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Cordierite from
George, George Local Municipality, Garden Route District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Cordierite
Formula:(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cordierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view George, George Local Municipality, Garden Route District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:259311
Long-form Identifier:1:3:259311:1
GUID (UUID V4):f9e9887a-9bf5-4e43-93c5-11f248edf026
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level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum;...Australian Gold: Top row from left: • 6 cm, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman...Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff Scovil photo. Middle...from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection; John Chapman...Chapman photo. • 1.4 cm, Chapman’s Gully, South Australia. South Australian Museum collection; Jeff Scovil
Corporate Document (Series)
Geology and major deposits, Heazlewood mineral district ... Main mineral locations and 1:100 000 scale...... ... Main mineral locations, northwest and western Tasmania Main mineral locations, Waratah area ...with the Department of Mines, who passed it on to George Everard and then to Bill Baker (both Department...Kara (Sorrell and Bottrill, 2005). Zeolites of western Tasmania were reviewed by Sutherland and Bottrill...sills, equivalent to those in Antarctica and South Africa. This dolerite is also mostly unmineralised
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ed. In the Australian literature, as in that of Africa and New Zealand. we are dealing with a regional...GERJIAIXX A. JOPLIW and many of her colleagues, and Dr. GEORGE T. FAUST, who have generously contributed time...__ Report (Queensland) ( 1936-) . ----I Report (Western Australia) (1935-). Australasian Association for...Territory of Papua, Bulletin (1913-1921). ;?;EW SOUTH WALES Sustralian Museum, Memoir (1831-). -, Miscellaneous...(1890_). Linnean Societ,y of Sew South Wales, Proceedings (lS76-). Sew South Wales Department of Mines, Annual
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Socialist Republic N.T. N.Y. Neb. Nev. Scotia South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories ...Socialist Republic South Australia Ind. Indiana S.C. South Carolina Kan. S.D. South Dakota Ky. Kansas...Vermont W.A. W.Va. Western Australia British Mich. N.J. N.M. Columbia District of Columbia New...(Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa T2- -429 27 T2- -412 35 : T2- -687 15 District) Aberdeen Angus cattle...Abiogenesis Abitibi (Quebec Regional County Municipality) T2- -666 8 371.254 153.93 371.26 658.311 25
Report (Issue volume)
usually has a field leader who is acquainted with local deposits and collecting areas. A list of amateur...Toronto Studies, Geological Series. \Vestern Homes-Western Homes and Living (The Mitchell Press Ltd., Vancouver)...Bathurst Area 4. Tobique River 5. Napadogan 6. Lake George 7. Washademoak Lake lZ AREAS, NEW BRUNSWICK 8...Hillsborough Area 10. St. Stephen Area 11. St. George 12. St. John 13. Markhamville 14. Grand Manan Island...and about 10 miles southwest of Bathurst. Proceed south from Bathurst along the Little River road for a
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minerals using density functional theory and the local density approximation, 589 ABDEL-RAHMAN,A.-F.M....hydrothermal environment, Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica, 429 A c t i v e g e o t h e...greenschist-amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks from the western Tauern Window (Eastern Alps), 641 A1,Si order,...of hydrogen feldspar, 15 Amphibolites, from the western Tauern Window (Eastern Alps), and P-T deformation...sulphate-type epithermal system on Barton Peninsula, King George Island, 429 Antimony, -rich titanite in the manganese
Report (issue)
amazonite, the beryl varieties, chrysocolla, cordierite, dioptase, dumortierite, pyrophyllite, the...of the Abenab Subgroup of the Damara Sequence. Cordierite, garnet and ''Tiger' s Eye" occur in metamorphic...3. Heliodor 2.4. Morganite 3. Chrysocolla 4. Cordierite 5. Dioptase 6. Dumortierite 7. Gamet 7.1. Almandine...are those in pegmatites on the farm Okanjande 145 south of Otjiwarongo. The amazonite is usually medium...scale to the north of Rossing Siding, Swakopmund District (Martin, 1965). The mineral has also been reported
Book
Bahia state, and from Rio and Sao Paulo further South, the pioneers made their way to the Jequitinhonha...colonial link between Brazil and Goa, on India’s south-west coast, proved a profitable one for the first...had eclipsed India, so a new colonial upstart, South Africa, in turn put Brazil in the shade, around 1866...abundance but which attracted little attention in the local or world market until the Second World War. As...Brazil had been Europe. In Brazil, until 1940, local stones of outstanding beauty were neglected in favour
