 | | Journal (issue) | | mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...(2015–2016) Scott A. Rudolph Paradise Woods (2008–2016) John Dabney (2015–2016) Daniel J. Record Irv Brown (2009–2015)...(2016–2017) Eric D. Long Barry M. & Beth Kitt (2011–2016) John Schneider (2016) Dylan Stolowitz Steve Maslansky...com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals International |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | discovered in the Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is named...some of the specimens he was bringing back from South Africa might be new species and provided the samples...specimens from the central-eastern orebody of the Wessels mine; it was first thought to be effenbergerite....Structurally, it is isotypic with plancheite, having brucite-like layers sandwiched by amphibole-type double...by mentors in the community and in the local club circuit. John Medici, another club member, actually |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe Budd photo. Tourmaline with cleavelandite, 4.3 cm...Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd photo. Middle...Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd photo. Topaz, 2.6 cm, from Katlang, Mardan Dist...Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania |  | | Journal (issue) | | 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne...Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal........................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...d e r n M in e r a l C o l l e c t io n CURATION John Sampson White Department of Mineral Sciences Smithsonian |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Wollongong New South Wales 2522 Australia malcolms@uow.edu.au BRUCITE Balochistan Province, Pakistan...history concerning the discovery and naming of brucite! The American Journal of Science (AJS) is the oldest...accomplished mineralogist for whom the mineral brucite is named. Indeed, it was Archibald Bruce who first...his own journal, the AMJ (Bruce 1814). The name brucite, however, was first used by American mineralogist...redescribed Bruce’s “native magnesia,” naming it brucite in honor of its discoverer in his index (Beudant |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ettringite N’Chwaning II Mine, Northern Cape Province Republic of South Africa C oncrete, that manmade...N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. This specimen...to 2 mm, some associated with calcite. The Clara mine, Ober Wolfach, Schwarzwald (Black Forest), Baden-Württemberg...(1984) notes that ettringite crystals from the Clara mine may be mistaken for aragonite, and vice versa. Italy...cemented. These include aragonite, gypsum, and brucite. The Haturium region of the Negev, and the Ramleh |  | 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...lavinskyite is characterized by the undulating, brucite-like layers consisting of three distinct octahedral...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | (CO3 )0.95 [O2.78 (OH)0.22 ]Σ=3.00 . (2) Wessels mine, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding...hausmannite, crednerite, pyrolusite, calcite, quartz, brucite (Tachgagalt, Morocco); barite, calcite, hydrogrossular...hematite (Kuruman district, South Africa). Distribution: From Tachgagalt, 17 km south-southwest of Ouarzazate...Morocco. At the Wessels and N’Chwaning mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Honors Abbé...Gaudefroyite from the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh., 385–392. (4) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Hausmannite N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese...Manganese Field Northern Cape Province, South Africa B lack minerals are generally not considered highly desirable...hausmannite is Öhrenstock, Langewiesen, Ilmenau district, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany. Originally...180 years to the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa (Wilson and Dunn 1978; von Bezing et al. 1991)...on andradite, N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Steve Smale specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | deposits of Elsmore, New England district of New South Wales. Rankin, John, Sharpe, James L. and Williams...associated minerals from the Barrington Tops area, New South Wales. Graham, Ian T., Pogson, Ross E. and Colchester...8(1):3-8 Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams...suite of secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and...ribbons associated with thomsonite from Borambil, New South Wales. Graham, Ian T. and Pogson, Ross E. 7(2):S7-61 |  | | Report (issue) | | = 134:898± X-ray Powder Pattern: Kimberley, South Africa. 