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Granite from
Tira mine, Busia, Eastern Region, Uganda


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tira mine, Busia, Eastern Region, Uganda
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1237505
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1237505:9
GUID (UUID V4):70aeca71-eee5-4e0d-8a57-e78ace2af31b
References
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Report (chapter)
Publications A low level laterite profile from Uganda and its relevance to the question of parent material...August 24, 2014 A low level laterite profile from Uganda and its relevance to the question of parent material...'low level' laterite profile from Tira, in Busia District, Uganda, is described. Mineral and chemical...parent material are compared with further data from Uganda and other published results in order to assess...to the conclusion that the absence of bauxite in Uganda may be attributed to unfavourable leaching conditions
Book
Awat ‘Series’ or Group 36 (v) Injection granite and red granite 36 (vi) Acid and basic dykes 36 (vii)...COMPANY QUARRY (l) 38 THE BEND OF THE NILE AND THE REGION FROM THE SECOND TO FIFTH CATARACTS (a) GENERAL...SOUTH OF LATITUDE 6° N II (c) GEDAREF-SENNAR REGION 15 (m) HOFRAT EN NAHAS, DARFUR PROVINCE Older...granites and syenite (e) INGESSANA HILLS, SOUTH-EASTERN SUDAN (f) CENTRAL SUDAN SHEET 55 (1952 EDN)...SABALOKA AND JEBEL QEILI (g) 43 44 (n) JEBEL MARRA REGION (i) Basal schists 39 22 SOUTHERN JUBAL EL BAHR
Book
EL AHMER, MO- SEQUENCE (v) Injection granite and red granite (vi) Acid and basic dykes Il. HISTORY... NORTHERN PROVINCE GEOLOGICAL GEDAREF-SENNAR REGION (i) Basal schists (ii) Ultrabasic rocks and older...SUDAN COMPANY QUARRY (1) 15 (n) JEBEL MARRA REGION 15 16 17 7 17 17 17 19 19 19 19 19 19 21 (4)...hornblende ‘quasi-gneiss” (ec) INGESSANA HILLS, SOUTH-EASTERN SUDAN (f) CENTRAL SUDAN SHEET 55 (1952 EDN), (k)...PORTLAND CEMENT THE BEND OF THE NILE AND THE REGION FROM THE SECOND TO FIFTH CATARACTS (m) HOFRAT
Report (volume)
McFARLANE, M. J. A low level laterite profile from Uganda and its relevance to the question of parent material...reddening of late pecan, coastal dune sands, north-eastern Australia ........... BEsLy, B. M. & TURNER, P...Etched out perthitic lamellae in K-feldspar in granite, Bennachie. (b) Etched out lamellar (Boggild ?)...octahedral mica (zinnwaldite ?) from Bennachie granite (a) fresh (b) directly beneath crustose lichen...trioctahedral mica (probably zinnwaldite) in a lichenized granite was found to involve the depletion of magnesium
Catalog/List
DECEMBER/JANUARY 1995 1. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine, Alston, Cumberland. About 30 greyish-white pyramidal...matrix. 60x35x30mm. £58. 2. APATITE. Panasqueria Mine, Portugal. Nice lustrous double sided group of pale...£40. 9. BINDHEIMITE AND CERUSSITE. Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall. A good solid mass of yellow bindheimite..."FRANCOLITE". Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Chilsworthy, Cornwall. A 40x30mm area of granite matrix covered in pinkish...specimen. 60x40x20mm. £12. CASSITERITE. Turnavore Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. Rich specimen showing a 60x30mm
Corporate Document
VANADIUM 4% Granulito / Cranulite 2% [ Granito / Granite ROCHAS ORNAMENTAIS Fosfato / Phosphate ORNAMENTAL...in the country, being the only producer of blue granite in the world and also the only Brazilian state...diamond mine began to be explored in the municipality of Nordestina, in the semi-arid region of Bahia...Maracas Ma racas Vanadium Processing Plant Diamond Mine Pit Nordestina - Bahia -';~,?~:tfi-- 0 Usina de...vanadium and has the South America's first diamond mine developed on kimberlitic rock - the main primary
Journal (issue)
Sudan, northern Uganda, Zaire, and Central African Republic 8 Darfur Province and eastern Chad 9 North Kordofan...Cataract 12 Nile Valley from Karima to Abu Hamed 13 Eastern Bayuda Desert and the Nilt� Valley tc> Atbara 1:1...Sea Hills 14 Northern Red Sea Hills of Sudan 15 Eastern Desert of southern Egypt 16 Saudi Arabia 1 7 Sabaloka...deposits 31 Igneous activity 53 53 G(�b(�it Mine 45 ()yo Mine 45 Onib 45 Abirkateib 45 Umm Nabardi 45 Doishat...ore Chromite Manganese Tin and tungsten Eastern Egypt 50 Eastern Chad 50 Sabaloka igneous ring complex
Report (chapter)
Glaciogenic and associated deposits in the Sayan region occur at the base of the Oselok Group in the Biryusa...the Irkutsk province (Baikal Group of the Baikal region), and of the Taseeva and Chapa Groups in the Yenisei...originally defined as a formation in the Sayan region (Khomentovsky 1950) and was recognized as a group...sedimentary basins of the Sayan region The study area of the Sayan region occupies the Biryusa catchment...Cambrian sediments (Fig. 28.1). The craton in this region borders a metamorphic belt of Palaeozoic rocks
