| Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t...originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed was originally...originally named Messina but was renamed Musina after the 1994 political dispensation in South Africa. The registered...registered mine name remains Messina.) Since the early 1950s, the Messina mine has produced spectacular...original type-locality specimens from the New Cornelia mine, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States have |
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Meulenbeld, Paul M. P. B., Grote, Wiebke, Verryn, Sabine (2014) The Albert Silver Mine and Trippkeite Occurrence, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Rocks & Minerals, 89 (5) 416-423 doi:10.1080/00357529.2014.926177 |
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| Locality map of the Albert Silver mine, Mpumalanga, South Africa, prepared by William Besse. Downloaded... The ALBERT Silver Mine and TRIPPKEITE Occurrence Mpumalanga South Africa Figure 3. Plan of the...the underground workings at the Albert Silver mine based on Van Zijl (1965), prepared by William Besse...Department of Water Affairs PO Box 1745 Bela Bela, South Africa meulenbeldp@dwa.gov.za Department of Geology...Pretoria Private Bag X20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028 South Africa wiebke.grote@up.ac.za XRD Analytical & Consulting |
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(1991) May - June 1991. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 22 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| 0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy |
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Pohwat, Paul W. (2014) Connoisseur's Choice: Bornite, Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan. Rocks & Minerals, 89 (6) 530-537 doi:10.1080/00357529.2014.949171 |
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| Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...chalcocite, digenite, acanthite, chalcopyrite, and covellite. It can replace chalcopyrite, pyrite, tetrahedrite...chalcocite, wittichenite, linnaeite, digenite, covellite, stromeyerite, polybasite, and tetrahedrite (Palache...micromounters, Weed (1912) noted that in the Parrot mine the bornite ore has small cavities, 1/16 to ¼ inch...enargite than a true pseudomorph. The Bristol copper mine, located near the town of Bristol in Hartford County |
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Cook, Robert B. (2006) Connoisseur's Choice: Covellite, Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado. Rocks & Minerals, 81 (4) 296-300 doi:10.3200/rmin.81.4.296-300 |
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| Atlantic University] at 04:09 22 November 2014 Covellite Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado Two minerals...environments: chalcocite and the somewhat less abundant covellite. Both can also form as primary minerals under...periods when some chance discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite...column (Cook 1995), and so it was suggested that covellite be described as well for completeness. In keeping...fine Summitville covellite was nominated as the Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Covellite is a relatively |
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Anhaeusser, C. R. (1976) Archean metallogeny in southern Africa. Economic Geology, 71 (1) 16-43 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.71.1.16 |
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| illustrating the nature of Archean volcanismin southern Africa and elsewhereare made available for purposesof...mineralization. The Archean mineralization of southern Africa is briefly compared and contrasted with that of...the easternpart southern Africa. of Botswana, the northeasternsegment of South The purposes of this paperare...paperare, briefly,to consider Africa, and Rhodesia,the shield consistsof two crathe nature and distribution...GREENSTONE BELT LITHOLOGICAL UNITS RHODESIA/BOTSWANA SOUTH AFRICA/SWAZILAND Sedimentary unit ShamraJah Mafic-to-l'el$ic |
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Daltry, V. D. C. (1997) Mineralogy of South Africa: Type-Mineral Species and Type-Mineral Names. Handbook 15. Geological Survey of South Africa |
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| SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES |
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McKinstry, Hugh Exton (1959) Mineral assemblages in sulfide ores; the system Cu-Fe-S-O. Economic Geology, 54 (6) 975-1001 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.54.6.975 |
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| absenceof a numberof associations suchas magnetite-covellite, pyrrhotite-hematite and, in the presence of magnetite...the field of composition bounded by chalcocite, covellite,chalcopyrite, and pyrite. The observed sequence...pressure (1.16 at.) wherethe four phases,digenite,covellite,sulfur (liquid), and sulfur (vapor) are stabletogether...digenite. On the side toward the compositionof covellite,digenitecan take up sulfurbut the maximumamount(at...chalcociteand covellite, digeniteand native sulfur. Contrary to expectation,chalcociteand covellite do occurtogetherand |
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Laughton, C. A. - Ed. (1968) Annotated Bibliography and Index of the Geology of Botswana to 1966. Geological Survey Department, Republic of Botswana. |
