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Smoky Quartz from
Witkop pegmatite, Steinkopf, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Pegmatite
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Witkop pegmatite, Steinkopf, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:264323
Long-form Identifier:1:3:264323:6
GUID (UUID V4):6a55114d-9b02-49b2-813f-741939568022
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
12.4km (7.7 miles) Uranoop (Oemoep) Pegmatite, Steinkopf, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Thesis/Dissertation
pegmatites from the Namaqualand pegmatite belt, Northern Cape, South Africa by Minenhle Sinethemba Maphumulo...40-50 km wide Namaqualand pegmatite belt, synonymous with the Orange River pegmatite belt (ORPB), consists...Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province (NNMP) in Southern Africa at ca. 1 Ga. The central part of the belt is characterised...as mineralised, herewith referred to as complex (Witkop, Koegab, Sidi-Barrani) and regular, referred to...crystals and consists of the Witkop, Koegab and Sidi-Barrani pegmatite-1 complex pegmatites which were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic Orange River pegmatite belt (Namaqualand, South Africa) Christophe Ballouard, Marlina...Mesoproterozoic Orange River pegmatite belt (Namaqualand, South Africa), Ore Geology Reviews (2019),...Mesoproterozoic Orange River pegmatite belt (Namaqualand, South Africa) Authors: Christophe Ballouard1*...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 2 Spectrum Analytical Facility, University...Park, 2006, South Africa 3 Council for Geoscience, P.O. Box 775, Upington, South Africa, 8800 *Corresponding
Book
EarlyGermanGeologistsand Entrepreneursin South West Africa The People- Mineralogists,Geologistsand Collectors...TsumebSpecial The Otavi Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central...Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and...and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds ...heritage, which has over the years attracted both local researchers and scientists from all over the world
Book
Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa. both in terms of production and reserves. In this...century when the Gennan Colonial Office in South West Africa appointed Government Geologists to carry out...wait until 1926, when the Geological Survey of South Africa opened a branch office under the direction of...Lithium-Beryllium-Cesium Mica Nitrate Phosphate Quartz REE-Yttrium-Thorium Salt Sepiolite Soda ash and...magnetite quartzites and sedex lead-zinc deposits of South Africa (Rozendaal, 1978; 1986; Ryan et al., I986) where
Report (issue)
Australia Dermot Henry Page 78 Beryl from Southern Africa Bruce Cairncross Page 84 Brazilian Beryl Luiz Menezes...William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...lengths of 3 meters, as have those at Tin Mountain, South Dakota. 4m: Beryl crystals have reached 4 meters
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...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Book (edition)
very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some
 
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