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Zippeite from
Emerald mines, Wadi Sikait, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zippeite
Formula:K3(UO2)4(SO4)2O3(OH) · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zippeite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emerald mines, Wadi Sikait, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1571790
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1571790:0
GUID (UUID V4):4db01748-5ef2-4e07-8748-a50517cb41d9
Nearest other occurrences of Zippeite
4.8km (3.0 miles) Emerald mines, Wadi Abu Rasheid, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collected minerals in Crimea, on Caucasus, on Black Sea coast, in Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland...Here, among caressing nature of the Mediterranean Sea, a wondrous pink tourmaline was so perfectly in harmony...harmony with gray granite rock, and the sparkling red hematite blinded eyes with the shine» (Fersman, 1974)...visited Kochkar gold mines and Semenovsky mine. They have examined monazites and in mines along the Kamenka... serpentines, have visited a maximum number of mines with pegmatites and have collected a lot of samples
Book (volume)
and the extensive pegmatite dike exposures and mines. BON HOMME & CHARLES MIX COUNTIES SCOTLAND to WAGNER...CUSTER:  N, (1) near Laughing Water Cr., many area minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble...area, to Deer Camp rd., turn in ¼ mi.: (a) area mines, (b) in rocky uplift along side of rd., and (c)...Carter Ranch and S along Pleasant Valley Cr. in Red Canyon, areabanded agate, Jade, jasper, fossils... FALL RIVER COUNTY AREA: The Uranium-Vanadium mines of the Edgemont Mining Dist.Autunite, Becquerelite
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argentite 10 cerussite 46, 46, 47 chabazite 126, 127 emerald 93 emery 25 epidote 87, 87, 89 epistilbite 124...zeolites 114 zeunerite 74 zincite 23 Zinc vitriol $9 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 Zoisite 88 THE MINERAL...copper was mixed with tin). Its characteristic copper-red colour is often hidden by green patinas of malachite...drops in cinnabar at Idrija (Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain)... Agrigento (Italy) and diopsids. Other famous mines are Dutoitspan, Bultfontein, De Beer’s, and Premier;
96 dumortierite 82, 83 elbaite 95 eleolite 111 emerald 93 emery 25 epidote 87, 87, 89 amianthus, amphibole...sulphates 55 sulphates, hydrous 59 sulphides 8 zippeite 62 THE MINERAL KINGDOM All physical bodies...copper was mixed with tin). Its characteristic copper-red colour is often hidden by green patinas of malachite...drops in cinnabar at Idrija (Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén...also contains pyrope and diopsids. Other famous mines are Dutoitspan, Bultfontein, De Beer’s, and Premier;
Report (issue)
Chief Geologist i FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian...have made them sound financial investments. The emerald, considered by many to be the most beautiful of...the largest emerald crystal in North America — 1,438 carats. The most expensive cut emerald also comes...North Carolina. This is the 15.14 carat Carolina Emerald owned by Tiffany f, Company of New York and valued...valued at $100,000. First thought to be emerald but later identified as a chromium spodumene, the mineral
Report (issue)
AND TORBERNITE THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/...Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian...have made them sound financial investments. The emerald, considered by many to be the most beautiful of...the largest emerald crystal in North America -- 1,438 carats. The most expensive cut emerald also comes...North Carolina. This is the 13.14 carat Carolina Emerald owned by Tiffany valued at $100,000. & Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of substances in the combustion products of coal mines, waste dumps, or peat bogs. The origin of a particular...Republic Wheatleyite 1 Na2Cu(C2O4)2·2H2O Wheatley mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania Widgiemoolthalite...Rakovanite 2 Na3H3V10O28·15H2O Sunday and West Sunday mines, Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado...MgAl2(V10O28)(OH)2·27H2O Vanadium Queen and Blue Cap mines, San Juan County, Utah Cetineite Fiedlerite Georgiadèsite...chrysotile deposit, OK ODP Site 799 in the Japan Sea Yukon Territory, Canada (Wilson et al. 2006) (Matsumoto
Journal (issue)
............................... 338 COLOMBIAN EMERALD SOURCES. By Ro11aid L. I1·es ....................Foster ............ 386 GEOLOGIST SAYS 2 IDLE PENN. MINES MIGHT AGAIN YIELD ORE ...... ...............388...by PETER ZODAC PUBLISHED MONTHLY COLOMB IAN EMERALD SOURCES 1 By RONALD L. IVES Dept. of Geography...large emeralds, most of which were marketed from Spain. These acquired the name "Spanish Emeralds", even...conquistadores. When the Inca empire fell, the mines from which the emeralds were obtained were carefully concealed
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GLACIERS AND THEIR MOVEMENTS , 182 AMERICAN JEWEL MINES , 185 GIANT REDWOODS TURNED TO STONE , 188 Tue STUDENTS...interesting pseudomorphs have been taken from the Tintic mines , and many are coming out in the present working...Lake City . The pseudos at the Cove Creek sulphur mines are very interesting from their perfection and delicacy...to human races , perhaps older than the tombs of Egypt , and such a collection as this should find a lasting...this most interesting question . AMERICAN JEWEL MINES . The next great mining industry in this country
Report (issue)
hundredths of microns, but, except at the extreme red end, tenths of divisions can be readily estimated...determining the genuineness of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds sent to the Museum for examination and report...contain uranous uranium. THE GARNET GROUP The red colors of garnets of the varieties pyrope, almandite...12 0.03 0.02 violet-red. distinct strong brown. distinct distinct, 0.02 brown-red distinct none. O.02...02 distinct. 0.01 brown .... faint deep red. deep red. . B is, if A is 1 .40 1.45 1.20 33.65 0
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fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red, each color due to the presence of a different activator...fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red; each color is due to the presence of a different... Fluorescence and Its Observation He: you seen the red fluorescence of calcite from Franklin, New Jersey...from some other locality known to provide similar red fluorescence, and examine it under your short-wave...ultraviolet lamp. The brilliance and saturation of this red color will astonish you. Other fluorescing minerals
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fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange. or red, each color due to the presence of a different activator...fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red; each color is due to the presence of a different... Fluorescence and Its Observation He: you seen the red fluorescence of calcite from Franklin, New Jersey...from some other locality known to provide similar red fluorescence, and examine it under your short-wave...ultraviolet lamp. The brilliance and saturation of this red color will astonish you. Other fluorescing minerals
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dumortierite 82, 83 elbaite 95 eleolite l l l emerald 93 emery 25 epidote 87, 87, 89 epistilbite 124...l I 4 zeunerite 74 zincite 23 zinc vitriol 59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM...copper was mixed with tin). Its characteristic copper-red colour is often hidden by green patinas of malachite...also contains pyrope and diopsids. Other famous mines are Dutoitspan, Bultfontein, De Beer's, and Premier;...bituminous deposits have been found in the sulphur mines of Romagna, Italy, in association with gypsum and
Journal (issue)
CRYSTALS AND CRYSTAL GROUPS JUST AS IT COMES FROM THE MINES CONTAINS THE VARIOUS SHADES OF PURPLE CRY­ STALS...the Wakefield Area, Quebec. Quebec Bu­ reau of Mines. P. R. 298, pp. 3-7. Ellsworth, H. V. 1932 — Rare...Uses. Canada Mines Branch. Report 118. --------- 1916. — Feldspar in Canada. Canada Mines Branch. Report...ph—phosphoresces treeless country. They are clay mines that have been recently closed. The particular area...friend and I, on one of our trips, visited the Paint Mines at Calhan, El Paso Co., Colo. They are approx. 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exchange; dioptase, kunzite, thorog u m m i t e , emerald; dozens others, xls and gems. D. Fraser, 2 6 Peppertree...NUGGETS! "Stone of t h e Blue S k y " f r o m ancient mines on El Camino Real Mission T r a i l . Three nuggets...sapphire $25.00, moonstone $ 2 5 . 0 0 , light green emerald $ 1 2 . 0 0 , iolite $ 1 5 . 0 0 , purple garnet...cathedral, naica vein, blue nodules, coyamito ncdules, red spiderweb - $ 1 . 7 5 ; psilomelane, lace, or t u...Specimens—drusy quartz o n quartz crystals, 2 x 2 , 75c, sea green f o l i ated talc 50c lb., p i n k Georgia
Book (edition)
of the ores from the Franklin, New Jersey, zinc mines. The Nico tube, manufactured by Gen eral Electric..."500." There are about four widely used types of "red purple ultra" filters, as they are termed; numbers...with some radiation to 2500 A.U., and a residuum of red and violet. The nonheat-resisting filter is widely...be restored by carefully heating to about 200° C. Red Purple Corex A number 986 can, after suitable protection...transmission of the short wave length visible. The red Cello phane has zero transmission in all of these
