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Dioptase from
Christiana, Lekwa-Teemane Local Municipality, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Dioptase
Formula:CuSiO3 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dioptase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Christiana, Lekwa-Teemane Local Municipality, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262496
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262496:9
GUID (UUID V4):afe7c532-f2b8-4639-bf13-2fcd453f1f0e
References
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misidentification occurred. A well-documented case in point is dioptase, a mineral that is today familiar to virtually...at which dioptase was the featured mineral (Jones 1985). The most striking feature of dioptase is its emerald-green...that triggers an instant sight identification as dioptase. It has a vitreous luster and is typically translucent;...density of 3.28-3.35. It is uniaxially positive. Dioptase crystallizes in the hexagonal system (3) and is...otherwise finely crystalline massive aggregates. Dioptase is a copper silicate hydroxide with a formula
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Brown Convention Center, 1001 Convention Center Dr. Info.—Show Committee, 10805 Brooklet, Houston, TX...4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. Info.—Tom Barnes. 422 Deline Dr., Toledo, OH 43615; 419/ 865-2221. Sept. 7—Fanwood...Station. Info.—Mildred Brand, 1240 S. 10th St., South Plainfield, NJ 07080. Sept. 7, 8—Roseburg, Oregon...Umpqua Gem & Mineral Club in conjunction with the South Douglas Gem & Mineral Club of Myrtle Beach. Community... Oceanside, NY 11572; 516/766-6120. Sept. 7, 8—North Adams, Massachusetts. Gem, Mineral & Jewelry Show
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promotions and Book Saies Gale Thomssen 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Historical...to find the best lodging, where to do a little local field collecting and other useful information. 74.... . . . To Mineralogical Record Associate Editor Dr. Pete J. Dunn, ♦vho has been honored with the naming...catalog of 300 mineral spectra ias been compiled by Dr. Berthold Suhner and is being published by Christian...Christian Weise Verlag (Oberanger 6, D-8000 Munchen 2, West Gernany). The set is priced at DM 148, and only
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2002 • $15 Kristalle Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Tucson Mineralogical Symposium on the Minerals of Africa: Abstracts Chairmen: Robert B. Cook & Susan Erickson...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...Capital, lies 106 km to the north, and Dillon, Montana, 91 km to the south. Spokane, Washington, the nearest...nearest major metropolitan center, is 490 km to the west. Butte is situated in the Summit Valley, an intermontane
Book (volume)
alteration of different kinds of stacking of layers, local defects, etc.). For this reason, the interpretation...freedom per unit cell and qi and qj are deviations of local coordinates (i.e. lengths of chemical bonds and...frequencies of normal vibrations are determined by local force parameters of these bonds (see, e.g. Loghinov...Schiavinatoite (Nb,Ta)BO4 Locality: Ampanodiana North pegmatite, Tetezantsio-Andoabatokely Pegmatite Field...Field, Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
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tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...collecting achievements contributing to the heritage of North American mineral specimens February 201 8 Notes
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Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .....................................by pack animal and then by truck to one of the local smelters. Working these small, silver-bearing deposits...was found in ta grass and brush about 25 meters north of the portal. A number c unbroken bottles, probably...photo. leaching from the rock, was found just north of the portal and measures about 1.5 meters high...fluor­ ite in quartz at the Outlaw mine, 12 miles north of Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada.” With this limited
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Jewelry, 146 Breastplate of the High Priest, 144 South America, Beryl in the Bible, 80 Emerald and 140...490 Republic of South Africa, Romania, 549 601 Yugoslavia, 485 Pakistan (West), United Arab United... 445 Greenland, India, 500 Republic, South West Africa 445 Ghana, Inner Somali 443 Germany...acknowledge the assistance of of those years by Dr. a of persons and San by the main Diego library...CA; Peter G. Denver, CO; Prof. B. Carroll Embrey, Dr. Paris, Museum (Natural Chatham, British France;
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VOLUME 38 NUMBER 2 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...the project engineer of the Route I-80 Roadcut, West Paterson Section (1969–1970), where trap rock specimens...Connecticut (1968). He also mined localities in North Carolina for emerald and other 90 minerals (1970)...Over the following years he traveled throughout South America, Europe, Morocco and the U.S. in pursuit...Kosnarite was later found in Brazil in the Jenipapo district. Kosnar assembled an extensive suite of some of
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Miers, MA, D.Sc., FRS Sir William Bragg, OM, KBE, FRS Dr. G.F. Herbert Smith, CBE, MA, D.Sc. Sir Lawrence...Midlands Branch: D.M. Larcher, FBHI, FGA, DGA North-West Branch: I. Knight, FGA, DGA Examiners: A. J....is Inclusions' and we are pleased to announce that Dr E. GĂĽbelin will deliver the keynote lecture. This...mine, Kha district Looi mine, Kha district Looi mine, Kha district Looi mine, Kha district Notes Natural...mine, Kha district Finest. Only white after initial heating 6 7 Various, Champasak district Various
Report (issue)
cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection...curring in the oxidized zone of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, had compositions covering the...coronadite; from the Kintore opencut in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia field of view 16 mm wide Analyses...in this article, I will leave it to the very able Dr. Peter Megaw to provide an in-depth explanation of...deserve attention, that decision is for the readers. North America In the United States, the top prize goes
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Three May-June 1999 $10 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92 (949)...Jensen The Ross H annibal m ine, Lawrence County, South D a k o ta .......................................Las Vegas MineralFossil, Gem & Jewelry Show New South Wales, Australia, will soon be able to purchase...Russell Haggard, 94, of Edmonds, Washington. Bom in South Dakota in 1904, he moved to Lynnwood, Washington...Bachelor’s degrees in Geology from the Universities of North Dakota and Washington, and began working as a mining
