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Malachite from
Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Habit:"primary" style crystals.
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Baryte
Chrysocolla
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chrysocolla131 photos of Malachite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Cuprite46 photos of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Calcite42 photos of Malachite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Metatyuyamunite40 photos of Malachite associated with Metatyuyamunite at this locality.
Cobalt-bearing Calcite30 photos of Malachite associated with Cobalt-bearing Calcite at this locality.
Cobalt-bearing Dolomite20 photos of Malachite associated with Cobalt-bearing Dolomite at this locality.
Quartz11 photos of Malachite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Heterogenite9 photos of Malachite associated with Heterogenite at this locality.
Baryte7 photos of Malachite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Vésigniéite6 photos of Malachite associated with Vésigniéite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (190 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20277
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20277:8
GUID (UUID V4):9ba993ea-aebd-4b9b-aabc-666d3580727d
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
1.5km (0.9 miles) Dikuluwe Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
3.5km (2.2 miles) Kamoto Principal Mine, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
4.0km (2.5 miles) Kamoto Principal Open cut, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
5.2km (3.2 miles) Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
5.6km (3.5 miles) Mupine Mine, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
5.6km (3.5 miles) KOV Open cut, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
8.2km (5.1 miles) Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
8.9km (5.5 miles) Kolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
18.8km (11.7 miles) Mutoshi Mine, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
35.2km (21.9 miles) Tilwezembe mine, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
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Journal (issue)
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)...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's
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gressman@minrec.org, Tel: 303-246-3194) LEGACY PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS Walt Donovan, Marilyn Lang & Alyssa...SENIOR FELLOWS Salim Eddé Lyda Hill Daniel J. Record Dr. Rob Lavinsky Wilbert A. Danner (bequeathed) Drs... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...of Guerrero and is not known for a single, large mine but several small regional deposits. The cause...carefully mine and preserve them. None of these conditions are at all common! THE GUERRERO MINE The specimen
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row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...Carol & Karl Warning James & Charelle Webb Scott West & Laurence Dempsey Jonathan & Kathleen Woolley
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eise, Dr. S te fan We iß (verantwortlict1 für d n Inhalt). Mict1ael Huber und Tobias Weise BEIRAT Dr. Rupert...Hochleitner GRÜNDUNGSMITGLIEDER Dr. Hans-Jürgen W1'ke, Eppertshausen - Dr. Werner Lieber. He:delberg - Prof...Huber. Wiener Neus tadt (A) - Prof. Dr. Max Weibel, Zürich (CH) Prof. Dr. Carto M. Gramacc10!1. Ma1!and (1)...(1) BERATENDE MITGLIEDER Dr. Paul Rustemeyer. Gundelfingen Prof. Dr. Heiner Vollstäd t. Potsd am Robert...Robert Brandstetter. Warth uncl Prof. Dr. Werner Paar, Salzburg (A) - Dr. Federico Pezzotta. Ma1!ai und Michael
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cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical choice for... And in fact, a group of fourth graders at the Copper Creek Elementary School in Oro Valley, spearheaded...difference between native copper and copper ore composed of many different copper-containing minerals (e...(e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently it was deemed more
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D. Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire .............................Lhoest, G. J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .........................the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates ....................................... COVER: CUPRITE with malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne...Glossary o f Mineral Species. For the 1991 edition, Dr. Joseph A. M andarino (Chairman o f the I.M .A .’s
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01 June 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland,...deposits, especially those of copper. At relatively shallow depths, copper is concentrated as the native...well known to collectors familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many...the world’s finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite, atacamite, and a host of other minerals...impurities. Its position in the oxidation cycle of copper deposits suggests that it can replace a variety
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which time they were correctly identified as a copper silicate and described as a new mineral by several...finely crystalline massive aggregates. Dioptase is a copper silicate hydroxide with a formula of Cu6(Si60,...restricted in its occurrence to the oxidation zones of copper-bearing deposits in arid climates. Associated secondary...secondary minerals include chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite...1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922).
