 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ames Figure 1. Location map showing the Wessels mine in South Africa, prepared by William Besse. BRUCE CAIRNCROSS...Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Wesselsite Wessels Mine Kalahari Manganese Field South Africa Figure...Figure 2. The Wessels mine in the middle distance, as seen looking east from Black Rock hill. Part of Black...Black Rock mine village is in the foreground. Bruce Cairncross photo, November 2011. 282 ROCKS & MINERALS...MINERALS Figure 3. Blue wesselsite partially coated by quartz and associated with minor purple sugilite |  | Rieck, B., Pristacz, H., Giester, G. (2015) Colinowensite, BaCuSi2O6, a new mineral from the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa and new data on wesselsite, SrCuSi4O10. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (7) 1769-1778 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.7.04 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa and new data on wesselsite, SrCuSi4O10 B. RIECK, H. PRISTACZ...BaCuSi2O6, has been found in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. It is associated with effenbergerite...effenbergerite, wesselsite, lavinskyite, scottyite, diegogattaite, as well as with pectolite, quartz...new species, Colin R. Owens, of Somerset West, South Africa. Colinowensite is brittle, with uneven fracture...single-crystal X-ray work, new structural data for wesselsite of chemical composition Sr0.9Ba0.1CuSi4O10 are |  | | Report (issue) | | SrCuSi4O10 Wesselsite Point Group: 4/m 2/m 2/m. Crystal Data: Tetragonal. to 200 μm. As plates, to...Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Wessels mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 3.33 (100), 3.12 (55), 3...47 18.78 56.75 100.00 (1) Wessels mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; electron microprobe analysis...01O10. (2) SrCuSi4O10. (3) Wessels mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; electron microprobe analysis...body of the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Named |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za SUGILITE Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape Province...Province, South Africa P urple is a relatively uncommon color in the mineral world, and one of the most...Kalahari manganese field in South Africa and in one mine in particular, the Wessels mine (Dixon 1985). If it...it were not for the South African deposits, sugilite would be considered a rare mineral. Sugilite, KNa(Fe2+...History in Washington, D.C. The Wessels mine sugilite in South Africa sets the benchmark for sugilite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wesselsite, SrCu[Si4Olo], a further new gillespite-group mineral from the Kalahari Manganese Field, South...South Africa G. GIESTER AND B. RIECK Institut fur Mineralogie und Kristallographie, Geozentrum, Universit/it...Austria Abstract Wesselsite, SrCu[Si40,~], is a new mineral species from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese...Manganese Field, South Africa, and it belongs to the gillespite group. Wesselsite is tetragonal, space group...68/25/204), (2.61/30/220) and (2.32/30/116). Wesselsite is associated with hennomartinite, embedded in |  | Rumsey, M. S., Welch, M. D., Kampf, A. R., Spratt, J. (2013) Diegogattaite, Na2CaCu2Si8O20·H2O: a new nanoporous copper sheet silicate from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Republic of South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine, 77 (8) 3155-3162 doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.09 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sheet silicate from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Republic of South Africa M. S. RUMSEY1,*, M...new mineral from the Wessels mine in the Kalahari manganese fields of South Africa. It occurs as a minor...gillespite-group minerals, including wesselsite. The close spatial association of wesselsite and diegogattaite suggests...silicate, 6482 cage, synthetic CuSH phases, Wessels mine, South Africa. Introduction * E-mail: m.rumsey@nhm...was actually determined to be its Sr-analogue, wesselsite, SrCuSi 4 O 10 . The discovery of diegogattaite |  | | Report (issue) | | 16 X-ray Powder Pattern: Wessels mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 2.985 (100), 3.533 (70)...53 43.43 34.04 100.00 (1) Wessels mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; average of 5 electron microprobe...dominance of hausmannite and hematite, effenbergerite-wesselsite, lavinskyite, scottyite, diegogattaite. Distribution:...body of the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Honors...Honors Colin R. Owens (b. 1937), Somerset West, South Africa, who collected the first specimens. Type Material: |  | Yang, H., Downs, R. T., Evans, S. H., Pinch, W. W. (2013) Scottyite, the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2Si2O7, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa. American Mineralogist, 98 (2) 478-484 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4326 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa Hexiong Yang,1,* Robert...found in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The mineral...of a hydrothermal event and is associated with