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Dioptase from
Black Mountain (Swartberg mine), Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Dioptase
Formula:CuSiO3 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dioptase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mountain (Swartberg mine), Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:788008
Long-form Identifier:1:3:788008:7
GUID (UUID V4):2b5cfdc2-cad8-4986-a441-186f7de7705d
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Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All...space deposition. Right: Large open pore space of a black smoker wall with sphalerite (medium grey) and fine...mineral suites as seen, for instance, in hydrothermal black smokers from inside (hot) to outside (cold): • ...an extremely fine scale (2-3 cm, as observed in black smokers); telescoping is the key term for this behaviour...growth of orpiment (pinkish medium grey); from black smoker. Right (second from bottom): Syngenetic skeletal
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Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
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considered as an area of scientific research of black and white smokers, rather than an area of exploration...Descloizite Diamond Diaspore Dietzeite Digenite Diopside Dioptase Djurleite Dolomite Donbassite Dumortierite Duranusite...salinity as a result of devolatilization of subducted South Pennic rocks. During the Paleogene orogeny under...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...to an orthopyroxene bearing tonalite. A gray or black holocrystalline nepheline monzogabbro or nepheline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
considered as an area of scientific research of black and white smokers, rather than an area of exploration...Descloizite Diamond Diaspore Dietzeite Digenite Diopside Dioptase Djurleite Dolomite Donbassite Dumortierite Duranusite...salinity as a result of devolatilization of subducted South Pennic rocks. During the Paleogene orogeny under...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...to an orthopyroxene bearing tonalite. A gray or black holocrystalline nepheline monzogabbro or nepheline
 
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