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


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Comments:Also present as an inclusion in quartz (Cairncross et al 1995)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz26 photos of Copper associated with Quartz at this locality.
Ajoite21 photos of Copper associated with Ajoite at this locality.
Hematite6 photos of Copper associated with Hematite at this locality.
Shattuckite2 photos of Copper associated with Shattuckite at this locality.
Papagoite1 photo of Copper associated with Papagoite at this locality.
Epidote1 photo of Copper associated with Epidote at this locality.
Chalcotrichite1 photo of Copper associated with Chalcotrichite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20328
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20328:1
GUID (UUID V4):b0a3352d-d074-4b63-8c9c-0273adbec834
Localities for Copper 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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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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...from the South African locality. Ajoite (pronounced ah-ho-ite) is a hydrous aluminum copper phyllosilicate...Schaller and Vlisidis (1958) and named after the Ajo district where it was found. They characterized the species
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Potentially Toxic Chemical Species at an Abandoned Copper Mine Tailings Dump Wilson Mugera Gitari 1,2, *...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...transfer from tailings to the aqueous phase. Keywords: copper tailings dump; leaching; pH; mobility; chemical
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related to polymetamorphism in the Limpopo Complex, South Africa D.D. Van Reenen a , R. Boshoff a,⁎,...Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa b Department of Petrology, Geological Faculty...Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogologvka, Moscow district, 142432, Russia d Isotope Laboratory for Geology...Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, South Africa f Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...the Central Zone (CZ) of the Limpopo high-grade terrain in South Africa. Together, these two important
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Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa; francis.dacosta@univen.ac.za Department of...Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa; armstrong.kadyamatimba@univen.ac.za Correspondence:...entries in the areas of Giyani and Musina, Limpopo Province of South Africa. This paper gives details of the...Problems of Abandoned Mines and the Case Study In South Africa, abandoned mines are referred to as those mines...Giyani and Musina areas, Limpopo Province of South Africa. The areas of Giyani and Musina are characterized
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meta-pyroxenite from the central zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa M. Keeditse and H.M. Rajesh Department...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: gbelyanin@gmail.com M. Fukuyama Graduate...Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: tsunogae@geol.tsukuba.ac.jp © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa...high-grade metamorphic Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa, delineated meta-peridotite, meta-pyroxenite...hydrous parental magma in the Archaean mantle. SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2016 • VOLUME 119.4 PAGE
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metamorphic events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa L.L. Perchuk a,b,c , D.D. van Reenen...Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 142432, Russia Department of Geology, University...Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 11 September 2006; accepted 3 September...different D/M events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo high-grade (HG) terrain, which previously had been...data with the following conclusion: the CZ of the Limpopo Complex was subjected to three superimposed tectono-metamorphic
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Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride complex, southern Africa H.M. Rajesh, G.A. Belyanin, O.G. Safonov, C. Vorster...Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride complex, southern Africa. Lithos (2018), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.10.004...Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride Complex, southern Africa PT H.M. Rajesh1,* rajesh.hm@biust.ac.bw, G.A...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy...Bridge Complex terrane PT of the Limpopo Complex, southern Africa. The Singelele leucogranite is magnesian
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and implications for the formation of porphyry copper 623 EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Vol...2016 Uranium isotope composition of waters from south Texas uranium ore deposits—Christa J. Placzek, Jeffrey...hydrothermal imprint on Musina copper deposits, Limpopo Province, South Africa: Evidence for a breccia...Franchini, Agnes Impiccini, and David Lentz JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCE Vol. 70, 2016 The Itataia...Carlos Villaseca Copper isotopic signature of the Tiegelongnan high-sulfidation copper deposit, Tibet:
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County, Arizona. Dick Morris specimen. Figure 7. Copper dendrite (1.2 cm tall) from Mill River, Williamsburg...example of dendritic crystals. The native metals copper (fig. 7), silver, and gold (fig. 8) often display...cube faces from the Belshazzar mine, Quartzburg district, Boise County, Idaho. Carl Francis specimen. ...of pyrite from the Belshazzar mine, Quartzburg district, Boise County, Idaho. Carl Francis specimen. ...twin of quartz (12.8 cm) from Mahaiza, Betafo district, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Carl Francis
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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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al. [13] present the case of copper mine wastes from Musina in South Africa. After a characterization of...contrary, in developed countries such as Canada, local regulation obliges every closed mine site to be...Efficacy of Organic Acids for the Dissolution of Copper and Arsenic from Legacy Mine Tailings. Minerals...Potentially Toxic Chemical Species at an Abandoned Copper Mine Tailings Dump. Minerals 2018, 8, 64. [CrossRef]
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Our thanks go to the Geological Society of South Africa and Assmang Limited for making Nic’s visit possible...around the world from countries such as Brazil, South Africa and Australia. Siderite: Composition: FeCO3...The Sebakwean Group, which is exposed some 27km south-west of Redcliff, and the Shamvaian Group 10km to...2014 plunge gently both to the north-west and south-east. The Bulawayan Group comprises the following... Ultramafic intrusions. Faulted Contact (Minor local unconformity?) Redcliff Jaspilite Formation Felsitic
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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...several small prospects were found that contained copper sulfides. In exploring Kelsey Canyon (Lohman Canyon...prospect containing some tetrahedrite and secondary copper minerals. In addition, we also found a small silverbismuth...reviewing our 772-minute quadrangle map and the local geology, we concluded that Kelsey Canyon was not
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