| Minerals of the KABWE MINE (“Broken Hill”) Central Province, Zambia MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...location of Kabwe in Zambia. Prepared by William Besse. Figure 2. Satellite image of the Kabwe mine site, showing... Figure 3. The Kabwe mine site, partially derelict. Michael Brook photo, 2004. T HE CITY OF KABWE, ZAMBIA’S...north of Lusaka, the capital (fig. 1). The name Kabwe means “place of smelting” but refers to the pre-European...in the area (Notebaart and Korowski 1980). The Kabwe lead-zinc deposit was fortuitously discovered in |
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(2018) MGM volume 82 Supplement 1 Cover and Front matter. Mineralogical Magazine, 82. doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.126 |
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| non-sulfide Zn deposits: a reanalysis of the Kabwe Zn-Pb ores (central Zambia) N. MONDILLO1,*, R. HERRINGTON2, A...Editor: Nigel Cook] ABSTR ACT The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (central Zambia) consists of a cluster of mixed sulfide...mineralization, and was carried out on a suite of Kabwe specimens, housed in the Natural History Museum...non-sulfides, Kabwe, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), Zambia. Introduction...2003). The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (formerly known as ‘Broken Hill’) is located in central Zambia, ∼110 km |
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Silin, Ivan, Hahn, Klaus, Gürsel, Devrim, Kremer, Dario, Gronen, Lars, Stopić, Srećko, Friedrich, Bernd, Wotruba, Hermann (2020) Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Treatment of Lead Vanadate Ores. Minerals, 10 (2) 197 doi:10.3390/min10020197 |
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| different minerals, whereas carnotite, descloizite, mottramite, and vanadinite are the most common ore minerals...0.084 13.6 13.60 South Africa Mapochs Mine Rhovan Mine 1.5 0.52 1.5 1.06 1.60 Generally, VTM...elements [37,38]. For example, the Broken Hill Plant (Zambia) extracted cadmium as by-product from the hydrometallurgical...base-metals vanadate deposits are descloizite, mottramite, and vanadinite [20,22]. The lead-vanadate-containing...minerals (e.g., vanadinite ore, descloizite ore, mottramite ore, cuprodescloizite ore, etc.). All these minerals |
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(2023) Descloizite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| Pattern: Venus mine, [El Guaico district, Córdoba Province,] Argentina; close to mottramite. 3.23 (vvs)...10.08 55.30 2.23 100.00 Forms a series with mottramite. Descloizite group. Occurrence: A secondary...deposits; rarely an ore of vanadium. Association: Mottramite, vanadinite, pyromorphite, mimetite, wulfenite...localities. From “Sierra de Córdoba,” Córdoba Province, Argentina. At Los Lamentos and Santa Eulalia... Mexico. In the USA, in the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., and from Bisbee, Cochise Co. |
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(2023) Mottramite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| Mottramite PbCu(VO4 )(OH) c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., from Bisbee, Cochise Co., at the Total Wreck mine, Pinal Co., in...Apache mine, near Globe, and from the 79 mine, near Hayden, Gila Co., Arizona; at the Mayflower mine, Socorro...Socorro Peak district, Socorro Co., New Mexico; from the Whale mine, Goodsprings district, Clark Co., Nevada...and elsewhere in the Otavi district, Namibia. At Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. Name: For an occurrence in |
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Schneider, Jens, Boni, Maria, Laukamp, Carsten, Bechstädt, Thilo, Petzel, Volker (2008) Willemite (Zn2SiO4) as a possible Rb–Sr geochronometer for dating nonsulfide Zn–Pb mineralization: Examples from the Otavi Mountainland (Namibia) Ore Geology Reviews, 33 (2) 152-167 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.012 |
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| (Vazante, Brazil, ca. 28.5 Mt @ 18% Zn; Kabwe and Star Zinc, Zambia, ca. 13 Mt @ 20 to 25% Zn; Berg Aukas...willemite and Pb–Zn–Cu vanadates (descloizite–mottramite), several generations of which have been observed...been made, with the exception of the descloizite/mottramite precipitates. These have been roughly dated to...processes, by comparison with similar ores occurring in Zambia (e.g., Star Zinc, Sweeney et al., 1991). The economically...18°15′36ʺ E (Cairncross, 1997). The ore grade of the mine averaged Fig. 3. Simplified paragenetic sequence |