Journal (issue)
Douala Gulu KENYA Kisangani . le dd Mi To UGANDA st, South To Middle Ea GABON Nairobi CONGO...in Sudan: Janjaweed Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Abu Tira Unidentified armed groups Track of artificial tusks...government on behalf of the Acholi people of northern Uganda, and to rule the country according to his version...Commandments. Since the 1980s, and beginning in Uganda, Kony’s minions are alleged to have killed tens...themselves grow into killers. In 1994 Kony left Uganda and took his murderous gang on the road. He went
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HERCYNIAN STRUCTURAL-FACIES ZONES of the EASTERN BALKHASH REGION P. A. Rengarten To cite this article: P...HERCYNIAN STRUCTURAL-FACIES ZONES of the EASTERN BALKHASH REGION, International Geology Review, 1:3, 39-49... HERCYNIAN STRUCTURAL-FACIES ZONES of the EASTERN BALKHASH REGION' by P. A. Rengarten kanslated by L. Drashevska...29 February 2016 The Eastern Balkhash region includes the territory of Eastern Kazakhstan situated east...Tokrau in the northwest, the hilly plain of the eastern part of the Balkash-Alakul depression, and a small
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
correlated, and the composite section of this age in the region is described. Two age limits are of extreme importance:...stratigraphy of Siberia is developed like the Yudoma–Maya region, Olenek and Anabar uplifts, and Baikal–Patom Upland...stratigraphic units, the composite section of the region can be compiled only by correlation between sections...These events were associated with the formation of granite-gneiss domes (1050 Ma (Volo- 1068-7971/$ - see...2008). Only the Oslyanka Group is observed on the eastern flank of the southern Yenisei Ridge, in the axial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
batholithe, les filons se trouvent ~ l'int~rieur du granite tandis qu'~t sa bordure mfiridionale, ils sont...Radiog~ologiques de Nancy, sur la p&rologie du granite de Mortagne et des zones voisines. IÀ a exposfi... I1 a d~fini ensuite les traits essentiels du granite de Mortagne, des points de vue structural et p&rographique...pr61+vement par rapport aux failles majeures. I1 tira argument de r&ultats apparemment discordants pour...placent m&amorphique. Les filons sont dans le granite mais limit& par des dans cette zone tectonisfie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potassium-feldspathization and greisenization of Koktenkol granite massif (central Kazakhstan) V.A. Pavlov & O.I....Potassium-feldspathization and greisenization of Koktenkol granite massif (central Kazakhstan), International Geology... Potassium-feldspathization and greisenization of Koktenkol granite massif (central Kazakhstan) V.A. Pavlov and 0.1...1. Yashukhm The emplacement of the granite intrusion was During a study of patterns in the formation...accompanied by postmagn iatic processes which granite massifs and their ore-forming capacity have affected
Report (issue)
................. .y. :. .............. White Granite Gravel' .;...............;................ Milluni...sketch of lenses and path of water in the White Granite Gravel along valley wall above Chijini. (Between...situated between the Altiplano on the west and the Eastern Andes. La Paz, the administrative capitfl of Bolivia...meters or more into the Altiplano in front of the Eastern Andes and parallel to the trend of the range is...area. The Altiplano is a high plain between the Eastern £ndes of Bolivia and Peru and the Western Andes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gabon" Nairobi, Kenya a Cape of Good Hope, RSA a Tira, Uganda b Kauai, Hawaii c East Maui, Hawaii ~ FF139...McFarlane MJ (1983) A low level laterite profile from Uganda and its relevance to the question of parent material...beryllium and its distribution in rocks of the Sn-W granite of Regoufe, northern Portugal. Chem Geol 56 : 93-103
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unexplored. Several travellers had described the eastern and northern districts fully and accurately, but...of a plain broken in the north by clusters of granite hills which rarely exceed 600 feet above the plain...sandy, and have been formed by the destruction of granite and sandstone hills by the action of heat and wind...Hafiza. The hills in the north are nearly all granite, though there are a few of sandstone, such as Jebel...black soil, from the middle of which the rugged granite hills of Dar Nuba rise to a height of 3000 feet
Journal (issue)