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| that the former part of the Territory lying to the south of the Molopo River, known as Bechuanaland or British...part of the Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa, is not included. The compiler would gratefully...Afr. Proceedings of the Geological Society of South Africa. Johannesburg. Proc.Rhod.sci.Ass. Proceedings... Leeds. S.Afr.J.Sci. South African Journal of Science. Johannesburg. South African Mining and Engineering...Engineering Journal. Johannesburg. South African Mining and Engineering Yearbook. Johannesburg. S.Afr.Min |
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MAIER, W. D., ANDREOLI, M. A. G., GROVES, D. I., BARNES, S.- J. (2012) PETROGENESIS OF CU-NI SULPHIDE ORES FROM O'OKIEP AND KLIPRAND, NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS FROM CHALCOPHILE METAL CONTENTS. South African Journal of Geology, 115 (4) 499-514 doi:10.2113/gssajg.115.4.499 |
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| ORES FROM O’OKIEP AND KLIPRAND, NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS FROM CHALCOPHILE METAL CONTENTS...maier@oulu.fi M.A.G. ANDREOLI South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, South Africa; School of Geosciences...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa e-mail: marco.andreoli@necsa.co.za D.I. GROVES...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The petrogenesis of sulphide ores in the O’okiep district has remained...additional IOCG deposits elsewhere in southern Africa. The model also predicts an enhanced potential |
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(2002) Butte, Montana. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 33 (1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| 85740. Front cover: COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick...Tucson Mineralogical Symposium on the Minerals of Africa: Abstracts Chairmen: Robert B. Cook & Susan Erickson...sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| 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 |
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(2023) Chalcocite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| orebodies. Association: Pyrite, chalcopyrite, covellite, bornite, molybdenite, many other sulfides and...pure masses can be listed. From the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. In England...Co.; from the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co.; in the United Verde Extension mine, Yavapai Co.; from Butte...Flambeau mine, southwest of Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin; from Kennicott, Copper River district, Alaska...crystals from Nababiep West mine, Cape Province, and Messina, Transvaal, South Africa. At M’Passa, Niari Province |
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Knutson, J., Ferguson, J., Roberts, W. M. B., Donnelly, T. H., Lambert, I. B. (1979) Petrogenesis of the copper-bearing breccia pipes, Redbank, Northern Territory, Australia. Economic Geology, 74 (4) 814-826 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.4.814 |
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| dip, locallyof up area to 20 ø. of the On a local scale the rocks are folded into shallow domes and...dolomite,rutile, clay marcosite, sphalerite. and covellite. Galena is a minerals,Fe-oxides,apatite,and zircon...more pyrite. pyrite, marcasite,and, more rarely, covellite stronglydevelopedadjacentto veins. Veins and and...higher of chalcopyrite,calcite,barite, pyrobitumen,covellite, stratigraphic levels by (2). chalcocite, apatite...However, detailedwork on the copperdepositsat Messina (Jacobsenand McCarthy, 1976) and at Palabora (Heinrich |
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Pracejus, Bernhard - Ed. (2014) The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope (2nd ed.) Elsevier. doi:10.1016/c2012-0-01360-9 |
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| is cross-cut by a crack filled with secondary covellite (blue). Optically Similar Minerals of comparable...increasing oxidation potential: bornitechalcocite/_covellite_-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native...orange to brown Vonsenite strong, orange shades Covellite strong, yellowish brown to bluish violet grey... 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; |
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Stagman, J. G. (1979) An Outline of the Geology of Rhodesia. Bulletin 80. Rhodesia Geological Survey |
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| American Corporation of South Africa for views of Wankie Colliery and the Trojan nickel mine, and to the Photographic... The Great Dyke and Satellites 24 24 42 The Limpopo Mobile Belt . Northern Marginal Zone Central Zone...Karoo 85 86 86 Page 89 Upper Karoo Sabi-Limpopo Basin Lower Karoo Upper Karoo Coalfields Karoo...near Salisbury. facing page 23 IV Trojan Nickel Mine, near Bindura. facing page 33 V The Great Dyke...Complex. VI Chrome seam in the Great Dyke, Vanad Mine. VII Lower Karoo Landscape. No. 1 Colliery, Wankie |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| 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 |
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Sawlowicz, Z. (1990) Primary copper sulphides from the Kupferschiefer, Poland. Mineralium Deposita, 25 (4) doi:10.1007/bf00198995 |
