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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tephroite
Formula:Mn22+SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Andradite5 photos of Tephroite associated with Andradite at this locality.
Rhodochrosite4 photos of Tephroite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tephroite 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 (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13155
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13155:9
GUID (UUID V4):d64b8526-7601-46f4-a021-81796a336aff
Nearest other occurrences of Tephroite
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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...(2015–2016) Scott A. Rudolph Paradise Woods (2008–2016) John Dabney (2015–2016) Daniel J. Record Irv Brown (2009–2015)...(2016–2017) Eric D. Long Barry M. & Beth Kitt (2011–2016) John Schneider (2016) Dylan Stolowitz Steve Maslansky...com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals International
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)
manganese silicate rocks from the Hoskins mine and Woods mine, New South Wales, Australia Y. KAWACHI Geology...localities, the Hoskins and Woods mines in New South Wales, Australia. The occurrences are in manganese-rich...greenschist facies (Hoskins mine) and hornblende hornfels facies (Woods mine). Coexisting minerals are...amphiboles, alkali feldspar, braunite, rhodonite, tephroite, albite, microcline, norrishite, witherite, manganoan...Woods mine sugilite is colour-zoned with pale mauve cores and colourless rims, whereas Hoskins mine sugilite
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to ensure that labeling is consistent with the local judging rules. For the systematic collector, and...Muscovite crystals forming a 10-cm rosette, Jose Pinto mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Table 3. Interlayer-deficient...spectacular recent find of muscovite was at the Jose Pinto mine, where more than a ton of beautifully crystallized...pink (manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977)...forms huge crystals. At Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal district, Russia, it forms large, dark red-brown (but surprisingly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Enrichment in the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa: A new discrimination scheme for Kalahari manganese...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa University College Dublin (UCD), School of Earth...Mamatwan Mukulu Hydrothermal Supergene Unconformity Wessels The Thrusted manganese ore above the Blackridge...Manganese Field, South Africa has undergone three significant alterations events, namely the Wessels alteration...Mamatwan-type manganese ore from Mamatwan mine in the south of the Kalahari Manganese Field as a reference
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxymica associated with sugilite from the Wessels Mine, South Africa: Crystal chemistry and 40Ar-39Ar dating...silicate-rich sample from the Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. The mineral forms centimeter-sized...submarine exhalative origin of the Hoskins mine in New South Wales, Australia (Ashley 1986; Eggleton and...occurring in pockets in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Mn field, South Africa (e.g., Cairncross et al. 1997)...occurrences located in the lower Mn-ore layer at Wessels mine. This norrishite-bearing specimen N2 (Fig. 1)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bruce iron-ore mine, South Africa: Evidence for alkali metasomatism and 40Ar-39Ar dating JOHN M. MOORE1,...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa *Corresponding author, e-mail: h.tsikos@ru.ac...breccia at the Bruce iron-ore mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The upper portion of the breccia...Similarities to sugilite-bearing assemblages at the Wessels mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field suggest that...sugilite, alkali metasomatism, manganese, breccia, South Africa, 40Ar/39Ar dating, armbrusterite. 1. Introduction
Report (issue)
Mn2+ 2 SiO4 Tephroite ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point...100.00 100.00 Chemistry: 70.25 2+ (1) Benallt mine, Wales; corresponds to (Mn 2+ 1:84 Mg0:10 Ca0: 08...Sunnyside mine, San Juan Co., Colorado. From Buritirama, Piaui, Brazil. In the Harstigen mine, near Persberg;...rmland; and in the SjÄo mine, near Grythyttan, Orebro, Sweden. From the Benallt mine, near Rhiw, Lleyn Peninsula...Meldon quarry, Okehampton, Devon, and the Treburland mine, Altarnun, Cornwall, England. At Val Malenco, Lombardy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Marshallsussmanite...phases, in the Wessels mine at Black Rock, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The Wessels mine lies within...Kalahari Manganese Field; collectively, the Wessels mine and the adjacent N'Chwaning mines are type locality...minerals. Mr. Sussman periodically visits southern Africa to acquire mineral specimens. On one such visit...bond path is sought, which is a continuous path of local maxima of electron density between the two atoms;
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...magnetite, willemite, franklinite, alleghanyite, tephroite, galaxite, bustamite, pyroxmangite, and sulfides...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MANGANESE ORES IN THE KALAHARI MANGANESE FIELD, SOUTH AFRICA VOLKERLODERS? GeoForschungsZentmm Potsdam...Fluidinclusions in hematite andhausmannite fromhigh-grade Wessels-type orefromtheKalahari manganese fieldwerestudied...thickothergangueminerals presentin Wessels-type ore are not ermost ness of about 45 m at Mamatwan mine and 4 to 8 m at appropriate...appropriate to be fluidinclusion hostminerals.Someof the mine(Fig.1). The braunitclutiteis typically microoxideminerals...microoxideminerals, whichareopaque in visiblelight,havephysi- Wessels crystalline and finely laminated. It is composed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the Postmasburg Mn Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Brenton J. Fairey 1,† , Martin J...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa Correspondence: h.tsikos@ru.ac.za Current address:...Postmasburg Manganese Field (PMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa, once represented one of the largest...Postmasburg manganese field; hydrothermal; karst; South Africa Minerals 2019, 9, 408; doi:10.3390/min9070408...(KMF), the Postmasburg Manganese Field (PMF) was South Africa’s largest producer of this important component
