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Tourmaline from
Mile 72, Cape Cross area, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia


Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mile 72, Cape Cross area, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:688708
Long-form Identifier:1:3:688708:7
GUID (UUID V4):c383590d-22d4-4125-b352-f90a6abdcab7
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
96.8km (60.1 miles) ⓘBrandberg Complex, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
98.7km (61.3 miles) ⓘBrandberg West Mine, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...The Central Escarpment- The Nauchas-Gamsberg-Hakos Area West and South of Rehoboth The Central and South-CentralDeposits...Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and the Diamonds 44 49 241 254 272 275
Catalog/List
Cerussites and Cuprites, Sapphires and Spinels, Tourmaline and Tanzanite, Emeralds and Jeremejevites, the...the Tsumeb Mine (as well as other mines of the region) were still in production in the 1970s. You will...engineering work took him to the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. This mine is renowned for producing what are arguably...remote and desert-like "Sperrgebiet" area of the southern coast of Namibia, with its fabulous wealth of gem...Taylor (1983 to present) Ian Taylor was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but at an early age the family
Journal (issue)
Thirty-three, Number Four Articles Jeremejevite from Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . ....CSM Museum $12 v.16/#4 Kingsgate mines v.16/#5 Tourmaline Issue! (Australia), Mauldin Mountain (ll2 p.)...22/#6 Wagholi cavansite (India), Kombat mine (Namibia), Madan mines (Bulg.),Beltana mine $12 v.23/#1...Tonopah-Belmont mine Eastern Europe Full-color $12 72-page book-issue $12 (AZ), Parker Cleaveland $12
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...home to South Africa with a few specimens from Namibia. I couldn’t tell a dioptase from a cerussite at...contributions he had made to the mineralogy of Namibia. When Tsumeb was at its zenith (for some), Sid...visiting mineral dealer and collector had to see in Namibia. From relatively humble beginnings in the hotel...thiosulphate-bearing mineral species from Tsumeb, Namibia. Canadian Mineralogist 37:1269-73. Bruce Cairncross
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
Report (issue)
Soktui, Russia; by electron microprobe. (2) Cape Cross, Namibia; by electron microprobe, (OH)1− calculated...pegmatites. Association: Albite, tourmaline, quartz, gypsum (Cape Cross, Namibia). Distribution: Large crystals...Mountains, Tajikistan. In Namibia, gem crystals from a prospect near Cape Cross, at Mile 72, about 100 km north...north of Swakopmund, and from Ameib, Erongo Mountains. At Wannerköpfe and Emmelberg, near Üdersdorf, Eifel...Herting, S. and H. Strunz (1978) Jeremejewit von Cape Cross in SW-Afrika. Aufschluss, 29, 45–53 (in German)
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Erongo Mountains, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....cm, with schorl and feldspar, from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Desmond Sacco collection; Bruce Cairncross...on the mineralogical treasures of the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. Uli’s financial support made possible...Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Tsumeb, Southwest Africa (Namibia). He had a mini-van-like truck loaded with minerals...try to bring an example of a wine from their local area as a treat, but quite often the gesture would be
Journal (issue)
Hemimorphite from Congo • Jeremejevite from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia • New morganite mine in Madagascar • Namibian...encountered in Namibia • Plastic and steel pearl imitations • Gem cutting factories in Namibia • Conference...discoveries in the 1990s, starting with the Lac de Gras area in the Northwest Territories (NWT), followed by...states were transported by glaciers from a specific region in Canada (the James Bay Lowland; figure 3). Isolated...Hills; (17) Mountain Lake ultrabasic pipes; (18) Cross; (19) Fort à la Corne; (20) Snow Lake –Wekusko;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Armbruster Fluor-schorl, a new member of the tourmaline supergroup, and new data on schorl from the cotype...NaFe2+3Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3F, is a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup from alluvial tin deposits near Steinberg...Saxony, Germany, and from pegmatites near Grasstein (area from Mittewald to Sachsenklemme), Trentino, South...fluor-schorl–schorl solid-solution series. For all studied tourmaline samples, a distinct inverse correlation was observed...Grasstein; crystal structure; chemical composition; tourmaline. 0935-1221/15/0027-2501 $ 6.75 DOI: 10.1127/ejm/2015/0027-2501
