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Chalcocite from
Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Comments:Also present as an inclusion in quartz (Cairncross et al 1995)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz5 photos of Chalcocite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Malachite3 photos of Chalcocite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Cuprite1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20324
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20324:5
GUID (UUID V4):311770ac-8e0c-4efd-ad58-fe66028394f4
Localities for Chalcocite in this Region
Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Messina Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
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Venda, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou, Limpopo 0950, South Africa; rthobakgale@gmail.com Department of...Venda, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou, Limpopo 0950, South Africa; segun.akinyemi@eksu.edu.ng Department...disposed mine tailings abound in several regions of South Africa, as a consequence of unregulated, unsustainable... Minerals 2018, 8, 64 2 of 18 1. Introduction South Africa has a long history of mining activities dating...projects ensuring employment generation [2]. In South Africa, the majority of the tailings are gold tailings
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Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t...quartz originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed...Messina but was renamed Musina after the 1994 political dispensation in South Africa. The registered mine...a fine example of material originating from the South African locality. Ajoite (pronounced ah-ho-ite)...Schaller and Vlisidis (1958) and named after the Ajo district where it was found. They characterized the species
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Locality map of the Albert Silver mine, Mpumalanga, South Africa, prepared by William Besse. Downloaded by [The...Mine and TRIPPKEITE Occurrence Mpumalanga South Africa Figure 3. Plan of the underground workings...Department of Water Affairs PO Box 1745 Bela Bela, South Africa meulenbeldp@dwa.gov.za Department of Geology...Pretoria Private Bag X20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028 South Africa wiebke.grote@up.ac.za XRD Analytical & Consulting...75 Kafue Street Lynnwood Glen Pretoria 0081 South Africa sabine.verryn@xrd.co.za Downloaded by [The
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Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .....................................by pack animal and then by truck to one of the local smelters. Working these small, silver-bearing deposits...reviewing our 772-minute quadrangle map and the local geology, we concluded that Kelsey Canyon was not...since our research said the Outlaw mine was 1 km south of the Red Bird Toquima. After taking several pictures...Mumme (1981) based on materia from the AW mine, New South Wales. Benjaminite from this locality contains no
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net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia .....................in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa .......................... 461...staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington on October 1, 1957, as Assistant Scientific... and he was in constant demand as a speaker at local clubs and societies. Three of his most popular talks--delivered...to his poor health. Bob was involved in numerous local organizations, and also served as a member of the
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vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...terms of business licenses and dealing with the local authorities. The core concepts of the Mineral Market...public, Bart was able to secure some publicity in local media. For example, in 2009, the Mineral Market...advocate of a minerals-only venue that would give local collectors a place to sell their field-collected...and the various medical and social associations, local authorities and businesses that could help them
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Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”...Ortelius was the first to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ‘if comparisons are made between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is clear that different areas in...Kontinente und Ozeane, Alfred Wegener considered South America, Africa, India and Australia as the main parts of
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talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl)
Book (volume)
Papers and Discussions Volume I , I JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY 1961... 01", ~TALLUf>iYY. © Copyright 1961 by The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Ext'racts...I (1v DEC 196f Printed in t!te Republic of South Africa by Hortors Limited, Johannesburg V r. 1 The...and n1anagement of the gold mining industry in South Africa -C. B. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . page r J ... ( 2. The economy of the Union of South Africa-W. J. BusSCI-IAU 9 3. An introduction to the physical
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that is, the dividing lines in the table represent local or widespread uplifts or depressions of the earth's...Paso, Tex., to Mescal, Ariz ___________________ South line from El Paso, Tex., to Mescal, Ariz____________--__-Mescal... N. Mex. (north line), and Malpais, " N. Mex. (south line)..________.._.___._._________ 82 86 96 102...Mex. (north line), and Arena to Hachita, N. Mex. (south line)__.._-__-_..___..________ 20. Separ, N. Mex...line), and Minero, N. Mex., to Perilla, Ariz. (south line)___________________________ ui 144 154 IV
 
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