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Smithsonietkristallen van Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australië...potassic-fluoro-hastingsiet (27 karakters) van de Greenwood mine, Town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York, USA. 23...in het zuidoosten van de Democratische Republiek Congo. Het mineraal werd eerst “kobalthoudende malachiet”...kobalthoudende calciet op matrix uit de Kolwezi-mijn, DR Congo. Beeldbreedte 7 cm. Verzameling en foto © Carsten...in het zuidoosten van de Democratische Republiek Congo. Minerale afzettingen in het gebied werden reeds
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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
Catalog/List
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Report (issue)
189 α = 93.32◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Musonoi mine, Congo. 3.69 (100), 6.08 (80), 5.08 (80), 2.599 (70)...22.98 48.40 8.78 Total 99.60 (1) Musonoi mine, Congo; by X-ray fluorescence, CO2 by gas evolution...hydrothermal ore deposits. Association: Cobaltian malachite, cobaltian dolomite, heterogenite. Distribution:...Kolwezi, and the Mupine, and Mashamba West mines, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). Name:...Name: For its occurrence at Kolwezi, Congo. Type Material: Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren,
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Report (issue)
the oxidized zone of some copper deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, malachite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite...the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, at Ray, and in the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, Pinal...Pinal Co., and from the Harquehala mine, Harquehala Mountains, La Paz Co. (formerly Yuma Co.); in California...Pimbi, Congo Republic. At Tantara and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba...Lomagundi district, the Inez mine, Hartley district, and the Midway mine, Fort Victoria. Many other minor
Report (issue)
mineral formed in copper-bearing U–V deposits. Association: Volborthite, malachite, tyuyamunite, carnotite...barite, calcite. Distribution: From [the Gottlob mine], Friedrichroda, Thuringia, and Bad Lauterberg,...south-southeast of Přı́bram, Czech Republic. From the Roua copper mines, about 50 km north of Nice, Alpes Maritimes...Leistershire, England. At the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire)...Paradox Bell mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado; in Arizona, at the Monument #1 mine, Navajo Co
Report (issue)
oxidized portions of many copper deposits. Association: Copper, tenorite, malachite, azurite, calcite, brochantite...Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb. At Likasi, Ruwe, and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi...Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In the USA, in Arizona, large crystals from Bisbee...the Red Dome mine, Chilliago, Queensland. Name: From the Latin cuprum, for its copper content. References:
Report (issue)
Malachite Cu2 (CO3 )(OH)2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic....formed in the oxidation zone of copper deposits; locally may be an ore of copper. Association: Azurite, cuprite...Mountains. In Congo, in Katanga Province (Shaba Province, Zaire), from Lubumbashi, at the Musonoi mine, near...from the Mashamba West mine. In Namibia, from Tsumeb, and as large crystals at the Onganja mine, 60 km...and Burra, South Australia. In the USA, from the Copper Queen, Czar, and other mines in the Warren district
Journal (issue)
Coordinators Eastern U.S. Charles &Marcelle Weber 1172 West Lake Ave. Guilford, CT 06437 Subscriptions • Individuals...crystals to 5 mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection...British Mineralogy, which includes 550 hand-colored copper-plate engravings of British mineral specimens....stratified upper Precambrian rocks containing copper and cobalt ores, with other metals associated locally...width. It extends from the town of Kolwezi in the west to the city of Lubumbashi in the east. We will refer
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Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...1889 he embarked on a 10-week collecting trip out West which took him through Texas, where he visited the...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens
Show/Event (guide)
Mineral-city.com The Mineral City Show is located just west of N Oracle road, between W Lester and W Plata streets...private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...mim Museum New releases from the collections of Dr. Alex Schauss and Raul Sanabria By Bryan Swoboda...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...specimens from the mim museum Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan
Catalog/List
Arsenopyrite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Hunan Prov.,China. Pretty assemblage with...Namibia. Hexagonal xtls to 5mm. 67x50x30mm. £46 4 MALACHITE and CALCITE Tsumeb, Otavi, Namibia. Attractive...calcite. 54x27x25m m. £48 6 MALACHITE and Calcite, Mashamba West Mine, near Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire. Marvellous...developments. 87x65x11mm. £95 7 AZURITE & MALACHITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA....Attractive applegreen aggregate. 76x55x44mm. £72 Dr Fred Armitage Collection List 07b Paul A. Lowe 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE MINERALOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND METALLURGY OF COBALT IN THE RHOMBOHEDRAL CARBONATES ISABEL F. BARTON§...ores of cobalt are a significant but under-recognized fraction of the global Co resource. Cobalt forms...magnesite, MgCO3, is described here for the first time. Cobalt-rich dolomite, Ca(Mg,Co)(CO3)2, and Co-rich calcite...20 mol.% Co and up to 2 mol.% Co, respectively. Cobalt has also been reported as a minor substituent of...Co)2(CO3)(OH)2 (poorly understood, possibly rosasite group). Cobalt carbonates are most common in the supergene zones
Catalog/List
Ill CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...impressive intergrown mass. £-18 25 WULFENITE & MALACHITE ON DOLOMITE (6cm x 5cm x 2cm) Sitrra De Los Lamentos...acicular malachite. Very pretty I £65 28 ■ ROSE QUARTZ & SMOKY QUARTZ (4cm x 4cm 2cm) Piftorra Mine, Galileia
 
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