| Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...evidenced by lamellae of chalcocite, chalcopyrite, and digenite. As the temperature continues to drop, bornite...in pegmatites. Bornite may alter to chalcocite, digenite, acanthite, chalcopyrite, and covellite. It can...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, wittichenite, linnaeite, digenite, covellite, stromeyerite, polybasite, and tetrahedrite...micromounters, Weed (1912) noted that in the Parrot mine the bornite ore has small cavities, 1/16 to ¼ inch |
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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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Windley, B F, Bishop, F C, Smith, J V (1981) Metamorphosed Layered Igneous Complexes in Archean Granulite-Gneiss Belts. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9. 175-196 doi:10.1146/annurev.ea.09.050181.001135 |
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| belt of northwest Scotland and the Limpopo belt of southern Africa (Table 1) are in different sub-belts...Malagasy Sakeny Boulanger 1959 Limpopo, southern Africa Messina layered intrusion Hor et al1975,...1974, J. D. Sills et ai, in preparation Limpopo, southern Africa Neshuro complex and Chingwa-Ma-Karorro...1973), Labrador (Bridgwater et al 1975), and the Limpopo belt (Barton et al 1977b). Metamorphic ages are:...West Greenland 3.6 to 3.8 Ga B.P., Labrador 3.6, Limpopo 3.86 ± 0.12; younger gneisses, West Green land |
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Sawkins, F. J., Rye, R. O. (1979) Additional geochemical data on the Messina copper deposits, Transvaal, South Africa. Economic Geology, 74 (3) 684-689 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.3.684 |
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| Chamberlin, R. M., 1974, Geology of the Council Rock district, Socorro Country, New Mexico: M.S. thesis, Nexv...Geology and ore deposits of the Magdalena mining district, New Mexico: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 200...thehighlydeformed, granulitegrade metamorphic rocks of the Limpopo Mobile The Messinacopperdepositshavebeenthe subject...deposits, villa mineat the easternextremityof the district,all of the samples.Basedlargelyon investigations...Sample 74-M-3 _Mine_• Artonvilla Generation• Late 74-M-23 Artonvilla Very 74-M-5 Messina Early Mineral |
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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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Brett, Robin, Yund, R. A. (1964) Sulfur-rich bornites. American Mineralogist, 49 (7-8) 1084-1098 |
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| (Fig. 1), others exsolve both chalcopyrite and digenite. Recent studies (Brett, 1962a)have shown that...Cu-Fe-S. This field extends from chalcocite and digenite to a at 700' C. (Fig- 2, after Yund and point...about 2 per cent of fine grains of chalcocite(or digenite).At 200. C. they obtained chalcopyrite in addition...specimencontainingbornite with a Iittle chalcopyritefrom the Jinmu Mine, Japan, a skarn deposit,exsolved additional chalcopyritewhen...Morimoto el al. (1960)heatedbornite from the Carn Brea Mine, Cornwall, a hypothermal deposit, at 175" C. in |
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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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| periods when some chance discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite...copper minerals from such localities as the Loudville mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Mineral...Figure 3. An aesthetic specimen from the East Colusa mine, Butte, Montana, consisting of sharply developed...field, Carroll County, New Hampshire; the Ecton mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; and many New Jersey...Carroll counties, the Mineral district, Louisa County, and the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia; |
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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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| Abbreviation Cu (native) Cu Cu Chalcocite Cu2S cc Digenite Cu9S• di Corellite CuS cv Chalcociteexistsin...somewherebelow 235ø C, covellitebeginsbreakingdown into digenite and sulfur vapor. The dissociation pressureincreasessharplywith...total pressure (1.16 at.) wherethe four phases,digenite,covellite,sulfur (liquid), and sulfur (vapor)...(47) reportsthat chalcocite cantake up sulfur (or digenite) in amountsthat increasewith temperatureup to...measurablesolubilityof chalcocite(or copper) in digenite. On the side toward the compositionof covellite |
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(2023) Bornite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| = 10.950 Z = 16 X-ray Powder Pattern: Messina, South Africa. 1.937 (100), 3.18 (60), 2.74 (50), 1.258...the Carn Brea mine, Illogan, and elsewhere in Cornwall. Large crystals from the Mangula mine, Lomagundi...Lomagundi district, Zimbabwe. From the Frossnitz Alpe, eastern Tirol, Austria. At Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. In...In the N’ouva mine, Talate, Morocco. Widespread as an important ore mineral of copper, for example at the...the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co., and Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona; and Kennicott, Alaska, USA. At |
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(2002) Butte, Montana. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 33 (1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...Tucson Mineralogical Symposium on the Minerals of Africa: Abstracts Chairmen: Robert B. Cook & Susan Erickson...like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest...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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Sawlowicz, Z. (1990) Primary copper sulphides from the Kupferschiefer, Poland. Mineralium Deposita, 25 (4) doi:10.1007/bf00198995 |
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| to l 0 btm in size) and framboidal clusters of digenite, chalcocite and minor covellite, dispersed throughout...comparison with pyrite framboids is presented. Digenite usually dominates over chalcocite among dispersed...Metzler 1984 and Wedepohl 1980, modified) 263 digenite (Cul.sS) and chalcocite (Cu2S). Potter (1977)...Cua.32_ L4S (GoNe 1980)), anilite (Cul.75S), low digenite (CUl.768), djurleite (CUl.93_ 1.96S), low chalcocite...the pure Cu-S system might become stable, like digenite, which probably can be stabilized by small amounts |
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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...chalcociteup to 80 kb at 25øC with a diamond ite (or digenite) phase. 690 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIC.4 We have |
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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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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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(2018) Musonoi!. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 49 (2) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...Heritage of American (that is, North, Central and South American) mineral specimens. Roderick Gilbert "Rod"...for the Mineralogical Record: on the Port Radium District in the Northwest Territories (1989) and on the...the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties |
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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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| Pseudobrookite Erdite pink to orange 22 Rutile Digenite orange to brownish light blue-grey; 15.00 Corundum... 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 |
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Ridge, John Drew (1976) Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia. Pergamon Press. doi:10.1016/c2013-0-02747-8 |
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| t a t e d Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of t h e U S S R ) a n d Australasia...him. I have tried to include all ore districts in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the U.S.S.R.)> and Australasia...incluir todos los distritos mineros conocido en Africa, Asia (con exclusion de la Union Soviética), y...Greenland. This volume covers mineral deposits in Africa, Asia exclusive of the U.S.S.R., and Australasia...Philippines, and Japan are included with Asia. In South Africa, the deposits are arranged by prov inces, in |
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Schidlowski, Manfred (1973) Sulfur in the precambrian metallogeny. Geologische Rundschau, 62 (3) 840-863 doi:10.1007/bf01820963 |
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| VACQUIER, V.: Terrestrial heat flow in Lake Malawi, Africa. - J. Geophys. Res., 72, 4221--6, 1967. WEGENER...footwall of the irruptive) have made the Sudbury District the greatest single producer of nickel since the...Muskox, Canada; Stfllwater, Montana; Bushveld, South Africa) are, as a rule, not so conspicuous, staying...for certain sulfide assemblages of the Porcupine District, Ontario; the extremely heavy sulfide sulfur found...notably Southern Africa. A major deposit is mined at T s u m e b , South West Africa, where hydrothermal |
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Sawkins, Frederick J. (1990) Metal Deposits in Relation to Plate Tectonics (2nd ed.) - Minerals and Rocks No. 17. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-08681-0 |
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| fruition and where they develop depends on a host of local factors, but the broad environmental controls in...and possibly enrage some of those with first-hand local knowledge. To such people I can only offer an advance...their willingness to share freely of their time and local expertise with an itinerant academic. Without their.................. . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico .............................Massive Sulfide Deposits of the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic |
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(1961) Transactions of the Seventh Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Congress Vol. 1 - Papers and Discussions. South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Johannesburg. |
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| Papers and Discussions Volume I , I JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY 1961... 01", ~TALLUf>iYY. © Copyright 1961 by The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Ext'racts...I (1v DEC 196f Printed in t!te Republic of South Africa by Hortors Limited, Johannesburg V r. 1 The...and n1anagement of the gold mining industry in South Africa -C. B. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . page r J ... ( 2. The economy of the Union of South _Africa_-W. J. BusSCI-IAU 9 3. An introduction to the physical |
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Buerger, Newton Weber (1941) The chalcocite problem. Economic Geology, 36 (1) 19-44 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.36.1.19 |
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| phases. The compoundsare: chalcocite, ideally CmS digenite, ideally Cu•S5 covellite, CuS. Chalcocite undergoes...atomic per cent CuS. Below approximately78o C. digenite has the ideal compositionCu9S5,but above this...either CmS or CuS into its com'position. Evidently digenite has been regarded as the phaseof chalcocitestable...The materialused was orthorhombicchalcocitefrom Messina. Photographswere madeat temperaturesof 2oø C.,...the literature. The first of theseis the mineral digenite,describedby Breithaupf (•8) in •844. One specimenwas |
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(2008) American Mineral Treasures Issue. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 39 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les...Presmyk and Tony Potucek The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger has produced not only large amounts of...Frank Schultz staked the first claims in 1879. The mine began as several separate workings that ultimately |
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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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Ridge, John Drew (1958) Selected Bibliographies of Hydrothermal and Magmatic Mineral Deposits. GSA Memoir 75. Geological Society of America doi:10.1130/mem75 |
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| HYDROTHERMAL AND MAGMATIC MINERAL DEPOSITS Page Magma, Mine,;Superior (oo. ciges Rocttactek ors eno os es snl...mines of which a district is composed but rather that the geological conditions from one mine to another within...within the district are so generally the same that what is said of one mine will be true for the others...geologists and because the literature of southern Africa, India, Burma, and Australia is almost all in that...Brazile erated» Ween, Ee oe Africa lexelkeeenat (COM: hse 2 oie a South America ISOMVIA" wicericr oe |
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Clopton, E. L., Wilson, W. E. (1996) The Mineralogical Record Index - Volumes I - XXV 1970 - 1994. Mineralogical Record Inc. |
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| On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |
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