| | Catalog/List | it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in...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...Ianâs interest stems from the family trips to Namibia, including the mines of Tsumeb. He worked with... 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment point on the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 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...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...enrichment is related to the African erosion cycle. The Onganja copper deposits formed from NaCl-CO2-rich metamorphogenic | | | Book | AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...South-CentralDeposits Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an | | | Book (volume) | Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 14 Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 19 (Cuproadamite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb...Tsumeb, Namibia, 21 Amethyst Crystal Park, Park Co., Montana, 42 La Sopressa Claim, Guerrero, Mexico, 11 (âScepterâ...Jalgaon, N. Maharashtra, India, 44 Aquamarine Pioniera Mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 15 Shigar...Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 48, 55 Beryl (see also Aquamarine, Morganite, Emerald) Calcite 884 Mine, near...India, 7 (with Cuprite inclusions on Copper) Onganja, Seeis, Windhoek District, Namibia, 61 Cassiterite | | | Book | REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | terminated gem crystal, 13.0 Ă 2.5 cm, from the JaquetĂŽ mine, Medeiros Neto, Bahia, Brazil. Bonisoli specimen...crystal in quartz, 7.5 Ă 6.0 cm, from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Bonisoli specimen...concretions, 7.0 Ă 6.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Bonisoli...(right). Cuprite crystal coated with malachite, 4.5 Ă 4.5 cm, from the Onganja mine, Seeis, Windhoek, Namibia...crystals on galena, 6 Ă 4 cm, from the Montevecchio mine, Guspini, Sardinia, Italy. Bonisoli specimen 4063 | | | Book | .,,., ..,,.... 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 GrootbergpaĂ in Namibia Kamphaugit-(Y) von der Rössing-Mine 120 124 126 136 Das Gahnit-Vorkommen...- Von schönen Wulfeniten und mehr Onganja - Fundort schöner Cuprite und Malachite 163 166 168 Die Fluorite | | | Journal (issue) | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pseudohexagonal twinned crystals, 23 Ă 20 cm, Cianciana mine, Agrigento, Italy. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 5...large crystal group, 50 Ă 50 cm, from the Anahi mine, La Gaiba district, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia...aggregate of red crystals, 13 Ă 10 cm, Dolores Tercera mine, Chañarcillo, CopiapĂČ, Atacama, Chile. Adalberto...and green elbaite crystals, 35 Ă 15 cm, Pederneira mine, SĂŁo JosĂ© de Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto...to malachite, 25 Ă 20 cm, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 16. A large, prismatic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | student and had managed to find a summer job in Namibia. The geologist in charge of our camp was an ardent...and on the odd occasion when we could travel to Windhoek, he always made a point of stopping at the House...home to South Africa with a few specimens from Namibia. I couldnât tell a dioptase from a cerussite at...contributions he had made to the mineralogy of Namibia. When Tsumeb was at its zenith (for some), Sid...visiting mineral dealer and collector had to see in Namibia. From relatively humble beginnings in the hotel | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently Bou Azzer and Imiter...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated...and east of Schlema, 2014 Tucson show. The Imiter mine began its modern producing many quality specimens...outcrop themâ. next to the La Estrella The most famous mine, in Pardos, locality for this type Guadalajara (Spain) | | | Journal (issue) | Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. âą 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: âą 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the companyâs assay office | | | Report (issue) | Cu1+ 2 O Cuprite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 4/m... Germany. In Namibia, large crystals from the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb...Tsumeb. At Likasi, Ruwe, and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire)...South Australia; large crystals in the Red Dome mine, Chilliago, Queensland. Name: From the Latin cuprum | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Although the collection focuses primarily on the Tsumeb mine and the Kalahari manganese field, other âclassicâ...as Klein Spitzkoppe, Kombat, Tschudi, Erongo, Onganja, Berg Aukas, Rosh Pinah, the Alto Ligonha district...wolframite specimens from the Krantzberg mine close to Omaruru in Namibiaâthat caught his sonâs fancy. During...Beeshoek mine close to Postmasburg in the Northern Cape Province. He also visited Black Rock mine, located...on schorl, 2.9 cm, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Figure 3. There are three exceptional Tsumeb | | | Report (issue) | meteorites. Association: Silver, chalcocite, bornite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, iron oxides, many...deposits in Arizona including those at the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; the Copper Queen and other mines...in the Chino mine at Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico. In Namibia, at the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast...northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb. In large crystals from the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains...North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Friedrichssegen mine, near Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate. In fine specimens | | | Report (issue) | may be an ore of copper. Association: Azurite, cuprite, cerussite, chrysocolla, calcite. âlimoniteâ. ...Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, and elsewhere, with large crystals from the Mashamba West mine. In Namibia, from...and as large crystals at the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek. In Australia, from Broken Hill | | | Report (issue) | Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia) MINISTRY OF MINES...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA Director: B.G. Ho al BULLETIN 1 Type mineralogy of Namibia by Vaughan C. Daltry...from the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20... ______ ........ Abstract The type mineralogy of Namibia is reviewed. One hundred and thirty-nine (139)...Twenty-three (23) unnamed phases are also listed. Namibia ranks second to Zaire as the most productive African | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | A Cuprite Downloaded by [Temple University Libraries] at 20:14 01 June 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba...Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia M any mineral species of...least of these is cuprite, the topic of this issueâs Connoisseurâs Choice. Cuprite is most familiar as...brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture. Cuprite is relatively soft with a Mohs hardness of 3 ....it is dense, with a specific gravity of 6.15. Cuprite is isometric (4/mj2/m) and, when well crystallized | | | Journal (issue) | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...NâChwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Back...Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, NâChwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special | | | Journal (issue) | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Smithsonite. (7 Ă 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite...Figure 6. Anglesite (5 Ă 3 cm; D49920), Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Figure 7. Pyromorphite...(4.7 Ă 3 cm; D49966), 17 Level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. specimens from these...10. Malachite (32 Ă 21 cm; D50673), Great Cobar mine, Cobar, New South Wales. pounds (Henley 1988)....thanks to contacts he made with both the miners and mine managers. However, it was in the Broken Hill pubs | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W.... Image courtesy of the Tsumeb Museum, Tsumeb, Namibia. Tsumeb: The Legacy of Wilhelm Klein (1889â1939)...edu ERNST A. SCHNAITMANN PO Box 9561 Eros, Windhoek Namibia eschnaitmann@gmail.com Dr. Malcolm Southwood...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The...Herr Wilhelm Klein, a senior manager at the Tsumeb mine, and his subject was âDie Mineralien der Tsumeber | | | Journal (issue) | m ine is fa m o u s for the huge, well-formed cuprite crystals found there in 1 9 7 3 , and the fine...mineral collectors for some o f the w orld s finest cuprite and malachite crystals, is situated in Nam ibia...indhoek and about 30 km north o f the tow n of Seeis. T h e site is at an altitude o f 1800 m eters on...considered to be the northerly extension o f the Khomas H ighland. H ere a num ber o f small copper and...drainage basin o f the Swakop River. Although blocky cuprite is the m ineral m ost com m only issociated w ith | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | The optical constants of natural and artificial cuprite by an ellipsometric method E. F. I. ROBERTS AND...single crystals of natural cuprite from Namibia and of artificial cuprite grown by a total-oxidation...and stoichiometry on the optical parameters of cuprite. The specimens were mounted in cold-setting polyester...measurements THE natural cuprite was cut from a crystal fragment from the Onganja mine, Namibia, obtained from...cavities less than o. 5 mm diameter. The artificial cuprite was obtained by the controlled total oxidation | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in...apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite, I72 Stamps |
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Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia