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Mimetite from
Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyromorphiteⓘ1 photo of Mimetite associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7736
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7736:1
GUID (UUID V4):3dfea3f8-1a03-4061-92ba-d107d89e9558
Localities for Mimetite in this Region
Argent Mines, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
East Trench, Transvaal Mine, Dwarsfontein Farm, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
West Trench, Transvaal Mine, Dwarsfontein Farm, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘEast Trench, Transvaal Mine, Dwarsfontein Farm, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
54.1km (33.6 miles) ⓘEdendale Lead Mine, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1023 52. Lobanova, G. M. (1963) Olginsky ore district of southern Primorye. Dr. thesis. IGEM, Moscow...chromate minerals from the Argent lead-silver mine, Transvaal, South Africa: crocoite, vauquelinite, and...possible second occurrence of embreyite T HE disused Argent lead-silver mine is situated on the farms Brakfontein...in the Transvaal Province of the Republic of South Africa. A series of sub-parallel siderite-galena-sphalerite...deposit', Willemse (1942) wrote of 'Lead deposits near Argent Station', and De Jager (1966) spoke of 'A Transvaal
Corporate Document (Series)
Geology and major deposits, Heazlewood mineral district ... Main mineral locations and 1:100 000 scale...sills, equivalent to those in Antarctica and South Africa. This dolerite is also mostly unmineralised...widespread uplift and erosion, but there were some local high-level, lamprophyric and alkaline igneous intrusions...mine at Beaconsfield and mines in the Mathinna district being the major producers. The former Tasmania...Heazlewood area (fig.4 Prospectors worked their way south through difficult terrain and rainforest, and found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS...should follow on the heels of its sister mineral, mimetite, the subject of last issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice...decades and are well known to collectors. Unlike mimetite, pyromorphite is historically important from localities...color alone cannot distinguish pyromorphite from mimetite, its arsenic-rich and typically yellow equivalent...common. Twinning on [ 1122) is reported. Like mimetite, rounded, barrel-shaped crystals of pyromorphite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated minerals include smithsonite, hemimorphite, mimetite, olivenite, scorodite, wulfenite, azurite, and...Jersey. It is relatively well known from the Tintic district in the Iron Blossom mine, Juab County, and in...is reported from Tuckers tunnel in Tuckerville district, Hinsdale County, Colorado. A single Mexican occurrence...containing fine specimens of wulfenite and green mimetite, our lamps fell upon a pocket in the limestone...and legrandite as well as outstanding wulfenite, mimetite, and scorodite; however, my Rochester Mineralogical
Report (issue)
fornacite, hemihedrite, iranite, pyromorphite, mimetite, cerussite, leadhillite, galena, calcite, fluorite...Distribution: From the Preobrazhensky mine, Beresovsk district, near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Middle Ural...Sierra Gorda district, southwest of Calama, Antofagasta, Chile. In the USA, in Arizona, from south of Wickenburg...from about 14 km northwest of Nelson, El Dorado district, Clark Co., and at the Silver Dollar claim, north...Anarak district, Iran. At the Argent Pb–Zn mines, about 100 km east of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Report (issue)
Association: Russia). Crocoite, pyromorphite, mimetite, cerussite, beudantite, duftite (Beresovsk, Distribution:...At the Tsvetnoi mine, Mt. Uspenskaya, Beresov district, near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Middle Ural...the USA, in Arizona, at a number of localities south and west of Wickenburg, Maricopa Co., as the Moon...Potter-Kramer property, Vulture district, the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Osborne district; in the Florence Lead-Silver...Lost Basin district, Mohave Co.; in Nevada, from the Killie mine, Spruce Mountain district, Elko Co.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generosity, enthusiasm, and knowledge of gold and local microminerals are unforgettable. Figure 2. One...devoted to a field trip to the Baghdad Chase mine, south of Ludlow. Unfortunately, there was a fierce wind...with their backs to the wind. The east, west, and south sides of the rocks went unexamined! For those who...produced fine duftite on chrysocolla as well as mimetite in flat plates with bulges along the sides, resembling...Florida. Dowling Park, on the Suwannee River, just south of 1-10, houses the Advent Christian Village, home
