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Sillimanite from
Waterside, Soutpansberg Range, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterside, Soutpansberg Range, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262396
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262396:2
GUID (UUID V4):91495b95-e9ea-4120-8e6e-562dbec072eb
References
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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...suggestions and advice. Author’s Preface Southern Africa has much to offer the amateur geologist, whatever...but a variety of impurities produce a wide colour range, bound in every form from crystalline to amorphous... — ■■ ■k ' k'?-’•' . 7 ■ ■- -• ■ - 1 south of Pofadder. Other areas are Hammanskraal 40 km
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
between Mr G. S. Johnstone, who at that time was District Geologist in charge of the Highlands and Islands...between North Broad Haven, 1km south of Collieston, and Blowup Nose, 2km south of Cove. The western boundary...Oldmeldrum, to Bogton in the valley of the Dee, 3km south-west of Peter- culter, PHYSICAL FEATURES The...elevation coastal areas north of the Ythan and south of the Dee, Dalradian extend to increase towards...Ellon @Rannieston b25 Collieston 5 Formation waterside Bridge 2 ®@Kincraig Foveran® Mains of Foveran
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between Mr G . S . Johnstone , who at that time was District Geologist in charge of the Highlands and Islands...North Broad H aven, 1 k n1 south of Colliest()n, ancl Blowup N ose, 2 km south of C ove . rl,he westerr1...Oldmeldrum , to B ogton in the valley of the Dee , 3 km south-west of Peter­ culter. P H Y S I C AL FEATURES...Rannieston O • Orchardtown NK Collieston Waterside Bridge 0 Corundum I regional) ◊ Corundum (thermal)...throughout the Aberdeen Formation often contain sillimanite and garnet, and oc(:asionally c_:c>ntain anclalusite
Report (issue)
demanding most urgent attention, initially in the south-east of England, where about half the national output...Institute of Geological Sciences Exhibition Road South Kensington London SW7 2DE II CONTENTS Summary...town for Aberdeen, some 26 kin (16 miles) to the south, is the principal settlement. Working sand and gravel...and classification of the older solid rocks which range in age from ? Late Precambrian to Permo-Carboniferous...Low pressure: greenschist facies As above, sillimanite zone, [M'. *-1.:,[i[l!i W.�, �'#' & approximately
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Kentucky 6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________...o o r e , M o n t g o m e r y, Randolph, Macon South C a r o l i n a : Chesterfield, L a n c a s t e...Mecklenburg, Rutherford, F r a n k l i n , Cleveland South Carolina: Spartanburg, Pickens Georgia: H a l l...p e F e a r, Neuse, a n d t r i b u t a r i e s South Carolina: Cooper, Congaree, Santee, Broad, Wateree...enthusiastic family found and mined an amethyst deposit in South Carolina which is pro­ ducing many pounds of large
Book (volume)
the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches and...Sidney to Ogalla,  along banks of the South Platte R.,  south banks of the North Platte R., in regional...the Pacific Coast by California’s Sierra Nevada Range. Nevada’s watercourses are few and dust-dry. The
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G. A. Thrust nappe tectonics in the Devonian of south Cornwall and the western English Channel . Chapman...North America and the north-west coast of North Africa. Deformation occurred in this area in a broad time...not perhaps too apparent until recently. (a) South and south-east dipping thrusts occur throughout the northern...geodynamic development of the Variscides and of the range of age of the events involved. Jager’s (1977) comprehensive...(8)) and in Galicia of NW Spain (from north to south: Hesperian massif, Braganca and Morais). SG: Saxonian
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Street Auckland: 35 High Street SOUTH AFRICA Butterworth & Co (South Africa) Ltd Durban: 33/35 Beach Grove...merely scientists but mankind in general. Today in south-western England the geologist can examine the strata...geological sites and eaves only within the Conservancy’s South-West Region of England. If one may borrow words...to the person wishing to visit an S.S.S.L in the south-west region, it may generally be obtained by application...Reading, Berks., RG7 4RJ, Tel. Woolhampton 3266; or South West Region, Furzebrook Research Station, Warcham
