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Limonite from
Timna Mine, Timna Valley, Eilat, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Timna Mine, Timna Valley, Eilat, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:940107
Long-form Identifier:1:3:940107:5
GUID (UUID V4):2c5f8901-2e71-4407-b459-71d80a5c53d7
References
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(Ikonos satellite data) of the ancient mining district of Faynan, Jordan, and its surroundings. Red dots...early copper metallurgy in the area of Faynan, southern Jordan, between 1983 and 1993. It also contains...the research carried out on the ancient mining district and mining techniques. The translation was made...archaeology of mining in Faynan and the southern Arabah-valley, Jordan” funded by the VolkswagenStiftung...archaeo- VI Preface metallurgical remains in Timna (Israel) and Sinai (Egypt), at a time when the political
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* Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Yisrael St., Jerusalem 95501 (Israel) (Received April 3, 1985;...clastic sequence ("Nubian Sandstone") of southern Israel, southern Jordan and Sinai. On their basis, eight...Negev Phosphates Ltd., P.O. Box 435, Dimona 86103, Israel. 0037-0738/86/$03.50 © 1986 Elsevier Science Publishers...Precambrian-Mesozoic clastic sequence ("Nubian Sandstone") in Israel, Jordan and Sinai (Fig. 1). The main purpose of...the Late Precambrian and the Paleo-Mesozoic in southern Jordan (Dead Sea area). Later, Bender (1963, 1968)
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his team began fieldwork on the Sinai Peninsula, Timna and the Iberian Peninsula. Beno Rothenberg has gained...heaps as by-products of the extraction of copper in Timna, a field that was then still largely unattractive...unattractive in archaeology. He used the example of Timna to push the term industrial archaeology, which had previously...smelting sites and metal workshops in a mining district in certain periods. This book focuses on ores...periods, also independently in the Balkans and in southern Spain/Portugal (Fig. 2.1). In fact, at Belovode
Report (issue)
produced at the ancient smelting camps in the Wadi Timna, Israel. 165 INTRODUCTION This volume forms part...1950's Rothenberg began his work in the Wadi Timna, Israel, followed shortly afterwards by Jovanovic at...(Devonian) age and containing syngenetic copper. One mine at Derrycarhoon, of considerably greater dimensions...from south and southwest Ireland indicate the southern and western slopes of Mount Gabriel as most probable...de Cerne to defray expenses regarding the King's Mine in the County of Tipperary." (Gleeson, 1937). These
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00efra_e3q9 GEOGRAPHY OF ISRAEL by EFRAIM ORNI and ELISHA EFRAT Israel Program for Scientific Translations...South, New York, N. Y. Copyright © 1964 Israel Program for Scientific Translations Ltd. IPST Cat...Cater Ol israel, an. 2. eis sat te eee 2 Table of Historical Periods and Events in the Land of Israel IDSapeKeraneeyol...of upbuilding, and the founding of the State of Israel, literature on the country gained further scope...comprehensive and concise geographies on the Land of Israel being rather limited, particularly in languages
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Early Mines The Mines of the Developed Bronze Age Mine Systems of the Iron Age Civilisations Hydraulic...strong country rock of granite, 375 level at Dolcoath Mine, Cornwall (photo: Burrow and Thomas, 1893) 22 ...Corta Lago opencast mine at Rio Tinto, Huelva, Spain, Small Bronze Age trench mine at Chinflon, Huelva... 2.6 Complex fireset working at the Kestel tin mine dating from the third millennium Bc Large steeply-plunging...Gallery in the Bronze Age copper mines at Timna, southern Israel Grooved stone mining hammer from the Bronze
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communities were also founded in the Levant and in southern Anatolia. The earliest indications of metallurgy...civilisations in the Nile valley, the Tigris-Euphrates valley and the Indus valley was characterised by intensive...civilisations was the Sumerian, in the Tigris-Euphrates valley of Mesopotamia where extensive cities like Ur,...early Egypt. Archaeological research in the Nile valley indicates that the process of neolithic settlement...The Naqada II culture spread over the entire Nile valley from north of Hierakonpolis into the Delta. Long-distance
