 3.48, D(,= 3.47...Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H= 2, Djn=?, 0^= 2.15, VHD...Mon. Lustrous black. Wilagedera prospect. North Western Province, Sri Lanka. H= 3-4, 0^= 3.94, Dg= 3.97
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Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...evolution of words; European language through Germanic, West Germanic nonetheless, the names of things — nouns...y* Celtic Anatolian oa \ “6 y< Hellenic & West vis\ Germanic ji Mos | / Latin ji fluorite...Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic Description of Western Oil Shale Corporation Project Utah EX—]. Laramie...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric
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Aus1rnlia. Thomas Nelson Aus1r.1lia. 102 Dodds S1rce1. South Mdbournc. Vic1oria 3205. Auslr.ilia Chapman & Hall...recognized that many of the publications cited are far rarer than the 1 892 Dana. Thus. for t he first time...9 (for 1 952). p. 99. From (TL) Crackers Well. South Australia. Australia. Deposit located by air-borne...1 892) Syst. Mi11., 6th ed .. p. 50. A term of South American origin describing galena in granular form...Z=4 fPDF 29-330). (TL) Dutoitspan, Kimberley, South Africa. Named for A.F. Williams. Agalitc, syn. of talc
Report (volume)
(colleagues at Miami of Ohio), and later Matt Kohn (at South Carolina), separately proposed short courses on...as to all phosphates. Matthew J. Kohn Columbia, South Carolina John Rakovan & John M. Hughes Oxford,...Fleet Department of Earth Sciences University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada INTRODUCTION...particularly fluorapatite and hydroxylapatite, are by far the most common in nature and are often synonymous...XRD) 9: fermorite, Sitipar deposit, Chhinwara district, India (Smith & Prior 1911; Hughes & Drexler 1991)
 
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