Book (volume)
From the Panhandle the land slopes gently east and south to a minimum elevation of less than 350’ in the...Lower Permian age, with the greatest concentrations south and east of the Wichita Mts. and in the central...of volcanic ash and flows of basalt. The Cascade Range, with its numerous snow-covered volcanic cones,...spherical masses of agate core in a volcanic matrix range in size from less than 1” to several ft. in dia...Mile, Hecceta Head, and beaches both north and south of Yaquina Bay. The best hunting is right after
Book (volume)
From the Panhandle the land slopes gently east and south to a minimum elevation of less than 350’ in the...Lower Permian age, with the greatest concentrations south and east of the Wichita Mts. and in the central...of volcanic ash and flows of basalt. The Cascade Range, with its numerous snow-covered volcanic cones,...spherical masses of agate core in a volcanic matrix range in size from less than 1” to several ft. in dia...Mile, Hecceta Head, and beaches both north and south of Yaquina Bay. The best hunting is right after
Book (edition)
many igneous areas (e.g. , in the English Lake District and in North Wales) . Dykes and Veins. - A dyke...sometimes form marked features in the scenery of a district ; for, being more capable of resisting the disintegrating...beautiful scenery of North Wales and of the Lake District owes its origin to the great development of volcanic...(Aluminous Minerals). Andalusite. Chiastolite . Sillimanite. Staurolite. Tourmaline. Mica, etc. (6) In...granite (e.g., at the Cheesewring in Cornwall). Sillimanite , or fibrolite, is a fibrous mineral allied
Book
Fossils in America A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest...different form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide, both by Jay Ellis...Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia...was already using nephrite (massive jade) , sillimanite (prismatic waterworn crystals of aluminum silicate...Rock-Hunter's Range Guide (Harper & Row, 1962) dealt primarily with how and where to seek gemstones. A Range Guide
Book (edition)
maintains that the granite-massifs of the Christiania district are laccoliths rather than bathyliths in Suess'...Thus Lawson 1I has described in the Rainy Lake district of Canada vast areas of rocks of plutonic babit...sometimes form marked features in the scenery of a district ; for, being more capable of resisting the disintegrating...1 intrusions (e.g. , those of the Christiania district) as laccoliths rather than bathyliths. (See p...areas, for example, Cornwall, the English Lake District, North Wales, Western Isles of Scotland, and Fife
Book (edition)
it ; the granite-massifs of the Christiania district are laccoliths rather than bathyliths in Suess'...originated Thus Lawson l has described in the district of Canada vast areas of rocks habit which, according...sometimes form marked features in the scenery of a district for, being more capable of resisting the disintegrating...intrusions (e.g., [PART i those of the Christiania district) as than bathyliths. Laccoliths were first described...areas, for example, Cornwall, the English Lake District, Wales, Western Isles of Scotland, and Fife. The
Report (issue)
Silver King Mine , Toad Mountain, about 5 miles south of Nelson (G . M. Dawson, 1896 : Geol . Surv . Can...Mines, located on the Camsell River about 20 miles south of Great Bear Lake, argentite occurs in dolomite...have been reported in the townships of Coleman , South Lorrain, James , Tudhope, Speight, Whitson, Au ld...d Keeley mines, 20 miles southeasl of Cobalt in South Lorrain Township . The crystals were commonly frosted...Company in the Township of Langmuir a l ong the south boundary and immediately west of Night Hawk River
Journal (volume)
of Natural History of the United States ; of the South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; Honorary...the Rev. G. 8. 161 ; : “ On the Identity of Sillimanite, Fibrolite, and Bucholzite, with Kyanite, ,...African Species of a Man-like Ape, from Gaboon, Africa, By Jerrrres Wyman, M.D., XIII. Agriculture and...the terracewalk—there was an alinost continuous range of these formations, extending for, perhaps, 15...confined to the mountainous districts of the west and south-west of Ireland. It is characterized by species
