Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo (original) (raw)

ⓘ Asbolane

Formula: (Ni,Co)2-xMn4+(O,OH)4 · nH2O

ⓘ Athabascaite

Formula: Cu5Se4

ⓘ Azurite

Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2

ⓘ Baryte

Formula: BaSO4

ⓘ ~~Becquerelite~~

Formula: Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6 · 8H2O

Description: When Eddy Vander Meersche asked me for some minerals to photograph for the article in the Mineralogical Record, I joined some Shinkolobwe specimens to photograph. Eddy thought ALL the specimens were from Musonoi. My fault, sorry. Paul De Bondt.

ⓘ Berzelianite

Formula: Cu2-xSe (x ≈ 0.12)

ⓘ Billietite

Formula: Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6 · 4-8H2O

ⓘ Borzęckiite

Formula: Pb(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2 · 3H2O

ⓘ Brochantite

Formula: Cu4(SO4)(OH)6

ⓘ Calcite

Formula: CaCO3

ⓘ Calcite var. Cobalt-bearing Calcite

Formula: (Ca,Co)CO3

ⓘ Carrollite

Formula: CuCo2S4

ⓘ Chalcanthite

Formula: CuSO4 · 5H2O

ⓘ Chalcocite

Formula: Cu2S

ⓘ Chalcomenite

Formula: CuSeO3 · 2H2O

Colour: bright blue

ⓘ Chalcopyrite

Formula: CuFeS2

ⓘ Chenevixite

Formula: Cu2Fe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)4

ⓘ Chrysocolla

Formula: Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1

ⓘ 'Clinochalcomenite'

Formula: CuSeO3 · 2H2O

✪ Cobaltomenite

Formula: CoSeO3 · 2H2O

Colour: dark red

Description: Found on the 2,400 level of the Musonoi-Extension mine.

ⓘ Copper

Formula: Cu

ⓘ Cornetite

Formula: Cu3(PO4)(OH)3

ⓘ Covellite

Formula: CuS

Description: Seleniocovellite : Se up to 22%.

References:

Roberts, Andrew C., Paar, Werner H., Cooper, Mark A., Topa, Dan, Criddle, Alan J., Jedwab, J. (2002) Verbeekite, monoclinic PdSe2, a new mineral from the Musonoi Cu-Co-Mn-U mine, near Kolwezi, Shaba Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Mineralogical Magazine, 66 (1) 173-179 doi:10.1180/0026461026610020

ⓘ Cuprite

Formula: Cu2O

✪ Cuprosklodowskite

Formula: Cu(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 6H2O

ⓘ Curite

Formula: Pb3(H2O)2[(UO2)4O4(OH)3]2

✪ Demesmaekerite (TL)

Formula: Pb2Cu5(UO2)2(SeO3)6(OH)6 · 2H2O

Type Locality:

Colour: olive green

✪ Derriksite (TL)

Formula: Cu4(UO2)(SeO3)2(OH)6

Type Locality:

Colour: olive green

ⓘ Digenite

Formula: Cu9S5

Description: Seleniodigenite : Cu7.05 S2.56 Se1.44 Se up to 18%, Se/S+Se up to 0.36 Deep parts of the superficial oxidation zone : metasomatic lenses of digenite, associated with malachite, chalcomenite, kasolite, cuprosklodowskite, wulfenite, etc. Secondary S-Se concentration, or primary sulfide mineralization associated with uraninite.

References:

ⓘ Dioptase

Formula: CuSiO3 · H2O

ⓘ Dolomite

Formula: CaMg(CO3)2

ⓘ Dolomite var. Cobalt-bearing Dolomite

Formula: (Ca,Mg,Co)CO3

ⓘ Dumontite ?

Formula: Pb2(UO2)3O2(PO4)2 · 5H2O

Description: Only one specimen recorded and the mineral sit on massive uraninite, which was not found at Musonoi. Paul.

ⓘ ~~Fourmarierite~~

Formula: Pb(UO2)4O3(OH)4 · 4H2O

ⓘ Francevillite

Formula: Ba(UO2)2(VO4)2 · 5H2O

ⓘ Geerite ?

Formula: Cu8S5

ⓘ Gold

Formula: Au

✪ Guilleminite (TL)

Formula: Ba(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2 · 3H2O

Type Locality:

Colour: canary yellow

ⓘ Gypsum

Formula: CaSO4 · 2H2O

ⓘ Hematite

Formula: Fe2O3

ⓘ Heterogenite

Formula: Co3+O(OH)

ⓘ Hollingworthite ?

Formula: (Rh,Pt,Pd)AsS

ⓘ Jagüéite

Formula: Cu2Pd3Se4

ⓘ Kamotoite-(Y) ?

Formula: Y2(UO2)4(CO3)3O4 · 14H2O

Description: Only one specimen recorded and the mineral sit on massive uraninite, which was not found at Musonoi. The specimen originates from the uranium dump on the Musonoi site where the kamotoite and all the Kamoto East minerals were dumped, before processing in 1992-1993. Paul.

✪ Kasolite

Formula: Pb(UO2)(SiO4) · H2O

Habit: Sender terminated crystals.

Description: Also as pseudomorphs after demesmaekerite (Deliens, 1996).

ⓘ Kolwezite (TL)

Formula: CuCo(CO3)(OH)2

Type Locality:

ⓘ Libethenite

Formula: Cu2(PO4)(OH)

ⓘ Magnesite

Formula: MgCO3

ⓘ Malachite

Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2

Description: Often cobalt-bearing.

✪ Marthozite (TL)

Formula: Cu2+(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2 · 8H2O

Type Locality:

Colour: olive green

ⓘ Masuyite ?

Formula: Pb(UO2)3O3(OH)2 · 3H2O

Description: The specie is reported in the Mineralogical Record of 2018 but with the mention that it need to be confirmed. In an earlier tome of the Mineralogical record of 1989 it is mentionned but without reference. Deliens observed that masuyite always sit on massive uraninite and he did not mention it in his 1990 works 1 and 2. Uraninite is not known at Musonoi. Paul De Bondt.

ⓘ Merenskyite

Formula: PdTe2

✪ Metatorbernite

Formula: Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O

ⓘ ~~Metatyuyamunite~~

Formula: Ca(UO2)2(VO4)2 · 3H2O

Description: The mineral is found at the Mashamba West mine and was erronerously reported as coming from Musonoi.

ⓘ Mixite

Formula: BiCu6(AsO4)3(OH)6 · 3H2O

ⓘ Mottramite

Formula: PbCu(VO4)(OH)

Description: The only reported specimen is in the RMMA in Tervuren.