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamorphosed Zn-Pb occurrences (Fable Lake, George, Sito South, Sito Southwest, Sito West, Sito East, Robyn...formation of the Gamsberg Zn (South Africa), Kanmantoo Group Pb-Zn (South Australia), and Sullivan Pb-Zn...facies. The largest of these occurrences is the George Lake deposit (7.8 Mt at 4% Zn + Pb, 2% Zn cutoff;...results of drilling, Coombe (1994) estimated that the George Lake prospect contains as much as 15 Mt of combined...Fig. 1). Comparisons between the Foster River and George Lake deposits have been drawn by several researchers
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The extraordinary George Frederick Kunz ...... p. 12 Black Rock Mine, South Africa EFMLS: Annual business...our speaker Thomas Hale for dinner at the Olive Garden on October 28 at 6 p.m. Hematite has been used...its suffix. Olive Garden, Baileys Cross Roads (across from Skyline Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting...huge hunk of banded iron formation outside the south entrance of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum...are an interesting addition to any collection. South Africa’s Wessels Mine has produced stunning hematite
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book, correcting errors too numerous to count; George Rossman, John Rakovan, and Federico Pezzotta offered...amethyst source emerged in the Auvergne region in south-central France, approximately corresponding to the...were looking for an eligible bride for their king (George III of American Revolution fame) to ensure the...amethyst, 17 cm tall Onyang, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea Stuart Wilensky specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...brines Long prismatic, some scepters Onyang, South Korea Nekemte, Ethiopia Brandberg, Namibia Cavities
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OF GARNET IN THE PENINSULA GRANITE, CAPE GRANITE SUITE, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS ON MELTING AND EMPLACEMENT...Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701 email: chris.harris@uct.ac...Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701 email: jacques.vogeli@uct...Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Garnet is an accessory mineral in the Cape Granite Suite, and...high end of the range previously observed for the Cape Granite Suite. These high 18O values are consistent
Journal (issue)
251 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia District, Arizona by George Robinson ..............................charges. foreign payments remittance may be made in local currency, without surcharge, to the following people:...Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...also carry various other Southwest African and South African species. I noted an interesting offer on...the RAMADA INN of Clark, New Jersey; Exit 135, Garden State Parkway SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (In the Camelot
Report (issue)
97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia Ann P. Sabina 2015 Ann P....COLLECTOR: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia Ann P. Sabina 2015 i ©Her...........................1 COLLECTING ALONG THE ROUTE...........................................................................................17 St. George granite quarries..............................................................................67 Cape Spencer mine...................................
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was found at Stevens Creek Diggings, Andamooka, South Australia, and was recovered in 1946 from a depth...Melbourne, and presented to Her Majesty by the South Australian Government at a state banquet in Adelaide...of loyalty and appreciation from the people of South Australia 23 M a r c h 1954". T h e brooch was presented...cleavage. T h e euclase found in the rich mineral district around O u r o PrĂŞto has different colours that...some fifty miles south of Lake Nyasa, close to the frontier of Portuguese East Africa. Dr. Bloomfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of S- and I-type granitoids: the Cape Granite suite, South Africa Chris Harris a**, Kevin Faure a~1...