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Chalcocite from
Messina Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3 photos of Chalcocite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Malachite3 photos of Chalcocite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Cuprite1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Messina Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:261920
Long-form Identifier:1:3:261920:0
GUID (UUID V4):2cb24bae-20fc-49d3-be36-d4bfadd2063f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t...originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed was originally...originally named Messina but was renamed Musina after the 1994 political dispensation in South Africa. The registered...registered mine name remains Messina.) Since the early 1950s, the Messina mine has produced spectacular...original type-locality specimens from the New Cornelia mine, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Locality map of the Albert Silver mine, Mpumalanga, South Africa, prepared by William Besse. Downloaded... The ALBERT Silver Mine and TRIPPKEITE Occurrence Mpumalanga South Africa Figure 3. Plan of the...the underground workings at the Albert Silver mine based on Van Zijl (1965), prepared by William Besse...Department of Water Affairs PO Box 1745 Bela Bela, South Africa meulenbeldp@dwa.gov.za Department of Geology...Pretoria Private Bag X20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028 South Africa wiebke.grote@up.ac.za XRD Analytical & Consulting
Journal (issue)
0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
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Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...as exsolution occurs, evidenced by lamellae of chalcocite, chalcopyrite, and digenite. As the temperature...quartz veins in pegmatites. Bornite may alter to chalcocite, digenite, acanthite, chalcopyrite, and covellite...been found as intergrowths with chalcopyrite, chalcocite, wittichenite, linnaeite, digenite, covellite...cm across and associated with quartz, calcite, chalcocite, and pyrite. For silver collectors as well as
Journal (issue)
net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia .....................quartz in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa .........................know, we supplied a DVD on the famous Pederneira mine with the May-June issue. This DVD is a supplement...staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington on October 1, 1957, as Assistant Scientific... and he was in constant demand as a speaker at local clubs and societies. Three of his most popular talks--delivered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
An UnusualHydrothermal CopperDepositat Messina, South Africa J. B. E. JACOBSEN' ANDT. S. •{CCARTHY Abstract...ne passingthrough the Artonvilla mine. The orebodiesin the district include breccia pipes, fissure deposits...the latter being best developedin the Artonvilla mine, where four separatelodesare developed. The EmeryLodeis...outer pyrite, through chalcopyriteand bornite, to chalcocite and occasional nativecopperzonesat the center...sequenceof complexly foldedmetasediments of the Limpopo Group. Table 1 showsa broad outline of the regional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper-Bearing Breccia Pipes of the Messina District South Africa J. B. E. Jacobsen and T. S. McCarthy...Johannesburg, South Africa G. J. Laing The Messina (Tvl.) Development Company (Pry.) Limited, Messina, South...South Africa The Messina Copper Mines comprise a group of breccia pipes, disseminated replacement andfissure...emplaced within high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Limpopo mobile belt. Breccia pipes as well as associated...downwards to chaleopyrite-bornite and then bornite-chalcocite at deeper levels. The nature of the fragmentation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlin, R. M., 1974, Geology of the Council Rock district, Socorro Country, New Mexico: M.S. thesis, Nexv...Geology and ore deposits of the Magdalena mining district, New Mexico: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 200...thehighlydeformed, granulitegrade metamorphic rocks of the Limpopo Mobile The Messinacopperdepositshavebeenthe subject...deposits, villa mineat the easternextremityof the district,all of the samples.Basedlargelyon investigations...Sample 74-M-3 Mine• Artonvilla Generation• Late 74-M-23 Artonvilla Very 74-M-5 Messina Early Mineral
Journal (issue)
M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
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southwest of the Rhodesian cration and north of the Limpopo mobile belt. Stratigraphic, structural and lead...equivalent to the Shashi metasediments in the Limpopo belt. There is strong evidence that the Matsitama...a shallow-water facies that occurs only in the Limpopo area. There is no structural evidence that the...There is a major ductile shear zone of F 4 age, south of which F 4 folds are tight, while to the north...belt to the east and in the northern part of the Limpopo mobile belt. Lead isotope evidence suggests that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exposed to near-surface weathering environments: chalcocite and the somewhat less abundant covellite. Both...discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite has been featured in...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent chalcocite pseudomorphs...description of the fundamental chemistry of covellite, chalcocite, and related secondary copper minerals and of...sulfide minerals or intimately associated with chalcocite in a somewhat sooty, fracture-filling mixture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
replacementcopperorebodiesknown as the Artonvilla mine, Messina,South Africa. Gangue and ore minerals exhibit a distinct...ecularite-born- ite-chalcocite to goethite-prehnite-albite-chlorite-chalcocite-native copperassemblages...on in the Emery Lode copper deposit, Artonvilla mine, was described to speculariteand finally goeth...goethite-bearingassemblagesin the centralparts. The bornite-and chalcocite-bearing portionsform completely closedenvelopes...estimated, inwardby chalcopyrite, bornite,and chalcocite zones and the average compositionsof the various
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
