 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | Catalog/List | | Kyanite show intersecting textures. Diamantina District, Minas Gerais, Brasil. 84A6(a) 5 x 5 cm 5.00 Highly...grade 84A3(c) 15.00 7.50 White Kyanite Clover, South Carolina. Quartzite (6 x 9 cm) with pyrite grains...over the fore-section amethyst crystals. The Irai District, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. combination is a delight...hydroxyl-apatite with large niobian perovFaraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine), crystal specimens, these two were worthy...quartz matrix (4 .5 x 4.1 cm); type locality . Moss Mine, Nordmark, Sweden . Nice miniature (8 x 5 cm) of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30...Choice, R.B. Cook: Beryl, Variety Emerald, Chivor Mine, Chivor, Colombia, 332-34; Demantoid, Val Malenco...Fluorapatite, Inna Nala, near Fighar Village, Nagar District, Pakistan, 112-14; Microcline, Variety Amazonite...Park County, Colorado, 248-50; Pyrite, Park City District, Utah, 394-96; Rhodochrosite, Alma, Park County |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nineteen, Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This...Chichibu mine” (by Kuniaki Kato and Hidemichi Hori), “ Collecting report: Hikagezawa gold mine, Shizuoka...Avenue Sun City, Arizona 85351 he Tonopah-Belmont mine is a micromounter’s paradise. An un common suite...sulfates, molybdates and chromates can be found at the mine. The abundance of species makes it an ideal introduction |  | | Catalog/List | | an shale, some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...of Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal...80 lxl f.9 platy qrey-brown 5mm f.2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured...Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No 2 Mine, Chibougamau, lem rock. (Mt micros w1th Unusual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the most common zeolites (such as natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite) can be similar in appearance,...crystals in volcanic rock exposed about 2 miles south of Railroad Pass in the McCullough Range, Clark...and quartz in gold-bearing veins of the Olinghouse mine, Washoe County, Nevada (Castor and Ferdock 2004)...as small radial fibrous aggregates at the Engels mine, Plumas County, and at Crestmore, Riverside County...Olalla, British Columbia. Scolecite crystals with mesolite occur at several localities in the Barranca de |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...with micro Sphalerite on 2x2 matrix Lers Malines Mine, Gard, France £20 4. BENTORITE a very rare, Cr containing...crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch Anglesey, Wales £18 I 0. PENNANTITE small...matrix. Plates are about I to 1.5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) £30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey...crystals,. all over 2.5 x2.5 inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo £25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals in the syenite quarries at Granite Mountain south of Little Rock, Pulaski County (Howard 1987; Smith...Rhode Island mine (crystals to 5 cm), and the Centennial mine, Houghton County; the Phoenix mine (pink copper-included...cm), the Central mine, Northwestern mine, Cliff mine, Seneca mine, Garden City mine (red crystals with...many others in Keweenaw County; and the Henwood mine, Ontonagon County. Good analcime specimens have...fluorapophyllite, garronite, levyne, natrolite, mesolite, laumontite, stilbite, and calcite. Other Colorado |  | | Journal (issue) | | dollars. Foreign Payments Remittance may be maae in local currency, without surcharge, to the following people:...Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...It seemed like old times to meet the bunch at the mine. Nothing had changed much. I met Bronkie and was...having a lot of trouble with the equipment at the mine. So much of the equipment he doesn’t know what it...morning I was up a little after 7:00 and to the mine a lit tle after 8:00. March suggested that I go |  | | Journal (issue) | | formed by the action of natural weathering in mines, mine spoil, and so on, will still be regarded as minerals...creating new species. Those formed by the action of mine fires however, will no longer be accepted as minerals...east of the dyke. ollectors and mine historians visiting the Lake District should be aware that the Caldbcck...Quarry and Mining Museum can be reached by turning south on the A66 Penrith co Keswick road at Threlkeld...Similar material has also been found at nearby Mexico Mine. Tsumcbitc associated with well crystallised brochantite |  | | Book | | Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...in framework aluminosilicates is always (Ca + Mg+ Ba + NaZ+ KZ)/AI = 1. Zeolites differ from all the other...general formula for a zeolite mineral is (Ca,NaZ,KZ,Ba,Sr,Mg,CsZ,LiZ)a[AlaSi n_a 0Zn] •xHZO The part in...positively charged cations (Ca, K, Na, Li, Mg, Sr, Ba, Cs) to produce an electrically neutral stable mineral | | | Book | | Early History • Zeolites were known by many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research...found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...in framework aluminosilicates is always (Ca + Mg+ Ba + NaZ+ KZ)/AI = 1. Zeolites differ from all the other...general formula for a zeolite mineral is (Ca,NaZ,KZ,Ba,Sr,Mg,CsZ,LiZ)a[AlaSi n_a 0Zn] •xHZO The part in...positively charged cations (Ca, K, Na, Li, Mg, Sr, Ba, Cs) to produce an electrically neutral stable mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil)...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½...Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture.Japan Venice Dome, Lousiana, U |  | | Catalog/List | | 2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal |  | | Journal (issue) | | EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH... MINERAL NOTES SIEGENITE FROM ERGLODD MINE, TALYBONT, DYFED, WALES RGLODD Mine is located 200 metres east of...sphalerite (Livingstone l'I al., 1976); in the South Wales Coalfield it is found in clay-ironstone nodules...(1985) Siegenite in clayironstone nodules from the South Wales Coalfield. Joumal of the Russell Society 1 |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves the...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 Talc...Hardness 10 Quartz Diamond Diamond, Kimberley, South Africa * 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm | 19 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22 |  | | Book | | talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's |  | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Journal (issue) | | by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by...S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns ...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological...07439 Hours: 10-5 M -Sun, M ar.-D ec. Specialty: Local m ining & minerals Carnegie Museum o f Natural...the cavansite occurrence. Con versations with local people also disclosed some circumstances during |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |  | | Book | | major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...comfort. Users of chromite, who must the USSR, South Africa, Albania, and wish that chromite deposits were...Republic of South Africa by the Department of Mines and the Geological Survey of South Africa; such profiles |  | | Book (volume) | | 321 ANALCITE.338 ZEOLITE GROUP.351 Natrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite ...... Thomsonite, Gonnardite, Edingtonite...Table 2. Cell parameters of alkali felspars aA bA cA Sanidine 8-5642 13-0300 7-1749 90° Orthoclase...ions which may be present in limited amounts include Ba, Ti, Fe+3, Fe+2, Mg, Sr and rarely Mn. Analyses of...separately in Table 9: for the remaining felspars the Ba is considered to substitute for K, while for all...D 14° — Si A1 Fe+1 2 3 4 * 6 7 8 Ti Mg Na Ca K Ba 11-719 4-249 0-024 0-011 0-027 2-916 0-227 0-748 |  | | Journal (issue) | | prices include Air Mail. CONTINENTAL EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA I & A Wolters Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 ХD Westmaus...(01864)1975 Horst Windinch P.O. Воx 17273 Groenkloof South Africa 0027 AMERICAN CONTINENT AUSTRALIA Mrs. J...C. van Loon. Diary of Events 4 2 6 Llywernog Mine and Museum S.J.S. Hughes. ADVERTISING Peter Briscoe...Briscoe 'Lloches' Job Lane, Mattersey, Doncaster. South Yorkshire. 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