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Covellite from
Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:650850
Long-form Identifier:1:3:650850:0
GUID (UUID V4):23a50a1b-27ca-4a50-a512-c4f631f6b94e
References
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Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
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is cross-cut by a crack filled with secondary covellite (blue). Optically Similar Minerals of comparable...increasing oxidation potential: bornitechalcocite/covellite-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native...orange to brown Vonsenite strong, orange shades Covellite strong, yellowish brown to bluish violet grey...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür);
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Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Artrocitc, Ivigtul cryolitc deposit. Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK...2iOH)~. Lric.,3 km south of thc mouth of Akatorc Crcek, castcm Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
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1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees 6.3.3. Anorogenic metamorphism and intraplate...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic
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Bushveld chromite–platinum group metals (PGMs), South Africa, Sudbury nickel–copper, Canada, and a few new...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including Australia)...Chalcocite 1.3.4.5 Chalcopyrite 1.3.4.6 Covellite 1.3.4.7 Cuprite 15 15 16 16 16 16 17 17 17...Earth’s element family. The working deposits in South Africa and Russia are by far the largest for the PGM...significant in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa, Brazil, New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia
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OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
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contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also found...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits...extents 3* 18 T H E ORE MINERALS according to the local conditions. The solutions, up to now fluid (supercritical)
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Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...Isotope Studies on the Platreef SHEBA’S RIDGE, EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX EAST BULL LAKE INTRUSIVE SUITE...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit
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up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg...Chemical and Suspended Metallurgical Society of South Africa. Journal: vol. 1, 1894-date. October, 1899-May
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........................................... 46 South Kalimantan .......................................platinum-group element prospect, Riam Pinang area, South Kalimantan........................................from the Riam Pinang area, Tanah Laut subprovince, South Kalimantan APPENDIX G: Detailed description of rock...paleochannels, South Kalimantan. Figure 15. Photograph of diamonds from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan....flattened gold and PGM particles from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan. Figure 17. Chromitite occurrences in
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Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
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4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C. Composition close...11; Z = 4 521 (Cu/Ni)—Germanson Landing, Omineca district, B.C. (about 80 per cent silver). Pattern similar...On°-Fm3m; a = 3.872; 1333 (Cu/Ni)—Sheep Creek, district, Yukon (ferrian platinum) Z = 4 Kluane Cell...trict, Yukon; East fork of Nansen Creek, Carmacks district, Yukon; and Red Cloud Boulder d(calc.) Soil...Clear Creek, McQuesten district, Yukon (placer); Highet Creek, Mayo district, Yukon (placer); Windpass
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the price of Pt...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or...platinum-group minerals (PGM) beginning with a South African publication (Cabri, 1972) and culminating...of PGE deposits, ranging from the very important South African deposits to less well-developed PGE mineralization
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England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...tried to retain local names for subdivisions within a given country. For some local names the anglicized...given name is included in parentheses although most local names lack this designation. For example we use...colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(.= 2.646, VIIIA 10....Vitreous orange-brown. Alcatore Creek, Eastern Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. H= 6, Djj4= 3.48
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The Keivitsa intrusion (age 2057 Ma) is located south of the Koitelainen intrusion. Isotopic (Sm-Nd, S-isotopes...east of Koitelainen hill. Photo by TM. A2: View south of Lakijänkä towards Koitelainen fell 5 6 Geological...forests of the southern part of Satovaara hill (eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara complex) was stripclear-cut...only by accident, as in the periglacial landslide gorge at Bonanza. Unfortunately, such rocks include chromitites...Koitelainen intrusion, on the eastern slope of Koitelainen hill and through the eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara
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England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota,
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(lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
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making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...of the Proterozoic, beginning 3,000 m.y. ago in Africa and 2,500 m.y. ago elsewhere. These basins received...iron ores were concentrated (without silica) in local oxidizing sinks on the con¬ tinents. Uranium responded...Precambrian se¬ quences of rocks were deduced for local areas, but correlations between them, except in... . The main period of ore deposition within a district seems to represent a relatively short time span
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the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...quartz-pyrite gangue, and it is gradational into covellite, digenite, colusite and bornite-chalcopyrite veins...overall subeconomic grade of 0.2% Cu, but containing local rich patches. A thick (135m) zone of secondary chalcocite...between 0.3 and 0.4% Cu. NORTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND In North-Eastern Queensland (Georgetown Inlier and
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Japan Chapman Street, & Hall Australia, Thomas South Chapman Melbourne, Nelson Australia, 102 Dodds...(from those used in QDF2), ¢.g., covelline to covellite, and adjustment to some spellings, ¢.g., zinckenite...A good example of the latter is provided by covellite, CuS, where the dispersions of Ro and "R, are...pleochroic. This both vibration directions in air, covellite appears pleochroism, together with the bireflectance... “‘blaubleibender’ covellite, was widely used to indicate a variety of covellite which, for both Reflectance
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Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...(ferroactinolite), Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming (nephrite), South Dakota , Minnesota, Pennsylvania (byssolite), Vermont...mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; at Tsumeb , South West Africa; and at Laurium , Greece. Other occurrences
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Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15...15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities section includes a description of the...Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
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the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...quartz-pyrite gangue, and it is gradational into covellite, digenite, colusite and bornite-chalcopyrite veins...overall subeconomic grade of 0.2% Cu, but containing local rich patches. A thick (135m) zone of secondary chalcocite...between 0.3 and 0.4% Cu. NORTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND In North-Eastern Queensland (Georgetown Inlier and
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(from those used in QDF2), e.g., covelline to covellite, and adjustment to some spellings, e.g., zinckenite... A good example of the latter is provided ~y covellite, CuS, where the dispersions of Ro and ImRo ar~...Qualitatively, for both vibration directions in air, covellite appears whitish blue, Ro, and a darker, saturated...Ramdohr, 'blaubleibender' covellite, was widely used to indicate a variety of covellite which, for both vibration...QDF, and in Figure 2., show that blaubleibender covellite is spionkopite, and that yarrowite is intermediate
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CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University...colourless, monoclinic crystals from Kimberley, South Africa. Named after Mr. Alpheus Fuller Williams, of...group. Named from the locality, Aldan region, eastern Siberia (18th List). [M.A., 12, 460.] 20th List...Occurs as thin veins in kimberlite from the ‘Lucky Eastern’ pipe, presumably in Yakutia, and has the composition...United States, for 1913, 1914, part ii, p. 652.) Local trade-name, used by Mr. Joseph Ward, of Barstow
 
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