latter model and country rocks at Artonvilla mine, South Africa: Inst. Mining Metallurgy Trans., v. 83,...isotopes,D/H hydrothermal copper deposit at Messina, South Africa: ratios are in the magmaticrange, 8•4S looks...Elder observednearly two thousandyears ago, "Ex Africa semperaliquid novi." ADDITIONAL GEOCHEMICAL TRANSFAAL...copper-bearingbreccia pipes of the Messina district, South Africa: Mineralium Deposita,v. 11, p. 33-45...Fluid inclusion studiesof the Messina copper deposits, Transvaal, South Africa: ECON. GEol.., v. 72, p. 619-631
Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...typical accessory mineral from the world famous Tsumeb mine Overleaf: Crystalline incrustations of vanadinite...suggestions and advice. Author’s Preface Southern Africa has much to offer the amateur geologist, whatever...best plan is to take local advice wherever you are. 9 In small places try the local police station first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORES FROM O’OKIEP AND KLIPRAND, NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS FROM CHALCOPHILE METAL CONTENTS...maier@oulu.fi M.A.G. ANDREOLI South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, South Africa; School of Geosciences...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa e-mail: marco.andreoli@necsa.co.za D.I. GROVES...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The petrogenesis of sulphide ores in the O’okiep district has remained...additional IOCG deposits elsewhere in southern Africa. The model also predicts an enhanced potential
Book
that the former part of the Territory lying to the south of the Molopo River, known as Bechuanaland or British...part of the Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa, is not included. The compiler would gratefully...Afr. Proceedings of the Geological Society of South Africa. Johannesburg. Proc.Rhod.sci.Ass. Proceedings... Leeds. S.Afr.J.Sci. South African Journal of Science. Johannesburg. South African Mining and Engineering...Engineering Journal. Johannesburg. South African Mining and Engineering Yearbook. Johannesburg. S.Afr.Min
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
illustrating the nature of Archean volcanismin southern Africa and elsewhereare made available for purposesof...mineralization. The Archean mineralization of southern Africa is briefly compared and contrasted with that of...the easternpart southern Africa. of Botswana, the northeasternsegment of South The purposes of this paperare...paperare, briefly,to consider Africa, and Rhodesia,the shield consistsof two crathe nature and distribution...GREENSTONE BELT LITHOLOGICAL UNITS RHODESIA/BOTSWANA SOUTH AFRICA/SWAZILAND Sedimentary unit ShamraJah Mafic-to-l'el$ic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been proved at Pikwe and Selebi within the Limpopo mobile belt. Two medium-sizednickel-copperdepositsare...more-or-less linear metamorphic belts, the ancient Limpopo belt in eastern Botswana and the much later Damaran...km Archean cratons through stabilizationof the Limpopo belt and by cratonizationof the Irumide/ Phanerozoic(Karroo)...Namaqua-Natalbelts. p Proterozoic/Lr Phanerozaic ) The Limpopo mobile belt, separatingthe RhoProterozoic platform...(AKI: Orapa diamondmine; NC 4 Pikwe nickel-copper mine; Cu 6 Ngwako Pan copperoccurrence). lite facies)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
country should he on view in the “city of gold.” South Africa is not well known for its institutional or statefunded...treasures of the earth. not only from South Africa but also from southern Africa as a whole and other regions...Mines and the Museum of the Geological Society of South Afiicil (Kennedy 1970). The Chamber of Mines collection...secretary and treasurer of the Geological Society of South Africu.) Several years later, in 1904, the collection...mammal-like reptiles from the famous Karoo region of South Africa, Cretaceous ammonites, Permian and Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
/t.4L, SOUTH ON THE MESSIN.4 .4FRIC.4--/! COPPER DEPOSITS, DISCUSSION Sir: The Messina copper...isotopestudies. In the orebodiesat (1977) contained Messina,the early ore fluid reactionsinvolvedesilica- concludedthat...1. A /ID vs /i•sOplot for late solutionsat the Messina positionsproducedduring ore fluid reaction. This...temperature. This is the inward retrogressive of the Messina orebodies,calculated on the basis of the reactionmodel...minthat the ax8Ox-x2o valuesdeterminedfor the Messina erals" (Sawkinsand Rye, 1979, p. 688). The proorebodiesare
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Corresponding author: e-mail: j.moore@ru.ac...ac.za © 2010 December Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Onganja copper deposit is hosted...517 + 3 and 518 + 3 Ma. Late-stage supergene chalcocite-brochantite enrichment is related to the African...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara
Journal (issue)
Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler
Report (issue)
Chalcocite Cu2 S c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic, pseudo-orthorhombic...pure masses can be listed. From the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. In England...Co.; from the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co.; in the United Verde Extension mine, Yavapai Co.; from Butte...Flambeau mine, southwest of Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin; from Kennicott, Copper River district, Alaska...crystals from Nababiep West mine, Cape Province, and Messina, Transvaal, South Africa. At M’Passa, Niari Province
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unusual hydrothermal copper deposit at Messina, South Africa: alteration-mineralzoningpatternsand the...copper-bearing breccia pipes of the Messina district, South Africa: Mineralium Deposita, v. 11, p. 35-45...Fluid inclusionstudiesof the Messina copper deposits,Transvaal, South Africa: Ecoa. GEOL.,V. 72, p. 619-631...Canada: Eco2•.GEOL., V. 68, p. 635--656. ON CHALCOCITE PHASE TRANSITIONS Introduction anvil apparatus...recent thermodynamicdata have been publishedon chalcocite and othermineralsin the Cu-S systemby Potter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the system Cu-Fe-S. This field extends from chalcocite and digenite to a at 700' C. (Fig- 2, after Yund...R A. YUND about 2 per cent of fine grains of chalcocite(or digenite).At 200. C. they obtained chalcopyrite...addition to the original bornite and chalcocite, and at 300" C. the chalcocite disappeared, Sugaki (1949,1955)reported...specimencontainingbornite with a Iittle chalcopyritefrom the Jinmu Mine, Japan, a skarn deposit,exsolved additional chalcopyritewhen...stoichiometricinitially, and decomposedto chalcopyrite and chalcocite on heating. The analysis of his material is given
 
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