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Aurichalcite from
Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aurichalcite
Formula:(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aurichalcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44323
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44323:2
GUID (UUID V4):75c977fc-6bf4-4f85-9e67-351586bd2720
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the KABWE MINE (“Broken Hill”) Central Province, Zambia MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...location of Kabwe in Zambia. Prepared by William Besse. Figure 2. Satellite image of the Kabwe mine site, showing... Figure 3. The Kabwe mine site, partially derelict. Michael Brook photo, 2004. T HE CITY OF KABWE, ZAMBIA’S...north of Lusaka, the capital (fig. 1). The name Kabwe means “place of smelting” but refers to the pre-European...in the area (Notebaart and Korowski 1980). The Kabwe lead-zinc deposit was fortuitously discovered in
Report (issue)
c = 15.0257(22) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kabwe, Zambia. 2.760 (100), 3.55 (50), 1.703 (45), 2.327 (25)...0.07 (2) 35.10 64.90 Total 100.26 (1) Aachen district, Germany. (2) ZnCO3 . 100.00 CO2 ZnO MgO CaO...hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, aurichalcite, Distribution: Many localities, even for fine... Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals at Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. Abundant in fine specimens with large...Pennsylvania; in the Joplin district, Jasper Co., Missouri; from the Rush Creek district, Marion Co., Arkansas;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
non-sulfide Zn deposits: a reanalysis of the Kabwe Zn-Pb ores (central Zambia) N. MONDILLO1,*, R. HERRINGTON2, A...Editor: Nigel Cook] ABSTR ACT The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (central Zambia) consists of a cluster of mixed sulfide...mineralization, and was carried out on a suite of Kabwe specimens, housed in the Natural History Museum...non-sulfides, Kabwe, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), Zambia. Introduction...2003). The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (formerly known as ‘Broken Hill’) is located in central Zambia, ∼110 km
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leadville, United States; 5 = Upper Mississippi Valley district, United States; 6 = Franklin and Sterling Hill...Mississippi Valley-type district, Poland; 16 = Reocin, Spain; 17 = Sardinian Zn-Pb district; Italy; 18 = Larium...Hamman N’Baïls, Algeria; 21 = Zamanti Zn-Pb district, central Turkey; 22 = Angouran, Iran; 23 = Mehdiabad...Jabali, Yemen; 26 = Abu Samar, Sudan; 27 = Kabwe and Star Zn, Zambia; 28 = Skorpion, Namibia; 29 = Berg Aukas...deposits in the Upper Silesian Mississippi Valleytype district of Poland (Sass-Gustkiewicz et al., 1982; Osika
Report (issue)
99.92 99.31 (1) Morávicza, Romania. (2) Arakawa mine, Japan; corresponds to (Cu1.77 Zn1.24 )Σ=3.01 (PO4...quartz, iron oxides (Kipushi mine, Congo); hemimorphite, malachite, aurichalcite, brochantite (Wanlockhead...Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Hisaichi...Hisaichi (Arakawa) mine, Akita Prefecture, and the Kamioka mine, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In the USA, large...large crystals from the Black Pine mine, near Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana; from Gold Hill, Tooele Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Aurichalcite Downloaded by [George Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila...tentatively identified on sight. One such mineral, aurichalcite, is traditionally available from a number of...recommended as a Connoisseur’s Choice topic. Aurichalcite varies from pale green to sky-blue; some specimens...crystals that vary from relatively dark blue near the central part or base of the group progressively to a paler...1 and 2, and has a measured density of 3.96. Aurichalcite is monoclinic (2/m) and is pseudo-orthorhombic
Report (issue)
Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith...Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely...1867. ¡thsonian Smithsonite First Oxide Zone, Tsu Mine, Tsumeb, Nami 10cm tall Brent Lockhart coll Joe...reasons for this palette. Beginning on page Antler Mine Smithsonite? Many comprehensive smithsonite collections..."smithsonite" from Mohave County, Arizona's Antler Mine, while the mineral is not noted from the locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leadhills in the heart of Scotland’s lead mining district; desiring to acquire complete suites of minerals...other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...species. Working on material from the Scottish lead district, Brooke (1820, pp. 117–120) determined the next...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...Figure 1. Leadhillite, 6.7 cm high, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Formerly in the Houston Museum
Journal (issue)
manager Famous mineral localities: the Broken Hill mine, Zam bia..............................................351 Famous mineral localities: the Cruzeiro mine, past and present ................................ famous mineraC (ocafities: the Broken Hiffmine Zambia by C. W. Notebaart Stadhoudersplein 25 C 3039-ER...906 Kitwe, Zambia HISTORY The Broken Hill lead-zinc mine is located near the town of Kabwe, 140 km north...north of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, on the main route to the Copperbelt (Pig. 1). The ore deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . 1.1   1.2   Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5  Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 1.7  Northern and Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...azurite malachite azurite malachite cerussite aurichalcite smithsonite azurite malachite azurite malachite
Report (issue)
\ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)...from the Tsumeb deposit (Namibia) and the Clara mine, Schwarzwald (Germany). At Tsumeb, the phase occurs...zone along 30 Level. The material from the Clara mine is a sulphate-rich variety. 13 --, Type mineralogy...has also recently been described from the Clara mine, Schwarzwald, Germany (Walenta, 1990). The phase...described by Rouse et al. ( 1988) from the Kombat mine. Asisite occurs as transparent yellow to yellow-green
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................late Precambrian rocks of South Central Africa of a polymetallic province, distinct from the stratiform...in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes deposits of Zn-Pb-Cu with an array of...1977, 1984). The Broken Hill deposit at Kabwe in central Zambia is also famous economically. Hosted just...is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W
Journal (issue)
FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...including the East Texas Mineral Society, the Central Texas Gern and Mineral Society, the Austin Gern...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais
Catalog/List
South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass...Andesite _ .• __ _ ____ . __ lx2£2. 50 2x2 Holmbush Mine, Kelly Bray . 32 APATITE Variety Francol i te.rich...·va"i-i�ty-FRA- NCOLJTE r i ch whik �llular Holmbush Mine Cornwall £2.40 __ CaP0/4 C0/3 F __ _____ __ mass
Book
(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze wheri fresh, tarnishes...volcanic rocks. It Is found in the Copper Belt of Zambia, Rio Tinto (Spain), Katanga (Congo), Cyprus, the...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...Nikotawa (Russia), Hunan Province (China) and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. C HgS Colour: bright
Book
(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze wheri fresh, tarnishes...volcanic rocks. It Is found in the Copper Belt of Zambia, Rio Tinto (Spain), Katanga (Congo), Cyprus, the...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...Nikotawa (Russia), Hunan Province (China) and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. C HgS Colour: bright
Book
Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)...(233), pyrite (436) • OcciJrrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district - Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite - long prismatic...found in the Mansfeld slates in Zwickau (GDR), Wolf Mine (near Herdorf, Reichenbach, FRG), Bisbee, Georgetown
Journal (issue)
................................... Foss Baryte Mine - Request for Information and Specimens ..........then interested in, minerals. He joined Bury and District Mineral and Lapidary Society where he met Wally...Peak District of Derbyshire. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals 13 & Bulletin of the Peak District Mines...a rock climber, mainly in Derbyshire, the Lake district, North Wales and Scotland but also going to the...trips and they both served on the committee of the Central Branch, although in recent years, Roy’s illness
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Sal-ammoniac — aggregation of crystals from pile of a coal mine; Kladno (Czechoslovakia — width of field 15 mm)...second pyrite (436) e Occurrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district — Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite — long prismatic
Journal (issue)
Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...the creek bed. Topaz In 1904, between the small central Texas towns of Mason and Streeter, R. L. Parker
Book
Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior...chalcocite. Localities. Fine crystals from the Calabona mine, Alghero, Sardinia; other localities are Chile,
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...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...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...opening of “a new mineral store” in the central business district of Spokane, Washington, at W. 410 Riverside
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
Journal (issue)
NO. 4 • APRIL 2021 10 ARIZONA’S PERIDOT MESA GEM MINE A Green Gem Born in Volcanic Lava By Bob Jones ...Northwest Steve Schultz Mine Owners * Specializes in and mines Lava Cap Thunderegg, Mine Shaft Thunderegg,...silverstreams.com T&J Rocks Plus Tom & Jessa Pearson Mine Owners *Specializes in Pink Lady Plume Agate and...Arkenstone Gallery of Fine Minerals, Royal Peacock Opal Mine, Kingsley North, Joseph Stachura, Best In Gems,...yourself a little time to search. The Unificada Mine in Bolivia was the place where a striking specimen
Journal (issue)
locality. Pyromorphite from on old locality—rhe Sherman mine, Burke, Idaho. A small lot of miniatures and hondsize...specimens— $15 to $500. Liebigite from rhe SchwarTzwalder mine, Golden, Colorado. Well-formed, bright yellow-green...Feature articles Libethenite from the Rokana Mine, Zambia..........................................341...Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey 385 by F. J. Parker Tveitite from the Barringer Hill District, Texas...December, 1978 UBETHENITE from the Rokana Mine, Zambia by Stanley P. Korowski and Cor W. Notebaart
 
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