 | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Erongo Mountains, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....AQUAMARINE BERYL crystal, 9.5 cm, with schorl and feldspar, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Desmond...on the mineralogical treasures of the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. Uli’s financial support made possible...Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Tsumeb, Southwest Africa (Namibia). He had a mini-van-like truck loaded with minerals...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: g{x Erongo Mountains Namibia Bruce Cairncross Department of Geology |  | | Report (issue) | | MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NAMIBIA I 1990 Open File Report MRS 05 2 Abstract A...of semi-precious stones occur in Namibia, namely amazonite, the beryl varieties, chrysocolla, cordierite...the most important semi-precious stones found in Namibia. The major deposits of these semi-precious stones...Contents Abstract Introduction 1. Amazonite 2. Beryl 2.1. Aquamarine 2.2. Emerald 2.3. Heliodor 2.4....Introduction Since the German colonial period Namibia has been well known for the occurrence of semiprecious |  | | Book | | AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 . :~~..,-::__ ::...,.;_...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains The RossingMountains The Central Escarpment- The ...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | some of these specimens. Localities such as Erongo in Namibia and the Kalahari manganese field in South...Figure 2. Apart from aquamarine, the Erongo Mountains in Namibia have also produced some of the best and...purists may argue that the Okorusu mine trumps Erongo with respect to fluorite. Color-zoned green crystals...Color-zoned beryl (variety heliodor-aquamarine) on schorl, 9.5 cm. The Erongo Mountains north of Karibib in Namibia...Namibia have produced the finest aquamarines in the region. Through the years several color variants |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | za Figure 1. Map showing the location of Karibib in Namibia; prepared by William Besse. Figure 2. The...pegmatite mine, the largest source of lithium in Namibia (see fig. 5 for location). This is a lithium-cesium-tantalum...source of beryl, quartz, and bismuth. Bruce Cairncross photo (September 2014). Karibibite Karibib District...District, Namibia 174   ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 3. Karibibite on quartz from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer...was described from a pegmatite in the Karibib district of Namibia by von Knorring, Sahama, and Rehtijärvi |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | attractive icing on the more spectacular crystals of beryl, topaz, and tourmaline. Even the common minerals...Miarolitic beryl, phenakite, bertrandite Jacobson (1993); Switzer (1939a, b) 4 Sawtooth Mountains, Boise...Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic beryl, phenakite, bertrandite Menzies and Boggs (1993);...Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa district, Graham County, AZ, USA Santa Teresa Mountains NYF Miarolitic...biotite-hornblende granite quartz, microcline, beryl Moore (2009); Ross (1925) 7 South Platte district |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KèshÃkèté Qi County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Limpid complex fluorite crystals displaying...coloration. The fluorite mines of the Asturias region, in Spain, have produced some incredibly striking...often at shows as they once were. The Asturias region has three districts that are the most productive...Konrad 1984). Fluorite specimens from the Piemonte region of Italy are little known to most collectors in...(in German) or KruÅ¡né Hory (Czech), the Ore Mountains region that straddles the border between Germany |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Boudreaux, Andrew P. (2018) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Erongo Sub-Volcanic Granite-Miarolitic-Pegmatite Complex, Erongo, Namibia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (4) 425-449 doi:10.3749/canmin.1700090 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE ERONGO SUB-VOLCANIC GRANITEMIAROLITIC-PEGMATITE COMPLEX, ERONGO, NAMIBIA ALEXANDER U. FALSTER§...early Cretaceous anorogenic, sub-volcanic Erongo Granite, Namibia, was emplaced into metasedimentary rocks...Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Damaran Orogeny. The Erongo Granite contains pegmatitic miaroles containing...quartz-tourmaline orbicules and the geochemistry of the Erongo Granite. Erongo miarolitic pegmatites are famous for spectacular...found in millimeter-size crystals in one pocket. Beryl, topaz, fluorite, and jeremejevite show little chemical |  | | Journal (issue) | | Aquamarine and spessartine from Tanzania • Brown beryl from Mozambique • Yellowish green and green chrysoberyl...Hemimorphite from Congo • Jeremejevite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia • New morganite mine in Madagascar • Namibian...encountered in Namibia • Plastic and steel pearl imitations • Gem cutting factories in Namibia • Conference...states were transported by glaciers from a specific region in Canada (the James Bay Lowland; figure 3). Isolated...