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Fluorite from
Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:854508
Long-form Identifier:1:3:854508:4
GUID (UUID V4):87537003-f632-4f0b-b217-314172bad6ed
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Three Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ....................................J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc...Crescent, it has yielded many valuable specimens. Kipushi is the type locality fo r renierite and kipushite...situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
Catalog/List
with micro Sphalerite on 2x2 matrix Lers Malines Mine, Gard, France £20 4. BENTORITE a very rare, Cr containing...crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch Anglesey, Wales £18 I 0. PENNANTITE small...matrix. Plates are about I to 1.5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) £30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey... all over 2.5 x2.5 inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo £25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown cleavages...tabular twinned crystal about 8 mm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £40 Na Be PO4 17
Report (issue)
..........................................H19 Kipushi Polymetallic Type............................................................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................microgram of manganese per liter Å angstrom AMD acid mine drainage ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and...Cameroon province Guyana Shield province 45° Kipushi 45° 90° Indian province Russian province 135°
Report (issue)
cadmian sphalerite, fluorite (Pay-Khoy, Russia). Distribution: From the Edelweiss mine, Burra district,...Australia [TL]. At Tsumeb, Namibia. From Kipushi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At the Oyu...Mercur, Tooele Co., Utah; in the Redhouse Barite mine, near Golconda, Humboldt Co., Nevada. On the Rough
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...and polished except for one side 5.5x4x3 cm Katanga DR Congo £25 2 25 ARAGONITE attractive crystal group...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...crystalline area of Celsian on one side 6x5cm Benallt Mine Lleyn North wales £18 45 OLENITE/ROSSMANITE , on
Catalog/List
Tellurium down one side small 2x3 inch (Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico) £25 BERYL translucent colourless...CHALCANTHITE rich blue mass on lx2 matrix (Majuba Mine, Nevada USA) £6 STRONTIANITE yellowish. strongely...crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland) lxl £5 lx2 £10...5mm brown crystals over 2x4 inch surface hardshell Mine, Santa Cruz County Arizona USA £ I 2 GYPSUM variety...small bubble moves about 5mm inside the plate (Katanga) £6 HEMIMORPHITE good covering of attractive pale
Report (issue)
age; the alkaline granitic rocks commonly contain fluorite, allanite, monazite, and xenotime, and the peraluminous...peraluminous granitic rocks contain fluorite, tourmaline, molybdenite, and cassiterite. Sediments in adjacent...barite or barium (Ba); beryllium (Be); cobalt (Co); fluorite or fluorine (F); germanium (Ge) and its elemental...Cu deposits in Alaska consist of Kennecott- and Kipushi-subtypes (Cox and Singer, 1986, p. 130 and 227...typically contain some silver (Ag); in particular, the Kipushi-type deposits may contain three critical elements
Catalog/List
A1P0/.4FOH £6 Ba.Cu. SiO 808 ■a AMEGHINITE Tiokalayu Mine. Salllf del Hombre M~,Salta 1082 O EUDIALYTE St...Wctzlar, gcrmany 831 D!ll GREZNOCKITE Katharina Mine, Radvanice, C=cb Republic Golden-yellow miao crystals...~ -·- s,i, ~~ -G'R.U!ti!PLUCITJr- • ·1.cvigliani Mine. Scraveua, Lucca. Tuscmy ~ -R.elMcly rich brown...£8 2x2£15 lxt £4 1.a£8 Zo.SiO 156 CREJIDITE Hall Mine,Tonopah.Nyc County.Nevada, U.S.A 950 HVBEITE Emw...Russia 851 co ILSlIMANNlTE Cent.er Pit. Getchell Mine Nevada,, USA Pure grey-white cleavage nws. Blue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
British occurrences and the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield, Northumberland...spherical, columnar fibrous, and granular masses. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...deposits. Commonly associated minerals are barite, fluorite, calcite, and galena. Witherite is uncommon in...Valley–type lead-zinc-fluorite-barite deposits, particularly those of the fluorite-dominated Illinois-Kentucky...1997; Francis 1982). It is locally associated with fluorite, calcite, and the far rarer barium species alstonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic study of the Dikulushi Cu–Ag deposit, Katanga (D.R.C.): implications for exploration Maarten...southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.). The Kundelungu Plateau is situated to...the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1a). Reserves of the Dikulushi mine prior...Fig. 1 a Geological map of the southern part of Katanga (modified after Lepersonne 1974). Stars indicate...of the deposits; b stratigraphic column of the Katanga Supergroup that is divided in the Roan, Nguba and
Catalog/List
like mass in blue Chrysocolla Star Mine, L_u/lwmbashi South Katanga C;fi/40 small 2x2 £25 - A striking...tabular twinned crystal about 8 mm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £40 Na Be PO4 11...( small hollow tubes or epimorphs) Toca da Onca Mine, Virgem da lapa, Minas Gerais Brazil £35 12. HOLMQUISTlTE...micro crystals on l xl .5 inch matrix Schoeller Mine Kladno. Czech Republic . a 15. KTENASITE blue...blue micros and coatings on l xl inch Glomrudkollen Mine, Modum Norway l xl £12 16. CORNETITE rich coverage
Report (volume)
of Documents. ANCHORAGE, Alaska--4230 University Dr., Rm. 101 ANCHORAGE, Alaska--605 West 4th Ave., Rm...Virginia--National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125...Joseph A. Briskey 32c 224 Descriptive model of Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn, by Dennis P. Cox and Lawrence R. Bernstein...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes
Book (edition)
Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr & Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hanel Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter...Joachim Lorenz Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik Dr. Frank Melcher☆ & Dr. Simon Goldmann & Dr. Thomas Oberthür Dipl...-Min. Sebastian Möller Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Peter Röper☆ Prof. Dr. Supriya Roy✝ Dr. Thomas Seifert Dipl...-Geol. Jana Wazeck & Prof. Klaus Thalheim Dr. Thomas Witzke Prof. Dr. Fathi Zereini Mitteljörn 14a, D-24536...simple twins Bustamite lamellar Rhodonite yes Fluorite polysynthetic Baddeleyite lamellar and complex
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization of the historical PbZn Black Angel Mine in the Mârmorilik Formation and how it might be...Precambrian Pb-Zn mines in the world, the Black Angel Mine, which produced 11.2 Mt of Pb-Zn-Ag ore from 1973...production ceased, exploration north of the Black Angel Mine resulted in the discovery of Pb-Zn mineralization...Fjord area, roughly 40 km north of the Black Angel Mine, by RTZ Mining (Fig. 1; Coppard et al., 1992). This...Valley-type (MVT) and Kipushi-type deposit models have been suggested for the Black Angel Mine (Pedersen, 1980;
Catalog/List
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 1) ALBITE and MICA. Consolheiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A nice intergrown group of...collection. 60x30x30mm. £68. 4) AURICHALCITE. Wet Groves Mine, Wensleydale, N Yorks. A calcite matrix with the...with his label. 70x50x30mm. £20. 5) BARITE and FLUORITE. Lunehead, Durham. Limestone matrix, the top of...of 50x30rnrn with about 100 pale yellow cubic fluorite xls to 2mm. Ex ME Smith collection with his label...shaped xls to 10mm. The majority terminated. Old Dr F Krantz of Bonn label. "Barytocalcit Alston Moor
Catalog/List
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 1) ALBITE and MICA. Consolheiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A nice intergrown group ofoff-white...collection. 60x30x30mm. £68. 4) AURICHALCITE. Wet Groves Mine, Wensleydale, N Yorks. A calcite matrix with the...with his label. 70x50x30mm. £20. 5) BARITE and FLUORITE. Lunehead, Durham. Limestone matrix, the top ofwhich...cavity of 50x30mm with about I00 pale yellow cubic fluorite xls to 2mm. Ex M E Smith collection with his label...shaped xls to I0mm. The majority terminated. Old Dr F Krantz ofBonn label. "Barytocalcit Alston Moor
Report (issue)
Cu deposits in Alaska consist of Kennecott and Kipushi types, and they contain four critical elements:...example of the Kipushi type, which is named for the Kipushi deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These...breccia bodies, or both. All deposits classified as Kipushi type by Cox and Singer (1986) have Gebearing minerals...Creek deposit have not been published. Elsewhere, Kipushi-type ores contain approximately 1,000 parts per...but calculations from production figures from Kipushi, DRC, itself, suggest that recovery of Ge there
Journal (issue)
Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite from the Elmwood...Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway; Powellite from Nasik...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor...aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Freilich Collection. ♦ 4
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE 107, NEW MINERALS 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood .Mine, Cornwall Greenish , good coating on matrix, green...gelatin capsule .J £5 207 ■■ KESTERITE Cligga Mine Cornwall Metallic mass in matrix, quite rich Ix...1.5cm £12 Mg OH Cl 385 ■■ MIARGYRITE Mc Laughlin Mine, Napa County California black areas in quartz with...Cookeite in one area, nice miniature specimen Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares Mines Gerais Brazil 1.5 xl...crystals about 5 to 6mm size over a lx2 surface, with fluorite in the base Navidad, Durango Mexico £25 l 0.
Catalog/List
Italy. massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety...Index, Washington, USA. crystals ALBITE: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quobcc, Canada. crystals ALBITE: St....good crystal sections AS ,'\BOVE ALGOOONITE:Calumot Mine, Michigan, USA. massive ALL'\NITE: . Quadeville...1-:incrva .i'l Mine, Cavo-ln-Rock, Illinois, USA. good crystals ALT/1ITE: Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountain...Wickcnburg, Arizona, USA. massiv0 ALUNOGEN fuxtor l/7 Mine, san Rafael Sw01l, Utah, USA. massivo AMBER: Phillipina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
“Mineralogy”). Germanium is also produced from the Kipushi Zn-Cu-Pb sulfide deposit in Zaire, and the Tsumeb...thmugb much of the hypogene ore. The orebody at Kipushi forms a highly irregular subvertical pipe at the...deposits. Oxidized suede ore deposits.At the Apex mine, Washington County, Utah, germanium and gallium...of sufficient local &&ance at l&&e& Namibia and Kipushi, Zaire to constitute the richest known ores of...Ge-bearing Cu sulfide mineral found at Tsumeb and Kipushi, occurring mainly as microscopic inciusions within
Catalog/List
s-pecimen. 3x2~". £10. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, light green, cellular...Quartz. 2xltxl-}". £1, 50. :ilORNITE. Ca rn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwa 11, Sma 11, tarnished, irridescent...in association. 2xltxl". £8. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Small, dark green, tabular crystals...cavity in Quartz matrix with minor Apatite and Fluorite in association. The crystal shows minor contact...matrix. 2ix2". £3.25. CHALCEDONY. North Roskear Mine, Camborne, CornHall. Translucent waxy gum coloured
Journal (issue)
with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris;...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper...copper, cadmium, germanium and arsenic. The Kipushi deposit is a vein occurrence similar to the one at Tsumeb...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
 
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