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Cook, Robert B. (2001) Pyromorphite : Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho. Rocks & Minerals, 76 (3) 190-194 doi:10.1080/00357520109603216 |
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| Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS...anglesite, malachite, leadhillite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, vanadinite, and bayldonite, to name...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton...Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once...Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper mine south of Ossining, Westchester County, New York |
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Boni, M., Terracciano, R., Evans, N. J., Laukamp, C., Schneider, J., Bechstadt, T. (2007) Genesis of vanadium ores in the Otavi Mountainland, Namibia. Economic Geology, 102 (3). 441-469 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.102.3.441 |
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| Abstract Zn-Cu-Pb vanadate ores (descloizite, mottramite, and vanadinite) in the Otavi Mountainland, Namibia...this mineralization style remains controversial. Mottramite and Cu descloizite are particularly abundant...widespread in other areas of southern Africa (e.g., Zambia, Angola). Here we describe the geologic setting...several other areas of southern Africa, such as Zambia (Pelletier, 1930; Taylor, 1954; Kamona and Friedrich...Friedrich, 1994) and Angola (Millman, 1960). Mottramite [PbCu(VO4)(OH)] was 441 442 Wartha and Schreuder |
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Silin, Ivan, Gürsel, Devrim, Kremer, Dario, Hahn, Klaus M., Wotruba, Hermann (2020) Production of Vanadium Concentrate from a Small-Scale Lead Vanadate Deposit by Gravity Concentration: A Pilot Plant Study. Minerals, 10 (11) 957 doi:10.3390/min10110957 |
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| minerals [18,19]. Mineral Vanadinite Descloizite Mottramite Chemical Composition, % Empirical Formula Pb5...pyromorphite (Pb5 (PO4 )3 Cl). Descloizite and mottramite are hydrated vanadates of copper and zinc, which...West Mine and Berg Aukas) and Zambia (gravity separation and hydrometallurgical plant in Kabwe) [23,25]...local smelters in Berg Aukas (Namibia) and Kabwe (Zambia) and disposed at the local polluted areas and...is introduced in Figure 1. The stockpiled run-of-mine ore with an average feed particle size of 350–400 |
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(1980) November - December 1980. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 11 (6) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| manager Famous mineral localities: the Broken Hill mine, Zam bia..............................................351 Famous mineral localities: the Cruzeiro mine, past and present ................................ famous mineraC (ocafities: the Broken Hiffmine Zambia by C. W. Notebaart Stadhoudersplein 25 C 3039-ER...906 Kitwe, Zambia HISTORY The Broken Hill lead-zinc mine is located near the town of Kabwe, 140 km north...north of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, on the main route to the Copperbelt (Pig. 1). The ore deposit |
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(1976, April) Mineral Lists. Richard W. Barstow |
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| faces. 3-tx2x2". £11.50. 3. ALLANITE. Mary Kathleen Mine, queensland, Australia. Sharp, lustrous black, well...section showing a radiated structure and with large central cavities thickly lined with delicate needly crystals...lxfxf". £4.50. 11. 12. 13. -2AZURITE. Ting-Tpng Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue small sharp...colourful specimen. 3x2xlf". 1:8.00. BARYTES. Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire. Lustrous, creamy, tabular bladed...mat rix. 2xl~". £2.50. 23. CASSITERITE. Kinta District, Malaya. Very fine, pure mass, composed of numerous |
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Kelley, Karen D., Scott, Clinton T., Polyak, Désirée E., Kimball, Bryn E. (2017) Vanadium. Professional Paper Vol. 1802 (1802u) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1802u |
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| ............................................U22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................U25 Mine Closure...........................................V/L microgram of vanadium per liter AMD acid mine drainage Ga giga-annum HSLA high-strength, low-alloy...within a given timeframe) LIP large igneous province m meter Ma mega-annum mg/kg milligram per...sandstone-hosted vanadium] Country District, region, or State/ Province Latitude Longitude Deposit type |
