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Cerussite from
Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cerussite
Formula:PbCO3
Comments:Flawlessly transparent often heart-shaped twins.
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Grootfonteiniteā“˜3 photos of Cerussite associated with Grootfonteinite at this locality.
Jacobsiteā“˜2 photos of Cerussite associated with Jacobsite at this locality.
Copperā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Copper at this locality.
Calciteā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Malachiteā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Roymilleriteā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Roymillerite at this locality.
Rhodochrositeā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Hausmanniteā“˜1 photo of Cerussite associated with Hausmannite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (14 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22728
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22728:1
GUID (UUID V4):a08f5e6a-d33c-47fa-9bf7-0e6dc6066fb2
Nearest other occurrences of Cerussite
11.3km (7.0 miles) ā“˜Auros Farm 595, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
11.9km (7.4 miles) ā“˜Gross Otavi Mine (Gross Otavi prospect), Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
14.9km (9.3 miles) ā“˜Kupferberg Mine, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
24.0km (14.9 miles) ā“˜Uitsab Mine (Uitsab prospect), Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
29.6km (18.4 miles) ā“˜Nosib Mine, Guinas, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
34.7km (21.6 miles) ā“˜Toggenburg Farm 591, Guinas, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
50.8km (31.6 miles) ā“˜Tsumeb West Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
53.6km (33.3 miles) ā“˜Tsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
61.1km (38.0 miles) ā“˜Abenab West Mine, Abenab, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
61.2km (38.0 miles) ā“˜Berg Aukas Mine, Grootfontein Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Kombat mine, Otavi Valley, Grootfontein district, northern Namibia. 25.9 (100), 3.282...1.82 100.00 (1) Kombat mine, Otavi Valley, Grootfontein district, northern Namibia; average of 7 electron...Fe-Mn oxide deposit. Association: Rhodochrosite, cerussite, jacobsite, hausmannite, sahlinite, barite, grootfonteinite...the Kombat mine, Otavi Valley, 49 km south of Tsumeb, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, northern...northern Namibia. Name: Honors Dr. Roy McGillivray Miller (b. 1941) for his contributions to the knowledge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb3O(CO3)2, a new mineral species from the Kombat Mine, Namibia, merotypically related to hydrocerussite...Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Murmansk Region, 184209, Russia Geological Survey of Sweden, Department...Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432, Russia 6 Faculty of Geology, Moscow State...assemblage from the Mn (-Fe) oxide ore unit of the Kombat mine. Grootfonteinite is named after the locality...thick included in and intergrown with massive cerussite. Grootfonteinite is colourless, with white streak
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage from the Kombat Mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia, which includes also...also jacobsite, cerussite, hausmannite, sahlinite, rhodochrosite, barite, grootfonteinite, Mnā€“Fe oxides...Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia 2 Department of Mineral Resources...contributions to the knowledge of the geology of Namibia. Keywords New mineral Ā· Roymillerite Ā· Britvinite...Ā· Crystal structure Ā· IR spectroscopy Ā· Kombat Mine, Namibia 6 Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement
Report (issue)
Diffraction Pattern: Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia. 2.980 (100), 2.794...15 0.94 101.00 (1) Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia; average electron...baryte, cerussite. Distribution: At the Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia...Fennoscandian shield and Africa (including the Kombat mine). Type Material: A.E. Fersman Mineralogical Museum...(Pb32O21)[(V,Si,Mo,As)O4]4Cl9, a new mineral from the Kombat mine and structural classification of layered lead
