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Celestine from
Bultfontein Mine, KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Celestine
Formula:SrSO4
Comments:Large crystals found in the bultfontein diamond pipe.
Colour:Blue
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Celestine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bultfontein Mine, KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:828937
Long-form Identifier:1:3:828937:7
GUID (UUID V4):9ce9292d-5c83-4fde-a92c-8b0eb6541f58
References
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courtesy Department of Geology, Rhodes University, South Africa. Department of Geology University of Johannesburg...PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Edgar Donald Mountain (1901–1985)...The type locality is the Bultfontein diamond mine in Kimberley, South Africa, where it was found associated...with rhodesite, another type species from the Bultfontein kimberlite pipe (Gard, Taylor, and Chalmers 1957;...pegmatite, Lovozero Massif, Northern Region, Russia; and the Trinite mining claim, California (http://www
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a MARID xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) A. Giuliani a,∗ , D. Phillips...phases. Here we describe an unusual assemblage of celestine (SrSO4 ), clinopyroxene and minor phlogopite,...mantle xenolith sampled by the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). This assemblage occurs in...pervasively traverse the xenolith, indicating that celestine and the other vein minerals crystallised from...resorbed where in contact with celestine and is overgrown by clinopyroxene. Celestine hosts the other metasomatic
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rise and development of the diamond mines of South Africa, from an historical, economic and technical...days on the diamond fields when the mines in the Kimberley and Jagersfontein areas were the only diamond...information of a mining nature, which included, besides the data on under­ ground and surface mining operations...crystals with the object, if possible, of deter­ mining the conditions under which the diamond crystal...collect during my many visits to all parts of South Africa where kimberlite deposits occurred and the filing
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not attempted to describe diamond prospecting and mining and, although I have attempted to give some of...with whose research groups at the universities of Cape Town and Chicago I have had long and fruitful collaboration...collaboration. Much of my fieldwork in southern Africa has been carried out with the cooperation and assistance...7.3 2.8 2.9 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . .... . . . . Central Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Africa. . . . . . . . . .
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partial overprinting by secondary processes at the local scale. Carbonates in southern African Group I (or...stable isotope compositions of carbonates from the Kimberley, Lac de Gras and Udachnaya-East kimberlites reveals.... . . . . . . 2.2.3. Local variations of C–O isotopes: Kimberley (South Africa), Lac de Gras (Canada)...hypabyssal kimberlite samples from: (a) the Diavik mine (Lac de Gras, Canada), and (b) the Gollapalle pipe...range of mantle carbonates. These regional and local variations can be attributed to different isotopic
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Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch...Rondebosch 7701, South MA 3 AC CE Corresponding author. PT E * D Africa ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract...MARID and PIC samples from the Kimberley- D Barkly West area in South Africa. Similarities between compositions...PIC xenoliths originate from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa), although MARID samples have also...relative abundance of archetypal MARID rocks in the Kimberley kimberlites compared to other localities remains
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polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). The inclusions host abundant...polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). In this paper we show that...xenolith (DU-1) from the Bultfontein dumps, Kimberley (South Africa). The Bultfontein dumps comprise waste...(including abundant mantle xenoliths) from the Bultfontein mine, which is one of four major diamond-producing...Off-cut of polymict breccia xenolith DU-1 (Kimberley, South Africa). Coin diameter = 2.4 cm. include blebs
