| 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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(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 ...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...bornite, 7 cm across, from the Pennance Consold mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England. Specimens of this quality...crystallized, have been afforded by the Bristol, Conn. _mine_” (Shepard 1852, p. 306). The Bristol deposit is |
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(2015, October 15th) The Rainbow of Africa Gem & Mineral Collection. Heritage Nature & Science Auction 5236. Heritage Auctions |
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| RAINBOW OF AFRICA GEM & MINERAL COLLECTION Front Cover: Gems from the Rainbow of Africa Collection... Heritage Signature® Auction #5236 The Rainbow of Africa Collection Gems & Minerals October 15, 2015 | New...Signature® Internet Session 2 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 (HERITAGELive...RAINBOW OF AFRICA COLLECTION You have in front of you our presentation of the Rainbow of Africa Collection:...The mineral riches of Africa are not the only things making up the Rainbow of Africa Collection. For the |
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(2020) Montreal Mine!. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The |
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(2010, December) Geobulletin Vol. 53 (4) Geological Society of South Africa |
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| MARSHALLTOWN 2107 GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA PO BOX 61809 MARSHALLTOWN 2107 SOUTH AFRICA Tel: +27(11)492 3370 Fax:...issue volume are R150.00 for South Africa, R175.00 for the rest of Africa and US$ 45.00 overseas. The...GeoBulletin is published by the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA) and appears quarterly during March, June...zincian-siderite, on massive germanite ore, 7.5 cm. Tsumeb mine, Namibia. This specimen was acquired in 1969, six...register states that the specimen was purchased as cuprite: variety chalcotrichite. It is one of the finest |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Texas III. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler |
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Cairncross, Bruce (2001) The Geological Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa. Rocks & Minerals, 76 (2) 120-127 doi:10.1080/00357520109603206 |
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| country should he on view in the “city of gold.” South Africa is not well known for its institutional or statefunded...treasures of the earth. not only from South Africa but also from southern Africa as a whole and other regions...Mines and the Museum of the Geological Society of South Afiicil (Kennedy 1970). The Chamber of Mines collection...secretary and treasurer of the Geological Society of South Africu.) Several years later, in 1904, the collection...mammal-like reptiles from the famous Karoo region of South Africa, Cretaceous ammonites, Permian and Triassic |
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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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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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| A Cuprite Downloaded by [Temple University Libraries] at 20:14 01 June 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba...Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia M any mineral species of...least of these is cuprite, the topic of this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Cuprite is most familiar as...brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture. Cuprite is relatively soft with a Mohs hardness of 3 ....it is dense, with a specific gravity of 6.15. Cuprite is isometric (4/mj2/m) and, when well crystallized |
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Macintosh, E. K. (1983) Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa - A Collector's Guide (2nd ed.) Struik Publishers, Cape Town. |
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| Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...typical accessory mineral from the world famous Tsumeb mine Overleaf: Crystalline incrustations of vanadinite...suggestions and advice. Author’s Preface Southern Africa has much to offer the amateur geologist, whatever...best plan is to take local advice wherever you are. 9 In small places try the local police station first |
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Pagano, Renato, Pezzotta, Federico, Pratesi, Giovanni (2010) Cristalli: The Adalberto Giazotto Collection on Exhibition in Florence. Rocks & Minerals, 85 (3) 230-241 doi:10.1080/00357521003727215 |
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| 2006–2007, Giazotto worked with the foundation of a local bank, Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, to explore the...pseudohexagonal twinned crystals, 23 × 20 cm, Cianciana mine, Agrigento, Italy. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 5...crystal group, 50 × 50 cm, from the Anahi mine, La Gaiba district, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Adalberto...aggregate of red crystals, 13 × 10 cm, Dolores Tercera mine, Chañarcillo, Copiapò, Atacama, Chile. Adalberto...and green elbaite crystals, 35 × 15 cm, Pederneira mine, São José de Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto |
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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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(2023, June) Geobulletin Vol. 66 (2) Geological Society of South Africa doi:10.25131/geobulletin.66.2 |
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| BULLETIN ~ JUNE 2023 Ekati, Canada’s first diamond mine, Northwest Territories. Copyright © Arctic Canadian... Geoffrey Howarth, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2. Large Type-II Diamonds: Genesis and Transport...ROADS, MELVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA. P.O. Box 91230 Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa Tel: +27 11 358...issue volume are R350.00 for South Africa. Overseas and rest of Africa, R350 plus postage. Surface mail...Geobulletin is published by the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA) and appears quarterly during March, June |
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Cook, Robert B. (1997) Connoisseur's Choice: Copper, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona. Rocks & Minerals, 72 (1) 40-43 doi:10.1080/00357529709605003 |