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are identical and comparable to those in south Israel and southwest Sinai. The suites are mainly opaques...of Israel (Bender, 1968). T h e K u r n u b S a n d s t o n e is exposed in Jordan, Sinai, Israel a n...K u r n u b S a n d s t o n e in J o r d a n , Israel a n d Sinai a TABLE 1 - 2 7 66 25 22 R...n Sinai ( U r n B o g m a a r e a ) S o u t h Israel ( T i m n a a r e a ) 104 white sandstones up...south Jordan in comparison to those from south Israel 0J u~ =P _ o •= ":_ oo o. 0 i c o Non-Opaque
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convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the...Tunisia 49 51 146 Yemen 53 17 18 19 The Red Sea Israel References 55 56 oF 20 List of Maps 60 the...Arab countries are arranged in alphabetical order. Israel is also included because of its ea ie position...for Gabal, meaning Mountain W. for Wadi, meaning Valley To be consistent with Arabic spelling, the proper...metallurgical industry. Recent excavations in Wadi Timna in Sinai led to the discovery that the so-called
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connection with lateritic weathering, above all on the southern continents (old Gondwana Shield) on the basis...masses may lead to the Lindener Mark Type in the southern part of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge as well...times. This type of Mn-ore, which occurs on the southern continents (Gondwana Land)-- for the most part...ite formation. realized in particular on the southern continents. The tension-tectonics connected with...Variscan sulfide deposit province of the Huelva District. Small scale examples are known from the northern
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conditions (Sillitoe, 2005). Consistent trends of limonite mineralogy and abundance in vertical profiles...30–90 m (below surface) near the AC Spence Cu mine (see Alvarez et al., 2015, and references therein)...Quebrada Turquesa exotic copper orebody, El Salvador district, Chile. Econ. Geol. 96, 367–386. Münchmeyer, C...T assemblages in the Cambrian Timna Formation, southern Israel. Israel J. Earth Sci. 48, 195-208. CR...relief map and precipitation in the central and southern Andes, showing the extension of the Atacama Desert
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Geological Survey of Israel Ministry of National infrastructures Energy and Water Resources Petrographic...appearance of these rocks) is a unique rock complex in Israel and Jordan (Fig. 1). The formation is composed...Location map of the Hatrurim Formation outcrops in Israel and Jordan (after Burg et al., 1999). 6 From...temperature minerals in nonmetamorphosed sediments in Israel. Nature, 199: 478-479. Bentor, Y.K., Gross, S....unusual minerals from the “Mottled Zone” complex, Israel: Am. Mineralogist, 48: 924-930. Burg, A., Kolodny
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Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL...matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany
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low-salinitystagesof evaporativecycles.How- ric oxidessuchas limonite. These secondaryferric oxidescontainedup to 63...Suchmixingwasa possiblecause of copperdepositionin the Timna copperdeposit, which consistsprincipallyof cupric...499-501. Bartura,Y., and Wurzburger,U., 1974, The Timna copperdeposits,in Bartholom6,P., ed., Gisementsstratiformeset
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began in Britain in ad 45, in Gaul 58 bc and in southern France PREFACE IX in 121 bc. But the classical...excavations. On the other hand why was there a need to mine if such excellent materials were available on the...relative. Agriculture did not appear on the scene in southern Europe until the sixth millennium bc whereas in...date for the introduction of copper mining in southern Europe will be much earlier than one for similar...measuring or checking procedure been found in a flint mine and in the systems used would have been necessary
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activities (2014–2019) in the wider Greater Victoria District (GVD) were undertaken by First Quantum Minerals...al., 2001a, 2001b); El Tesoro, Centinela mining district (Fernández-Mort et al., 2015, 2017; Riquelme...near-surface mineralization and can be an indicator of district-scale fertility. Exotic Cu mineraliza­ tion predominantly...throughout the oxidized zone, along with jarositic limonite after pyrite. Characteristic of porphyry systems...3200 m. To the north of Picaron, an intramountain valley termed the Pampa de Mulas (Cornejo and Mpodozis
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the eastern and central Mediterranean to Iberia, southern France, Britain, and Ireland, the Eastern Alps...region is examined, as is the survival of early mine archaeology in different geological settings. Survey...application of lead isotope analysis to identify early mine sources pioneered by Noel Gale, Zofia Stos-Gale,...Early copper mines in the Languedoc Other mines in southern France The French Alps Discussion 6. Northern...Fig. 1.3. The mineralization of the Great Orme mine, north Wales 9 Fig. 1.4. Base metal metallogeny
