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Kyanite from
Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fuchsiteⓘ2 photos of Kyanite associated with Fuchsite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:982627
Long-form Identifier:1:3:982627:4
GUID (UUID V4):1264603d-7dcc-4b1e-b4e8-63fd39ac91ac
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
98.1km (61.0 miles) ⓘPala Kop, Giyani Greenstone Belt, Greater Giyani Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebel1,2,*, Christoph...250 Nelson-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 3 Department of Applied Geology and Geohazards...PO Box 94, Artillery Road, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa 5 Department of Earth Science, Rice University... Abstract The 2060 Ma old Palabora Carbonatite Complex (PCC), South Africa, comprises diverse REE mineral...the PCC as well as in a carbonatite complex in South Africa. The variable REE mineral assemblages reflect
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
but differing crystal structures: andalusite. kyanite, and sillimanite. Andalusite is indicative of shallow... moderate temperature, and moderate pressure. Kyanite is characteristic of high pressure and moderate... and there is, it would seem, no theoretir1I kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite are in mutually stable...been found which contain red andalusite, blue kyanite, and white sillimanite, all in a single sample...field and laboratory identification of andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite is still of prime importance.
Report (issue)
Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Sector (MPS) (retired); Sebastiaan J. Van Graan, South African Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs... Of these resources, some 71 percent are in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. The principal
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;
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 . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the dunite by pegmatite dikes. At Brinton Quarry, south of West Chester, Pennsylvania (Larsen, 1928; Gordon...bodies at the Gregory and Carl Moss properties south of Llano, Texas (Clabaugh and Barnes, 1959; and...Montana; Enoree, South Carolina; Tigerville, South Carolina; and Loolekop, Palabora, northeast Transvaal...syenite dikes. The "vermiculite" in the Montana and South Carolina deposits is mixed-layer vermiculite-biotite...layers are magnesium and calcium. The material at Palabora is mixed-layer vermiculite-phlogopite. The "vermiculite"
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grey-black rich crystalline mass 3x4 Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia ÂŁ8 4 VANADINITE orange brown crystals...fibrous mass 5x3 Edwards, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA. ÂŁ7 6 MOHAWKITE...all over 4x4 surface. It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...Cornwall ÂŁ10 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 ÂŁ8 31 CLINTONITE two or three small
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
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
Report (issue)
SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN...and environment, as well as waste management and mine closure. Other topics covered include storage of........................................ 35 5.3.4. Mine closure .................................................................................. 50 SOUTH AFRICA ................................................................... 51 7.5.1. Steenkampskraal mine ...............................................
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland, gilbertitc, 6o6. George and Charlotte mine, Tavistock, Devon, 'tavistockite', [ 23. Grassington... INDEX Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, posnjakite, 740. Hingston Down Consols" mine, arthurite, 52o. Lee...Tomintoul, Banffshire, lithiophorite, 618. Leverburgh, South Harris, omphacite, 61. Loch Don, Mull, plumbogummite...(Espafia) Cabo Ortegal, Galicia, omphacite, 6L CarmeBta mine, Caceres, montcbrasite, 4t4. Santander, blende,...hydrogrossular, sheridanite, 735. India Chikla, Bhandara district, Maharashtra, juddite, 317, 7o8. Goldongri, Panchmahal
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major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...comfort. Users of chromite, who must the USSR, South Africa, Albania, and wish that chromite deposits were...Republic of South Africa by the Department of Mines and the Geological Survey of South Africa; such profiles
Report (issue)
concrete, etc., may be of exceptional local interest. In addition to local utilisation, there may also be export...COl\-11\ION\VEALTH COUNTRIES Union of South Africa South-West Africa • Southern Rhodesia • Canada • • India...FOREIGN COUNTRIES • • • Europe Portuguese East Africa Madagascar • • United States • • Argentina • •...required to convert it into a usable product, find a local use in domestic and industrial thermal insulation...interest was made in 1913 in the Turrett mining district in Colorado1 by W. B.. Thomas, but the enterprise
Book
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...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for diopside from a kimberlite in Dutoitspan, South Africa. The name diopside is from the Greek δις (double)...carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with...diopside also occur at the Kamaishi mine, Iwate Prefecture, and the Yaguki mine, Fukushima Prefecture. Specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dikes and are enriched in rare elements; Sr, Nb, REE, Ba, Zr, and Ta. Carbonatite complexes occur mainly in...canoes at Elgon, Napak, Rangwa, and Bunyaruguru in Africa). However, formations of medium scale predominate...Oldoinyo Lengai, Toror, Jombo, Hanang, and Burko in Africa). The volcanoes always include tuffs and agglomerates...melilitites and melanephelinites (the Eastern Rift in Africa), which are sometimes enriched in K2O (containing...complexes of various ages are known: Proterozoic in Africa, India, Greenland, Finland, and the Ukraine, Early
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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
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Kuopio, Finland P. Heino Yara Suomi Oy, Siilinjärvi Mine, Siilinjärvi, Finland R.J. Herrington The Natural...US T. Huhtelin QP-FRB Outokumpu Ferrochrome Kemi Mine, Kemi, Finland E. HyvÜnen Geological Survey of Finland...Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland J. Kinnunen Mawson Resources...Oulu, Finland Contributors T. Mäki Pyhäsalmi Mine Oy, Pyhäsalmi, Finland H.V. Makkonen Geological...Taipale Palsatech Oy, Rovaniemi, Finland Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland, Finland O.T. RämÜ University
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£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
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
Report (volume)
The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History The Geological Society...) GONZALO VEIGA (ARGENTINA ) MAARTEN DE WIT (SOUTH AFRICA ) Geological Society books refereeing procedures... J. (eds) 2011. The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History. Geological...palaeomagnetic data from the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. In: VAN HINSBERGEN , D. J. J., BUITER , S....WEBB , S. J. (eds) The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History. Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites of the Mama type also exist in the USA, the South African Republic, Australia, Brazil and smaller...intrusives penetrate rocks of Archean (Lovveld in South Africa, Harts range in Australia, Strel'na in the USSR)...and Zhuya in the USSR). They are represented by kyanite-garnet-mica, bi-micaceous and biotite gneisses...degree of metamorphism belong to the almandine-kyanite subfacies of the amphibolite facies of metamorphism...fine-grained Palabora and Machuisi-mala granites, which con stitute one phase of the complicated Palabora intrusive
 
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