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Clinochlore from
Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Clinochlore
Formula:Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Magnetiteⓘ5 photos of Clinochlore associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Chondroditeⓘ3 photos of Clinochlore associated with Chondrodite at this locality.
Calciteⓘ1 photo of Clinochlore associated with Calcite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ1 photo of Clinochlore associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Fluorapophyllite-(K)ⓘ1 photo of Clinochlore associated with Fluorapophyllite-(K) at this locality.
Valleriiteⓘ1 photo of Clinochlore associated with Valleriite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Clinochlore data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:3783
Long-form Identifier:1:3:3783:9
GUID (UUID V4):e82821ad-1071-49bb-8a29-74efba0d0283
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new, well crystallized material from the Palabora open pit mine, Transvaal. Microprobe, carbon analyser...blue-green. K~YwoRos: iowaite, pyroaurite, Palabora mine, Transvaal Introduction IowArrE was first described... Among a suite of specimens from Palabora open pit mine, Phalaborwa, Transvaal, sent to one of us (R...identical with iowaite. The new material from Palabora mine is far superior to the original iowaite in purity...Description and occurrence The Palabora open pit works parts of the Phalaborwa alkaline complex, the carbonatite
Catalog/List
with micros of blue Kinoite in places £4 Christmas Mine, Arizona USA J 7. MAGNETITE , black lustrous octahedral...areas of pale green clinochlore plates palabora Pit Phalaborwa Transvaal South Africa l x2.5 £6 18. ENARGITE...this is a compact mass, quite solid. Selasvatn south Norway £ I 0 20. SCAPOLITE translucent single yellowish...good short-wave FLUORESCENT white . Yellow Pine mine, Clark County Nevada USA 2x1.5 £8 22. CALCITE white...green-grey covering , about 2x3 area, 1-lawkswood Mine Cornwall FLUORESCENT green Short wave £ 18 24. QUARTZ
Catalog/List
Prospectors Shop, Santa Fe. New Mexico. Hansonberg District Socorro County New Mexico £25 3 DANBURITE single...with micros of blue Kinoite in places £4 Christmas Mine, Arizona USA 16. MAGNETITE , black lustrous octahedral...areas of pale green clinochlore plates palabora Pit Phalaborwa Transvaal South Africa I x2.5 £6 17. ROMANCHEITE...this is a compact mass, quite solid. Selasvatn south Norway £ 10 20. SCAPOLITE translucent single yellowish...pale green-grey covering, about 2x3 area, Hawkswood Mine Cornwall FLUORESCENT green Short wave £ 18 I-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e complexes of the Kovdor (Russia) and Palabora (South Africa) alkaline-ultrabasic massifs have comparable...and Loolekop phoscorite-carbonatite pipes in the Palabora massif have similar sequences of sulfide formation...formation, and the copper specialization of the Palabora massif can be caused by higher water content in...phoscorite-carbonatite pipe in the Palabora (Phalaborwa) massif, South Africa (RSA) is a typical example of...Kovdor massif is one of the richest. Like the Palabora massif, the Kovdor massif predominantly concentrates
Journal (issue)
Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9
Catalog/List
Kyanite show intersecting textures. Diamantina District, Minas Gerais, Brasil. 84A6(a) 5 x 5 cm 5.00 Highly...grade 84A3(c) 15.00 7.50 White Kyanite Clover, South Carolina. Quartzite (6 x 9 cm) with pyrite grains...over the fore-section amethyst crystals. The Irai District, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. combination is a delight...hydroxyl-apatite with large niobian perovFaraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine), crystal specimens, these two were worthy...effect of the geode section it is. 84A15 175.00 clinochlore matrix (8.5 x 5 cm). The two A select piece at
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...mass 4x4 and l cm thick Wiperminga Hill, Olary South Australia £8 39 STILPNOMELANE on QUARTZ thin brown...with a small amount of quartz 4x3.5cm £26 Erongo district Namibia 3 .,, ,r ·" .. ; :t.: 1-,: • - �
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 11:53 03 August 2012 Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals...chondrodite specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American...rounded crystals to 1.5 cm; the old Cleveland iron mine at New Marlborough and at Becket, Great Barrington...Tilly Foster mine, 10 kilometers northwest of Brewster, Putnam County, New York. This mine, which was opened...chondrodite specimens from the historic Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, New York. The 8.2-cm-high specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCE OF MAGNATITE CRYSTALS FROM THE BALMAT DISTRICT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S . C. Chamberlain...2500-foot level of the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine near Balmat, New York. This occurrence was brought...OF THE PALABORA MINE, PHALAultramicrotome, and imaged again. Images from both BORWA, SOUTH AFRICA. W. A...result either from partial rounding rocks at the Palabora mine. Chondrodite is Volume 68, March/Aprill993 ...prehnite or as green, columnar, euhedral crystals; clinochlore in bluegray rosettes; lithian phlogopite in brown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland, gilbertitc, 6o6. George and Charlotte mine, Tavistock, Devon, 'tavistockite', [ 23. Grassington... INDEX Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, posnjakite, 740. Hingston Down Consols" mine, arthurite, 52o. Lee...Tomintoul, Banffshire, lithiophorite, 618. Leverburgh, South Harris, omphacite, 61. Loch Don, Mull, plumbogummite...