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locations) can belong to one and the same ore district, massif, and formation, or can be located very...Antisirabe, Madagascar (15 times); Mooihoek, South Africa (6 times); and SareSang, Afghanistan (7 times...(Dst.) district, area; (Co.) county; (m.) mine; (Mf.) massif; (Q.) quarry; (N) north, northern latitude;...latitude; (S) south, southern latitude; (W) west, western longitude; (E) east, eastern longitude. 9 – Alsar...pallite 9 – Barberton district \(25°48`S, 31°03`E), Transvaal, South Africa \\1921trevorite (Bon Accord
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). • Good crystals...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted...striated epidotes in matrix, from the Calumet iron mine, Colorado. Epidote was described in 1801 by Haüy...collectors. Within the United States, the Green Monster mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has yielded superb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bag XOll, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa vanadium deposit, Wilson Springs, Garland County...cavities in rhyolites at Squaw Creek, Black Range district, Catron County and in Willow Spring Draw, Sierra...crusts (up to 0.5 mm) on quartz at the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A; mcalpineite...minerals. Also recorded from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A. Cu3TeOo6.H20. Cubic,...1994. Can. Min., 32, 839. Mount Mica pegmatite, South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A. NaCs(Be,Li)Zr~(PO4)4
Report (issue)
(Kuruman, South Africa). Association: Nasonite, willemite, andradite, hardystonite, tephroite, clinohedrite...In the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. From the Kombat mine, 49 km south of Tsumeb
Report (issue)
Hausmannite, rhodochrosite, manganosite, galaxite, tephroite, alabandite, lead, barite, calcite, dolomite.... Långban, and Nordmark, Värmland; in the Sjö mine, near Grythyttan, Örebro. From Ljubija and Prijedor...Noda-Tamagawa mine, Iwate Prefecture; in the Kaso mine, Tochigi Prefecture; Hamayokokawa mine, Nagano Prefecture;...Prefecture; the Taguchi mine, Aichi Prefecture; and the Ioi mine, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. From the N’Chwaning...N’Chwaning and Wessels mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the Kombat Cu–Pb–Ag mine, 49 km south
Report (issue)
franklinite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); garnet, tephroite, franklinite, braunite (Ushkatyn deposits, Kazakhstan)...angban; Jakobsberg; the Harstigen mine, near Persberg; and the Klintgruvan mine, near Kryibo, VÄarmland, Sweden...Kombat mine, 49 km south of Tsumeb, Namibia. In South Africa, in the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province
Catalog/List
orange crystals on cockscomb Barytes Mibladen district , Morocco 6x4 £30 () , 1 5 APOPHYLLITE pale...5 x2.5 in 4x3 matrix Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese field N. Cape, South Africa £30 11 LABRADORITE cut...10x6cm showing excellent play of colours Ampanihy District Madagascar £25 13 OLIVINE variety FORSTERITE...dark grey veins in Feldspar Ricksburg Karibib District Namibia 5x3x2.5 £ 18 16 HILLEBRANDITE pale blue...but not fully exposed in some parts. 3 .5x3 Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan £ 18 ~'i..'\~1~ 22 CHALCEDONY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
data for the manganoan feature, krauskopfite, mine. and X-ray and Mn-alkali ore, and it is found...coarse-grained mode of occurrence, Hagidaira mine are found occurs as a fine-grained On the other...witherite. The powder diffraction mine are described. from the Fukumaki mine ore. The mode of occurrence..."BaMn (C03)2 " mineral occur in manganosite-tephroite-galaxite while the "BaMn (C03)2 by the fine-grained...surrounded optical properties, data for the witherite mine. However, (unnamed are generally similar to those
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park, 2006, South Africa CAE Mining-Datamine, 8 Bentley Office Park, Corner Bevan & Wessels Road Rivonia...Rivonia, 2128, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Mineralogy, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg...Campus, Private Bag, x6001, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...protoliths of the Serra do Navio Formation. The local geological context and nature of this protolith...laterally equivalent to the Birimian Supergroup in West Africa. For the present investigation several diamond
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals...£5.30. TEPHROITE, chocolate brown massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn,...£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 (article/letter/editorial)
(primary). (b) Braunite - hausmannite spessartine tephroite quartz (metamorphic). (c) Hydrated manganese silicates...those of the New England Fold Belt (NEFB) to the south (part of the major Tasman geosyncline of the Australian...(Brooks 1962) England Fold Belt (NEFB) to the South (the simplest interpretation of the Gympie rocks)...intra-oceanic magmatic arc mobile belt now present in the South Island, New Zealand (Sivell and Waterhouse, 1987)...Spessartine M L L . P - Piemontite - P . Tephroite - L . Barite P P P Kaolinite - Illite
Book (edition)
September 18, 2007, my Teacher, Mentor and Friend. Joe Mandarino passed away after a long battle with failing...of Minerals and the next edition of the Glossary, Joe asked me if I would be willing to take on the responsibility...9th edition of the Glossary in 2004. Unfortunately Joe passed away beforc wc could finish this collaboration...for sure if I have found all e material sent to Joe, and so, if I have missed anyone, and any other corrections... Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the
 
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