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Gypsum from
Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcocite1 photo of Gypsum associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:840986
Long-form Identifier:1:3:840986:7
GUID (UUID V4):9430bd7b-fbfe-4492-a61d-2882f7f3fe3e
Localities for Gypsum in this Region
Nababeep West Mine (Nababeep Near West mine), Nababeep tungsten mines, Nababeep, Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
9.9km (6.1 miles) Nababeep West Mine (Nababeep Near West mine), Nababeep tungsten mines, Nababeep, Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-012-0403-x ARTICLE The O’okiep Copper District, Namaqualand, South Africa: a review of the geology with...Abstract The O’okiep Copper District is the oldest formal mining area in South Africa. Between 1852 and...the 2,500 km2 area yielded two million tons of copper from 32 mines ranging in ore tonnages from 140...Koperberg Suite. Almost all of the copper in the O’okiep District occurs in the Koperberg Suite, of which...it is one of only two world examples of economic copper mineralization in rocks of the anorthosite–charnockite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1983 The Copper-Bearing Basic Rocks of Namaqualand, South Africa J. R. Mclver and T. S....Johannesburg B. de V. Packham O'okiep Copper Company Limited Nababeep Copper mineralisation is associated with...irregularly-shaped bodies within the gneissic terrain of the Okiep District. These basic rocks comprise the so-called Koperberg...constitute one of the three major copper producers in South Africa. While a metasomatic origin was briefly...the geology of the Okiep Copper District (Fig. 1) and sevThe existence of the copper-bearing eral theories
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
country should he on view in the “city of gold.” South Africa is not well known for its institutional or statefunded...treasures of the earth. not only from South Africa but also from southern Africa as a whole and other regions...Mines and the Museum of the Geological Society of South Afiicil (Kennedy 1970). The Chamber of Mines collection...secretary and treasurer of the Geological Society of South Africu.) Several years later, in 1904, the collection...mammal-like reptiles from the famous Karoo region of South Africa, Cretaceous ammonites, Permian and Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reconstruction of Copper Smelting Technology Based on 18–20th-Century Slag Remains from the Old Copper Basin, Poland...Derkowska, K.; Świerk, M.; Nowak, K. Reconstruction of Copper Smelting Technology Based on Institute of Geological...Abstract: This research was conducted on historical copper slags from Leszczyna and Kondratów in Lower Silesia...Silesia, Poland. The area, formerly known as the Old Copper Basin, was a mining and smelting centre between...residual chalcocite dominate local strata-bound copper deposits. Ore bodies are restricted to carbonate
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...reason of the great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Journal (issue)
siderite. Ferndale , Rhondda Fach, Mid Glamorgan , south Wales. Peter Wallace specimen and photograph. JOURNAL...vivianite H. Howard 93 NOTES Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop...concentrated (e.g. rare earth pegmatites and porphyry copper deposits), the ability to identify daughter phases...quartz-<:assiterite vein in the Mole Granite, New South Wales, Western Australia. Two types of coexisting...strongly fractionated into the brine-rich inclusions. Copper was an exception and was preferentially partitioned
Book (edition)
colours once they occur in their oxidised states: Copper minerals then show green, blue, and sometimes red...tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native copper and cuprite are less common in this suite. Right...bright green gold-yellow, silver-white (Ag) to copper-red (Cu); 72.26 very light grey with yellowish...92.20 isotropic yes Copper, native gold-yellow, silver-white (Ag) to copper-red (Cu); 82.00 light...Reflect. Mineral pinkish grey; slight 51.88 light copper red pink to very distinct with violet tint; violet
Book
Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”...Ortelius was the first to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ‘if comparisons are made between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is clear that different areas in...Kontinente und Ozeane, Alfred Wegener considered South America, Africa, India and Australia as the main parts of
Book
