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Dolomite from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Nontroniteⓘ3 photos of Dolomite associated with Nontronite at this locality.
Heterogeniteⓘ1 photo of Dolomite associated with Heterogenite at this locality.
Chalcopyriteⓘ1 photo of Dolomite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Cattieriteⓘ1 photo of Dolomite associated with Cattierite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160332
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160332:3
GUID (UUID V4):6b759d25-0b67-430b-8f4c-e252da9f4c53
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘTantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
10.0km (6.2 miles) ⓘShamitumba, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
18.4km (11.4 miles) ⓘKamoya prospect, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
18.9km (11.7 miles) ⓘKambove West Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
19.4km (12.0 miles) ⓘKambove Principal Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
19.9km (12.4 miles) ⓘKamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
23.5km (14.6 miles) ⓘShituru Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘShangulowĂ© Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
36.1km (22.4 miles) ⓘSwambo Hill, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
38.1km (23.7 miles) ⓘKakanda South Mine, Kakanda deposit, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
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The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...............6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties
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on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
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insights into U deposit genesis and U cycling in the Katanga Copperbelt Sophie Decree a,∗ , Étienne Deloule...4 December 2013 Keywords: Katanga Copperbelt Uranium deposition Shinkolobwe U–Pb geochronology Heterogenite...a b s t r a c t The Katanga Copperbelt region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hosts world-class cobalt...sediment-hosted copper and cobalt ore deposits, the Katanga Copperbelt also hosts numerous uraniferous mineral...heterogenite samples from the U deposits of Shinkolobwe, Kalongwe and Kambove. These analyses yield distinct Neoproterozoic
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INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
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AND VAESITE: NEW CO-Ni MINERALS FROM THE BELGIAN CONGO Paur. F. Knnn, Columbia [Jniaersitnt.IVew York....not been found in nature. At the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, CoSz having a pyrite structure...lattice has been found in the Kasompi mine of the Belgian Congo. This mineral is tentatively called raesite...contributors to the mineral development of the Belgian Congo. The four members of the pyrite series would be...1943 Mr. Johannes Vaes of the Union MiniBre du Haut Katanga submitted two metallic sulfide minerals upon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Development, Groupe G. Forrest International, Lubumbashi, Congo b Department of Geology, University of Botswana...African Copperbelt in both Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo hereafter) and Zambia, which represent the most...forms a northward convex structure, straddling the Congo–Zambia border and called “Lufilian Arc”. It was...east-northeastwards through Kolwezi and Likasi (Congo), and southeastwards to Bwana Mkubwa (Zambia) and...Group is called the “Mwashya Subgroup” or “R 4” in Congo (formerly “Systùme Schisto-Dolomitique” of Van den
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mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What
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RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............................................ The Katanga Province ........................................922 923 The Mine Series .................................................... Shinkolobwe ..............Southern Rhodesiaand in the Katanga Provinceof the Republicof the Congo. The depositssampledoccur in
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metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise...REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi 11°- Shinkolobwe Luishia...26° LEGEND post-Katangan granite (520 Ma) major mine or deposit post-Katangan cover city Nguba and...Solwezi dome westward to the Kabompo dome. The Shinkolobwe and Swambo U-(Ni) deposits occur between the...metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; Derriks and Vaes
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Article Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal... M. Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal...Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University...Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi 1825, Democratic Republic of the Congo; theophil.ngoy@ruashi.com (T.K.); chabu.cm@gmail...Democratic Republic of the Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining
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contrasting ïŹ‚uid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky a,⁎, Philippe...Groupe Forrest International, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Post-entrapment reequilibration a b s t r a c t The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known...samples from the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene...Cu–Co sulïŹdes and associated gangue minerals (dolomite and quartz). The ïŹrst generation is characterized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
knownonlyin theShabanprovinceof ZaYre, asat Shinkolobwe, andin theZambianCopperbelt. A surveyby AGIP...Uranium in the Shaban and as it includes the Shinkolobwe mine (Derricks and Vaes, 1956; Derricks and Oosterbosch...Zambian Copperbelt Areas T‱F‱ depositionof the Katanga system,mainly of marine origin, beganbetween840...sequenceis subdividedfrom bottom sompi,Swambo,and Shinkolobwe(Fig. 2). Copperto top into the Roan, Mwashya...upto 1,000m thick, and a predominantly Mashitu, Kambove, Luishya, and many other localdolomiticUpperRoansubgroup
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2014 Musonoi, Democratic Republic of Congo T he current emphasis on nonpetroleum energy resources...specimen selected comes from the famous Musonoi mine, a locality that produces the world’s finest examples...sklodowskite. Some analyses show traces of Pb, Fe, and Ca. Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining...minerals formed in the oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...3 mines, Elk Ridge district; and the Happy Jack mine. Cuprosklodowskite is apparently widespread throughout
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iliz~itioiis.'l'li(f Lufilinn arc is located between the Congo and Kalahari cratons and defines a structure which...i c ~\relocity during tlw collision belwecn the Congo and Kalaliari cratons. The third phase (D3) o f...Lufilian arc iii Democratic Republic of Congo (hereafter Congo) rcvcaled a tectonic stylc maikcd by a...the supposed autochthonous Katangan terranes in Congo (Cailteux, 1990)and in Western Zambia (Cosi et al...of the tectonic evolution of the Lufilian arc in Congo and Zambia, and the age of the major deformation
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Université de Lubumbashi, B.P.1825, Lubumbashi, Congo Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ARC...belt is bordered to the northwest by the Archean Congo Craton and the Mesoproterozoic Kibaride belt, to...in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (hereafter Congo) and northwestern Zambia (Fig. 1). A basal...and by logging of borehole cores from the Kipushi mine. A total of 115 samples (30 from Bunkeya, 50 from...Lithostratigraphy of the Katangan Supergroup in Katanga (modified from François, 1973b, 1987, 1995; Kampunzu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
// MWASHIA ß ß ' DOLOMITE, LIMESTONE, ANHYDRITE / UPPER ROAN__ DOLOMITE 8000 -- -- / ROAN"...siliceousdolomite,stromatoliticdolomite, argillaceous dolomite,anddolomiticsiltyargillite. widespread,even if...Major Thrust Fault KAMATANDA MinorThrustFault SHINKOLOBWE SHITURU KENGERI \ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent...payablehorizonsis locallyvery large. In the Mufulira mine in Zambiamineralizationis presentin 21 distinctlithologicalunits...interbedded graphitic schist, siltstone, quartzite, and dolomite forms a wide envelopealongthe veins. Sulfidemineralization
Report (issue)
45.29 102.29 100.00 54.71 (1) Santa Brigida mine, Argentina; by electron microprobe, corresponds...in linnaeite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); intermixed with other selenides (Santa Brigida mine, Argentina). Association:...clausthalite, selenian vaesite, molybdenite, dolomite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); tiemannite, clausthalite, eucairite...(Santa Brigida mine, Argentina). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Province, Zaire) [TL]. In the Santa Brigida mine, La Rioja Province, Argentina. From Tilkerode, Harz Mountains
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. ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
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diamond-shaped faces, all the sides of which are equal (dolomite, calcite). This type gives the most varied shapes...tary rocks and gangues Calcite Fluorite Barite Dolomite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Artinite - Hydro­ magnesite...Cyanotrichite 98 Cuprosklodowskite. . . .126 Dioptase 102 Dolomite 54 Diamond 14 Epidote 44 Eosphorite 42 12 30...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some­ times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...HL V r\ r 1' 52 Mp; '* ■ 1 <‱' 4 ‱* Dolomite Calcium magnesium carbonate crystallizes in this
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diamond-shaped faces, all the sides of which are equal (dolomite, calcite). This type gives the most varied shapes...rocks and gangues (al Cite aaa eee Fluorite Barite Dolomite Aragonite........ Rhodochrosite Artinite — HydroMagnesitor...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some- times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...4~—Barite (Tsumeb, South-West Africa): 0.5 cm. Dolomite Calcium magnesium carbonate crystallizes in this...be seen in dolomite are almost always rhombohedrons, and big crystals are rare. Dolomite is rarely colorless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Marshall Pass Adair Mine Big Indian Wash Happy Jack Jachymov Yancey Shinkolobwe Bancroft Cardiff Australia...Republic Yancey County, North Carolina, USA Shinkolobwe, DR Congo Bancroft, Ontario, Canada Cardiff Township...Township, Ontario, Canada Northern Territory, Australia Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Saskatchewan, Canada...(Canada), Shinkolobwe (Democratic Republic of Congo), Marshall Pass (USA), and Northern Territory (Australia)...and 440 Ma [45]. The Shinkolobwe uraninite originates from the Shinkolobwe Mine in the Democratic Republic
Report (issue)
78(2) c = 4.21(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 5.22 (100), 3.538 (80), 4.38 (50), 3.79...∌10. Total (2) 89.34 10.66 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, H2 O by TGA, considered...Occurrence: Extremely rare, on museum specimens of dolomite and uraninite, from the oxidized zone of a uranium...kasolite. Distribution: Name: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). As a dehydration...Metastudtite, UO4 ‱ 2H2 O, a new mineral from Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire. Amer. Mineral., 68, 456–458. (2)
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in this manner were Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada; Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia; and, probably...probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...generation of formation than the pitchblende. The Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire produced a few very large, to...Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. bismuth, and...tetrahedrite-tennantite. The gangue is chiefly dolomite, calcite, and quartz, with small amounts of barite
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1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922)....planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In...heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase...the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. In California it occurs at the Blue Bell mine and with linarite...identified filling vugs in malachite at the Cornucopia mine, Blind Springs district, Mono County (Murdoch and
 
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