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Cuprite from
Van der Plas Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Comments:Blocky, cubic crystals coated with a thin layer of malachite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Van der Plas Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:757432
Long-form Identifier:1:3:757432:0
GUID (UUID V4):dd34f94d-5782-4f3d-8c61-83b5bd9550b5
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
21.3km (13.2 miles) Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
35.5km (22.1 miles) Okahwa, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
39.6km (24.6 miles) Okatumba prospect, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
47.7km (29.7 miles) Kandesei (Otjozongombe; Old German mine), Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
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localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia ............................................ 485 by R. J. Bowell, 0. Ermolina, W van der Plas, J. van Us & M. Steiner The best zincite crystals...shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff Scovil photo...the best vesuvianite specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Quebec. In this issue we present a review of...Herodsfoot Mine Work Readers who enjoyed Roy Starkey's superb article on the famous Herodsfoot mine in Cornwall
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Mineral Quiz 2 King of Kashmir Thallium – Allchar mine Klondike Gold Rush Mineral of the Month: Shattuckite...CHASE THE WIND: Book review THALLIUM AND THE ALLCHAR MINE MINERAL QUIZ No 2 with answers KERNOITE THE KING...labour and women (bal maidens), the tensions between mine owners and miners, mining accidents and the rise...great read! John Pearce THALLIUM AND THE ALLCHAR MINE The element Thallium (Tl) is present in most rocks...discrete and unusual Tl minerals. This is the Allchar mine in Northern Macedonia. (The name Allchar is derived
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44118 janet_clifford@att.net Leadhillite Tsumeb, Namibia O xide-zone minerals present the collector with...size, such as those found uniquely at Tsumeb, Namibia. The leadhillite discovery at Tsumeb was world...other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...being an active commercial miner for minerals in Namibia. He works globally in the mining industry and is
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10-5. (Closed Sun.-Mon.) Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt. Los A N ote: Please call ahead fo r o ur tra...Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White Editing...grass-green cuprian adamite, 4.1 cm, from Tsumeb, Namibia. William Pinch specimen; Jeff Scovil photo. The...Min. 6 (1994), 351 Protoastrakhanite van Doesburg and van der Plas: (= konyaite) Am. Min. 74 (1989), 1382...pharmacosiderite Femandinite Prismatine Pseudorutile Flambeau Mine Merlino et al.: Am. Min. 79 (1994), 1185 Leake
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Germanic variants origi nate in the series 1-/andbuch der Min eralogie . foun ded by C. H i ntze. To distinguish...44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...09. c 7.76 A . Z=2 [PDF 27-620]. (TL) San Carlos mine. Guanajuato. Mexico. Named for S. Aguilar. Agustitc...Natural 13-FeO(OH) described from Belgium by R. Van Tassel ( I 959) Bull. Soc. helg. Gi'ol. 68. 360....PDF 34- 1 266 on synth. material]. (TL) Akaganc mine. Iwate Pref., Japan. Named for locality. 9 Akalidavyne
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Wilsell, Stockholm, Sweden. Der ylw/sc/z/wss -Zeitschrift fiir die Freunde der Minerof America, und alogie...Abstracts, 1907-, American Chemical Soci- Chemie der Erde, 19 14-, OK di und Petrographie, see Contributions...Bulletin, 1895-, Helsinki, Finland. Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 191 1-, Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft...Universitetsforlaget, Box 307, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematischnaturwissenschaftliche...Weber, J., 1974. Encyclopedia of Minerals. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 693p. Strunz, H., 1957. Mineralogische
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Untersuchungen an Silikaten. Ein Beitrag zur Kentniss der Hornblendegruppe. Z. Krist., 72, 111. Hanisch, K...Messung des Ultrarot-Pleochroismus von Mineralien VI. Der Pleochroismus des OH- Streckfrequenz in Riebeckit... C. O. 1940. Metamorphism in the Lake Wakatipu region, western Otago, New Zealand. Dept. Sci. and Ind... Kunitz, W. 1930. Die Isomorphieverhaltnisse in der Hornblende-gruppe. Neues. Jahrb. Min., Abh., 60,...Villiger, H. 1969. Die Methode der Abstandsverfeinerung zur Bestimmung der Atomkoordinaten idealisierter
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C. INGLE Jr. THE MOVEMENT OF BEACH SAND L. VAN DER PLAS Jr. THE IDENTIFICATION OF DETRITAL FELDSPARS...York 1965 ELSEVIER PUBLISHING COMPANY 335 JAN VAN GALENSTRAAT, P.O. BOX 21 1 , AMSTERDAM AMERICAN...crystal drawings from his book, Optische Bestimmung der gesteinsbildenden Minerale (1959). Grateful acknowledgment...Tantalite Arsenopyrite Baddeleyite Chalcocite Cuprite 54 Martite Chalcocite Euxenite Hematite Samarskite...Test (a) will not apply. Test ( h ) may apply if region near optic axis can be seen. Test (c) will apply
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in compounds as ionic, covalent, metallic, and Van der Waals in type while recognizing that transitions...cases the concepts of covalent, metallic, and Van der Waal’s forces are useful. Molecules such as Nz...the negative valence electrons on the other. The Van der Waal force is of the type which binds atoms of...slightly less than in chalcocite as it is in the region represented by the formula Cu,S, the cubic digenite...amorphous. THE SIMPLE METALLIC OXIDES Cuprite, Cu,O. Cuprite was one of the earliest minerals to be
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SURROUNDING ARE AS Edition 7.1 – 8 June 2020 J.T. VAN GORSEL Bibliography of Indonesia Geology, Ed. 7.......................... 1625 IX.1. Andaman Sea Region .................................................public-domain publications listed alphabetically by region or by subject. It resumes a tradition of annotated...was published as a 700-page pdf addendum to: J.T. van Gorsel (2009) A bibliography and brief history of...Bernard Seubert (Jakarta), John Taylor (Perth), Theo van Leeuwen (Jakarta), Ivan Yulianto (Jakarta) and others
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Mongolische Marchensammlung; t)ber Wesen und Aufgabe der Spraclvwissenschaft ; and On the Present Slate of...and the best of them are doubtless those of Bart van Hove and Wortman. Baars is a more virile artist,...(Vienna, 1899); A. Lichtwark, “ Die Wiedererweckung der Medaille,” Pan, 1895, pp. 34-40; 1896, pp. 311-318;...Feb. 18/20, when Blake, Deane and Monk defeated Van Tromp and De Ruyter, the battle beginning off Portland... Deane (killed), Penn and Blake, again defeated Van Tromp and De Ruyter; (3) the fight of 31st of July
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position of 56Fe; and (iv) the abundance peaks in the region past iron at the neutron closed shell positions...mixing caused by the convection, the entire unstable region evolves essentially chemically homogeneously—replenishing...of burning region (central or shell burning) and depleting the fuel elsewhere in that region at the same...burning of this fuel then commences outside that region. Table 1 summarizes the burning stages and their...maximum temperatures that have been reached in each region in the preceding hydrostatic burning stages (Table
 
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