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the sample (0.70814 ± 0.00002) and the host Bultfontein kimberlite (0.70432 ± 0.00005), suggesting that...southern African kimberlites and orangeites from the Kimberley and Barkly West areas. MARID and PIC rocks are...lithospheric mantle, which have been recovered from the Kimberley and other southern African kimberlites (Grégoire...samples studied here originate from the Kimberley kimberlites (Bultfontein, Wesselton, De Beers, and Kamfersdam)...localities are situated in or close to the town of Kimberley, in the Western terrane of the Kaapvaal craton
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men. Minerals of the Scratch Awl Mine PhilipsburgMining District, GraniteCounty, Montana Larry B. French...59301 french@midrivers.com The Philipsburg Mining District, immediately east of Philipsburg, Montana,...renamed the Hope mine (Albright, 2005). Silver was the primary metal produced by the district, but after 1916...1916, the Philipsburg district became the nations' leading producer of manganese. Lead, zinc, and some...some gold were also recovered from the district ores. The Flint Creek Range was created by several of granitic
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and coherent kimberlites from localities in South Africa ( We s s e l to n , D e B e e r s , B u l t...barite (Ba, Lα, LIFH); CaCO3 (Ca, Kα, PETL) and celestine (Sr, Lα, PETL). Acquisition time for the peaks...response (e.g., dark orange in the Wesselton, or Bultfontein kimberlites, Fig. 1d vs dark brown in the Benfontein...Laths of calcite occur in the De Beers dyke (South Africa; Soltys et al., this volume). These prismatic... ol2 cal usp ap prv ol1 Bultfontein 200 µm d 15 µm Bultfontein e Benfontein dol 40 µm f
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Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Mineralogia e Petrologia Program with abstract ·.joint 01111110/ meeting of the GAC. ,\L.J.Cand CSPG Pennskiye...Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de Alineralogia-Roma...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
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these kimberlites with SC RI those of possible local sulfur sources, such as country-rock sediments (Chukuck...Daldyn field (Fig. 1) hosts the largest diamond mine in the Republic of AC Yakutia (Siberia, Russia)...from 2500 m in the north-east to 3100 m in its south-western part (Kamenetsky et al., 2014 and references...for close-to-primary Group I kimberlites from South Africa (7 wt% H2O; Becker and le Roex, 2006). These...that modern halite precipitated in the open-pit mine from saline groundwaters (>300 g/l; Kostrovitsky
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for Si and PT E Ca, fluor-apatite P&H for P, Celestine SrSO4 P&H for S, tugtupite astimex for Cl, orthoclase...(UV9774-cpx, UV-AVG). All samples were collected from mine dumps, which represent different sections of the...cm in size) of a single olivine megacryst from a mine dump of the unserpentinised Udachnaya-East kimberlite...overlap with clinopyroxene megacrysts from southern Africa (Boyd et al., 1984; Merry and le Roex, 2007; Shee...Furthermore, the exposure of these megacrysts in the mine dumps may have exposed them to subaerial MA weathering
amphibole 100 amianthus, blue 100 -amianthus, Cape 100 amphibole group 98 annabergite 73 arduinite...argentite 10 argentojarosite 58 cat’s eye 24 celestine 55, 56 cerussite 46, 46, 47 chabazite 126, 127...area of central Canada and the northern United States (especially northern Michigan), the Rocky and Andes...Andes mountains, and central Africa. Excellent examples occur at Bogoslovsk in the Urals and Cornwall in...Native silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it
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amphibole 100 amianthus, blue 100 _amianthus, Cape 100. amphibole group 98 analcite 76, 108, 111 anatase...arsenides 8 arsenopyrite /5, 17 cat’s eye 24 celestine 55, 56 chalcanthite 59 chalcolite 74 chalcopyrite...area of central Canada and the northern United States (especially northern Michigan), the Rocky and Andes...Andes mountains, and central Africa. Excellent examples occur at Bogoslovsk in the Urals and Cornwall in...silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it
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analyses of carbonates from the Benfontein sills (South Africa) Montgarri Castillo‑Oliver1,4 · Andrea Giuliani1...carbonates in the Benfontein kimberlite sills (Kimberley, South Africa). Our multi-technique approach not only...and Lower sills) in the Benfontein farm (Kimberley, South Africa) is well known for its enrichment in carbonates...provided supported for an origin related to the Kimberley kimberlites (e.g., Le Roex et al. 2003; Batumike...complex is located ~ 8 km southeast of Kimberley (South Africa) (Fig. 1), at ~ 28o 49′ S and ~ 24o 49′
