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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rhodonite
Formula:CaMn3Mn[Si5O15]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Johninnesiteⓘ3 photos of Rhodonite associated with Johninnesite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22799
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22799:9
GUID (UUID V4):3c4ba0a9-97f1-4a8a-a67b-d2e1ba3e9918
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sodium manganese arsenosilicate from the Kombat Mine, Namibia PETE J. DUNN Department of Mineral Sciences...associated with rhodonite, kentrolite, and richterite, from the Kombat Mine in Namibia. Johninnesite has...distinct. KEYWORDS: johninnesite, new mineral, Kombat Mine, Namibia. OVER the last ten years, a remarkable suite...minerals has been encountered at the K o m b a t Mine in Namibia. M a n y of these rare species and their assemblages...mineralogy, particularly to the mineralogy of Tsumeb and Kombat. The species and the name were approved by * Permanent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
double wollastonite silicate chains, from the Kombat mine, Namibia Robert T. Downs1, William W. Pinch2, Richard...been found on a specimen from the Kombat mine, Otavi Valley, Namibia. Associated minerals are melanotekite...been found on a specimen from the Kombat mine, Otavi Valley, Namibia. It is named yangite to honor the...was found on a single specimen from the Kombat mine, Namibia, in the collection of the late John Innes...of the geology and mineralogy of the Tsumeb and Kombat mines with a mineral name, johninnesite (cf. Innes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new manganesehydroxyl-carbonatefrom the Kombat mine' Namibia DoN.lLo R. Pnacon, Entc J. EssnNe, Ror....Holdawayite is a new mineral occurring at the Kombat mine, Namibia. The chemical analysisis MgO 4.4, MnO 64...abundant pink carbonatewas found in the Kombat mine in Namibia in 1982 but could not be identified as...the Kombat mine, 37 km east of Otavi and 49 km south of Tsumeb, Namibia. The geologyof the mine was describedby...stope on I I level of the Asis West sector of the mine. The original sampleswere collected on August 2
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
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 W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science
Report (issue)
064(6) c = 9.62(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kombat mine, Namibia. 2.676 (100), 9.8 (60), 3.23 (60), 5.99...100.8 100.00 40.94 7.75 2.98 2.60 (1) Kombat mine, Namibia; by electron microprobe, total As as As2...Kentrolite, rhodonite, richterite, barite, calcite. Distribution: From the Kombat mine, 49 km south...south of Tsumeb, Namibia. Name: Honors John Innes, mineralogist of the Tsumeb Corporation, for his contributions...contributions to the mineralogy of the Tsumeb and Kombat mines. Type Material: National Museum of Natural
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
Journal (issue)
the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘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...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special
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
Report (issue)
737 ® = 92:81 ± X-ray Powder Pattern: Tanohata mine, Japan. 3.559 (100), 7.13 (47), 3.078 (45), 6.70...0.98 3.12 1.50 0.20 99.36 100.25 (1) Tanohata mine, Japan; by electron microprobe, Li and H2O by wet...Fe0:01 )§=3:96 Si 5:02 O 14:00 (OH)1:00 : (2) Kombat mine, Namibia; corresponds to (Na 0:61 Li 0:40 ) §=1:01...the ore (Tanohata mine, Japan). Association: Aegirine, manganoan arfvedsonite, rhodonite, k^o zulite, marsturite...(Tanohata mine, Japan); gypsum, brushite, cahnite, chlorite, kentrolite, barite, calcite (Kombat mine, Namibia)
Report (issue)
friedelite, pyrochroite, franklinite, willemite, rhodonite, datolite, axinite, jarosewichite, samfowlerite...natronambulite, gypsum, barite, calcite (Kombat mine, Namibia); svabite, magnetite, sphalerite, garnet...Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA. In the Klodeborg mine, Arendal, Norway. At Capo di Bove, and Vallerano...Rome, Lazio, Italy. In the Kombat Cu–Pb–Ag mine, 49 km south of Tsumeb, Namibia. In the Killik, Hisarcık
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...common forms seen from most nearby localities in the region. Solid, botryoidal malachite samples are currently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and are developed in calcitic marbles at the Fuka mine. Depending on initial composition of carbonate rocks...jimboite from the Higashi–Konako orebody from the Rito mine, the Tochigi prefecture (from foundations of the...Washington, US) and takedaite from † Deceased the Fuka mine, Okayama prefecture (from collection of I.V. Pekov...of boron observed in the suanite from the Neichi mine was possibly caused by the partial replacement by...analysis (Table 3). The kotoite from the Neichi mine has low iron mole fraction and low contents of manganese
Book
REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
Journal (issue)
the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains in the Manyara Region, about 70 km...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...of the town of Brandberg, Daures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia. The occurrence was discovered in...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson
Journal (issue)
reserved. Front cover • Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
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...Ian’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 (issue)
which can be visited during the summer months, some mine dumps are still accessible for collecting, and an...years, having first been noted in 1667 by local mine inspector and prospector Anders Malm [Malm is the...upper dumps along with the Nya Schaktet [New Shaft] mine at Långban [photo Erik Jonsson/ mindat. org] 7...Amerika, Hindenberg, and Japan gruvan’s [‘gruva’ is a mine in Swedish] brought their last ore buckets to the...Hill New Jersey USA, Garpenberg Sweden, and Kombat, Namibia. They originated as volcanogenic exhalative
Catalog/List
ARSENIOSIDERITE orange brown crusts on Hidalgoite (Gold Hill Mine Tooele County Utah USA) lxl f2.5O lx2 f5.OO 2x2...purple-brown crystalline masses (Colebrook Hill Mine,Roseberry, Tasmania) lxl fl.5O lx2 f3 2x2 f6.OO...BOKITE black to dark brown masses (Monumnt No 2 Mine Apache County 1/2 x 1/2 f3.5O lxl f5 C266 DEFERNITE...(BORON) pink cleavage in of otavi, Namibia) lem grey HAUSMANNITE (Kombat f3.5O C267 BUSTAMITE excellent...C269 CHABAZITE good covering location. (Ramsley Mine lxl fl.5O lx2 f3 of glassy micros Devon) 2x2 f6
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Hausmannite N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape Province...specimen of hausmannite on andradite, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Steve Smale...some fine hausmannite was made at N’Chwaning II mine. The crystals are typically pseudo-octahedral pagoda...N’Chwaning II mine. The habit is the now-familiar pagoda shape typical of the material from this region. But the...of 2 cm are common, and in 1996 the N’Chwaning II mine produced large crystals to 7.5 cm on edge. The Kalahari
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
image, 10 kV. (b) Detailed view of the central region of spessartine crystal in (a). Pigl.6, BSE, 10...an unnamed phase from the Mn ores at the Kombat mine, Namibia (Dunn et al. 1988). Turtmannite is relatively...from the lower greenschist facies (e.g., Kombat mine, Namibia; Innes & Chaplin 1986) to the granulite...tephroite-bearing rocks from the Hoskins manganese mine, New South Wales, Australia. Neues Jahrb. Mineral...mcgovernitelike mineral and leucophoenicite from the Kombat mine, Namibia. Am. Mineral. 73, 1182-1185. Mucke, A.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Rhodonite Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 20:02 10 July...introduced to the hobby through the lapidary arts, rhodonite may well have been the first pink mineral with...from only a relatively few occurrences. Although rhodonite [CaMn4Si5O15] would seem easy enough to identify...identify, much material initially considered to be rhodonite based on sight identification may not be, for...associated. Classic localities for fine crystallized rhodonite specimens include Franklin and Sterling Hill,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leucophoeniclte rncgovernite-1i.ke 1182 from the Kombat mine, Namibia, 632' 838' 888 Dunn, P.J., see Peacor, D...pyroxene-beari.ng quartz syenite gnei.ss from the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains, 26I Paces, J.8., see...new manganese hydroxyl-carbonate from the Kombat mine, Namibia, 632 Peacor, D.R,, R.C. Rouse, S.W. Bailey:...J.A. Nelen: Defernite from the Kornbat rnine. Namibia: A second occurrence. structure refinement, and...on the crystal structures of pyroxmangite and rhodonite, 798 Pinckney, L.R., C.l^r. Burnham: High-temperature
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[100], Z = c. Lithiomarsturite occurs at the Foote mine in North Carolina as l- to 3-mm-diameter euhedralcrystals(forms...number of speciesthus far recognizedat the Foote mine exceeds100 and is still growing. Of thesethere are...in the "tertiary stage" paragenesis at the Foote mine. The elementsthat are most prevalent, in addition...virtually colorless.In one specimen lithpany's spodumene mine (commonly called the Foote iomarsturite is accompanied...00 409 The mineral described here from the Foote mine in North Carolina was called to our attention by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2) are isomorphic. Nambulite from the Funakozawa mine, Iwate, Japan, was first defined as a new species...crystal structure of nambulite from the Funakozawa mine and emphasized its close relation to that of babingtonite...discovered as an independent mineral from the Tanohata mine, Iwate, Japan (Matsubara et al. 1985). Mukhopadhyay...from the Kombat mine, Namibia (von Knorring et al. 1978; Dunn 1991), from the Cerchiara mine, Italy (Balestra... nambulite was discovered from the Fianel Fe-Mn mine, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland (Nagashima
 
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