Report (issue)
weII..:known authority on the geology of this district and has made many valuable contributions to the...occupancy · of this part 0£ England by Early Man. The district has been much visited and studied by Continental...Buckland recorded numerous observations on the district, and the names of Darwin, Huxley, Forbes, Owen...the For a bibliography of papers, etc., on the district up to 1885 see Whitaker, W, ' The Geology of the...knowledge of the · various geological stages in the district. The broad distri­ bution of the zones of the
Book (volume)
Shattuckite, Wollastonite, Lapis Lazuli, Fibrolite (Sillimanite), Zoisite and Clinozoisite, Serpentine, Copper...Hiddenite crystals Hiddenite crystal Map of Pala District Clays and crystals in pocket Vanderberg Mine Pile...with the increase in amateur interest in a wider range of minerals, many species which are far too soft...in weight. The Etta Mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, once yielded a single spodumene crystal...used in the science of gemology. In the entire range of gemstones, wide variations occur, the lightest
Report (volume)
Petrology of the Volcanic Rocks of the TGng-Yiieh District. By R. C. Burton, B. Sc., F.G.S., Assistant Superin¬...VOLUME XLIII PLATE 1.-*Sketch Map of part of Tavoy District. PLATE 3.—Cassitorito Wolframite Lode. PLATE 3...—The Leaser Himalaya, as seen from Simla, looking South East. PLATE 4.—Index Man showing region* and Plumb-line...associated hills, from tho South. IS.—Tho Kung-Po Group of Craterleta looking South from Yao-Wu-Shan. 13.—Tho...rivor and the Salt Range. ,, 3.—Section botwoon the village of Bbaun and the Salt Range. PLATE 39.—Figs
Book (edition)
. . . . . . . . . . . Kyanite, Andalusite, Sillimanite, and Mullite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Bloomington, Indiana Stratum Resources Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sara M. Robinson Consulting Geologist...Brick Research Center Clemson University Anderson, South Carolina James M. Barker Dennis P. Bryan New...Brick Research Center Clemson University Anderson, South Carolina TZ Minerals International Pty Ltd. West...ally demand tight specifications based on a wide range of physical and chemical cr iteria, often uniq ue
Journal (issue)
Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...mine, Katanga, Zaire N’Chwaning mine, Kuruman, South Africa Mibladen vanadinite mines, Morocco Agrigento...and Health (NIOSH, 1977). There is a very wide range in the toxici­ ty and in the toxic effects of the...(111) silicate (2:1), (Andalusite), Al2S i05 (Sillimanite) Al2SiOs (Kyanite), Al2S i05 Aluminium sulfate...vicinity of the crocidolite mining areas of South Africa as well as among men working in the mines and
Book (edition)
Ordovician North-west Highlands Highland Border South of Scotland Later Ordovician Northern Belt Central...Great Glen Basin Arran Basin and Rathlin Basin South-west Scotland Mauchline Basin Thornhill Basin Lochmaben...volcanics, accumulated in an ensialic setting at the south-eastern edge of the LaurentianGreenland continent...and upper Palaeozoic rocks occur largely in the south with the former forming the Southern Uplands and...·,:. . Hebridean craton Scotland lies at the south-eastern margin of the slab of ancient continental
Book
illustrated, olume. The search was then on to find a wide range o irr.;iies to reflect the diwrsity of species....to apprecia~ th::ir beauty. colour and di, erse range of forms. Britain (less so Ireland) has rr.an::...abeiling is \\Tong. The reasons for the latter range from deceit. v. here a coLector . i~hes to conceal...labelled "South Tcrras mine, St Stcphen-in-Brannel, Cornwall". As a result of this work, South Terras mine...work (as chief collaborator on Kingsbury's Lake District "discoveries") is most affected by the problem
Catalog/List
&c., are sold at the MusEmr, Exhibition Road, South Kensingto11, London, S.W.7. The Postage on Maps... Copies of Six-inch Maps 1 3 5 5 AND WALES District Memoirs Eruptive Rocks Iron Ores • • Coalfields...Memoirs .. Museum Guides. &c ... Regional Handbooks District Me1noirs • • Economic Memoirs .. Sheet lVIemoirs..... .. .. .. 105 . . 116 . . 117 OF l\IAN: District 1Yle1noirs 119 • • • • • • • • •• • • 119...• Southampton .. Southend-on-Sea Southport .. South Shields Stafford .. Ltd. Newbury • • .. ••
 
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