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e SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE Cape Town, April 1998 EXTENDED ABSTRACTS All extended...responsibility for authors’ errors and omissions. SOUTH AFRICA SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE...Survey of South Africa) SouthemEra Resources Ltd SOCIETY SPONSORS Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)...a Phanerozoic subduction regime in eastern New South Wales, Australia. Mantle Dynamics beneath Mongolia:...growth of Archean cratons: a case study from west Africa. The vertical distribution of indicator minerals
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amphibole 100 arnianthus, blue 100 ...amianthus, Cape 100 amphibole group 98 analcite 76, 108, I 11 anatase...20 carpholite 98 cassiterite 34 cat's eye 24 celestine 55, 56 cerussite 46, 46, 47 chabazite 126, 127...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...area of central Canada and the northern United States (especially northern Michigan), the Rocky and Andes
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43..."Mineral Powder Diffraction File", published by the Joint Committees on Powder Diffraction Standards (JCPDS)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some
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bo ok t* All D H^r \j iVi"- The) Mining Magazine PUBLISHED AT SALISBURY HOUSE. LONDON....refer to notices of articles under the heading Mining Digest.' italics ; ' PAGE 11.5 (m.rf.) ......Explosives on Rand 310 Africa, South, Educational Probleins in 1.58 Africa, South, Output of Metals and...227 Anaconda, Flotation Tests at 67 Anaconda in South America {m.d.) .... 228 Anaconda. Remodelled Concentrator...Goldfields Corporation Report. 124 Associated .Northern Blocks Report. 357 Aurora West United 100, 309
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Apatity, Russia; evsav@geoksc.apatity.ru Norwegian Mining Museum, 3616 Kongsberg, Norway; kk@bvm.no Institute...diamond-bearing mantle depths, i.e., the Abloviak UML, northern Labrador, Canada [5,7], Sarfartoq kimberlite and...discovered Vinoren UML dyke within the Kongsberg silver district, Kongsberg lithotectonic unit, Southern Norway...and Telemarkia units [20]. The Kongsberg silver district is situated within the Kongsberg lithotectonic...granitoids (1171–1146 Ma) [17,21]. The silver district is characterized by subvertical zones enriched
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Distribution of the main Phanerozoic volcanic provinces in Africa (after Choubert and Muret, 1975 and others) ISBN-13...:978·3·642·73968·2 1. Magmatism - Africa. 2. Geology, Structural - Africa. 3. Petrology - Africa. I. Kampunzu, A. B...Carbonatite-Nephelinite volcanism; ii) the southern Africa Karoo magmatism which is extensively dealt with...known in the world are located in the Canary and Cape Verde Is., at this northwestern African Plate. The...processes operating in the mantle beneath West Africa is also illustrated in this second part and in
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DEPOSITS AND PRODUCTION OF GEMS Types of deposits 49 Mining methods 51 54 CUTTING AND POLISHING OF GEMS Engraving...amber Canary stone Canary diamond Cape chrysolite or Cape emerald Cape ruby Ceruline Black coral Dioptase...Cerussite Howlite Witherite Coral Pearl Anhydrite Celestine ( Celestite) Barite Calcite Wulfenite Jet Crocoite...16 Painite Sphalerite Corundum Ruby Sapphire Celestine ( Celestite) Gahnite Anatase Malachite Azurite...given for famous old diamonds often vary because local carats and not metric carats were used. The carat
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Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after
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LONDON: AFRICA : & CO. (PUBLISHERS) LTD. 88 Kingsway, W.C.2 BUTTERWORTH & CO. (AFRICA) LTD. DURBAN...2 PREFACE For two decades, an earlier work of mine—Practical Gemmology—has proved a useful elementary...the Cultured Pearl Company, and those of diamond mining by the Anglo-American Corporation. ROBERT WEBSTER...the individual minerals crystallize out around local centres. Some minerals do so at an early stage and...gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district of San Diego County, California, from which much
 
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