wesselsite, pectolite, richterite, sugilite, and lavinskyite...in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It is...of the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Von bez ing ite Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape...Cape Province, South Africa C onnoisseurship in mineral collecting pertains to someone having a great...the type locality, the Wessels mine in the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. It is unique to the...Bezing, a medical practitioner from Kimberley, South Africa (Cairncross 2012). Upon discovery, the species...discovery was made in 1986 in block 17 at the Wessels mine, and von Bezing obtained samples of the mineral |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Wessels mine, Kalahari Mn Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 10.291 (100),...100.00 (1) Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; average of...metamorphosed manganese deposit. Association: Wesselsite, pectolite, richterite, sugilite, scottyite....eastern orebody, Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Honors...(formerly lavinskyite), from the Cerchiara manganese mine, Liguria, Italy. Eur. J. Mineral., 30(4), 811-820 |  | Gu, Xiangping, Yang, Hexiong, Xie, Xiande, van Nieuwenhuizen, Jaco J., Downs, Robert T., Evans, Stanley H. (2019) Lipuite, a new manganese phyllosilicate mineral from the N'Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (5) 645-654 doi:10.1180/mgm.2019.12 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa Xiangping Gu*1 , Hexiong Yang2...School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China; 2Department...and 4Plot 968, Alheit, Kakamas 8870, Northern Cape, South Africa Abstract A new phyllosilicate mineral...N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It occurs...Kalahari Manganese Fields in the North Cape Province of South Africa hosts the largest manganese resource |  | | Report (issue) | | 01 0.28 0.06 99.45 (1) Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa; average of 8 electron microprobe...metamorphosed manganese deposit. Association: Wesselsite, pectolite, richterite, sugilite, lavinskyite...central-eastern ore body, Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Also reported...a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa. Amer. Mineral., 98, 478-484 |  | Yang, H., Downs, R. T., Evans, S. H., Pinch, W. W. (2014) Lavinskyite, K(LiCu)Cu6(Si4O11)2(OH)4, isotypic with plancheite, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa. American Mineralogist, 99 (2) 525-530 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4601 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa Hexiong Yang1,*, Robert...found in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Associated...Associated minerals include wesselsite, pectolite, richterite, sugilite, and scottyite. Lavinskyite crystals are...in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It is...525 specimens he brought to the U.S.A. from South Africa appeared to represent new mineral species and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Karl-Ludwig von Bezing (b....from the Wessels mine in the Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Originally...Austria, and his parents emigrated in 1949 to South Africa and settled on a farm close to Lydenburg in...1500 b.p. and have remained unique in southern Africa (see von Bezing and Inskeep 1966 in bibliography)...particular the very scenic and reputable University of Cape Town where von Bezing attended medical school from |  | Giester, Gerald, Lengauer, Christian L., Pristacz, Helmut, Rieck, Branko, Topa, Dan, Von Bezing, Karl-Ludwig (2016) Cairncrossite, a new Ca-Sr (-Na) phyllosilicate from the Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28 (2) 495-505 doi:10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2519 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phyllosilicate from the Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa GERALD GIESTER1,*, CHRISTIAN...Austria 3 Wolseley Street 19, Kimberley 8301, South Africa oo f 1 un co rre ct ed pr Abstract:...manganese ore on dumps of the Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. Associated minerals are...strontium sodium silicate hydroxyl hydrate; Wessels Mine; Kalahari Manganese Field. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...effenbergerite, BaCuSi4O10 (Giester & Rieck, 1994), wesselsite, SrCuSi4O10 (Giester & Rieck, 1996), and colinowensite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University RO. Box 524 AucWand Park, 2006 Gauteng, South Africa . . .*.’. Corresponding author: bc @na.rau...just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...of the Transvaal Supergroup rocks (black) in South Africa. B: Enlarged portion of Griqualand West showing...and one of the few economic centers of the Northern Cape Province. Kuruman is also the preferred home...live in the mine villages of Hotazel and Black Rock. These were established by SAMANCOR (South African Manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | African Localities T o complement the Minerals of Africa theme of the 2002 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show,...88; Namibia is next with 73; the Republic of South Africa is third with 65; together they represent about...immediately leap to mind at the very mention of Africa, David Livingstone (18 13-73) and Henry Morton...for them, but neither species was first found in Africa; Mexico and Peru are the type localities for livingstoneite...next-most-famous person on the African stage, Cecil John Rhodes (1835-1902), is honored with rhodesite (q |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Afrikaans Universi& RO.Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa. Klein Spitzkoppe topaz was first described...collector market and gem trade have been excavated by local Damara diggers. A granite quarry used to encounter...2006, South Africa. The Kalahari manganese field is located in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It...sedimentary ore, the Mamatwan-type, named after the mine where it is exploited. This contains 20-38 weight...percent manganese metal. The other is a high-grade, Wessels-type ore with 45-60 weight percent manganese. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2010, 22, 411–423 Structural variations in the wesselsite–effenbergerite (Sr1-xBaxCuSi4O10) solid solution...gillespite-structured phases in the effenbergerite(BaCuSi4O10)–wesselsite (SrCuSi4O10) solid solution (Sr1-xBaxCuSi4O10...effective ionic radius at the Sr/Ba site. Key-words: wesselsite, effenbergerite, gillespite, crystal structure...effenbergerite (M ¼ Ba) (Giester & Rieck, 1994) and wesselsite (M ¼ Sr) (Giester & Rieck, 1996). Despite their...effenbergerite and wesselsite from the Wessels Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, showed evidence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alfredopetrovite, a new selenite mineral from the El Dragόn mine, Bolivia. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28(2)...from the El Dragόn mine, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia. The mine exploited a telethermal...the Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa and new data on wesselsite, SrCuSi4O10. Mineralogical Magazine...body of the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It was found...Sr-, and Cu-bearing silicates effenbergerite-wesselsite, lavinskyite, scottyite, and diegogattaite, in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locations) can belong to one and the same ore district, massif, and formation, or can be located very...Antisirabe, Madagascar (15 times); Mooihoek, South Africa (6 times); and SareSang, Afghanistan (7 times...(Dst.) district, area; (Co.) county; (m.) mine; (Mf.) massif; (Q.) quarry; (N) north, northern latitude;...latitude; (S) south, southern latitude; (W) west, western longitude; (E) east, eastern longitude. 9 – Alsar...pallite 9 – Barberton district \(25°48`S, 31°03`E), Transvaal, South Africa \\1921trevorite (Bon Accord |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minero! News The Lost Gem Tourmaline Mine: the Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont Co., Colorado...I wrote in Mineral News about the gem tourmaline mine of the Colorado miner, C. A Beghtol. This long lost...surprise was a photograph of the Royal Gorge No. I Mine pegmalite and sufficienl background scenery to have...have a good probabili1y to exactly locate 1he mine (Photograph number: Sterrett I 06). Bui alas, as a...Snowbird Mine probably open On August 28th, I made a short jaunt over to the Snowbird Mine, Mineral County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AgHg2 TlAs2S6, a new mineral from the Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence, crystal structure and crystal chemistry...baryte-pyrite-iron oxide deposit of the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. The mineral was identified...new uranyl sulfate mineral from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Journal of Geosciences...uranyl sulfate from the Blue Lizard old underground U mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. (37°33′26″N 110°17′44″W)...sheet silicate from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Republic of South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sum at the Ba/Sr site. Key-words: gillespite, wesselsite, effenbergerite, powder neutron diffraction,...crystal structure, thermal expansion. Introduction Wesselsite (We), SrCuSi4O10, and effenbergerite (Ef), BaCuSi4O10...analyses of 111 natural samples of wesselsite from the Wessels mine showed a compositional variation from...investigation, we have chosen instead to work in the wesselsite-effenbergerite solid solution. The composition...the excess volume versus mol-fraction Ba in the wesselsite-effenbergerite solid solution at room temperature |  | | Journal (issue) | | same Lime as I discovered mineral collecting, the local sedimentary geology has proved to be a mixed blessing...Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...fossils. These fossils are particularly prevalent south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home...each locality, and each specimen donated 10 the "local" museum at time of purchase. Goodall Farm-Sanford...immediate future... (next I 0-12 months?). The local newspaper ran some sort of general article on possible |
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Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa