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Rutherfordine from
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Rutherfordine
Formula:(UO2)CO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Schoepite44 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Schoepite at this locality.
Cuprosklodowskite29 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Cuprosklodowskite at this locality.
Soddyite23 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Soddyite at this locality.
Malachite19 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Malachite at this locality.
Digenite19 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Digenite at this locality.
Vandenbrandeite12 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Vandenbrandeite at this locality.
Uranophane12 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Uranophane at this locality.
Sklodowskite10 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Sklodowskite at this locality.
Goethite5 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Goethite at this locality.
Metatorbernite5 photos of Rutherfordine associated with Metatorbernite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutherfordine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (33 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20304
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20304:1
GUID (UUID V4):c4214896-f8e8-47e2-8e7c-d164610eb1fc
Nearest other occurrences of Rutherfordine
8.2km (5.1 miles) Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
95.0km (59.0 miles) Swambo Hill, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ........... 6.6 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
Journal (issue)
crystals to 5 mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection...great mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f...nearly 50 km in width. It extends from the town of Kolwezi in the west to the city of Lubumbashi in the east...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960. “ Shaba” means “copper” in
Book
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 .. ................. .............................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Report (issue)
U6+ O2 (CO3 ) Rutherfordine c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...FeO and CaO as impurities. (2) Katanga Province, Congo. (3) UO2 (CO3 ). Occurrence: A secondary mineral...from Kalongwe, and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire)....Mountain, Acworth, Sullivan Co., and in the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire;...Utah, from the Delta mine, Emery Co., and in the “C” group of claims and the Jomac mine, White Canyon district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pen fx(~luents (2 %) sont repr6sent~ par la rutherfordine qui n'a 6t6 reconnue clue dans les gisements...relatively uncommon (2 per cent), represented by rutherfordine, have been encountered only at Kalongwe and...(1977). Au Sud-Shaba, la billietite est observee Musonoi e t ~ Kalongwe o~ elle est souvent melangee ~ u...est u n mineral de couleur b r u n e Uraninite, Kolwezi 38 16 orange vff que r o n trouve habltuellement...etudi~ par Buttgenbach ( 1924}. Au Sud-Shaba, Musonoi, r u r a n o p h a n e se developpe s u r la gummite
Report (issue)
= 104± 200 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kasolo, Congo. 3.26 (10), 2.93 (9), 4.19 (8b), 3.53 (7), 6.61...38.00 Total 99.84 100.00 3.07 (1) Kasolo, Congo. (2) Pb(UO2 )SiO4 ² H2 O: Occurrence: An oxidization...torbernite, curite, dewindtite (Kasolo, Congo); rutherfordine, sklodowskite, curite (Nabarlek, Australia)...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, and the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At...from the Green Monster mine, Goodsprings district, Clark Co., and the 4-D mine, Marietta district, Mineral
Report (issue)
1563(5) Z = 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 7.53 (10), 3.77 (9), 3.17 (8), 2.03 (6), 3.54 (5)...9.58 99.67 100.48 100.00 (1-2) Shaba Province, Congo. (3) Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O. Occurrence: An uncommon...Uranophane, fourmarierite, metatorbernite, rutherfordine, becquerelite, studtite, soddyite. Distribution:...From Shinkolobwe and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire).... From the La Crouzille mine, and the Margnac mine, Compreignac, HauteVienne, and in the Rabéjac uranium
Book
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...Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What formerly was called the Bas-Congo Province...abbreviated (B = Belgium; D.R. Congo = Democratic Republic of the Congo; F = France). 4. The biographical...ttgenbach, H. (1 947) Les mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p., Paris: Dunod. Blondieau, M. & Poirot
Catalog/List
Gabon and Shaba, Zaire (then Katanga, Belgian Congo). Mr. Gilbert Gauthier, a noted mining engineer...of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered... CUPROSKLODOWSKITE, META-VANURALITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Very attractive emerald-green... . ....... . . . $40.00 FOURMARIERITE and RUTHERFORDINE, Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire Bright orange fourmarierite...clusters (2 to 3 mm) of excellent gray-brown rutherfordine crystals and yellow uranophane associated on
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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...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...Saskatchewan, is the world's largest high-grade uraniu1n mine. The ore from that ,nine is crushed and treated
Catalog/List
. . ... . .. . ... $7.50 BECQUERELITE AND RUTHERFORDINE, Sh inkolobwe, Shaba Zaire. Beautiful 2- 3 mm...9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix...MALACHITE, . . . $120.00 AESCHYNITE-Y Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire. •82834 (a) Excellent green...specimens set attractively for display.) Hillveit Mine , Setesdal District, Norway. (a) Large (4.2 x 1... . . . . . . . . . $750.00 MARTHOZITE Musonoi Mine , Kolwezi , Shaba , Zaire. Exceptional triangular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Uranium-Bearing Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff....processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):...weathering of the crystal surface. The Daybreak mine in Washington has produced the finest United States...crystals were mined from the nowabandoned Shinkolobwe mine in Zaire. A large amount of remarkable yellow-orange...yellow-orange transparent crystals were pro­ duced from this mine years ago. Unfortunately few are available on today's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities. First, these are Musonoi and Shinkolobwe mines in DR Congo [6], two of the minerals were...were only found in the Repete mine (San Juan County, Utah, USA) [5], and a few more occurrences in Europe...originate from the Musonoi, DR Congo. The samples of haynesite originate from the Repete mine, Utah, UT, USA...zone of the copper-cobalt deposit of Musonoi (Katanga, DR Congo). The first mineral was named after the...)2 O2 ](H2 O)8 [3,29], was also found in the Musonoi mine within a few years after, and named to honor
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals that occur in tactites at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. For apachite the average...Chukhrovite-(Ce) and rhabdophane-(Ce) from the Clara Mine at Oberwolfach, Middle Black Forest. Chem. der Erde...Zaire, associatedwith becquerelite, curite, rutherfordine, and heterogenite.Under the microscope,it is...associatedwith mitridatite and manganeseoxides.The name is for Dr. Gerhard Jung, who found the mineral. at 425", (loss...the oxidized zone of the Cu-Co deposit of Kolwezi-Kamoto-Musonoi,southern Shaba,Zaire, as nodules (l-10
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
this study are from the Musonoi mine, Shaba Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, and were generously...of Burns et al (1997). For the structure of rutherfordine (Finch et al. 1999), which contains a uranyl...(1999): Refinement of the crystal structure of rutherfordine. Can. Mineral. 37, 929-938. Received October
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...47, 49 rubellite 96 ruby 25 ruby spinel 24 rutherfordine 53 linarite 59, 60 liroconite 74 talc 102...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, for:merly Keeper of Mineralogy...47, 49 rubellite 96 ruby 25 ruby spine! 24 rutherfordine 53 rutile 33, 33 sagenite 33 sanidine 112, 112...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...especially near Ki1nberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimber/ite
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...47, 49 rubellite 96 ruby 25 ruby spinel 24 rutherfordine 53 rutile 33, 33 sagenite 33 sanidine 112...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
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quelques uns des premiers cristaux sur roche de la Mine Premier en Afrique du Sud (sur kimberlite alteree...Une nagyagite {mine d'or arsenicale de Nagyag) s'est payee 122 livres ; une proustite {mine d'argent rouge...a 72 livres a !'exception d'un "grand plateau de mine de plomb verte de Fribourg" paye 300 livres ! Le...livres. Il est precise qu'un "superbe morceau de mine d'antimoine en aiguilles qui reflechissent les plus...region, connue des anciens mineralogistes pour sa mine d'argent decouverte par hasard en 1 76 7 par Marie
Report (volume)
Environmental issues such as coping with uranium mine and mill tailings and other uranium-contaminated...plutonium in nature. J Am Chem Soc 73:3278-3283. Lovley DR, Phillips EJP, Gorby YA, Landau ER 1991 Microbial...Microbial reduction of uranium. Nature 350:413416 Lovley DR, Phillips EJP 1992 Reduction of uranium by Desulfovibrio...containing hexagons The structures of umohoite and rutherfordine (Table 7) contain sheets that have anion topologies... [(UOi)(MoO,J](H 20), P'li/c 6.32 7.50 rutherfordine [(U01)(COi)J Pmm11 4.845 9.205 C (A)
Report (issue)
W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...(M. Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition...Aluminocopiapite NMNH 93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island...the Jarosite American Mineralogist, 12:424-426. Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada Copiapite Tus¬ See reference...20:277-286. Petruk, Larderello, (A. Pelloux, 1921) Mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Mineralogical W. 94172
Journal (issue)
gisement a cessé en 1 9 6 0 , après l'inondatio n de la mine. L'objet de notre exposé n'est pas de dresser un...formation de chevauche­ men ts ; à l'ouest enfin (Kolwezi), on observe des charriages impor­ tants qui font...pou r la l ocalisation d es gîtes c ités. 1 . - Mine de l'Etoile (Lubumbashi) I l s ' a g i t d ' u n...carrière de M sesa est située à proximité de la mine de Kambove. On y a recueilli pri ncipalement des...tous situés aux environs de la ville minière de Kolwezi, aussi les avons nous grou pés dans la même ru
Book (edition)
This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...by Strunz (1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung...arisen with localities in Congo-Zaire: the country, named Democratic Republic of Congo since 1960, was changed...There is also a country called Republic of Congo or simply Congo (capital Brazzaville). Information about
 
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