(Espafia) Cabo Ortegal, Galicia, omphacite, 6L CarmeBta mine, Caceres, montcbrasite, 4t4. Santander, blende,...hydrogrossular, sheridanite, 735. India Chikla, Bhandara district, Maharashtra, juddite, 317, 7o8. Goldongri, Panchmahal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for diopside from a kimberlite in Dutoitspan, South Africa. The name diopside is from the Greek δις (double)...carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with...diopside also occur at the Kamaishi mine, Iwate Prefecture, and the Yaguki mine, Fukushima Prefecture. Specimens
Report (issue)
Geological Surveys, Common­ wealth Institute Building, South Kensington, London, S.W.7 (KENsington 3264, Ex.... Geological Map of the Hangha Chromite Mining District, reduced from 1 : 2,500 Field Survey " Surface...North ,, 17 Surface Geology of the North and South Bendu Pits ,, 18 5 LIST OF TABLES Table I Analyses...Chromiferous Dunite from Amba Pit, Hangha Chromite Mining District, Sierra Leone. 2. Detail of Chromite Banding...during which serpentine, brucite and chrome clinochlore were formed on a limited scale. The shear zones
Report (issue)
concrete, etc., may be of exceptional local interest. In addition to local utilisation, there may also be export...COl\-11\ION\VEALTH COUNTRIES Union of South Africa South-West Africa • Southern Rhodesia • Canada • • India...FOREIGN COUNTRIES • • • Europe Portuguese East Africa Madagascar • • United States • • Argentina • •...required to convert it into a usable product, find a local use in domestic and industrial thermal insulation...interest was made in 1913 in the Turrett mining district in Colorado1 by W. B.. Thomas, but the enterprise
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;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Khudag, Tomtor, etc.), P (Catalão, Jacupiranga, Palabora, Kovdor, Seligdar, Sokli, Tapira, etc.), Nb (Araxá...), Cu (Palabora), Fe (Kovdor, Palabora, etc.), Zr (Kovdor, Palabora, etc.), U (Araxá, Palabora, etc.)...), Au, PGE (Catalăo, Ipanema, Palabora, etc.), F (Amba Dongar, Maoniuping, etc.) with considerable amounts...exsolution inclusions of geikielite–ilmenite), Sr-Ba-REE-bearing hydroxylapatite and Sc-Nb-bearing baddeleyite...(calcite), Cb (carbonate), Chu (clinohumite), Clc (clinochlore), Di (diopside), Dol (dolomite), Fo (forsterite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, 206 Kendade, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 1 2 Abstract...Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Enoree, South Carolina; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China, were measured...measured with a portable spectrometer. The mine sources for these vermiculite ores were identified based...from other commercial sources in the U.S.A. and South Africa do not contain nearly as much elongate amphibole...Mountain Mine near Libby, with the remainder likely supplied by (2) the Virginia Vermiculite Mine in Louisa
Catalog/List
ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden
Catalog/List
~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire...Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Rich mass of black...Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Unusual...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...F OH 2x2 £10 -------------------------Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 16 AMBLYGONITE Pure grey cleavable...LiNaAIP0/4FOH 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in Syenite
Book
Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot
Journal (issue)
by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by...S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns ...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological...07439 Hours: 10-5 M -Sun, M ar.-D ec. Specialty: Local m ining & minerals Carnegie Museum o f Natural...the cavansite occurrence. Con­ versations with local people also disclosed some circumstances during
Book
A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves the...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 Talc...Hardness 10 Quartz Diamond Diamond, Kimberley, South Africa * 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm | 19 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22
Book (edition)
Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AKHTER (S. M.), see QAISER(M. A.), 735. Alaer6n mine, Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732. Ala di Stura...dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions, distinction...distinction from montebrasite, 4r4. Amblygonite mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia...New Zealand, anal., opt., X-ray, 453. Andamooka, South Australia, opal, 357. Andradite, chromian hydro-...from Mull and Morvern, 934. Bala Durga Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, India, microcline perthite
 
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