 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large |  | | Catalog/List | | with admixed Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Wales. Chocolate brown massive, with minor rock...rich greenish yellow with white Barytes Whitesmith Mine Strontian Scotland lx2 £10 17. SCAPOLITE translucent...HUNTITE white chalky massive areas coating vughy Aragonite, about 2x3 overall size Koksin, Bohemia, Czech...collected in the J960's Bjordammen, near Kragero South Norway A) large 3x2 £20 B) lesser piece 2x2.5 £12...small magnetite crystals too. Palabora Pit Phalaborwa Transvaal South Africa large lx2 £12 25. RUIZITE fairly |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | 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...side 5.5x4x3 cm Katanga DR Congo £25 2 25 ARAGONITE attractive crystal group 8x5cm with crystals over...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...mass 4x4 and l cm thick Wiperminga Hill, Olary South Australia £8 39 STILPNOMELANE on QUARTZ thin brown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30...States: The Search Continues, M.I. Jacobson, 306-19 Aragonite, Utah, 410; West Virginia, 164 Arem, J.E., see...Choice, R.B. Cook: Beryl, Variety Emerald, Chivor Mine, Chivor, Colombia, 332-34; Demantoid, Val Malenco...Fluorapatite, Inna Nala, near Fighar Village, Nagar District, Pakistan, 112-14; Microcline, Variety Amazonite |  | | Catalog/List | | an shale, some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...of Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal...80 lxl f.9 platy qrey-brown 5mm f.2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured...Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No 2 Mine, Chibougamau, lem rock. (Mt micros w1th Unusual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distribution of large-ion lithophile elements (LILE = Sr, Ba and Pb) in rock-forming carbonates also shows trends...effects (e.g., concomitant depletion in Ba + Pb at Aley, or Sr + Ba at Kerimasi), although the phases responsible... the reported contents of such heavy elements as Ba or lanthanides were measured by electron- microprobe...isostructural Mg, Mn and Fe2+ carbonates, and aragonite-type orthorhombic SrCO3, BaCO3 and PbCO3 (Chang...(carbonatites): Na 155 ppm [4] MnO 3.55 wt.% MnO [16] SrO Y Ba Lnb Selected element ratios (range): Y/Ho (La/Yb)cn |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nineteen, Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This...Chichibu mine” (by Kuniaki Kato and Hidemichi Hori), “ Collecting report: Hikagezawa gold mine, Shizuoka...Avenue Sun City, Arizona 85351 he Tonopah-Belmont mine is a micromounter’s paradise. An un common suite...sulfates, molybdates and chromates can be found at the mine. The abundance of species makes it an ideal introduction |  | | 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...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry; |  | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Catalog/List | | grey-black rich crystalline mass 3x4 Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia £8 4 VANADINITE orange brown crystals...fibrous mass 5x3 Edwards, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA. £7 6 MOHAWKITE...all over 4x4 surface. It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...Cornwall £10 15 BA YLDONITE green, small scale botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary...SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm Wessels mine, North Cape Province South Africa £8 31 CLINTONITE two or three small |  | | Book (edition) | | Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal | | | Book | | Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) 1953/000441/07 Reg. No. The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |  | | Report (issue) | | INrr~~Rl()R • IJ Rl◄:1\ lJ lT () I◄~ l\11 N l◄:s AFRICA *Algiers Tunis • NISIA Tripoli Cairo* ALGERIA...Windhoek* Gaborone * Pretoria * Mbabane REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRIC1' \ Maputo * LESOTHO MAURITIUS (J Port... MINERALS YEARBOOK MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF r, AFRICA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF MINES...reports and one world overview: Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries of Asia and the Pacific, Mineral...137 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Sudan . . . . |  | | Book | | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves the...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 Talc...Hardness 10 Quartz Diamond Diamond, Kimberley, South Africa * 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm | 19 MINERALS: PRODUCTS |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...(8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special supplement |  | | Catalog/List | | 2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal |  | | Catalog/List | | ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden |  | | Catalog/List | | ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire...Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central Africa Rich mass of black...Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Unusual...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) |  | | Catalog/List | | massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FeO"OH Cl 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough Yorkshire A rare British mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | £10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...F OH 2x2 £10 -------------------------Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 16 AMBLYGONITE Pure grey cleavable...LiNaAIP0/4FOH 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in Syenite |  | | Catalog/List | | mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil)...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½...Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture.Japan Venice Dome, Lousiana, U |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | sent with the parceL Eilarama,Ruanda, Central Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA...Amphibolc IxI £3 Norway South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE...Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals well covering Basall...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish |
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