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Kampf, A. R., Steele, I. M., Jenkins, R. A. (2006) Phosphohedyphane, Ca2Pb3(PO4)3Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 91 (11) 1909-1917 doi:10.2138/am.2006.2268 |
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| is a new mineral from the Capitana mine, Copiapó, Atacama Province, Chile and has been identified from...numerous other deposits world-wide. At the Capitana mine, it occurs as transparent, colorless, tapering hexagonal...secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of the Capitana mine, a Cu-Pb-Ag deposit, where it closely associated...array of unusual minerals. In 2004 at the Capitana mine near Copiapó, one of the authors (R.A.J.) collected...the dumps of the southern workings of the Capitana mine. Three samples were found on different parts of |
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Verhaert, Michèle, Bernard, Alain, Dekoninck, Augustin, Lafforgue, Ludovic, Saddiqi, Omar, Yans, Johan (2017) Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of supergene Cu–Pb–Zn–V ores in the Oriental High Atlas, Morocco. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 1049-1068 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0753-5 |
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| covellite, malachite), and a Cu–Pb–Zn vanadate (mottramite). Galena is successively weathered in anglesite...et al. 2008). Deposits situated in the Figuig district Miner Deposita (south-eastern Morocco) were...Morocco showing the location of the Bou Arfa mining district. (b) Geology map of the Bou Arfa region showing...basaltic lava flows related to the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (Giese and Jacobshagen 1992; Frizon...Wadjinny (1998), the exploitation of the Jbel Haouanit mine, until its closure in 1954, yielded 150,000 tons |
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Bouabdellah, Mohammed, Boukirou, Wissale, Potra, Adriana, Melchiorre, Erik, Bouzahzah, Hassan, Yans, Johan, Zaid, Khadra, Idbaroud, Mohammed, Poot, Julien, Dekoninck, Augustin, Levresse, Gilles (2021) Origin of the Moroccan Touissit-Bou Beker and Jbel Bou Dahar Supergene Non-Sulfide Biomineralization and Its Relevance to Microbiological Activity, Late Miocene Uplift and Climate Changes. Minerals, 11 (4) 401 doi:10.3390/min11040401 |
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| no sulfur emissions or waste, little to no acid mine drainage). Equally important, Zn non-sulfide ore...Bongará district in northern Peru, Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (formerly known as “Broken Hill”) in central Zambia...new targets throughout this vast metallogenic province, which contains some of the best prospects for...30]. 1.2. Touissit-Bou Beker District Geology The Touissit-Bou Beker district of northeastern Morocco and...activity, that exceeded 5 Mt of Pb and Zn [5,28]. The district stratigraphy consists of a Paleozoic basement |
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Dill, Harald G., Weber, Berthold, Botz, Reiner (2013) Metalliferous duricrusts ("orecretes") – markers of weathering: A mineralogical and climatic-geomorphological approach to supergene Pb-Zn-Cu-Sb-P mineralization on different parent materials. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen: Journal of Mineralogy and Geoche, 190 (2) 123-195 doi:10.1127/0077-7757/2013/0235 |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 1.2 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 1.7 Northern and Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Baumgarten et al. 2008 Dill et al. 1997a Cajamarca Province Peru Palache et al. 1951 Malpelo Island, Colombia |
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Daltry, Vaughan C. (1992) Type mineralogy of Namibia. Bulletin 1. Geological Survey of Namibia |
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| \ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)...from the Tsumeb deposit (Namibia) and the Clara mine, Schwarzwald (Germany). At Tsumeb, the phase occurs...zone along 30 Level. The material from the Clara mine is a sulphate-rich variety. 13 --, Type mineralogy...has also recently been described from the Clara mine, Schwarzwald, Germany (Walenta, 1990). The phase...described by Rouse et al. ( 1988) from the Kombat mine. Asisite occurs as transparent yellow to yellow-green |