North American Craton (less Greenland Shield) 1.6.6 South American Craton 1.6.7 African Craton 1.6.8 Indian...Wisconsin and Michigan 2.6.7 Wyoming Uplift 2.7 South American Craton 2.7.1 Guiana Shield 2.7.2 Central...Central Brazil Shield 2.8 African Craton: Southern Africa 2.8.1 Kaapvaal Craton 2.8.2 Limpopo Mobile Belt...8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2.9 African Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton and Trans-Saharan...2.11.1 Dharwar Craton 2.1 1.2 Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11
Book
North American Craton (less Greenland Shield) 1.6.6 South American Craton 1.6.7 African Craton 1.6.8 Indian...Wisconsin and Michigan 2.6.7 Wyoming Uplift 2.7 South American Craton 2.7.1 Guiana Shield 2.7.2 Central...Central Brazil Shield 2.8 African Craton: Southern Africa 2.8.1 Kaapvaal Craton 2.8.2 Limpopo Mobile Belt...8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2.9 African Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton and Trans-Saharan...2.11.1 Dharwar Craton 2.1 1.2 Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11
Book (edition)
Compounds, Carbides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Silicides Copper I/A.01-10 4 Silver I/A.01-20 6 Gold I/A.01-40 8...Sulphosalts II/A - Alloys and Alloy-like Compounds, with Copper, Silver, Gold and Nickel Algodonite II/A.01-10... Selenium and Tellurium < 1:1, Tellurides with Copper, Silver and Gold Linnaeite II/D.01-20 320 Polydymite...Sb,Bi = x), Sulfosalts with Predominant Iron and Copper x = 2.0 Berthierite II/E.01-10 458 Wittichenite...Unfamiliar Anions. Cations of Medium Size VI/C.22-20 798 Gypsum VI/F - Chromates [CrO4]2Crocoite Vauquelinite
Book
Salvador Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chile .................................. . Porphyry Copper Deposits in Island...Porphyry Copper Deposit, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea ......... . Genetic Models for Porphyry Copper Deposits...1.2.5 1.2.6 1.2.7 1.2.8 1.3 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 Copper-Bearing Breccia Pipes ............ . 22 23 24...Magnetite Deposits ............... 1.6.2 Manto-Type Copper Deposits .............. 64 66 1.7 67 Discussion.................. . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico ..........................
Book
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
Book
Pretorius 117 Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Deposits of Copper, Lead, and Zinc. . Lewis B. Gustafson and Neil...Lead Deposits and their Relationship to Red-Bed Copper and CarbonateHosted Lead-Zinc Deposits.A. Bjfirlykke...Bjfirlykke and D. F. Sangster 179 Porphyry Copper Deposits Part I. Geologic Settings, Petrology, and Tectogenesis...making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...whatever the origin of its magmas. It contains as much copper as nickel, a sign of progressing geochemical evolution
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
org Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations...million tonnes of ore containing 67 100 tonnes of copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold...different types of Ni-laterite profiles from the northern Caribbean: a geochemical comparison . . ........charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...Geochemistry of the Sakatti magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, northern Finland ....................................
Book
Billiton in London and the Geological Society of South Africa Trust. My colleagues at Wits were extremely...PGEbearing Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. This unit and the ores within it can be altered...U-bearing conglomerate from the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa. Quartz veins cutting this unit attest to the...of ore deposits as defined by the Australian and South African Institutes of Mining and Metallurgy. now...essentially only one element exists in the structure. Copper, silver, gold, and platinum are all characterized
Book
(Figs. 12.2, 12.7, 12.9, 16.19), Geol. Soc. S. Africa (Fig. 16.38), Geol. Surv. Canada (Figs. 6.25, 6...Fig. 3.8. (a) Permo-Carbon iferous dyke-swarm of Northern Argyll: Contou r map illustrating the intensity-distribution...poorly compacted conglomerates and clay-rocks with gypsum intercalations. Fig. 3.19 shows an oblique view...are infilled with fibrous anhydrite and secondary gypsum (Fig. 3.20(a)), while some of the fractures near...intrusion caused the dehydration reaction from gypsum to anhydrite to occur, which released large quantities
 
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