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| framboidal clusters of digenite, chalcocite and minor covellite, dispersed throughout the whole shale but especially...system showed that it consists of three phases, covellite (CuS), I oB -2 11~-3 ~1-/. filN] - 5 ~ - 6...following phases of the Cu-S system: covellite (CuS), blaubleibender covellite I (CuL~S) (probably similar to...yarrowite, Cu1.12S (GoNe 1980)), blaubleibender covellite II (Cul.4S) (probably similar to spionkopite,...pressure: low chalcocite, djurleite, anilite and covellite. In nature, where we have to consider additional |
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Grace, J. D., Cohen, L. H. (1979) Effect of pressure on chalcocite phase transitions. Economic Geology, 74 (3) 689-692 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.3.689 |
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| unusual hydrothermal copper deposit at Messina, South Africa: alteration-mineralzoningpatternsand the...copper-bearing breccia pipes of the Messina district, South Africa: Mineralium Deposita, v. 11, p. 35-45...Fluid inclusionstudiesof the Messina copper deposits,Transvaal, South Africa: Ecoa. GEOL.,V. 72, p. 619-631... Jr., 1976, Definitive x-ray powder data for covellite, anilite, djurleite and chalcocite: U.S. Geol |
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Cook, Robert B. (1995) Connoisseur'S ChoiceChalcocite. Rocks & Minerals, 70 (6) 392-394 doi:10.1080/00357529.1995.11761568 |
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| twins produced from the Bristol, Connecticut, copper mine in the mid-1800s. The 8 by 6 by 4-cm specimen exhibits...specimens saved during the nineteenth century from the mine in Bristol, Connecticut, A m e r i c a n chalcocite...sulfide enrichment consisting o f chalcocite and covellite. S u c h deposits include those of Ducktown, Tennessee;...Exceptional chalcocite pseudomorphs after euhedral covellite crystals to 3 c m across have been found at Butte...twins to almost 1 c m have been found in the Magma mine, Pinal County; and small steel-gray prisms and pseudohexagonal |
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McKibben, Michael A., Eldridge, C. Stewart (1995) Microscopic sulfur isotope variations in ore minerals from the Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri; a SHRIMP study. Economic Geology, 90 (2) 228-245 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.90.2.228 |
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| with timein the ore-formingzone. a well-known district of MississippiValley-type Pb-Zn THE SHRIMP ion...andaccuracy in •34S(El- and West Fork minesin the district, collectedduring the dridgeet al., 1987, 1989)...of the Casteel mine is described by Dunn andGrundmann(1989); that of the West Fork mine by DinEess(1989)...per mil for galenaandothersulfides from the Buick mine. Early cuboctahedralgalenamorphologieswere in generalis...Sverjensky(1981). He diogenic lead, rather than from local physicochemical proposeda model in which a fluid |
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Cook, Robert B. (2001) Cuprite : Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia. Rocks & Minerals, 76 (4) 248-251 doi:10.1080/00357520109603225 |
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| 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...table, the secondary sulfides chalcocite and covellite. This is particularly well known to collectors...New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the South Mountain copper mines, Lehigh County, and at Cornwall...formerly found in beautiful specimens” at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper...Minor chalcotrichite is reported from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals to 7 mm and cuprite-included |
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McCallum, M. E., Loucks, R. R., Carlson, R. R., Cooley, E. F., Doerge, T. A. (1976) Platinum metals associated with hydrothermal copper ores of the New Rambler Mine, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming. Economic Geology, 71 (7) 1429-1450 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.71.7.1429 |
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| intrusive rocks elsewherein the region. mining district ,of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeastern...Wyoming, showing the location of the New Rambler mine with respectto the Mullen CreekNash Fork shear zone...activeintermittently through Laramide time. Shear zone rocks the mine is a mylonitic biotite-epidote-plagioclase comprisea...mafic plutoniccomplexesand ortho- prevalentin the mine vicinity. Most abundantare metadioriteand metagabamphibolites...duction from Precambrian ores. pyroxenitein the mine workingsconsistschieflyof uralitizedort.hopyroxeneand |
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Coetzee, C. B. - Ed. (1976) Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa (5th ed.) Department of Mines, Pretoria. |
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| 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; |
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(2011, January) Private Mineral Collections in Italy. The Mineralogical Record Supplement Vol. 42 (1S) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...Elba pegmatite minerals, the silver minerals, covellite, phosgenite and other lead minerals from the Sardinian...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...more or less strictly linked to the activities of local clubs and associations. Tue second direction has |
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