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Khirbet en Nuhas 118 Warda iron mine and smelter in the Ajlun District 128 Wadi sand and concentrates...Organic materials s 189 Lignite from the Ba'qaa Valley 190 Iron 190 Vanadium and uranium 190 Barium, strontium...activity along faults connected with the Jordan Rift Valley Barite veins in northeastern Jordan Apatitic limestone...sandstone-type sedimentary uranium deposits in the Ba'qaa Valley Consideration of size fractions of wadi sand most...Ma'in, showing hydrothermally altered rocks in valley wall B. Warm stream fed by warm springs 54 54
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collections, particularly in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, North America, and China...materials excavated in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, China, and North America. The.... . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1 Granite grinder, Mine Dunquash, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . ..... . . 87 Basalt hand axe from unnamed wadi near Mine Mueilha, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 90 Hafted granite hammer from a mine near Bir Al Alam, Egyptian Eastern Desert. Pharaonic
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production sites turned out to spread far beyond the southern borders of Egypt and well into the Nubian territories.... . . . . . . . . 5.2.32 The Pharaonic Mining District in Wadi el-Sid . . . . . Middle Central Group.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Central Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7.7 Nile Valley Block A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.11 Hamisana Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
...............................H19 Mississippi Valley Lead-Zinc 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...types of deposits (sediment-hosted, Mississippi Valley-type, and volcanogenic massive sulfide) for zinc
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............................. 28 Chamberlain Valley ..................................................................................... Whim Creek mine ...................................................................................... Mons Cupri mine ...................................................... Evelyn copper mine ............................... Yannery Hill copper mine ....................................................... Breens copper mine ...............................................
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lumped together with the output of a larger local mine. The locality registered in the literature is thus...of an orebody (or orebodies). At the old Crimora Mine in Virginia (Eilertsen and Feiss, 1946), "about...credited with 1045 Mn mines. This amounts to one mine per 362 km 2. Canada, on the other hand, has only...occurrences contain more than 100 t Mn (i.e., one Mn mine per 551,000 km2). Some small mineralized belts,...222 180 175 150 121 Large accumulations Atasu district Kerch F e - M n Sausar Group Mutun Uda N. Urals
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the ArabianNubian Shield: a case study from the southern tip of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt A. E. S. Khalil...the Arabian-Nubian Shield: a case study from the southern tip of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, International Geology...the Arabian-Nubian Shield: a case study from the southern tip of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt A. E. S. Khalila...Pasadena, CA, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The southern Sinai Peninsula, underlain by the northernmost... The alkaline and peralkaline granites of the southern tip of Sinai divide into three subgroups: syenogranite
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fragments from ancient copper smelting sites near Timna, Israel; similarly, with the enthusiastic collaboration...physiographic provinces of the Ozark Plateaus, the Arkansas Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal...CONWAY LOGAN SEBAST IAN CROS S WHITE ARKANSAS VALLEY FAULKN ER CRITTENDEN WO ODRUF F MISSISSIPPI...dolomite, and copper in north Arkansas. The Arkansas Valley province is underlain by folded shales and sandstones...weathering of copper minerals. Associated with quartz, limonite, malachite, azurite, chalcopyrite, turquoise,
 
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