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Dioptase from
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dioptase
Formula:CuSiO3 · H2O
Comments:Also as pseudomorphs after calcite (Deliens, 1996).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Shattuckite76 photos of Dioptase associated with Shattuckite at this locality.
Calcite55 photos of Dioptase associated with Calcite at this locality.
Plancheite46 photos of Dioptase associated with Plancheite at this locality.
Malachite34 photos of Dioptase associated with Malachite at this locality.
Quartz30 photos of Dioptase associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chrysocolla8 photos of Dioptase associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Pyromorphite7 photos of Dioptase associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Bayldonite2 photos of Dioptase associated with Bayldonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dioptase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (173 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4552:0
GUID (UUID V4):9285c952-8d57-4080-ad60-71b118f75b31
Nearest other occurrences of Dioptase
0.7km (0.5 miles) Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
27.5km (17.1 miles) Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
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Other Paper
ancienne colonie belge « La République Démocratique du Congo » avec une exposition intitulée : Na de mineralen...voormalige Belgische kolonie «De Democratische Republiek Congo» met een tentoonstelling getiteld: « Les merveilles...van de mijn-exploitatie. Het beste symbool van Katanga is koper. We weten dat het koper, geproduceerd...geproduceerd in de lokale metaalgieterijen van Katanga, al sinds de XVI de eeuw in Europa toekwam langs de Atlantische...aarde). In de periode van de “Etat Indépendant du Congo” van Leopold II en later van de Belgische Kongo
Book (volume)
., ..J ATLAS DU KATANGA PUBLIE PAR LE ,,, COMITE SPECIAL nu KATANGA / d 'ap�è5 les tr>avaux ·de...remonte à l'âge triasique. rhétien. ATLAS nu KATANGA FASCICULE 2 TABLE DES MATIÈRES GÉNÉRALITÉS...LXXXIII LXXXVII Introduction . La géologie du Katanga Méridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « I...Tenke » Carte géologique du Katanga Méridional LXXXV LXXXIX FEUILLE KAMBOVE Texte. Planches, plans et...de mine Planche géodésique. Planche des minéraux Plan et coupe schématique de la mine de Kambove Planche
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
misidentification occurred. A well-documented case in point is dioptase, a mineral that is today familiar to virtually...at which dioptase was the featured mineral (Jones 1985). The most striking feature of dioptase is its emerald-green...that triggers an instant sight identification as dioptase. It has a vitreous luster and is typically translucent;...density of 3.28-3.35. It is uniaxially positive. Dioptase crystallizes in the hexagonal system (3) and is...otherwise finely crystalline massive aggregates. Dioptase is a copper silicate hydroxide with a formula
Report (issue)
100.00 Chemistry: 54.34 4.61 (1) Mindouli, Congo. (2) Cu8 Si 8O 22 (OH)4 ² H2 O: Occurrence: A rare...of copper deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, dioptase, malachite, conichalcite, tenorite. Distribution:...Tshiniama, Congo Republic. In Congo (Zaire), ¯ne material from Tantara, Mindigi, and M'sesa, near Kambove, Katanga...of Windhoek, Namibia. In England, at the Driggith mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; the Gunheath china clay...Arizona, from the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, and the Azurite mine, Tortolita Mountains, Pinal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper silicates are such aesthetic minerals as dioptase, plancheite, and the rare minerals apacheite,...few millimeters in length. It is orthorhombic (2/ Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining...minerals formed in the oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper
Journal (issue)
Reinvestigation of dioptase-planchéite pseudomorphs after calcite from the Tantara copper deposit, Republique...Republique du Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521...Toronto Technical College. He learned that the Tsumeb mine in South-West Africa was producing some very beautiful...the miners was nothing new at Tsumeb; they would mine around crystal pockets until lunchtime, then go...fill their oversized lunch boxes with specimens. Mine management looked the other way as long as operations
Report (issue)
CuSiO3•H2O Dioptase Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 3 . Commonly in prismatic to rhombohedral...the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, at Ray, and in the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, Pinal...Pinal Co., and from the Harquehala mine, Harquehala Mountains, La Paz Co. (formerly Yuma Co.); in California...Pimbi, Congo Republic. At Tantara and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba...Lomagundi district, the Inez mine, Hartley district, and the Midway mine, Fort Victoria. Many other minor
Book
particularly the hexagonal prisms (proustite, dioptase). Each crystal system has a corresponding optimal...donite 98 Copper Arsenates ... 100 Plancheite 100 Dioptase 102 Nickel-Cobalt 104 Erythrite 104 Annabergite...114 Cyanotrichite 98 Cuprosklodowskite. . . .126 Dioptase 102 Dolomite 54 Diamond 14 Epidote 44 Eosphorite...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some­ times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the
Book
Cette Exposition est placee sous le Haut Patron de Monsieur Hubert Curien, Ministre de la Recherche...quelques uns des premiers cristaux sur roche de la Mine Premier en Afrique du Sud (sur kimberlite alteree...Une nagyagite {mine d'or arsenicale de Nagyag) s'est payee 122 livres ; une proustite {mine d'argent rouge...a 72 livres a !'exception d'un "grand plateau de mine de plomb verte de Fribourg" paye 300 livres ! Le...livres. Il est precise qu'un "superbe morceau de mine d'antimoine en aiguilles qui reflechissent les plus
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...University of Arizona, I quickly discovered that Dr. John Anthony’s mineralogy and crystallography classes...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken
Catalog/List
34x30x28mm. £125 7 CERUSSITE and barite, Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, Ireland.Heavy barite matrix riddled...RW Barstowlabel. 83x75x60mm. £85 8 DIOPTASE, Tantara Mine, Congo. Display druse with xtls to 5mm. 71x27x42mm...San Antonia Mine, Santa Eulalia, Mexico.Very pretty colourful vugh. 78x45x30mm. £32 DIOPTASE, with minor...Mutercard. Rennevile,Brazzavile,Republcof the Congo Standing un...ided with ayatala to 9mm. Clrca eerty
Catalog/List
lustrous showy xl 5. .. > BARITE ON WITHERITE. Raggs Mine,;Alson Moor, Cumberland. Nice intergrown group of...side. 25x20x25mm. £30. 8. CALCITE. Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Co Durham. A 70x30mm area of calcite...Label. 45x45x15mm .£60. •-* 10. Penbertriy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Areas of red to brown CARMINITE...matrix. 50x50x20mm. £22. 12 CASSITERITE. Poldory Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Lovely group of about 50 jet...40x40x18mm. £28. Odd 14. CHALCOCITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. A 90x45mm area of veinstone
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...Democratic Republic of Congo Back cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right:...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Worldwide Collection Private Worldwide Collections Congo Tourmalines  My Life in Minerals by Will Johnson...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson
Journal (issue)
Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...mutual exchange of knowledge. We are grateful to Dr. Federico Pezzotta, curator of mineralogy at the...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps.
Catalog/List
collection, a lot of it collected when the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably... SESSION ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment...Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia Some of the best things to come from the Tsumeb Mine were...com/5236 57004 Mimetite Epimorph on Cerussite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia The multiple stages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1908)from Mindouli, the Congo;the Iatter by Schaller(1919)from the Shattuck Mine, Bisbee,Arizona. Later...Later, Schoep(1930)restudiedmaterial from Tantara, the Congo,simiiar to that describedb1'-Lacroix, and concludedthat...with the characterization of material from the Ajo Mine, Ajo, Arizona which was collected,by Berman in 1941and...Acrxowr-BoGEMENTS The author wishesto thank Dr. C. S. Hurlbut, Jr. and Dr. C. Frondel for their guidance during...(1908) Les mindraux accompagnant la dioptase de Mindouli (Congo frangais). Bull,. S oc. Fr anc. M in4r
Journal (issue)
(M-F). KASSEL. Bürgerhaus JÜCKELHOFEN. Gymnasium, Dr.-Ruben-Straße. Beurs (M-mijnbouw) MELK. Hotel-Restaurant...tourmaline 192 530-534 Alabandite, Uchucchacua mine, Oyon Prov., Lima Dept., Peru 536-537 Tasmanian...(Ontario-Québec-New York)  ELEMENTS 7(6), 12.11 Themanummer : "Mine wastes  LE CAILLOUTEUX # 255, 01.12 3-4 Musée...voor zijn mineralen... op zoek naar mineralen in Haut-le-Wastia, Anhée, Namur, België, in 1985 Foto ©...Meersche. Rechts : Becquereliet van Sinkolobwe, Katanga, Congo. 12 mm. Foto © Eddy Van Der Meersche. 196
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...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen...Calomel crystals on terlinguaite, 3 mm, Mariposa mine, Terlingua. Celestine, 4.5 cm, Burnet, Burnet County;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corresponding author Copper minerals (chrysocolla >> dioptase >> plancheite > tenorite) plus barite and quartz...amounts of Na, K, Ca, Al and Fe also present. Dioptase occurs as prismatic crystals dominated by {101̄0}...orthoamphibolite. The heat source remains unknown. Keywords: dioptase, chrysocolla, plancheite, meteoric fluid, stable...locally common and even of economic importance. Dioptase, ideally Cu6(Si6O18)∙6H2O, is a cyclosilicate...it is compositionally similar to chrysocolla, dioptase is much scarcer, indicating that the conditions
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clubs plus importants, dont nous par­ lions plus haut, au sein d'une Fédération Belge des Cercles Géologi­...""' d + r cos z l'angle p. nüus l'avons vu plt.Js haut, etant toujou rs tr'ës petit. En effet, traçons...celle s u Soleil, d'après ce que nous avons vu plus haut. La planète exerçant la force de marée la plus forte...gisement a cessé en 1 9 6 0 , après l'inondatio n de la mine. L'objet de notre exposé n'est pas de dresser un...redressés et faillés ; dans la région centrale (Kambove), les anticli­ naux se rejoignent ou se dédou blent
Journal (issue)
localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece
Journal (issue)
(Perthshire) and as a biproduct at the Glebe fluorspar mine (Derbyshire). It’s main use is as a heavy drilling...Prize Winner Madagascan ammonites Malachite from Congo Azurite from Tsumeb Spanish pyrite cube Charlie...together with selenite gypsum from the commercial mine at Mountfield in E. Sussex. Four specimens came...cabinet included ‘cogwheel’ bournonite from Herodsfoot Mine in Cornwall, liroconite also from Cornwall and the...the mimetite variety campylite from the Dry Gill mine in the Caldbeck Fells in the Lake District. Some
Journal (issue)
grote zaal is er dan het echte rariteitenkabinet van Dr. A.B. van Deinse (1885-1965) : veel materiaal van...MINERALOGIST – August 2005 Metals in the environment and Mine Wastes THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD 36/6 The Jackson’s...Reinvestigation of dioptase-planchéite pseudomorphs aftercalcite from the Tantara copper deposit, République...République du Congo – Pencil garnet from the Haramosh Mountains near Gilgit, Pakistan – Fifty-nine treasure...grösste Anataskluft der Welt – Der Kristallsaal in der Mine von Bex – Speleologische Erkundungen im Bergbau
 
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