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia. 3.244 (100), 2.053... 100.00 (1) Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, northern Namibia; average of 10...volcanic-hydrothermal assemblage. Association: Jacobsite, cerussite, dolomite, clinochlore, hausmannite, melanotekite...Distribution: From the Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa region, northern Namibia. Name: For the...the Grootfontein district, in which the mine that provided the first specimens is located. Type Material:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MITT.ƖSTERR.MINER.GES. 148 (2003) THE OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND IN NAMIBIA: TSUMEB, GERMANIUM AND SNOWBALL EARTH...Neoproterozoic carbonate successions in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia, host a large number of polymetallic...Springs deposits, and are compared to the ores of Kombat and Berg Aukas. At Tsumeb, local pockets of germanite...structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...As, Sb, Ag, Ga, Mo, Sn, W and Re. Cu-Pb ores at Kombat and Zn-Pb ore at Berg Aukas generally carry lower
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lead-rich assemblage of minerals from the Kombat mine in Namibia (Chukanov et al. 2017). Roymillerite is...in Stockholm. Associated minerals are baryte, cerussite, iron-manganese oxides, grootfonteinite, hausmannite...associated Kombat mine type-species: grootfonteinite, which occurs mainly within a cerussite groundmass...which occurs in separate bands. The Kombat mine is located in the Otavi Mountainland and has to-date yielded...minerals, the Kombat mine is famous for producing some of the finest known twinned cerussite specimens (Wilson
Book
North TsumebSpecial The Otavi Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House WĀ°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
base metal mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibiaā€”a review and regional interpretation...GĆ¼nzel b a b University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia Ongopolo Mining Ltd., Main Street...Street, P.O. Box 40, Tsumeb, Namibia Received 16 May 2004; accepted 10 April 2006 Available online 4...Sediment-hosted base metal sulfide deposits in the Otavi Mountain Land occur in most stratigraphic units...middle Otavi Group and the uppermost Mulden Group. Deposits like Tsumeb (Pbā€“Cuā€“Znā€“Ge), Kombat (Cuā€“Pbā€“Zn)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although the collection focuses primarily on the Tsumeb mine and the Kalahari manganese field, other ā€œclassicā€...are also represented, such as Klein Spitzkoppe, Kombat, Tschudi, Erongo, Onganja, Berg Aukas, Rosh Pinah...wolframite specimens from the Krantzberg mine close to Omaruru in Namibiaā€”that caught his sonā€™s fancy. During...Beeshoek mine close to Postmasburg in the Northern Cape Province. He also visited Black Rock mine, located...on schorl, 2.9 cm, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Figure 3. There are three exceptional Tsumeb
Report (issue)
Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia) MINISTRY OF MINES...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA Director: B.G. Ho al BULLETIN 1 Type mineralogy of Namibia by Vaughan C. Daltry...the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20.00 R25... ______ ........ Abstract The type mineralogy of Namibia is reviewed. One hundred and thirty-nine (139)...Twenty-three (23) unnamed phases are also listed. Namibia ranks second to Zaire as the most productive African
Report (issue)
from huge salt mines in Lower Silesia, Polandā€”a region which now has come up with two new occurrences...in 2016 in a disused tunnel of the Sieroszowice mine, and the Spirifer website, with typical conscientiousness... Ag, and Pt-group elements. In the Sieroszowice mine, which exploits both halite and Kupferschiefer,...crystals. Halite, 3.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer...=======ļ‚„ Halite, 6.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer
Report (issue)
MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NAMIBIA 1991 Open File Report l\ffi.S 31 2 Abstract Germanium...epigenetic ore bodies of Tsumeb, Kombat and Abenab. The Tsumeb Mine produced germanium in 1922 and from...2. Occurrences 2.1. Germanium 2.1.1. The Tsumeb Mine 2.1.2. Other occurrences 2.2. Gallium 3. References...germanium and gallium, occur in Namibia. These are known as the Tsumeb, Kombat and Abenab Mines (Fig. 1)....The Tsumeb Mine The only mine in Namibia that has ever produced germanium is the Tsumeb Mine. A comprehensive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
44118 janet_clifford@att.net Leadhillite Tsumeb, Namibia O xide-zone minerals present the collector with...carbonates such as azurite, smithsonite, and cerussite. These zones are also known to produce rare secondary...size, such as those found uniquely at Tsumeb, Namibia. The leadhillite discovery at Tsumeb was world...other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There
Catalog/List
LDec~0080xford~--- 4 COBALTIAN SMITHSONITE, Tsumeb, Otavi, Namibia. Rather fine pink lustrous sharp xtls to 4mm...label. 53x45x25mm. Ā£48 8 CUPRITE, Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia. Superb reddish purple xtls to 4mm. Nick...Colln. nx54x40mm. Ā£125 1 AZURITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Bright gemmy blue sprays...superb display from this classic mine. 72x55x34mm. Ā£55 5 WULFENITE, Glove Mine, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA...64x48x24mm. Ā£52 9 LINARITE,BROCHANTITE, Conejo Rampante Mine, Atacama, Chile. Large and richly invested with