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
basale, kulinariske behov (kalorier!). Duoen bag Namibia Minerals medbragte fremragende Villiaumit krystaller...Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia). Selv mener jeg, de er mindst lige så interessante...Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia). Namibia Minerals stykker. store og fandtes i een...Elbaitkrystaller – vel 20-25 cm lange! – med Kvarts fra Tourmaline Queen Mine (San Diego Co., California, USA)....Verdens bedste stykke Jeremejevit fra Mile 72 nær Cape Cross, Namibia. Ex coll. Houston Museum of Natural
Catalog/List
(“thumbprints”) over the entirety of the multi-faceted surface area. This hand-sized specimen has the classic look of...Meteorite Slice Iron - IAB Complex Novosibirsk Region, Russia - (54° 20’N, 84°12’E) The find of the Maslyanino...Meteorite occurred on May 25, 1992 in the Novosibirsk Region of Russia, when an agronomist discovered a 26 kg...Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, nearly one mile across and 600 feet deep. Canyon Diablo (“Canyon...likely before settlers arrived in the Ryazan Oblast region in 1200. Classified as an Ataxite, it is an Iron
Journal (issue)
locality in Afghanistan • Elbaite-liddicoatite tourmaline from Vietnam • Green zoisite reappears • Fuchsite...the diamond with the 65% table showed a large dull area of girdle reflections. I refer to the angle over...(figure 2). As one tips the stone further, the dull area in the 65% table continues to be much larger than...New York and Carlsbad More on jeremejevite from Namibia In response to “Jeremejevite: A gemological update”...about the recent production of jeremejevite from Namibia. From December 1998 to February 2001, I was the
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...have been found with spine! in marble less than 1 mile southwest of Amity (Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013)... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing
Journal (issue)
inches) emerald green and yellow pastel green gem tourmaline form Rhodisht , Darrah Pech. Kunar. There was...Afghanistan, the village is Soghan, in a tribal area near Girufl (sp.), Kirman Province, eastern Jran...villages of Kirane Minjan. This is a Tajik speaking area in the Kokcha Valley about 80 km from the capital...all the way to Cbilas. an area that takes four to five hours by car to cross. They also took control of...non-availabi lity of petrol and diesel. To travel to this area and be caugh t with an American passport would be
Journal (issue)
quartz may have undistorted, hexagonal cross sections, the area between the two limbs is often filled...impossible in a real twinned crystal, because any small region of the twin must have a structure which corresponds...March-April, 2000 crystals to come from the Pezinok area were found in the Krfznica mine near Pernek between...granite slopes of the Male Karpaty Mountains; the area is wellknown for its many vineyards producing excellent...260 to 400 meters above sea level, in a forested area o f the Hruba Valley. The mine can be reached by
Report (issue)
. . • . . . • . . The Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....• • . . . . . . . . • . . • • • . . . . . Lucky Cross (Golden Gate) Mine . . . . . . . • • . . . • . •... . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Noranda-Val d'Or area . . . . . . • . . . . • . . • . . • . . . . . ..... • . . 4 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Kirkland Lake area................................... The Kirkland...Larder Lake - Labyrinth Lake area . . . . . . . . . • • . . • . . . . . Evain area . . • . . • . . . • • .