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| University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University...Alabama. 40 ROCKS & MINERALS pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite...frequently associated with silver, chalcocite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and a variety of...those in the western mining states and the copper district of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Unusually fine...were found in a number of locations in the Bisbee district, Arizona (Graeme 1981), including crystals up |
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Cook, Robert B. (2001) Connoisseur's Choice: Malachite : Shaba Region, Democratic Republic of Congo. Rocks & Minerals, 76 (5) 326-330 doi:10.1080/00357520109603236 |
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| known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite...shattuckite, chrysocolla, chalcoalumite, goethite, and cuprite pseudomorphs after malachite have been described...or interesting localities include the Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock...County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek...Gossan Lead district in Carroll and Grayson Counties, and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County |
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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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| are other instancesof directassociationin this district (e.g., 6, Fig. 18, p. 592 as well asat Magma...depositsand native copperin the Lake Superior district is not found togetherwith any of the copper iron...sulfides (bornite and chalcopyriteare found in the district but not in association with native copper) nor...themselves are limited to oxidized zones. Formula Cuprite Tenorite Cu20 CuO Abbreviation cup to Malaconite...the systemCu-S-O-H. Observed zlssociations.--Cuprite occurs verycommonly asa directoxidationproductof |
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Bowell, Rob, Cook, Robert B. (2009) Connoisseur's Choice: Shattuckite Kunene District Kaokoveld, Namibia. Rocks & Minerals, 84 (6) 544-550 doi:10.1080/00357520903272231 |
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| Shattuckite Rocks & Minerals 2009.84:544-550. Kunene District Kaokoveld, Namibia M any collectors choose to...locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after which the mineral...mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper kings, Lemuel...Shattuckite occurs at the New Cornelia open-pit mine in the Ajo district, Pima County, occasionally in large quantities...Pinal County and include the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine (Anthony et al. 1995a), in drill core from the Florence |
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Cook, Robert B. (2002) Connoisseur's Choice: Azurite: Tsumeb, Namibia, and Touissit, Oujda, Morocco. Rocks & Minerals, 77 (1) 40-43 doi:10.1080/00357529.2002.9926655 |
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| chrysocolla after azurite and of azurite after cuprite, cerussite, libethenite, pseudomalachite, and ...oxides and other secondary copper minerals such as cuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla, brochantite, antlerite...Creek and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; the Pontiac mine, Halifax County, Virginia; Franklin and Sterling...the Lavender pit; and, of course, the Copper Queen mine. Other important Arizona localities include the...of the CourtlandGleeson district; the New Cornelia pit at Ajo, the Banner mine, and the Copper Mountain |
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MOORE, J. M. (2010) COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA. South African Journal of Geology, 113 (4) 445-460 doi:10.2113/gssajg.113.4.445 |
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| MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Corresponding author: e-mail: j.moore@ru.ac...ac.za © 2010 December Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Onganja copper deposit is hosted...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara...supergene minerals, particularly its world-renowned cuprite crystals (Cairncross and Moir, 1996). Despite an |
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(2021, September) Mexico IX. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 52 (5) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Azurite with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International...minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality which has yielded a virtually...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently, we are taking this... San Pedro Corralitos, Amatitlan, San Francisco mine Mexico V.· (2008, vol.39, no.6) History, Milpillas |
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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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Cook, Robert B. (1998) Connoisseur's Choice: Hematite Cavradi, Switzerland. Rocks & Minerals, 73 (3) 206-208 doi:10.1080/00357529809603037 |
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| calcite, fluorite, sphalerite, galena, pyromorphite, cuprite, quartz, feldspars, garnet, and others. Hematite...across, were found in the New Placers district and at the San Pedro mine, Santa Fe County. Small, well-developed...include the N’Chwaning 11 and Wessels mines, Kuruman district, Cape Province, where unusually large crystals...been found, and the Campbell and Messina mines, Transvaal, South Africa; and brilliant flattened rhombs...plates to 7 cm from Nador, iY&rocco. ~~~ mine in the Ajo district, Pima County. The premier Arizona hematite |
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Cook, Robert B. (2009) Mineral Oddities: Theme of the 2009 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Rocks & Minerals, 84 (1) 16-25 doi:10.3200/rmin.84.1.16-25 |
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| is the well-known pyrite “sun” from the Ziegler mine, Randolph County, Illinois. This 7.4-cm specimen...disROBERT B. COOK form or state, occurrence, trict, South Dakota (Jahns 1953); the tourmaline “telephone Department...provenance, and perhaps even poles” of the Cochran mine, Georgia; and the magnificent and Geography “who”—those...100-kilogram group of quartz crystals is from the Otjua mine, Namibia. Tony Kampf photo. Figure 3 (above). Giant...apatite and phlogopite crystals from the Renfrew district, Canada; and, of course, gigantic gypsum crystals |
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(2022, November) Refined Elegance - The Small Treasures of Mineralogy. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 53 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...(8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special supplement |
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