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Bementite from
Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bementite
Formula:Mn7Si6O15(OH)8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Rhodochrosite2 photos of Bementite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Andradite1 photo of Bementite associated with Andradite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bementite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13115
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13115:1
GUID (UUID V4):c5fe2fd4-a920-43c1-b9ff-c7df3c51aae7
Nearest other occurrences of Bementite
2.7km (1.7 miles) N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
7.7km (4.8 miles) Gloria Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inesite Wessels Mine, Northwest of Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese District Cape Province, South Africa I ...inesite: Broken Hill mines, New South Wales, Australia; Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California; Kalahari...Kalahari manganese district, Cape Province, South Africa; and Fengjiashan mine, Hubei Province, China...China. Of these, the Wessels mine within the Kalahari manganese district has yielded a sufficient number of...stunning rhodochrosite that came from the same district. From a Historic Perspective Because inesite was
Report (issue)
Mn2+ 5 Si4 O10 (OH)6 Bementite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...Black Diablo mine, Black Diablo district, Pershing Co., Nevada. In the Treburland mine, Altarnun, Cornwall...localities. In the Tokuzawa mine, Fukushima Prefecture; the Ichinomata mine, Kumamoto Prefecture; and at...Prefecture, Japan. In the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: For Clarence Sweet...(3) Kato, T. (1963) New data on the so-called bementite. J. Min. Soc. Japan, 6, 93{103 (in Japanese).
Journal (issue)
85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne...Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal........................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...d e r n M in e r a l C o l l e c t io n CURATION John Sampson White Department of Mineral Sciences Smithsonian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laval] at 20:02 10 July 2014 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia F or mineral collectors introduced...Sterling Hill, New Jersey, and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The recent discovery of fine gem-quality...rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field of view 8 cm...Rhodonite also has been reported from the Stinson mine on Jenny Jump Mountain, Warren County, New Jersey...lapidary-grade massive rhodonite occurs in an old manganese mine north of Kid’s Store, Nelson County, Virginia, and
Report (issue)
8.20 (1) Quinault, Washington, USA. (2) Equity mine, Colorado, USA; original total given as 100.10%... Association: Rhodochrosite, bementite, hausmannite (Hale Creek mine, California, USA); datolite, pectolite...apophyllite, ruizite, orientite, quartz (Wessels mine, South Africa). Distribution: In Germany, from Nanzenbach...Dillenburg, Hesse. At Lº angban and in the Harstigen mine, near Persberg, VÄarmland, Sweden. From Sa̧ca̧r^amb...Slovakia. From the Wessels and N'Chwaning mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the USA, from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University RO. Box 524 AucWand Park, 2006 Gauteng, South Africa . . .*.’. Corresponding author: bc @na.rau...just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...of the Transvaal Supergroup rocks (black) in South Africa. B: Enlarged portion of Griqualand West showing...and one of the few economic centers of the Northern Cape Province. Kuruman is also the preferred home...live in the mine villages of Hotazel and Black Rock. These were established by SAMANCOR (South African Manganese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
within ijolite-urtite at Mt. Kukisvumchorr (Kirov Mine, horizon + 252 m). He provided the first author...The lens is 40 m thick on the northern flank, ≤180 m thick to the south, and 1850 m long. The upper contact...ijolite-urtite overlying the apatite ore body (the Kirov Mine, horizon + 252 m). Marginal parts of the vein consist...would be that the Jahn-Teller distortion has a local character and the observed apparent undistorted...armbrusterite and bementite, respectively. By inspection of Figures 4 and 5, the bementite topology is most
Report (issue)
angban, Sweden). Association: Caryopilite, bementite, berzeliite, barite, garnet (Lº angban, Sweden)...Harstigen mine, near Persberg, VÄarmland, Sweden. In the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South...South Africa. Name: In honor of Forest A. Gonyer, analytical chemist in the Department of Mineralogy
Report (issue)
Carolina, USA). Distribution: From the Harstigen mine, near Persberg, and at Lº angban, VÄarmland, Sweden...Chiavari, Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy. At the Falotta mine, Oberhalbstein, GraubÄ unden, Switzerland. In the...in the Hurricane mine, on the Olympic Penninsula, Washington. From the Ichinomata mine, Kumamoto Prefecture...In the N'Chwaning and Wessels mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: From the Greek...(2) Kato, T. (1963) New data on the so-called bementite. J. Japan. Assoc. Mineral. Petrol. Econ. Geol
Journal (issue)
FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix...Number Five Articles The Val Graveglia m anganese district, Liguria, I t a ly .............................A. Mandarino Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama...RHODOCHROSITE crystals to 1.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua district, Huanuco depart­ ment, Peru. (See vol. 28, no... EXHIDITS LECTURES SYMPOSIUM FEATURED SPEAKERS John Sinkankas Author of G em stones of North Am erica
Journal (issue)
Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...succeedec by his son, Orlando Lyman. Smithsonian curator John S. Whit( has ranked the Lyman collection among the...blue barite crystals to 7 cm have com* from the local mines. In 1985 Frank Mayo donated $500,000 for 2...specimens, Illinois fluorite and speci­ mens from local occurrences. CLASSIFICATION UPDATE Systematic collectors
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...brown massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD)...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting
Journal (issue)
RD #2, Box 440J, Branchville, NJ 07826 TREASURER John Cianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex, NJ 07461 ASSISTANT...East Rutherford, NJ 07073 COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS John L. Baum (1992) Richard C. Bostwick (1993) Joseph...(1993) Warren Cummings (1992) Omer S. Dean (1992) John C. Ebner (1992) George filling (1993) Warren A....vacant) Edward H. Wilk, Warren Cummings (assistant) John L. Baum Richard C. Bostwick Richard C. Bostwick...PICKIHG TABLE Editor Editorial Board Herb Yeates John L. Baum, Richard C. Bostwick, Omer S. Dean and Earl
Journal (issue)
als zodanig herkent. De mijnen van het Gambatesa-district, Val Graveglia, Italië, hebben de laatste jaren...eeuw bekend, en de type-vindplaats is de Trotter mine in de beroemde Franklin afzetting, waar het oorspronkelijk...alomvertegenwoordigde Broken Hill (Australia), de Wessels mine in Zuid-Afrika en een aantal Japanse mijnen...aggregaten, die soms erg mooi zijn, caryopiliet. Bementite - Gambatesa 700 Figuur 3. Poederdiffractiepatroon...(5) J.T. Pardee, E.S. Larsen, G. Steiger(1919). Bementite and neotocite from western Washington, with conclusions
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...F OH 2x2 £10 -------------------------Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 16 AMBLYGONITE Pure grey cleavable...LiNaAIP0/4FOH 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in Syenite
Book (volume)
alteration of different kinds of stacking of layers, local defects, etc.). For this reason, the interpretation...Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Rastsvetaeva et al. 2009) from the Yoko-Dovyren massif, Northern Baikal area 14 1 The Application of IR Spectroscopy...Ca2[Si2O5(OH)2]·H2O from the YokoDovyren massif, Northern Baikal area Fig. 1.18 IR spectrum of acid triorthosilicate...freedom per unit cell and qi and qj are deviations of local coordinates (i.e. lengths of chemical bonds and
Book
talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire...Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Rich mass of black...Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Unusual...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker
Catalog/List
ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins
Catalog/List
matrix hl !3 5 AGARDITE (Ce) r ...fe green micro's Mine, Wolf;_n, West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE...yellow pea size masses &crusts on Quartz (les Anglais Mine, Massiac,Brouse France) lxl 60p 1x2 fl.10 56 BIOTITE...61 BORNITE rich purple mass in matrix.(Gortdrum Mine, Tipperary S.Ireland) location closed. lxl 50p 1x2...BOULANGERITE grey masses in and on matrix.(Melba Mine, N.E.Dundas Tasmania) lxl !1.90 1x2 !4.00 64 BOULANGERITE...BISMUTHINITE grey flakes on milky Quartz. (Carrock Mine Cumbria) -Y. ¼ ins !1.80 60 BORACITE pure creamy
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U...Na Al Silicate Pure creamy coloured masses (Tanco Mine, Bernie Lake, Manitoba, Canada) lx2ins £4 2x2ins
Book (edition)
book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support to...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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
Book (edition)
with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK - CHICHESTER - WEINHEIM...printed on acid-free paper. Copyright ©1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published...should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York,...(1844) and all but one other have been published by John Wiley. The System was the first book Wiley (then...Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain, France. F. John Barlow: Appleton, Wisconsin. Peter Bayliss: Mineralogy
Book
China Portugal Republic of Macedonia Republic of South Africa Romania Russia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland...(trigonal) HBaAl 3 (AsOJ 2 (0H) 6 Locality: The Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany...)s(OH) 2 ·1.SH2 O Locality: T he Kamoto East mine, District ofKolwezi, southern Shaba, Zafre (Lat. 10°46'... Fe(OH) 3 Locality: The Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Oco1rrence: Probably...related to sohngeite and dzhalindite. Name: For Dr. John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971) of Cambridge University
 
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