Book
talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...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)
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strengite- Moore's Mill phosphate locality 3.5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania... weather permitting. slyvania is located on the west bank of the Susque- Kline's quarry, being very close...regular meethanna River, approximately 1/2 mile south of State ing place, was usually visited whenever...tion. Both formations are mineralized . the upper south wall had exposed a large quartz pod. Kline's quarry...given to Dr. Arthur Montgomery, Lafayette College, to assist in making positive identifications. Dr. Montgomery
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Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at North Carolina State University on October 12, 2012 Quarterly... Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at North Carolina State University on October 12, 2012 GEOLOGICAL... Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at North Carolina State University on October 12, 2012 ii...have to make special mention of a marble bust of Dr. Bowerbankr F.R.S., F.G.S., presented, in accordance... Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at North Carolina State University on October 12, 2012
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JL \_ _J \ I )\{r\ A Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway. Laguna Beach. CA 92651 (949)...summer of 1933 Montgomery left New York and traveled west with his friend R. C. Vance (also a Ward’s employee)...Utah, without Vance, but with the assistance of a local guide, and together they rediscovered the lost bixbyite...during the early 1930’s, Montgomery was introduced, by Dr. Charles Palache of Harvard, to a talented field...Information contact: Roland Bounds, President, 315 Stamford Dr., Newark, DE 19711; Tel: (302) 731-8407; e-mail:
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massive white quartz from prospect pits on the north side of the dirt road which leads from the lower...percentages of unidentified manganese oxides and local concentrations of cobalt (unidentified phase). The...5 to 1-mm grains), schorl and clay minerals. At local exposures of the Triassic argillite along the ribs...given and is greatly appreciated. First and foremost, Dr. Eugene E. Foord is thanked for all his efforts in...describing the various min­ erals he has examined. Dr. Bill Wise provided XRD data and con­ firmation of
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modification of marine environment chemistry and local sediment geochemistry (Cave et al., 2002; Edmonds...Mn found in unusually high concentrations in the South Aegean Sea were compared to other straits of the...strongly imprint their hydrothermal influence on the local marine sediments (Megalovasilis, 2014). In the Aegean...particulates that affect marine sediment geochemistry and local marine chemistry. Such research is important because...volcanic activity of Hellenic volcanic arc extends from west to the east from Methana, Milos, Thira and Nisyros
Book
JOINT-AUTHOR OF "MINING TABLES," "THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA," AND "THE GOLDMINES OF THE RAND " FOURTH EDITION...2ZnO.H 2 0. hydrated orthosilicate of copper, Dioptase Si0 2 .CuO.H 2 0. Chrysocolla Prehnite hydrated...larger quantity of gold or tin may in any given district be of ore-deposits, as temporarily (' placers...in Canada Ontario, Mine), (Vermilion and North Carolina (Cowee Valley). ORES OF GOLD. The chief...Colorado, of Kalgoorlie in A Tonapah in Nevada, West Australia. large quantity of gold material. Such
Report (issue)
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was organized with Dr. Gerard Troost as president. Mineralogically the...consisted of some artificial crystals prepared by Dr. Troost, but on August 15th the Academy acquired...and zinc mines of Phoenixville, the chrome mines south being of New Texas, Lancaster County, the Gap nickel...corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron mines. One...which have been most active in the investigation of local mineralogy. OUTLINE The of countries or states
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(64040-X) $12.95 Gems and Precious Stones of North America, George F. Kunz. (21855-4) $8.95 The...JEWELLERS, ETC. WITH AN APPENDIX ON PEARLS AND CORAL BY Dr. MAX BAUER Translated from the L. J. German with...), F. G. S. With a 'New Foreword and Addenda by DR. EDWARD OLSEN Curator of Mineralogy at the Field...and mineralized Among the Stone Age aborigines of North America the Mound Builders of the fossils. Ohio...utilization of the mineral have all ! Max Bauer. Dr. Bauer was a distinguished German mineralogist
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St. An~w•a Crescent, Cardiff 15, Donegal! Square West, Belfast or through any Bookseller to lse:_ 1933...Kingdom . . . ... . .. (1922) Part II. Britisl1 Africa . .. . ,. . .. (1922) Par~ III. Britisl1 America...and New Zealand .. . (1922J Part VI. Europe and Africa (I!"oreign) ~ .. . (1922) Part VII. Foreign Arueriea.... ' • ' ' ' • I ' IMPERIAL INS'TITUTE SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 7 The Imperial Institute was e...Andre\v 1s Crescent, Ca.rmff J 5, Donegall Square West, Belfast or thr-ough a.n.y Bookseller 1933 Price
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Published on 01 January 1883. Downloaded by North Dakota State University on 24/10/2014 01:21:37. View...Online Published on 01 January 1883. Downloaded by North Dakota State University on 24/10/2014 01:21:37....Online Published on 01 January 1883. Downloaded by North Dakota State University on 24/10/2014 01:21:37....Online Published on 01 January 1883. Downloaded by North Dakota State University on 24/10/2014 01:21:37....Ancella-Schicht," 529. Andesites, so-called, of South and Central America, 448. Andromeda japonica, poisonous
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ANHAEUSSER. CARL R. --with B. Caimcross: Gold in South Africa 23:209-225. 23:228 Al 'JAJ\ABO~OINA The Anjanabonoina...Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... G. M. Allgood & C. Williams) 14:333335 Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona (by J. S. White, Jr. & J.... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................. North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............... South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota...................................................... West Virginia..........................................vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier work, gives
 
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