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Copper from
Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cupriteⓘ1 photo of Copper associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:321624
Long-form Identifier:1:3:321624:8
GUID (UUID V4):d811d1ee-816b-4f25-b947-dcd3cdfaa689
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
45.2km (28.1 miles) ⓘOtjihase Mine, Von Francois Farm 60, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
84.2km (52.3 miles) ⓘOtjisongati Mines, Okamuvia Farm 144, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
89.2km (55.4 miles) ⓘOtjisazu Complex, Okahandja Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
91.3km (56.7 miles) ⓘOnganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphosed, stratiform sulfide deposit Matchless, Namibia By R. KLEMD,Bremen and M. OKRUSCH,W[irzburg*)...schichtgebundenen Kupferlagersfiitte Matchless, DamaraOrogen, Namibia, ergeben Temperaturen zwischen 550...metamorphosed, stratiform sulfide deposit Matchless, Damara orogen, Namibia, yield temperatures between 550 and...d6p6t de sulfure stratiforme m&amorphique de Matchless (orogen~se Damara, Namibie) sont encaiss& dans...metamorphosed, stratiform massive sulfide deposit Matchless, based on microprobe analyses and fluid inclusion
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MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA J.M. MOORE Geology Department, Rhodes University, P...Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Onganja copper deposit is hosted by quartz-biotite-plagioclase...Formation in the Southern Zone or Khomas trough of the Damara Orogen in Namibia. It comprises a sheeted-vein...related to the African erosion cycle. The Onganja copper deposits formed from NaCl-CO2-rich metamorphogenic
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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as copper, since the early part...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium, arsenic, antimony...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
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metamorphism and deformation in the Matchless massive sulphide deposit, Namibia N.J. Cook!, R. Klemd-, and M...1993 Abstract. The sulphide mineralogy of the Matchless massive sulphide deposit has been reviewed and...are consistent with the tectonic history of the region . Investigations concerned with determining the...metamorphic pathways undergone. Although the Matchless deposit has been the subject of considerable study...with respect to mineralogy and geochemistry of Matchless to some of the massive sulphide deposits of the
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(ca 1275 m.y.) are potential sources of nickel–copper–cobalt mineralization; they include the Kabanga...Central African Copperbelt, and the Damaran Belt in Namibia, which hosts a considerable number of base-metal...rocks making up the Damara Orogen cover most of Namibia and consist of coastal and northeast-trending branches...of the Katangan Supergroup, which dominate the region, comprise a lower sequence of subaerial and shallow-marine...concomitant fluid expulsion and development of copper mineralization. Concurrent processes included development
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MatchlessMetamorphosedMassiveSulfideDeposit, SouthWest Africa/Namibia: Wall-Rock Alteration during SubmarineOre-Forming...Matchlessamphibolitebelt in the upperProterozoicDamaraorogen(SWA/Namibia). In the footwallof the ore shootsare pyrite-b...minor MATCHLESS is one of several stratiform massive sulfide southern amphibolite in the Matchless mine...the MatchlessMember in the up500 m north of the mine, the major FriedenauamperProterozoic Damaraorogenof...Damaraorogenof South-West Africa/ Namibia.The Matchless Memberis a narrow(0.5-3 phibolitewhich exhibitsa characteristicS
Report (chapter)
in the southern part of the Damara Orogen, SWA]Namibia: applicability to the recognition of tectonic environment...whereas in the Southern Zone (Trough Zone) the Matchless Amphibolite Belt occurs within a sequence of predominantly...distinct tectonic environments along strike of the Matchless Amphibolite Belt. Absolute abundances and ratios...south-western end of the Matchless Belt towards its central part. 12 ° 17o. 1~ ° I~ 16 ° ', + 18 ° , Geochemical...compositions of the metabasites from the northeastern Matchless Belt are similar to those of ocean ridge and floor
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Tectonic Settingof the MatchlessBelt Pyritic Copper Deposits,Namibia JORGH. BREITKOPF Universityof the Witwatersrand...mphibolitebelt in the Damara orogenin central Namibia. The amphibolitesrepresent metamorphosedtholeiitic...advancedrift environment. Introduction NUMEROUS pyritic copper depositsare associated with the Matchlessamphibolitebelt...setting and stratigraphic relationships of the Matchless amphibolitebelt andthe associated pyritic copperdeposits...metamorphic belts evolved (Miller, TECTONIC SETTING, MATCHLESS BELT Cu DEPOSITS 711 deposits(Hoffmann,1983;
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mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibia—a review and regional interpretation A.F. Kamona...Günzel b a b University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia Ongopolo Mining Ltd., Main Street...Street, P.O. Box 40, Tsumeb, Namibia Received 16 May 2004; accepted 10 April 2006 Available online 4...Neoproterozoic Damara mobile belt in northern Namibia (Fig. 1). The northern part of the metallogenic...of the Tsumeb Subgroup is the same in northern Namibia (Table 1). However, the Mulden Group in the OML
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SIERRA LEONA AMIBIA 0 WINDHOEK ----------- MP mineral perspectives NAMIBIA This current report has...provide the latest available data and information on Namibia. Comments, revisions, and additional information... Thispublication hasbeencataloged asfollows: Namibia (Mineral pcrspecri vcs) Bibliography: p. 47-55...of Docs. no.: I 28.37/2: 1. Mineral indusrrics-Namibia. I. Coakley, George J. iI ! I l I I TN19...••••..••••••.•.••••.••• Rights of landowners and mine owners•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Special
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AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 . :~~.....Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
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elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev Shear-zone hosted copper mineralisation of the Omitiomire deposit — Structural...subduction accretion in the Pan-African Damara Belt of Namibia Shawn Kitt a,⁎, Alexander Kisters a, Nick Steven...South Africa Rockwater Consulting Namibia, PO Box 27344, Windhoek, Namibia c International Base Metals Limited...and Explorations, PO Box 81136, Olympia, Windhoek, Namibia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...October 2015 Accepted 16 October 2015 Available online 2 December 2015 Keywords: Copper mineralisation Chalcocite
Field Trip Notes
the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia II I -· --· ...... ----·----, Editor: M. Niall...the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia -- - -- .. --- ----• • ·- •• -1 · ~. ,. :...LC. Schneider Geological Survey or Namibia, P O Box 2168, Windhoek 1.0 Day 1 - Monday, 22 August 1994...08:00 Windhoek - Otjihase Mine 1.2 08:00 - 12:00 Otjihase Mine 1.3 12:00 - 12:30 Otjihase Mine - Windhoek...1.4 12:30- 13:30 Lunch in Windhoek 1.5 13:30 - 16:00 Windhoek-Karibib 1.6 16:00 - 17:00 Capra Hill Marble
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Kabwe (PbZn) and Tsumeb (Pb-Zn-Cu) in Zambia and Namibia, respectively, have been measured and found to...Kamona (&) University of Namibia, Science Faculty, Private Bag l3301, Windhoek, Namibia J. LeÂveÃque Centre...mean l-value of 10.25 ‹ 0.12 in the Copperbelt region of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo...deposit in Namibia which are shown to be related to upper crustal source rocks in the region. The isotopic...are the three major carbonate-hosted lead-zinc-copper sulphide deposits hosted by Neoproterozoic metacarbonates
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82, 1987, pp. 587-599 The Matchless CopperDeposit,SouthWestAfrica/Namibia: A Deformed and Metamorpho...Abstract Matchless is oneof a numberof copper-zinc sulfidedeposits associated with the Matchless amphibolite...eventproducedcrenulation andfracture cleavages. The copper-zinc deposits occurwithina stratiformzoneof sulfide-bearing...sin mineexposures. Samples copper-zincdepositsdevelopedalongthe Matchless were takenat 1-m intervalson...and 550 levels of the Matchless and metamorphosed maficigneousrockswithin the mine. Thin and polishedsectionswere
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Architecture The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Damara Orogen in Namibia, the Paleozoic Lachlan Orogen of eastern Australia...boninite, ultramafic rocks, and calc-alkaline arc rocks [16–18]. Closure of the Lachlan back-arc basin took place...2.3. The Damara Orogen, Namibia The Pan African Damara Orogen within Namibia consists of the Inland branch...accretionary complex that formed in the Neoproterozoic Khomas ocean basin south of the Congo craton [91]. Detrital...distributions and Sm–Nd isotopic compositions of the Khomas tubidites indicate that they were sourced from
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structures separated from each other by the later 'Domes region'. The 'Golfe du Katanga', which branches off northeastwards...prolongation, concurrently supported opening of the Khomas Trough in the southern Damara belt. The proto-South...et al., 1979), in the Gariep belt of southern Namibia (KrSner, 1975) and possibly in the southern Damara...Kaoko belt, 14 = D a m a r a belt, 15 = Gariep belt, 16 = Saldania belt, 17 = Lufilian Arc, 18 = Shaba aulacogen...and the Gariep and Saldania belts in southern Namibia and South Africa. It has, furthermore, been suggested
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the Neoproterozoic Damara Supergroup (northwest Namibia): Implications for the AngolaCongo and Kalahari...Miguel A.S. Basei PII: DOI: Reference: S1342-937X(16)30425-7 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.09.006 GR 1865 To...the Neoproterozoic Damara Supergroup (northwest Namibia): Implications for the Angola-Congo and Kalahari...Neoproterozoic Damara Supergroup (northwest Namibia): implications for the Angola-Congo and Kalahari...i) as one major basin, composed of the Outjo and Khomas basins, related to rifting in the Angola-CongoKalahari
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the GorobMassiveSulfideProspect, DamaraOrogen,Namibia HORSTH)•USSINGER,* MARTIN OKRUSCH, Mineralogisches...lensesand several smaller sulfide occurrencesat Gorob, Namibia, are hostedby metaturbidites of the KuisebFor...mineralexploration. TheGorobprospect in theNamibdesertof Namibia consists of five smallmetamorphosed, sedimenthostedmassive...alteration. GOROB MASSIVE SULFIDE PROSPECT, NAMIBIA 73 Variousauthors(e.g.,Miller, 1983;Schmidt and...intracontinental branch of the Pan-African Damaraorogenof Namibia,about250 km southwest lites,althoughBreitkopfa
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.,,., ..,,.... w + ..... . ·. .... . - Namibia Zauberwelt edler Steine und Kristalle ooa Dieses...Erdgeschichte 8 Zur Geschichte des Bergbaus in Namibia 17 Der Brandberg und die Mineralfunde in seiner...110 Auf Turmalinsuche in Namibia Die Demantoide von Tubussis in Zentral-Namibia 112 116 Sodalith von...Zeolithe vom Grootbergpaß in Namibia Kamphaugit-(Y) von der Rössing-Mine 120 124 126 136 Das Gahnit-Vorkommen...alpinotypen Klüfte aus der Gamsberg-Region 180 Die grünen „Amethyste" aus der Region des Gamsberges 195 Spektakuläre
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ELANDSHOEK L i i MAIESERG TSUMEB " KHOMAS I KARIBIB " t KU~SEB KHOMAS AUAS I I OTAVI -4 [Y2 °s DI'SCORDANC[...especially near the pre-Damara basement inliers of the Windhoek area (Fig.5). In the central part of the belt...schist bands are also present. In the Khomas Highland and Windhoek area the mica schist sequence contains...with amphibolite and amphibole schist layers (Matchless amphibolite). As it has been suggested by Hartnady...a lithology could only be hidden underneath the Khomas synclinorium (Fig.5) which, however, becomes narrower
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GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA: HYDROTHERMAL EXHALATIVE VERSUS HYDROGENETIC (INCLUDING...Department of Geology, University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia e-mail: b.mapani@unam.na M...GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA Figure 1. Simplified geological map of the Pan-African...Pan-African Damara orogenic belt of Namibia (Miller, 2008), with the Otjosondu ferromanganese deposit located...southern Central Zone of the Damara Orogen in Namibia (Figure 1). Their enigmatic nature stems partly
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The Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction, Namibia Ben Goscombe a, *, David A. Foster b, David Gray...The Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction, Namibia, Geoscience Frontiers (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10...1). Consequently, the tectonic evolution of this region is crucial to understanding the assembly of Gondwana...The Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction, Namibia, Geoscience Frontiers (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10...ENE-trending Damara Belt involved closure of the Khomas ocean basin and high-angle collision of the Congo
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Nickel Mine, Bindura, Zimbabwe AND T. J. SMALLEY TsumebCorporation,Ltd., Windhoek9000, Namibia Abstract...nickel deposit,Zimbabwe; Matchlesscopperdeposit,Namibia(South-WestAfrica);BrokenHill silver-lead-zincdeposit...Zimbabwe,the Matchlesscopperdepositin Namibia Details of the mine geologyhave been recorded (South-WestAfrica)...matrixsulfide.A foliation,subparallel Throughoutmuch of the mine, matrix ore abuts to the marginsof the structures...Dissem•nQted Sulhdes with S• Foliotion FIG. 1. Mine geologicplan,showingcuspandpiercementstructures(mappedby
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Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia I.J. Basson, M.-J. McCall, J. Andrew...Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi...Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia I.J. Bassona,c,*, M.-J. McCalla, J. Andrewb...River Resources, 84 Dr Frans Indongo Street, Windhoek, Namibia c Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch...Africa Abstract The Namib Lead and Zinc (Pb-Zn) Mine is hosted within the Karibib Formation of the Swakop
 
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