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa b Department of Geology, Vniuersity...Vniuersity of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa Received 25 October 1996; accepted 22 July 1997 ...The Late Precambrian Cape Granite suite of the southwestern Cape, South Africa, can be subdivided into...chemical composition. Quartz and feldspar from the Cape granites have S180 values which range from 8.6 to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECLOGITE INCLUSION FROM CANIC NECK IN SOUTH E CAPE PATERSON VOLTPPSLAND, VICTORIA R, Gnoncp B U niaersity...inclusions in volcanic necks or pipes. fro,m New South Wales: one or two ha E. F. Pittman (11) describedvolcani...miles east Brook, and from four and a half in New South Wales were recorded f of Warialda, from 3 miles...described an ejected block of pyroxenite from the Western District pf Victoria as consisting of dark y regarded...from a pipe on the Snowy River in the Benambra District. It is describedas a coarse-grainedmixture of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O U T H AFRICA G.A.D. ZELT* University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 3200, Natal (South Africa) (Received...Granulite-facies metamorphism in Namaqualand, South Africa. Precambrian Res., 13: Namaqualand is the site...t h e n o r t h w e s t e r n p a r t o f t h e Cape Province, R e p u b l i c o f S o u t h A f r i...r o m investigations in t h e N a b a b e e p District, B e n e d i c t et al. ( 1 9 6 4 ) d e f i n...Durban-Westville, 4000, ])urban, South Africa. 254 c-~ NAMBIA SOUTH AFRICA I~,_~ J CAPE PROVINCE STUDY see
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
suitable for formation of sapphirine-bearing cordierite gneisses. A low Fe, Ca and Mg content of the...i m granitoids (present paper). 4. Sapphirine-cordierite-bearing rocks (average of 10 analyses from Table...o n a p a h a r area (Lal et al., 1978 ). 7. Cordierite-bearing granulitic gneiss from S o n a p a h...stratigraphic horizon. In addition, sapphirine-bearing cordierite gneiss occurs in close proximity. Though the...the paragenesis of the sapphirine-cordierite-bearing assemblages in granulitic terranes often results from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
-x ARTICLE The O’okiep Copper District, Namaqualand, South Africa: a review of the geology with emphasis...Abstract The O’okiep Copper District is the oldest formal mining area in South Africa. Between 1852 and 2002...Suite. Almost all of the copper in the O’okiep District occurs in the Koperberg Suite, of which there...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: tom.clifford@wits.ac.za ore) that,...setting The regional setting of the O’okiep Copper District is shown in Fig. 1. The Richtersveld Subprovince
Book (volume)
Parker Cleaveland, John Webster, Nathan Perry, and George Kunz, all of whom were important in Maine mineralogy... is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North America. Its wealth of tourmalines, morganites...sometimes inflated price attached to a specimen is local pride and perhaps the lack of awareness that the...West Farmington, Maine Dennis Creaser, South Paris, Maine George Crooker, Andover, Maine Robert Thomas...Groves, Poland, Maine Rodney Hamden, Phillips, Maine George Harlow, New York, New York Darran Harvey, Carmel
Report (volume)
Transactions. Ottawa. S. Dak. Acad. Sci. Proc.-South Dakota Academy of Science Proceedings. Vermillion...Vermillion, S. Dak. S. Dak. Geol. Survey Rept. Inv.-South Dakota Geological Survey Report of Investigations....Academy of Sciences Journal. Washington, D. C. Western Miner. Vancouver, British Columbia. Wilson BulL-Wilson..., May 1955. Abrassart, Chester P. (and Clough, George Arthur, Jr.). Juniper Mountain area, Colorado,...of zinc-lead ore in the WisconsinIllinois-Iowa district: Min. Eng., v. 7, no. 8, p. 781-795, illus. incl
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225 Akrochordite, New Jersey, 235 Aldermanite, South Australia, new mineral, 59 ALDERTON, D. H. M. and...partition with glass, 157 ALLEN, A. R., hydrous cordierite, 63 Amphibole, India, pargasite-rich rock, I...Central Australia, Strangways Range, hydrous cordierite, 63; South Australia, Mocuha, aldermanite, 59; Reedy...Victoria, Meerschaum Mine, silver sulphosalts, 73; Western Australia. Kambalda, hydrohonessite, 333 Awaruite... and K in charnockite granite intrusion, 409 Cordierite. Ireland, geothermometer and geobarometer, 183;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
317 Geological History of Ad61ie Land and King George V Land, Antarctica: Evidence for a Polycyclic Metamorphic...1989. Geological history of Ad~lie Land and King George V Land, Antarctica: evidence for a polycyclic metamorphic...and structural studies in Ad~lie Land and King George V Land, East Antarctica, show that this part of...recognition of these three metamorphic events. The Cape Denison orthogneiss in Commonwealth Bay was intruded...the major ductile deformation phases and M2. The Cape Denison orthogneiss therefore only suffered the
 
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