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Vaterite from
Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Vaterite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vaterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Constituency, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660960
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660960:3
GUID (UUID V4):498b7796-fe2f-44b3-b3fe-79dabcd8d202
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
567 EASTON, A. J., and CLAUGHER,D., synthetic vaterite, 332 Eclogite, Norway, formation in olivine gabbro...ENGLAND, SW, Permian lavas, 481; CORNWALL,Restormel mine, waylandite, 731; CUMBRIA, Lake District, tourmalinization...analysis, rare earth elements, 3 IRAQ, Qala-Dizeh region, baghdadite, new mineral, 119 IRELAND, Connemara...chrysotile and polygonal serpentine, 301; Buca della Vena mine, V-bearing derbylite, 328; Mazzano Romano, ranci6ite...coronitic microstructure, 441, 474 Johninnesite, Namibia, new mineral, 667 JONES, G. C., see GATEHOUSE,B
Book
the description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright...277. Agardite (Cotype) BM 1978,00024 Bou Skour mine, Bou Azzer, Jbel Sarho, Morocco J.E. Dietrich, M...199. Apachite (Cotype) BM 1980, 00532 Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA F.P. Cesbron & S.A. Williams
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
humid conditions sample material transforms into vaterite-type calcium carbonate, while under a dry heating...calcium carbonate, but also transforms to the vaterite-type calcium carbonate. High-quality scanning...rapidly converted vaterite-type calcium carbonate reveal imperfect pseudomorphs of vaterite after the platy...The structure exhibits similarities to those of vaterite, portlandite and hydromagnesite. Key-words: calcium...precipitated calcium carbonate; PCC; CCHH; synthesis; vaterite; carbonation; crystal structure; powder X-ray
Report (chapter)
southern margin of the Congo Craton, northern Namibia: facies, palaeogeography and hydrocarbon perspective...Ghaub Formation diamictite interval in northern Namibia and the major environmental change in the aftermath...peri-Gondwanan areas apart from the formerly glaciated region of northern Africa. In the Palaeozoic post-glacial...the late Cryogenian Ghaub glaciation of northern Namibia, a classical field location for research on this...Kennedy (2007). Geological overview In northern Namibia continental rifting occurred in the Late Neoproterozoic
Book (edition)
Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL... Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür); PPL D Fine-grained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Innes: Wiserite, an occurrence at the Kornbat mine in Namibia, and new data, r374 Dunn, P.J., see Grice...REE-bearing and crystallographlc from the Grants uraniun region, coffinite northwestern New Mexico, 263 Harris...dolomites and associated carbonates from the Warynski mine, Poland: An AEMinvestigation, 46r Ross, C.R., II:...Jaffeite, a new hydrated from the Kombat mine, calciun sillcate Namibia, I2O3 Sauter, P.C.C., see Bo1, L...potassium silJ.cate, 224 Si02-Y (magadilte) , Il47 vaterite,1l52 Cuba todorokite, lTT Cunmingtonite, 960 l4n-Mg
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As deposit, Takab region, Iran Grandviewite...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...2(4) - 4.0(6) - 2.58(10) - 2.04(5). At the Kiura mine, Saiki City, Oita pref., Japan. IMA 2012-101. Adolfpateraite
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K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
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Republic, 6 cm). Figure 1.2 Halite crystals (Namibia, 5.8 cm). 6 section devoted to the display of...(field of view 8 cm). Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). 7 microscopes, or...in groups 8–12, show marked deviation. In this region of the Periodic Table, electronegativity increases...bonded substances, the electrons are confined to the region between the nuclei of the bonded atoms and they...showing stepped, cubic crystal faces (Erongo, Namibia, 5.8 cm). hence occurs less commonly. Figure 4
Book (edition)
Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 â–ˇ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23...(Y,Ca)Cu6(AsO.)i(OH).-3H1O. hex., Bou-Skourcoppcr mine, Ouarzazatc. Morocco,SS, 1447 â–ˇ Mixite group AgrelUte...Agullarite,Ag.Ses, orth., compareCervellelte, San Carlos mine,Guanajuato.Mexico, CM 12, 365-369 E11cairite group
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
Report (volume)
Neoproterozoic in North Africa, India, Spain, Namibia and South America. Many people helped to make the...southern margin of the Congo Craton, northern Namibia: facies, palaeogeography and hydrocarbon perspective...in Mauritania, Algeria and Mali; the Anti-Atlas region of Morocco and the Cyrenaica, Kufra and Murzuk...complexities of the Lower Palaeozoic sequences in the region and, in particular, to understand the Upper Ordovician...main targets of hydrocarbon exploration across the region. With time, and with an appropriate level of focus
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO
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transmission IR spectra of minerals in the far IR region. The PE discs are prepared at rather high temperatures...root-mean-square approximation of the spectrum in the region free of strong absorption. A review of the most...analysis for the IR spectrum of gmelinite-K in the region of Si–O-stretching vibrations carried out with...analysis for the IR spectrum of gmelinite-K in the region of Si–O-stretching vibrations carried out with...analysis for the IR spectrum of gmelinite-K in the region of Si–O-stretching vibrations carried out with
Book (volume)
cm1 is called the fingerprint region. Usually IR spectrum in this region contains very complicated series...overlapping bands. The importance of the fingerprint region is that each mineral species produces a different...500 to 800 cm1 can be considered as “fingerprint region” sensitive to the composition and the topological...see Fig. 1.9), but generally IR spectrum in this region is characteristic of all these minerals. In IR...olivenite from Tsumeb, Namibia (1); Zn-enriched olivenite from Tsumeb, Namibia (2); Zn-enriched olivenite
Book (edition)
(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic...dolomite (milky internal reflections); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Journal (issue)
many fluorites, especially from the W illiam Wise mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. A woodworker since...years, and was caretaker of 362 the famous Kelly mine, M agdalena district (see vol. 20, no. 1, p. 13-24)...in the 1970’s. From 1994 until his death he was Mine Marshall at the Kelly under its new owner, Millenium...Oregon. Countless thousands of other fine Kelly mine specimens have also found their way into museums...Bulge), was buried in a special plot near the Kelly mine donated by J. Blue Sheppard. Died, Julian Grier
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W...As with many copper deposits cropping out in the region, the history of Kipushi traces back to the Bantu...Kolwezi, Shinkolobwe and Broken Hill. The Rokana mine is located near Kitwe. deposits in order to establish...re-exploited today, it would still be as an underground mine, despite the mechanized shovels and other heavy
Book (edition)
1) has a polymorph aragonite (14.1.3.1), while vaterite (14.1.2.1) has yet another configuration. 5C....Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Nelson, Westland, Otago, and Southland. Emperor mine, Vatukuola, Fiji. Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea. In
Journal (issue)
their dry, written lists (“Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch, $3.50”...& Antiquities - Neth. R.J.B. Rock Shop Red Beryl Mine Reed, Blaine Meteorites Ryder, Dan Fossils Scheele...granites are the youngest intrusive rocks in a region, generally forming roof zones of intrusions where...sb aik alia, S ib eria; K lein S p itzk o p je, Namibia (b) (Aborted) Rift Zone: Volhynia, Ukraine; Western...Nashar, 1978; Kleeman, 1985), and the M ount Garnet region of north Queensland (Johnston and Chappell, 1992)
Journal (issue)
points to the junction o f two veins in the Bage mine as the probable type locality fo r both species...ctober, 1992 377 Figure 1. The Cromford Moor mine near Mat­ lock, Derbyshire, England (from John M...crystal, 2.5 cm, with fluo­ rite, from the Wallclose mine, Cromford, Der­ byshire. It was sold to Charles...Phosgenite crystal, 1.2 x 2.5 x 4 cm, from the W allclose mine, Cromford, Derby­ shire. Greville collection, now...to 2.5 cm, with galena and barite, from the Bage mine, Bole Hill. Collected by Bryce M. W right, later
Journal (issue)
l0/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites, Fluorite (Germany) $7 v.l0/#3 Taewha mine (Korea) Japan...Cassirer Memoirs (part II) $7 v.l l/#2 Red Cloud mine (NM), Malachite (Australia, Uraninite, Kornerupine...Hill $7 v.ll/#6 Broken Hill (Zambia), Cruziero mine (Brazii), Caplan Interview Rose Qtz. $7 v.12/#1...Zeolites $7 Enio (Brazil), Urubu (Brazil), Rock Candy mine (BC), Muddy creek (CO) $7 v.l2/#3 Pribram (Czecho...Mcguinnessite v.12/#6 Bunker Hill (ID), Yates mine (Que.), Ogdensburgite. Shavano Peak (CO) $7 v,13/#4
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...(lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazi!. All specimens from...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsurneb, Namibia, (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazil All specimens...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double
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crystals, partly replaced by malachite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia; width of view ca. 3 cm; collection H.E. Frimmel...the Medieval Latin word mina = shaft (minare = to mine). The antique people, e.g., the Greeks and Romans...of columnar calcite, more rarely aragonite and vaterite, all CaCO3, (Sects. 2.5.1, 8.1). In contrast cultured...coccoliths. From plankton sample of the Kimberley region, Australia, kindly provided by CSIRO Tasmania (picture...of the CaCO3-polymorphs aragonite, calcite, or vaterite (Sects. 8.1, 8.2), or of opal or apatite (7 Chap
 
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