| | 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...ONE MINERALS 57001 Azurite Level 8, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia If the attachment point | | | 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...Areas, Pakistan, 4 (with Schorl), 54 Azurite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 48, 55 Beryl (see also Aquamarine...Aquamarine, Morganite, Emerald) Calcite 884 Mine, near Leiping, Guiyang Co., Hunan Prov., China, 32 (with Stilbite) | | | 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 (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...botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near Tucson in 1855. Other explorers reported...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 | | | 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...Figure 13. Azurite crystals, partly pseudomorphed to malachite, 25 Ă 20 cm, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | | | 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...specimens, all from Tsumeb-a mimetite, dioptase, azurite, and cerussite. I still have them in my collection...contributions he had made to the mineralogy of Namibia. When Tsumeb was at its zenith (for some), Sid | | | 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 (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 | | | 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) | 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) | 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) | deposits. Association: Copper, tenorite, malachite, azurite, calcite, brochantite, antlerite, atacamite, chrysocolla... 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 | | | Report (issue) | Silver, chalcocite, bornite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, iron oxides, many other minerals. Distribution:...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) | locally 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 | | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...the worldâs finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite, atacamite, and a host of other minerals...as are malachite, copper, tenorite, atacamite, azurite, allophane, calcite, and pyrrhotite pseudomorphs...formerly found in beautiful specimensâ at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper...Minor chalcotrichite is reported from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals to 7 mm and cuprite-included | | | 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 (issue) | aus glasglĂ€nzendem reliktischem Baryt. Shangulowe Mine, Kambowe, Kongo. Fund aus den 1990er Jahren. Foto:...öffentlich gemacht , d as Schweizer Fernsehen und Region alzeitungen bericht eten a usfĂŒhrlich . D ie Hauptkluft...hatte das Typmaterial bereits 1944 in der Franklin Mine im US-Bundesstaat New Jersey entdeckt, konserviert...Schmuck- und Heilstein ist heute Jnagli in der Aldan-Region, Sibirien, Russland (hier auch ausgezeichnetes...Kristallklasse: Pegmatit östlich der Stadt Coocepciön, Region Bio Bio. Das Mineral kommt Gitterkonstanten: | | | 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...2. A fine group of large, lustrous, blue-black azurite crystals on a powdery, friable matrix consisting...Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig. 3). The | | | Journal (issue) | Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. BACK COVER: Copper, 13.5 cm, from the Ray Mine, Pinal County............................. 188 Species Index: Azurite 41, 71, 141, 182 Barite 53 Beryl (Aquamarine) 59...a superb crystal of kunzite from The White Queen mine in California lends important provenance to the...the White Queen mine, California (plate 8) The Cerussite from the Kombat mine, Namibia (plate 19) The...Tourmaline Queen mine, California (plate 31) "The Dragon" Gold from the Colorado Quartz mine, California (plate | | | Book (edition) | Left: Internal reflections of hematite (red), azurite (blue), and malachite (green). Common Habit Many...bornitechalcocite/covellite-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native copper and cuprite are less common in this...8 dark grey; 8 Mineral yes Högbomite yes Azurite Barite Yukonite yes Chamosite dark grey; 7 ... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of Cu sulfide deposits, âą meteorites not known Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Cuprite, Domeykite, Fe-oxides | | | Journal (issue) | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...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...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County | | | Journal (issue) | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps....momentum came from my first visit to the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Quebec in 1997. I was fascinated by |
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