Journal (issue)
emerald deposit was discovered in 2021 in the Chitral region of north-western Pakistan. Following an earlier...approximately the past decade, the Numbi area in the South Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...Congo (DRC) has been a source of gem-quality tourmaline from alluvial, eluvial and possibly primary deposits...amounts of gem-quality morganite (Laurs 2015). The tourmaline and morganite were probably derived from pegmatites...mined in the Numbi area. He purchased one of them while visiting the mining area in April 2014, and obtained
Journal (issue)
of dumortierite in quartz. American Mineralogist, 72 (1-2), 170-2 Cassedanne, J.P., and Roditi, M., 1991...rose coloration. American Mineralogist, 86 (4), 466-72 Johnson, M.L., and Koivula, J.I., 1999. Gem News...and the Bobrovka River, both of the central Ural region of Russia (Phillips and Talantsev, 1996); Val Malenco...(BedognĂŠ and Sciesa, 1993); and the Erongo Range, Karibib, Namibia. There are less important localities... Figure 7: Thin section of inky black jade in cross polarized light. A few large grains of original
Journal (issue)
Hungarian/Czech ancestry with family roots in the mining area of Zinnwald in Bohemia. Rich began collecting minerals...and the Leadville area, amazonite and associated species from the Crystal Peak area, and many antique...means that for a twisted quartz crystal with a cross-section measuring 1 3 1 cm (not yet developed into...dominant in the western and central parts of the region) and Fundortgruppe 3 (Locality Group 3, dominant...zone encompasses the Gotthard Pass area and, to its east, the region of the Upper Rh ne Valley called Tujetsch
Journal (issue)
subjected to a temperature change. When heated, tourmaline becomes negatively charged at its sharp end and...Hill, started in the region from 1600 when Dutch settlers started working the area for ores which upon...inherited his father's estate which included all of the area of New Jersey. His fat her had been given the land...Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Co. The area is now known as 'The Fluorescent Capital of the...minerals have been described as coming from this region, Mont Saint-Hilaire (MSH) in Quebec has 45 listed
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colliers Bay area .......... ¡. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Trinity-Wesleyville area .. ¡............... . . . .. . ... . ........ Moreton's Harbour area . . . . . . .... . Codroy area 10 15 26 28 39 72 80 93 99 125 127 145 148 160 Frontispiece: Plates Cape Spear, Avalon...Alright Island Sea-eroded cliffs of red sandstone, Cape Alright . . . . . Sea arches, South Beach, Alright.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southwest Cape, Amherst Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
transparency and identification 67 67 68 69 70 70 71 72 72 73 74 74 77 9 Reflection and refraction Snell’s...reference. To this end the index has been enlarged, and cross-links between chapters have been increased. The...moved into separate premises in the Hatton Garden area of London. During the same year, the Gemmological...3 miles (5 kilometres) under the oceans to 45-mile (72-kilometre) deep ‘roots’ thrusting down beneath...this heading. These are the feldspar, garnet and tourmaline groups. Gem minerals are further subdivided into
Book (edition)
3 miles (5 kilometres) under the oceans to 45 mile (72 kilometre) deep 'roots' thrusting down beneath...minerals, such as the feldspars and quartzs, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and zircon, are found in intrusive...Figure 2.3 Single crystals of feldspar, quartz, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and zircon as formed in intrusive...minerals in that they were formed somewhere in the region between the lower part of the Earth's crust and...this heading. These are the feldspar, garnet and tourmaline groups. Gem minerals are further subdivided into
Journal (issue)
Republic; Duftite in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite...father had found while “rock hunting” in the Bishop area of California. That got his attention once again...rubellite tourmalir and associated minerals at the Tourmaline Queen mine in Sz Diego County, California. By...By 1978 he had accumulated a hu£ Tourmaline Queen collection, through the liquidation of much < his general...He expanded tl Tourmaline Queen collection (including the famous Postage Stan Tourmaline) into a general
Report (issue)
-ni ckel - silver deposits in the Cobalt-Gowganda area contain argentite . It is less common and occurs...silver is very intimate in specimens from the Cobal t area . Close examination of silver specimens revealed...ities men tioned were : Silver Islet off Thunder Cape ; Beaver in O ' Connor Township ; Silver Mountain...Lucky Queen Mine in the Keno Hill - Sourdough Hill area , Mayo District , argentite is associated with native...gravels of the Rae River in the Coronation Gulf region (J ohn Sinkankas, 1959: Gemstones of North America
 
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