Catalog/List
it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably...desert-like "Sperrgebiet" area of the southern coast of Namibia, with its fabulous wealth of gem diamonds. One...Ianā€™s interest stems from the family trips to Namibia, including the mines of Tsumeb. He worked with... 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment point on the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinc-lead deposits in Neoproterozoic units of Namibia: Lead isotopic and geochemical evidence Received:...Skorpion in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia, as well as that of galena from minor occurrences...similar to those found in the wider region of southern Africa (Otavi Mountain Land) and eastern Brazil...provinces in the Otavi Moutain Land in the north and around Rosh Pinah in the south of Namibia being the principal...areas of current mining activities (Fig. 1). In the Otavi Mountain Land, two deposit types have been distinguished
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tracing the metal dynamics in semi-arid soils near mine tailings using stable Cu and Pb isotopes Martin...Tracing the metal dynamics in semi-arid soils near mine tailings using stable Cu and Pb isotopes, Chemical...Tracing the metal dynamics in semi-arid soils near mine tailings using stable Cu and Pb isotopes MA NU...Faculty of Science, University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract...tailing dams near a closed Cu-Pb-(Zn)-Ag mine at Kombat (Namibia) by a combination of isotope and elemental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 05:27 17 August 2017 Tsumeb Mine Namibia BRUCE CAIRNCROSS Department of Geology University...Figure 1 (above). Locality map showing Tsumeb in Namibia; prepared by William Besse. Figure 2 (left).Tsumebite...drusy smithsonite and azurite, 5.5 cm, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. This specimen has been quantitatively verified...zone at the Tsumeb mine. The typespecimens were associated with azurite, cerussite, malachite, and smithsonite...Location and History Tsumeb mine is located in the Oshikoto region of northern Namibia, 363 kilometers north
Book (volume)
Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico,...(Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon, Maharastra...Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Journal (issue)
the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...Nā€˜Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Back...Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Pinarcik, Turkey. (4) Cerussite, Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6)...West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweden (Gabrielson et al., 1958) and the Kombat Mine, Namibia (Criddle et al., 1990) respectively. This...its top. As well as the sulphides, anglesite, cerussite, blixite and mendipite are developed in this narrow...and Dunn, 1990). Lower S in mendipite replacing cerussite than in that replacing anglesite (Table 2) is...replaces both cerussite and anglesite (Fig. 1) but because anglesite extensively replaces cerussite (Fig. 2)...mendipite replacing anglesite 2 mendipite replacing cerussite 3 determined by stoichiometry Blixite 71073 71073
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered more than two hundred years ago in a remote region of what is now central Kazakhstan. The mineral...chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite, and planchtite. Consequently, it...1994). Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922)....planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In...heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zn, Zambia; 28 = Skorpion, Namibia; 29 = Berg Aukas and Abendab, Namibia; 30 = Padaeng (Mae Sot), Thailand;...jasperoid gossan with iron oxides, litharge, and cerussite and lesser plumbojarosite, hemimorphite, and copper... In extremely arid climates, such as those in Namibia (Tsumeb deposit: Lombaard et al., 1986; Hughes...removal of zinc from the system. The Magellan cerussite-anglesite deposit in Australia (8.5 Mt at 7.1%...karst = residual and karst-fill Minerals: Cer = cerussite; Hm = hemimorphite; Gos = goslarite; Hydroz =
Journal (issue)
by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by....439 by S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological...stilbite on the specimens were typical of that region. Bill Birch (1977) similarly encountered cavansite...striking a deal with the quarry owner for the rights to mine specimens. Sparse sprays of cavansite encountered
 
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