Report (issue)
wulfenite, hemihedrite, phoenicochroite, duftite, mimetite, shattuckite, chrysocolla, hemimorphite, willemite...Djoué and Renéville, Congo Republic. In South Africa, at the Argent Pb–Zn mines, about 100 km east of Johannesburg...Pinal Co., at the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Osborne district, Maricopa Co., from the Lone Star mine, near Copperopolis...Gila Co., from the Shattuck mine, Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise Co., from the Eagle Eye mine, New Water...Spruce Mountain district, Elko Co., and in the Silver Coin mine, near Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with the element’s wide distribution and often local abundance. There are approximately two dozen such...Mountains area and others south of Wickenburg in the nearby Osborne district, such as the Moon Anchor...include the Mildren and Steppe mines in the Cababi district, Pima County, and in the Dripping Springs Quartzite...at Zacualpan, Mexico, and Mazapil, Zacatecas. In South America, crocoite has been known from Brazil since...crocoite (krokoit) specimens, some associated with mimetite, have been collected at Obercallenberg (the Callenberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A. 3...compositions of natural members of the pyromorphite-mimetite-turneaureite-chlorapatite system suggests the...of complete solid solution among pyromorphite, mimetite, hedyphane, and phosphohedyphane. No stable solid...arsentsumebite, azurite, beaverite, calcite, cerussite, mimetite, malachite, mottramite, and perroudite. The Capitana...(Goodsprings district, Clark Co., Nevada) and the Silver Coin mine (Iron Point district, Humboldt Co
Book (chapter)
(1920). achrematite = mimetite + wulfenite, AM 62, 170 (1977). achremite = mimetite + wulfenite, de Fourestier...sulphur-α, de Fourestier 2 (1999). acrematita = mimetite + wulfenite, de Fourestier 2 (1999). acrochordite...Akratothermen = ice, Hintze I.2, 1220 (1904). akrematit = mimetite + wulfenite, Låszló 5 (1995). akroit = gem colorless...hydroxylapatite, Smyth & Bish 330 (1988). apatite-(PbAsCl) = mimetite, EJM 22, 164 (2010). apatite-(PbCl) = pyromorphite...(1963). argenitite = acanthite, MA 48, 2475 (1997). argent = silver, Egleston 315 (1892). argental = moschellandsbergite
Book (edition)
), W. Sartorfus. von Waltershausen. Von Zeph., Victor von Zepharovitch. Wacht., T. Wachtmeister. Vitruv...amalgam halbflUssiges; ; amalgam de Lisle; argental argent amalgame, Dufr. dodecahedral mercury, Mohs; mercnre...soda-hornblende. Argent. See Silver. Argent amalgame. See Amalgam. Argent antimonial. See Dyscrasite. Argent antimonial...ferro-arsenifere. See Dyscrasite. Argent antimoni^ sulfur^. See Pyrargyrite. Argent antimonie sulfure noir....StepLanite. Argent arsenical. See Dyscrasite. Argent arsenio-sulfure. See Proustite. Argent bismuthif^re
Book (edition)
), W. Sartorius von Waltershausen. Von Zeph ., Victor von Zepharovitch . Pell ., Bertrand Pelletier...; amalgam natif, de Lisle ; argental mercury ; argent amalgame, Dufr .; dodecohedral mercury, Mohs;...Mohs; soda-hornblende. Argent. See Silver. Argent amalgame. See Amalgam . Argent antimonial. See Dyscrasite...Dyscrasite . Argent antimonial ferro -arsenifÚre . See Dyscrasite. Argent antimonié sulfuré. See Pyrargy...rite . Argent antimonié sulfuré noir. See Stephanite. Argent arsenical. See Dyscrasite. Argent arsenio
Report (issue)
crocoite, vauquelinite, fornacite, pyromorphite, mimetite, cerussite (Callenberg mine, Germany). Distribution:...Russia. At the Argent Pb–Zn mines, about 100 km east of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. In the Callenberg
Report (issue)
Waltershausen . Nutt., Thomas Nuttall. Von Zeph ., Victor von Zepharovitch . Pell., Bertrand Pelletier....halbflĂŒssiges ; amalgam natif, de Lisle; argental mercury ; argent amalgame, Dufr.; dodecohedral mercury, Mohs; mer...soda-hornblende . Argent. See Silver. Argent amalgame. See Amalgam . Argent antimonial. See Dyscrasite. Argent antimonial...arsenifĂšre. See Dyscrasite. Argent antimoniĂ© sulfurĂ©. See Pyrargy rite . Argent antimoniĂ© sulfurĂ© noir....nite. See Stephanite . Argent arsenical. See Dyscrasite. kalkspath, | Argent arsenio -sulfurĂ©. See Proustite
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Castle D om e district, Yuma County, A r iz o n a ..................... Hay M icrominerals from the Bushveld Complex, South A f r ic a .......................................O'Donoghue, P. /. Dunn & W. E. Wilson COVER: MIMETITE crystal group on matrix, 12 cm, from the Elura...lead-zinc-silver mine, No. 1 Level, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Mined in 1988 by John Chapman...(Otherwise By Chance or By Appointment) Three miles south of Bancroft, Ontario, on the West side of Hwy. 62
Book
El Antimonio District Cananea District ...... Arizpe District ........... Nacozari District ...... Moctezuma...Moctezuma District ... Hermosillo District ... Alamos District ........ San Bernardo Area Alistos District...SECTION 2 — Highway 45 Sabinal District ............... Los Lamentos District.... Placer de Guadalupe Puerto...Puerto del Aire District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine.... Cusihuiriachic District..... Barranca de Cobre (Copper Canyon) Batopilas District Strip Map — Federal
Journal (issue)
(“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand .......................supplement showing many details of the Berezovsk mining district, the subject of the July–August 2016 issue. We...occurrences in the larger Ekaterinberg district (including the Berezovsk district). Figure 26. The gold mining...Figure 30. Overview of gold occurrences in the Mias district, southern Urals. Figure 31. Map of alluvial gold...gold deposits in the Carevo Alexandrovsk area south of Mias. Figure 32. Graph of mined and alluvial gold
Book
material Achrematite, Achremite = mixlure of Mimetite and Wulfenite Achrenstein = Barite Achrite =...Adelforsit = Samarskite Acremotita = m ixture of Mimetite and Wulfenite Acrochordite = Akrochordite Acroita...Ajoite Ajuin = Hauyne AK = i m pure Kaolinite (South Devon Block Boll Cloy] Akodiolyt = Chaba:z:ite‱Ca...Glaucodot (not Arsenopyrite (Donoite)] Akrematit = Mimetite mixture of Wulfenite and Akroit = Elbaite Akrokordit...Amalgame d'Ag, Amalgome d'Argent, Amalgame Natif d 'Argent = mercurian Silver Amalgamit Amozonenstein =
Report (issue)
however, that occur in a particular part of a larger district or locality, are listed only under the area specified...Antelope District (Mineral Range). Beaver Lake District (Beaver Lake Mountains). Bradshaw District (Mineral...(Mineral Range). Fortuna District (Tushar Mountains). Gordon District (Tushar Mountains). Granite and North...Indian Peak District (Needle Range). Lincoln District (Mineral Range). McGarry District (Mineral Range)...Range). Newton District (Tushar Mountains). Pine Grove District (Wah Wah Mountains). Pruess (Newhouse) District
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the South Atlas fault and the Neogene foreland basins of Souss and Ouarzazate, and to the south by the...2018). A widespread transgression across North-Africa resulted in the flooding of the Anti-Atlas during...Fig. 3. (A). Geologic map of Tafeltast and the south of the Kerdous inliers, showing the location of...2B). Numerous north-northwest-south-southeast and north-northeast-south-southwest fractures affect the...60-m-deep open-pit quarry of Agoujgal is located 46 km south of Tafraout (Figs. 3, 4B). The deposit is situated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also occurs at the Empire mine in the Tombstone district, Cochise County; in the Old Reliable and Magma...Goodspring district in Clark County; associated with chenevixite and cornwallite in the Weepah district, Eureka...cornwallite, strashimirite, and lavendulan in the South pit of the deposit (Kokinos and Wise 1993). Elsewhere...found in a quartz vein cavity in the South pit. In the Tintic district, Juab County, olivenite commonly occurs...time and the Miguel Hidalgo mine in Hidalgo. In South America, olivenite has been identified from mines
Journal (issue)
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...Development Agency (SDA), Environmental Health and Local Health Officials are coming together co discuss...are relatively widespread in the basalts of the south-east Antrim coast, although occurrences are highly...in a scope on First Sun Vein, about 10-20 metres south of its intersection with Hetheringtons Crosscut
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
detachment in my right eye while visiting mines in Africa. The restorative operation in Moshi, Tanzania,... New Mexico. Ron presented an overview of the district and its varied minerals, also detailing some of...masses of material. Attendees bring material from local areas (Bill Lechner, a Canadian, brought giveaways...heard his Mines and Minerals of the Georgetown District, Grant County, New Mexico. Normally, the focus...session draws mainly from Georgia, North Caronia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, but from
Journal (issue)
large, white feldspar crystals. INTRODUCTION The South American region known as Patagonia, a barren tableland...guanaco (an undomesticated llama), the nandu (a South American ostrich) and the Andean condor, seen mainly...the Province, near the border with Chile. the south continental ice field, and the Los Glaciares National...and the second largest in continental South America. The north-south length of the country is 3,694 km!...Fitzroy has been referred to as “El ChaltĂ©n” in the local Tehuelche Indian language, meaning “the smoky mountain”;
 
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