(Kennady Lake); (14) Dry Bones Bay; (15) Birch Mountains; (16) Buffalo Hills; (17) Mountain Lake ultrabasic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Raspite from the Erongo Mountains Figure 1. A view of the Erongo Mountains in Namibia, viewed from the...outcrop is exposed. All photos by Bruce Cairncross Namibia D uring mid-2006, one of us (UB) obtained several...several samples of small crystals from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. The specimens were described as barite... 3) but some are in small vugs imbedded in the Erongo granite matrix (fig. 4). They did not appear to...resemble barite or any other known species from the Erongo (Cairncross and Bahmann 2006), so we analyzed the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Thirty-three, Number Four Articles Jeremejevite from Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...& Wah Wah Ranges (Utah) (famous for Topaz, Red Beryl. etc) $12 v.11/#1 Toxic Minerals Barite from Hartsel...22/#6 Wagholi cavansite (India), Kombat mine (Namibia), Madan mines (Bulg.),Beltana mine $12 v.23/#1...Seravezza Marble (Italy) $12 v.27/#2 Onganja mine (Namibia), Lac Nicolet mine (Quebec), Afghanite $12 v.27/#3...Platinum (Russia), District! Special Otavi Mtn. Land (Namibia), OUT SOLD Issue $12 Repair & Restoration $12 v |  | | Catalog/List | | the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in the 1970s. You will...village near the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, in South Africa. His love of rock climbing soon...an exciting trip by Land Rover into the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) to visit the...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably...desert-like "Sperrgebiet" area of the southern coast of Namibia, with its fabulous wealth of gem diamonds. One |  | | Journal (issue) | | brought something else. During my latest trip to Namibia in May I heard of a remarkable find of aquamarine...black tourmaline from the "Erongo Mountains'' (i.e., Kubusis north of Karibib), vanishing under my nose...Mine (Cunningham Gulch) around 19845. The Ortiz mountains and mine are just a few miles north of the San...Andyrobertsite, calcio-andyrobertsite Tsumcb. Namibia 16-8: 10 Anglesite San Antonio Mine. Santa Eulalia...Maine 16-1 :1.4.5; Nine Mile Pluton. WI 16-5:1.4.7 Beryl aquamarine Pmgwu. Sichuan. China 16-8:7-9: Wodgina |  | | Journal (issue) | | located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains in the Manyara Region, about 70 km southeast of the town...Goboboseb Mountains, about 35 miles west of the town of Brandberg, Daures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia...54, January–February, 2023 Figure 6. Morganite beryl, 7.5 cm, from near Araçuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil...54, January–February, 2023 Figure 10. Emerald beryl, 5.3 cm, from Laranjeiras, Galiléia, Minas Gerais...January–February, 2023 15 Figure 11. Morganite beryl, 11.2 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas |  | Lensing-Burgdorf, Martina, Watenphul, Anke, Schlüter, Jochen, Mihailova, Boriana (2017) Crystal chemistry of tourmalines from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, studied by Raman spectroscopy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 29 (2) 257-267 doi:10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2607 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Crystal chemistry of tourmalines from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, studied by Raman spectroscopy 1 4 ...morphologies from miarolitic cavities in pegmatites of the Erongo granite are analysed by Raman spectroscopy and...1 Key-words:: tourmaline; Raman spectroscopy; Erongo granite; schorl; foitite. EC 5 1. Introduction...2015). The Erongo granite in the Erongo igneous complex, Damaraland, west-central Namibia, is a well-known...locality for a diversity of pegmatitic minerals. The Erongo complex was formed in the Early Cretaceous (∼135– |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 124–32 Bahmann, U., Raspite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, 272–74 Baileychlore, 319 Bailey, D. G...Benitoite, California, 20 Bernstein, M., 444–45 Beryl, New Mexico, 21; Utah, 21 Beudantite, Nevada, 516...326–30 C Cairncross, B., Raspite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, 272–74 Calaverite, Cripple Creek, Colorado...146–50 Collector’s Note, Raspite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, B. Cairncross, H. Van Niekerk, C. Reineke...Autonomous Region, China, R. B. Cook, 242–48; Spessartine, Marienfluss, Northern Namibia, R. B. Cook |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | represented, such as Klein Spitzkoppe, Kombat, Tschudi, Erongo, Onganja, Berg Aukas, Rosh Pinah, the Alto Ligonha...Ligonha district of Mozambique, the Goboboseb Mountains, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite...specimens from the Krantzberg mine close to Omaruru in Namibia—that caught his son’s fancy. During 1964, Desmond... Figure 2. Beryl variety aquamarine on schorl, 2.9 cm, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Figure 3...corundum crystals in the Chiredzi region in the Buffalo Mountains of southern Zimbabwe. While employed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variety sericite replaces feldspars, spodumene, beryl, topaz, and tourmalines in pegmatites. Muscovite...are those from the pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994, p. 246) note...growth, are 2–3 cm across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been...rosettelike habit. Associated minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New...associated minerals include albite, fluorapatite, beryl, and quartz, to name but a few. Also in Grafton |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Madagascar and within the Damara sequence in Namibia and morcovcr. within the Narnnqualand metamorphic...lound in the basement rocks o f Zimbabwe. Although beryl has hccn the most important mineral mined in the...Columbite-tantalite Equatorial central and south Africa Beryl Cassiterite 1. Introduction Although the major...Mozambique, and Madagascar, and in the Damaran of Namibia (Figure 1). One of the largest, continuous regions...in Africa, is the Namaqualand-Gordonia-Kenhardt region or the Orange River pegmatite belt which is also |  | | Book | | Republic, 6 cm). Figure 1.2 Halite crystals (Namibia, 5.8 cm). 6 section devoted to the display of...in groups 8–12, show marked deviation. In this region of the Periodic Table, electronegativity increases...bonded substances, the electrons are confined to the region between the nuclei of the bonded atoms and they...atoms (figure 4.19). In the cyclosilicate mineral beryl, the rings are stacked one upon the other, bonded...Fluorite showing stepped, cubic crystal faces (Erongo, Namibia, 5.8 cm). hence occurs less commonly. Figure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 73:378-99. POCKET PARAGENESIS OFTHE ERONGO PEGMATITES, NAMIBIA. R. M. Gentry’, M. A. W i d , and R....Place, Alexandria, VA 22304. The Erongo Mountains, located in western Namibia, is an area of recent mining...mining for specimen-grade beryl, tourmaline, topaz, and jeremejevite. These minerals occur in miarolitic cavities...mineralogically simple pegmatites hosted by the Erongo Granite. A suite of minerals acquired from the...found in the miarolitic cavities. Blue hexagonal beryl crystals and colorless, pale green, or blue topaz |  | | Journal (issue) | | array of gem pegmatite species can include beryl and the beryl family gems; spodumene; topaz; the garnet...the high mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan; Minas Gerais in Brazil; Mozambique and Namibia in Africa;...cranberry-red giant elbaites from Minas Gerais, Brazil; beryl variety heliodor from Ukraine; red elbaite from...source of some amazing gem material. --.In fact, the region was one of the world's leading sources of gem tourmaline...was made at the Pala Chief mine in December 2012. Beryl Probably the third most significant gem to emerge |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ca' Bernardi and Perticara mines in the Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare...Record, January-February, 2011 MARCO AMABILI BERYL (variety heliodor; the specimen called "The Dnieper...Record, January-February, 2011 MARCO AMAB I LI BERYL (variety aquamarine) with muscovite, 14.5 cm, from...January-February, 2011 31 TIZIANO BONISOLI BERYL (variety aquamarine), 9.5-cm doubly terminated crystals...Record, January-February, 2011 TIZIANO BONISOLI BERYL (variety aquamarine) 13.3-cm doubly terminated scepter |  | Baldwin, J. R., Hill, P. G., von Knorring, O., Oliver, G. J. H. (2000) Exotic aluminium phosphates, natromontebrasite, brazilianite, goyazite, gorceixite and crandallite from rare-element pegmatites in Namibia. Mineralogical Magazine, 64 (6) 1147-1164 doi:10.1180/002646100549940 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and crandallite from rare-element pegmatites in Namibia J. R. BALDWIN1,*, P. G. HILL2, O. VON KNORRING3...rare-element pegmatites from the KaribibUsakos area, Namibia, have been investigated using the electron microprobe...post-magmatic fluids in these pegmatites. K EY WORDS : Namibia, exotic aluminium phosphates, lithium pegmatites...common in most of the Li pegmatites in the Karibib area, Namibia, and in many instances they are the only...the economic potential of Li pegmatites in the region, specimens of amblygonite–montebrasite were collected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz and fluorite specimen from Namibia’s Erongo Mountains, now on display at the Perot Museum. In mid-July...mineral was unearthed by a miner in the Erongo region of Namibia, an enormous and intensely beautiful specimen—dubbed...participants choose from aquamarine, emerald, and red beryl as their subjects. He then gave instructions on |
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia