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Tetradymite from
Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Tetradymite
Formula:Bi2Te2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tetradymite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:249791
Long-form Identifier:1:3:249791:4
GUID (UUID V4):b1d4c94c-0d14-472a-a51e-b02813355e7e
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1976 The Copper Deposits of the O'Okiep District, South Africa: New Data and Concepts E...Ltd., Springbok, 8240, South Africa The copper deposits of the O' okiep District rank amongst the top...extension of the 1200 m.y. Kibaran orogenic belt. Copper mineralization is linked to cross-cutting bodies...exsolution lamellae contain up to 14% ZnO. The copper sulphides occur as granular aggregates with silicates...activities were commenced The Copper Deposits of the O' okiep District ~/'~I Fig. I. Sketch map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WITWATERSRAND, PRIVATE BAG 3, WITS 2050, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA "BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH...UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 'DIVISION OF EARTH, MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE...SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CSIR, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA •DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS...suggest mines have been established in the O'okiep District in the a crustal-melt source for the intrusive...metamorphism in the O'okiep District is The two principal copper-producing areas in South recorded by a Rb-Sr
Book (edition)
colours once they occur in their oxidised states: Copper minerals then show green, blue, and sometimes red...tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native copper and cuprite are less common in this suite. Right...greys distinct fine red specs Altaite yes Tetradymite yes Godlevskite polysynthetic distinct, light...bright green gold-yellow, silver-white (Ag) to copper-red (Cu); 72.26 very light grey with yellowish...92.20 isotropic yes Copper, native gold-yellow, silver-white (Ag) to copper-red (Cu); 82.00 light
Book (edition)
Compounds, Carbides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Silicides Copper I/A.01-10 4 Silver I/A.01-20 6 Gold I/A.01-40 8...Sulphosalts II/A - Alloys and Alloy-like Compounds, with Copper, Silver, Gold and Nickel Algodonite II/A.01-10... Selenium and Tellurium < 1:1, Tellurides with Copper, Silver and Gold Linnaeite II/D.01-20 320 Polydymite...II/D.09-20 360 Paraguanajuatite II/D.09-30 362 Tetradymite II/D.09-60 364 Joséite II/D.11-30 366 Pilsenite...Sb,Bi = x), Sulfosalts with Predominant Iron and Copper x = 2.0 Berthierite II/E.01-10 458 Wittichenite
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...reason of the great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Book
talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...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)...the town of Amsteg, subordinate drainages running south to Val Caverdiras; ilmenite rose-bearing clefts
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
org Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations...million tonnes of ore containing 67 100 tonnes of copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold...different types of Ni-laterite profiles from the northern Caribbean: a geochemical comparison . . ........charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...Geochemistry of the Sakatti magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, northern Finland ....................................
Book
Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
 
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