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Bismuthinite from
Rubikon Mine, Okongava Ost Farm 72, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rubikon Mine, Okongava Ost Farm 72, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:150648
Long-form Identifier:1:3:150648:8
GUID (UUID V4):9d80ee18-6f4f-4ab7-8699-323ad721ba2f
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
27.3km (17.0 miles) Navachab Gold Mine, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
78.3km (48.6 miles) Krantzberg Mine, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
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Twyfelfontein 7 AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree ...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
Field Trip Notes
the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia II I -· --· ...... ----·----, Editor: M. Niall...the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia -- - -- .. --- ----• • ·- •• -1 · ~. ,. :...DAMARA OROGEN G.LC. Schneider Geological Survey or Namibia, P O Box 2168, Windhoek 1.0 Day 1 - Monday, 22...Windhoek - Otjihase Mine 1.2 08:00 - 12:00 Otjihase Mine 1.3 12:00 - 12:30 Otjihase Mine - Windhoek 1.4 12:30-...16:00 Windhoek-Karibib 1.6 16:00 - 17:00 Capra Hill Marble Quarry 1.8 Overnight: Karibib 3 4 7 7 7 8 9
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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
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U-rich fluornatromicrolite, zircon, bismuth, bismuthinite, emplectite, hodrušite, and the sulfotellurides...ingodite. Early bismuth is replaced by abundant bismuthinite, which also locally contains symplectitic intergrowths...93S1.04) is intergrown with joséite-A and with bismuthinite in emplectite. Tetradymite [(Bi2.00Cu0.02)S2...included in emplectite and bismuthinite. Ingodite is usually enclosed in bismuthinite as very small grains...data, the equilibrium association of bismuth, bismuthinite, emplectite and hodrušite, typical of hydrothermal
Report (issue)
crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite...nothing more of interest seemed to come out of the region until November 2002, when people from around Mandrosonoro...Madagascar to study some pegmatites in the Betafo region. Observing the exceptional tourmaline rough arriving...(Laurs et al. 2003). A second location in the Deva mine, Paroon Valley, Kunar, Nuristan, Afghanistan has
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out is called saprolite. Examples from the Weiss Mine, Germany, show this transition. There are types...landscape shows the well-known Rubikon (Rubicon) Nb/Ta pegmatite in Namibia (Fig. 6f) (Moore, 2000). Episodically...N-S in the area. One of them is made up of the Rubikon pegmatite which extends in NW-SE direction and...USA (80), Volta Grande, Brazil (30), Rubicon, Namibia (60), Manono-Kitolo, DR Kongo (25), Naje, Nepal...valleys and eventually to a dissected peneplain. The region most closely resembling the valley- and plain-
 
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