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colour is copper-red with a brown tarnish, the lustre metallic, and the streak copper-red. It is ductile...igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock, and in sea water. Auriferous quartz is a major source for gold...also from California gold is found in Rhodesia, Egypt and Ghana. Also found in Wales and sparingly in...may be white, yellow, pink, green, blue, brown, red or black. There is a white streak. The lustre is...Diamonds are found in India, the celebrated Golconda mines being in the Madras area; in Brazil, from Diamantina
Book (edition)
thick­ I>)· carefull)· ht'ating t t"l al>out 200 l�. Red Purple Cc.)rex J.l\ 11untl>er 986 ca11. ness ranges...A.U., and a slab short wave length visible. The red Cello­ 5.6 1111n thick absorbs only 4.5 per cent...alike in visible light ' as 1n genuine ruby and red spinel. hoth wave lengths of ultraviolet light. Gem...difference in the fluorescence of gem fluoresce red or orange are most apt to quality material a11...For example, when it is desired to see the fiery red fl11orescence of the ruby, stances where a gen1 or
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primitive stone tools were found at the old turquoise mines at Ceriilos, near Sante Fe, New Mexico. They were...the Indians who worked these, the oldest gem mines in the Western Hemisphere. colorings of gem...Mediterranean that iron was first used. Nor was it in Egypt, though rich deposits of iron ore existed side by...ocher and manganese oxide with which to make the red and black colors they particularly favored. Nevertheless...phar- metallic minerals. Since the days aohs of Egypt gave commands that sent expedi- tions into the
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edition, 1774. The American Journal Annales des Mines. of Science and Arts. New Haven, U.S. Paris...Mineralogy and Mining in the Government School of Mines, is contained at p. 259 of the Manual of Scientific...and nitric acids. " 14th. Litmus-paper, blue and red, for detecting the presence of acids and " alkalies...acid. "/. Selenium, in an open glass tube, gives a red deposit of selenium. "^. Tellurium, in a similar...upon the mineral ; whence may be distinguished " a. Red tint, given by several minerals containing strontia
Book (edition)
hollandite. and shattuckite, etc., in brownish red, metamorphic Mn-rich 113°45'. 79°34·, Z = 1. d: 10...Apikia. Andros Is., both Greece. NJbMA 163, mm. Pink. red-brown. luster submetallic to adamantine, soft. Cleavage...tin ingots from a ship wrecked 100 years ago in Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. AM 78, 235-236, 1993. Abswurmbachite...elongated grains, or massive. Brown to black, also red-brown or brown-yellow, luster adamantine to submetallic...colorless,yellow-greento intenseblue-green.At the Red Cloudmine,Lincolnco., 'ew .1exico.at. •eubulach,SchwarzwaldMts
Journal (issue)
IN MEXICO 1 am are MINERALOGY ARCHEOLOGY OLD MINES SEM MATERIAL CURIOS AND sure Iceland OTHER we...tons of iron ore have been removed from over 250 mines on the range. The Mesabi range lies northwest of...iron content be tween 50 “paint and 65 The rock”, a red and white pbanded norizon with a high clay content...Minnesota <> eraine, is exposed beneath the drift in mines from Coleraine to Eveleth. The conglomerate which...ore and taconite GARNET— Many small, well-formed red crystals are found ! the conglomerate at the base
Journal (issue)
Diamond Pacific Titan. The end of the strip of dense, red jasper took a nice polish, and I though it would...in use for made partly of the remains of shelled sea creatures. It is almost a long time and is still...elevations from 6,200 near Cortez to 11,008 feet at Red Pass Mountain, the traveler is rewarded with breathtaking...had many saloons, dance halls, and hotels and a red-light district known as Notorious Blair Street, full...Mountains, nestled between two rugged passes, the Red Mountain and the Molas passes. Silverton’s moniker
Journal (issue)
Emery County, Utah. It is associated with sodium-zippeite. The billictite forms a typical deep goldenyellow..." urancolite'' (=a mixture of urano pilite and zippeite) fro m Hochofen (former Gen11an name for wday...ex is tence and is assoc iated with magnes ium -zippeite. The uranopilite a nd zippe ite are not presen...Japan was studi ed a_nd found_ 10 have a brilliant red flu orescence. The publica11ons on mrncr::il fluorescence...each one spec tac ular a nd from many differe nt mines a nd localities in Cal ifo rni a. Marty Z inn had
Journal (issue)
Gem News International pg. 71 Tucson report • Emerald-bearing gem pockets from North Carolina • Spessartine...first-place article was “Durability Testing of Filled Emeralds” (Summer 2007), a long-term study of the stability...stability and durability of nine common emerald-filling substances. Receiving second place was “Serenity...winning authors. DURABILITY TESTING OF FILLED EMERALDS Mary L. Johnson Mary L. Johnson is the principal...old [Ma]), which extends from the Mediterranean Sea down to central Mozambique (Lächelt, 2004). COPPER-BEARING
 
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