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Melcher, F. (2003) The Otavi mountain land in Namibia: Tsumeb, Germanium and Snowball Earth. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 148. |
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| structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...mining period between 1907 and 1996, although the mine produced about 30 Mt of ore grading 10 % Pb, 4.3...young karst pipes and breccias, e.g. the Abenab Mine (1.85 Mt @ 1.03 % V2O5 mined; CAIRNCROSS, 1997);...mineralization is known from several locations. The Tsumeb mine in the northern part of the OML (Fig. 1) is the...remnants continues in the upper levels of the Tsumeb mine. 417 The Tsumeb deposit has been described by |
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O'Donoghue, Michael (1994) The Colour Dictionary of Gemstones & Minerals. The Black Cat, London. |
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| Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior...chalcocite. Localities. Fine crystals from the Calabona mine, Alghero, Sardinia; other localities are Chile, |
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Duda, Rudolf, Rejl, Lubos (1989) Minerals of the World. Arch Cape Press, New York. |
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| Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)...(233), pyrite (436) • OcciJrrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district - Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite - long prismatic...found in the Mansfeld slates in Zwickau (GDR), Wolf Mine (near Herdorf, Reichenbach, FRG), Bisbee, Georgetown |
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Cook, David C., Kirk, Wendy L. (2007) Minerals and Gemstones - 300 of the Earth's natural treasures. Thunder Bay Press. |
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| (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze wheri fresh, tarnishes...volcanic rocks. It Is found in the Copper Belt of Zambia, Rio Tinto (Spain), Katanga (Congo), Cyprus, the...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...Nikotawa (Russia), Hunan Province (China) and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. C HgS Colour: bright |
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Cook, David C., Kirk, Wendy L. (2007) Minerals and Gemstones - 300 of the Earth's natural treasures. Thunder Bay Press. |
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| (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze wheri fresh, tarnishes...volcanic rocks. It Is found in the Copper Belt of Zambia, Rio Tinto (Spain), Katanga (Congo), Cyprus, the...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...Nikotawa (Russia), Hunan Province (China) and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. C HgS Colour: bright |
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Duda, Rudolf, Rejl, Lubos (1989) Minerals of the World. Arch Cape Press, New York. |
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| illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Sal-ammoniac — aggregation of crystals from pile of a coal mine; Kladno (Czechoslovakia — width of field 15 mm)...second pyrite (436) e Occurrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district — Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite — long prismatic |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| (field of view 8 cm). Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). 7 microscopes, or...from Kayes region, Mali); (C) grossular (Jeffrey mine, Canada, 5.6 cm); and (D) spessartine (Marienfluss...sequential patterns as the crystal grew (Messina mine, South Africa, 8.5 cm). (D) (C) Crystals that...Examples of twinning: (B) V-twinned cerussite (Kombat mine, Namibia, 4 cm); (C) twinned calcite crystals studded...(E) highly twinned (reticulated) cerussite (Tsumeb mine, Namibia, 8.4 cm). 55 (B) twin plane twin plane |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| about identifying a Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). microscopes, or chemically...from Kayes region, Mali); (C) grossular (Jeffrey mine, Canada, 5.6 cm); and (D) spessartine (Marienfluss...sequential patterns as the crystal grew (Messina mine, South Africa, 8.5 cm). Crystals that grow slowly...of twinning: (B) V-twinned ; cerussite (Kombat mine, Namibia, 4 cm); (C) twinned calcite crystals studded...(E) highly twinned (reticulated) cerussite (Tsumeb mine, Namibia, 8.4 cm). 55 growth direction « Figure |
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