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of northwest Wyoming, eastern Idaho and Southwestern Montana hung on by a thread...predator and finally understood how incomplete the region that became Yellowstone National Park was without...is within about 35 miles of what is today the eastern border of the Hopi Reservation. John Lorenzo Hubbell...mountain lodge in Southwest Oklahoma from a friend of mine named Mavis Doering. She was already a master weaver...and Fashion Show returns to showcase and support Eastern Band Cherokee Indian artists (EBCI). The event
Report (issue)
igneous rocks it is chiefly with those of the granite.. diorite and rhyo1ite-andesite series, and th...the period of highest production in the latter region was 1892-1894, when the average annual yield was...gold in the United States was obtained from the Eastern coast; from 1848 (when gold was discovered in California)...compe1led to curt.a il develop,m ent and were unable to mine and treat ore on a scale that would otherv1ise have...596 i 550,201 , - Production of the Um Nabardi mine. From alluvial. Probably crude oz. 124,808 -
Book
HISTORIES OF INTEGRATED PROGRAMS New Brunswick, Eastern Canada. EXPLORATION 331 Northern Rhodesia...large drainage survey was undertaken in 1954 in eastern Canada. This survey was based on determining the...workers on the mobility of the ore metals in acid mine waters rich in sulfate. Emmons (1917, pp. 68-70)...the U. S. Geological Survey at the Union Copper Mine, Gold Hill district, North Carolina, showed that...the pattern of nickel in res idual soil, Nguge region, Tanganyika. (Colluvial and alluvial overburden
Report (issue)
between Precambrian and Cambrian in the Adelaide region .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............. . Plate 1 Pegmatites in Middlecamp Granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Plate.... . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Plate 6 Kanmantoo Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....exposed surfaces of ancient basement blocks on the eastern edge of what has been called the Australian Precambrian...Australia and South Australia lies on its eastern edge. Eastern Australia, a major geological feature of
Book
PAGE vii ы | | А | ТУ сайalienate “sailtol tira ariel sg hoi ating Meh i bes ва и drete et cit fart...Argentina U.S.A. (mine shipments) Morocco Madagascar Mozambique Southern Rhodesia Uganda South-West Africa...one of the oldest South African mines (Somerset mine), the chairman of the Board justified this decision...Coarse-grained biotite granite LOCALITY BE CONTENT, ROCK AND ITS % MINERALS Eastern Transbaikalia. Same...same granite Same. 0.0001 Quartz from the same granite Same. Biotite from the same granite Same
Book
339 France, French Beryl Disseminations in Granite, 339 439 Guiana, 442 German Democratic X Republic...Soviet Socialist (French Morocco), Morocco 463 Uganda, (Nyasaland), 480 Mexico, 480 Mongolian 507...discouragingly on of events scientific-geological the region inwas and mineral- feasibility of working profit...aquamarines the as type in discovery could have region stated unequivocally the been found in Antiquity...Mountains, prehistoric turquoise,” gemstones, region is mining activity. Eichholz suggests probably
Book (edition)
consists of relatively “light” rocks: largely granite below continents , basalt below oceans. Oceans...show proportions of minerals in three rocks. A Granite (igneous) B Amphibolite (metamorphic) C Shale (sedimentary)...rock, as in A B C our examples. Limestone Shale Granite 22) Earth as a magnet About 2000 years ago the...rock wells up from deep down in the upper mantle region called the asthenosphere. The upwelling molten...(oceanic crust) ¢ Western cordillera (Andes) d Eastern cordillera (Andes) e Active volcano f Continental
Report (issue)
metallic minerals (excluding uranium) in 1990, and mine and deposit locations 39 16. Status of USGS level...Photograph of new adit for Kensington lode-gold mine on Lynn Canal 55 TABLES Fluctuation in price of...conducted on the North Slope and in the Cook Inlet region, as well as in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Neither...gas pipeline will bring McArthur River gas from Granite Point to the Beluga power station. Oil production...(262,000 barrels) of Prudhoe Bay crude oil into eastern Prince William Sound; the oil eventually spread
Journal (issue)
JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...Rear-Dump Euclids are standard equipment on hundreds of mine, quarry, and construction jobs. For moving rock...tomorrows domand wo esi cnet scale THE Offices. MINE DEVELOPMENT & DIRECTORY at lt DORR Ass NUMBER...drills combined CP Diamond Drills in service. — one mine alone having over a hundred Cuicaco PNeumaric TOOL...Bilbao... ITALY: Forni Stein, Genoa. MOORE WHEN MINE YOU RAPID MELT... DEVELOPMENT & DIRECTORY
 
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