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


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprosklodowskite
Formula:Cu(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 6H2O
Comments:Incorrectly attributed based on a mislabeled photograph
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprosklodowskite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:213722
Long-form Identifier:1:3:213722:3
GUID (UUID V4):ad97ae12-4532-4fe4-884a-9b7e70b22dfe
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprosklodowskite
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
8.2km (5.1 miles) Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
8.9km (5.5 miles) Kolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
34.7km (21.6 miles) Kalongwe deposit, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
63.0km (39.1 miles) Kasompi Mine, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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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)...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's
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that is popular with collectors is that of the copper minerals. This attractive and challengingly large...wellformed crystals, and exciting localities. Among the copper silicates are such aesthetic minerals as dioptase...an excellent lapidary material. Shattuckite, a copper silicate that represents all three of these attributes...few millimeters in length. It is orthorhombic (2/ 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
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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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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 .. ................. .............................rict. Those mines had been worked for si lver and cobalt for hundreds of years, and by the early part of...Peach Bottom and Fort St. Vrain in the US; Dragon project at Winfrith, UK; and Kimini near Kalpakkam, India
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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...mining industry support) to propose designating copper as the official State metal rather than mineral
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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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Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...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...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than
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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...Mineralogical Society throughout the course of this project, without which it would of America for photographs...Clifford Frondel inspired me to undertake this project, and vvhose encouragernent n1otivated me to finish
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reduction of the primary minerals (the origin of native copper and native silver under the reduction conditions...information. This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jaroslav "venek, who was of extraordinary influence...Elements Copper Copper, 42 mm, Cornwall, UK Cu CUBIC e e e e e Properties: C - light pink to copper-red...massive. Origin and occurrence: Primary hydrothermal copper is mainly related to basic igneous rocks; it is...minerals. The largest accumulations of primary copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior,
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Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...as a drug clerk and chemist for a drug company in West Medford from the late 1880s to the 1900s. He also... Send for price list to W. S. Beekman, Box 108, West Medford, Mass. William S. Beekman’s collection...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved
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Text Box, What are sulfosalts?]. The formula shows copper; we find most analyses find some but Pekov et al...formulation like Ford or Pekov's polybasite lack any copper. As levels are well below Sb except in the arsenpolybasites...Exposition 1305 Memorial Avenue • (1 mile west of 1-91) West Springfield, MA IAugust 11 - 12 - 13, 2006...in addition to sulfur. Many are silver, lead or copper compounds. Two metals are always present in each...is rarely mentioned in many references. The Husky mine in the Yukon Territory near Elsa (Canada) has crystal
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etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G Greenland...book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland;...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts...Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hrucopper and cobalt
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Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc, copper and associated rare metals. Bearing similarities...the Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi...feature is that Tsumeb is iron-poor, which allowed copper ions to remain longer in solution, cementation...its rare copper-zinc minerals; this is mainly a zinc deposit, containing only about 0.035% copper (Mennell
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reduction of the primary minerals (the origin of native copper and native silver under the reduction conditions...information. This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jaroslav "venek, who was of extraordinary influence...Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK Copper Cu CUBIC • • • • • Properties: C light pink to copper-red...minerals. The largest accumulations of primary copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior,...2in) also occur there, as do calcite crystalwith copper inclusions. Superb supergene coppercrystals come
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COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C. P. Connolly in McClure’s Magazine...species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning
Catalog/List
com/5110 87003 CYANOTRICHITE Grandview (Last Chance) Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA Fuzzy... This relatively rare Copper mineral is confined to the “oxide zone” of Copper ore bodies where percolating...Estimate: $800-$1,200 87004 KROEHNKITE Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile...is the Type locality for this rare and soluble Copper mineral and virtually all of the worldwide museum...MALACHITE PSEUDOMORPH after AZURITE New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mts, Ajo District, Pima Co
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Andreas Fault), or pass beneath one another (e.g., west coast of South America). rising granitic magma...P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...deposits Igneous rocks Metamorphic rocks Porphyry copper deposits Pegmatites Precipitation from Aqueous...I ( o p p o s i t e ) Elbaite. Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California. i o-cm crystals. The dramatic...such as iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, or copper, but it is their major element constituents that
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important assignment at the Shinkolobwe uranium mine. His supervisor was Johannes Vaes (1902–1978). Gilbert...Denver with his fabulous cuprites from the Mashamba West mine, Gilbert only hinted to a few people of his...modest specimens, a rare book, or a fine cuprosklodowskite or torbernite. Of course, part of Gilbert’s...area, as indicated on map sheet 79, Karibib, South West Africa (Frommurze et al., 1942). A search of the...northeast. The thin, black circular line to the west and north is the eruptive cone sheet (see geology
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602-299-5274 Promotions Manager Sue Jones 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore...Bookstore Marilee Chiriia, Manager 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Subscriptions........ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................from a single locality: smithsonite from the Kelly mine. Probably ever since the 1860’s, when “Old Hutch”...prepare one for us; it covers not just the Kelly mine but the Mag­ dalena district as a whole. This is
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[Ba(UO2)2V2O8⭈5H2O] from the type locality, the Mounana mine, Franceville, Haute Ogooué, Gabon. See the article...“This is the XYZ mine, and these are pretty pictures of the minerals from that mine.” Lou, however, took...chemistry, crystal system, identifying features, and mine of origin—all without notes. From his huge library...pegmatite phosphates (especially from the Palermo #1 mine in New Hampshire and various mines in the Black...the Shaba region of the Democratic Republic of Congo). The scope of the collection, both in terms of
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Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...(Weibel, 1980). The Maderanertal drainage flows west-southwest from a mountain massif to join the Reuss...medium-submetallic luster (Jahn et al., 2003). NAMIBIA [SOUTH-WEST AFRICA] Erongo Mountains, Damaraland. The igneous
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Coordinators Eastern U.S. Charles & Marcelle Weber 1172 West Lake Ave. Guilford, CT 06437 Subscriptions • Individuals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...to present a paper, please write imme­ diately to Dr. Karen Wenrich, Chairman (U.S.G.S., Mail Stop 905...rent it to outside parties for $500 per day. Contact Dr. Ben K. Sternberg, director of the university’s Laboratory
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points to the junction o f two veins in the Bage mine as the probable type locality fo r both species...Richard Chenevix (1774-1830) in the analysis of copper arsenates from W heal Gorland in Cornwall. The...ctober, 1992 377 Figure 1. The Cromford Moor mine near Mat­ lock, Derbyshire, England (from John M...crystal, 2.5 cm, with fluo­ rite, from the Wallclose mine, Cromford, Der­ byshire. It was sold to Charles...Phosgenite crystal, 1.2 x 2.5 x 4 cm, from the W allclose mine, Cromford, Derby­ shire. Greville collection, now
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the Wessels mine, South Africa ............365 by J. Gutzmer & B. Cairncross The Parker mine, Notre Dame...24, Septem ber-O ctober, 1993 useful medically, Dr. Anderson was not a geologist. Despite this, it is...faults. The Geysers thermal area is located at the west end of a northwesttrending graben 9 km long by 1...wells were drilled between 1921 and 1925, but the project failed for lack of adequate local demand for electric...fall months of 1939 and 1940, Vonsen, together with Dr. John Peoples of Peta­ luma, made many trips to the
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have been undertaken. The initial stages of this project were undertaken by the late Horace Winchell of...(deceased): Dept. of Earth Sciences, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, Indiana. James W. Minette: U. S. Borax...present editor, Philip Manor, without whom this project would never have seen the light of day. Finally...structure: for example, sklodowskite and cuprosklodowskite. 5S. Groups, DIMORPHS AND POLYMORPHS, SYNONYMS...to opaque materials imperfectly metallic Gold, copper, tin The luster of diamond, other materials of
 
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