2.83 (100), 6.61 (90), 3.18 (90), 2.73 (90)...(3) 35.09 49.13 15.78 100.00 (1) Kimberley, South Africa. (2) Crestmore, California, USA. (3) Ca3 (SiO3...foshagite, brucite, calcite. Distribution: From the Dutoitspan diamond mine, Kimberley, and the Wessels mine...mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In Ireland, at Scawt Hill, near Larne, Co. Antrim. From...From the Schellkopf, near Brenk, Eifel district, and on the Zeilberg, near Maroldsweisach, Bavaria, Germany |  | 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...dumps of the Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Only one specimen |  | | Catalog/List | | orange crystals on cockscomb Barytes Mibladen district , Morocco 6x4 £30 () , 1 5 APOPHYLLITE pale...5 x2.5 in 4x3 matrix Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese field N. Cape, South Africa £30 11 LABRADORITE cut...10x6cm showing excellent play of colours Ampanihy District Madagascar £25 13 OLIVINE variety FORSTERITE...dark grey veins in Feldspar Ricksburg Karibib District Namibia 5x3x2.5 £ 18 16 HILLEBRANDITE pale blue...but not fully exposed in some parts. 3 .5x3 Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan £ 18 ~'i..'\~1~ 22 CHALCEDONY |  | | Catalog/List | | grey-black rich crystalline mass 3x4 Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia £8 4 VANADINITE orange brown crystals...fibrous mass 5x3 Edwards, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA. £7 6 MOHAWKITE...Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 14 BRUCITE a good small...botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary Cornwall £6 - the type location 19 URBANITE...SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm Wessels mine, North Cape Province South Africa £8 31 CLINTONITE two or three |  | | Report (issue) | | Långban, Sweden. (2) Mn(OH)2 . Mineral Group: Brucite group. Occurrence: A primary mineral in some volcanogenic... Långban, and Nordmark, Värmland; in the Sjö mine, near Grythyttan, Örebro. From Ljubija and Prijedor...Noda-Tamagawa mine, Iwate Prefecture; in the Kaso mine, Tochigi Prefecture; Hamayokokawa mine, Nagano Prefecture;...Prefecture; the Taguchi mine, Aichi Prefecture; and the Ioi mine, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. From the N’Chwaning...N’Chwaning and Wessels mines, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the Kombat Cu–Pb–Ag mine, 49 km south |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | September 18, 2007, my Teacher, Mentor and Friend. Joe Mandarino passed away after a long battle with failing...of Minerals and the next edition of the Glossary, Joe asked me if I would be willing to take on the responsibility...9th edition of the Glossary in 2004. Unfortunately Joe passed away beforc wc could finish this collaboration...for sure if I have found all e material sent to Joe, and so, if I have missed anyone, and any other corrections... Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 72:168-172. mixed the two localities. The Boldut mine is well known for dozens of carainels (a typical...Germany) offered rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado. Most of the samples came from the...limelight. Jordi Fnbre (C/Arc de Sant Marti 79 Local, 08032 Barcelona, Spain), Figure 7. Gypsum, 13 by...Romania, including superb calcites from the Boldut mine, in Azerbaidjan, and he explained to me how difficult...1995 and January 1996 at the 350 level of the mine local miners yourself, so you have to buy specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix...Los Angeles, CA Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White July–August Volume Thirty-three,...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....on muscovite, 14 cm, from Nagar, Hunza Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Wally Mann collection; Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sedimentary manganese orehasbeenupgraded to high-grade Wessels-type orein theKalahari manganese field.Thealteration...smallhill near Hotazel, at what is now the Black Rock mine orearepoorlyunderstood. In addition, theeffectofferrugini-...manganesemum known thickness of about 45 m at the Mamatwan mine ore (Gutzmer, 1993; Gutzmer and Beukes,1993). andranges...sedimentary structures ranges fromgoodtoabsent in Wessels-type ore.Transitions fromWessels-type oreto low-grade...Leinster-Deposi! fields are listed in Table 2. ISevern Wessels-type oreappears toberestricted tothenorthwesternpartoftheKalahari |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERALS Red Lead Mine: J. Halpern specimen. J. Scovil photo. In this issue also: a new chapter J...Collector Interview series we interview well known South African collector Bruce Cairncross. Bruce is a professor...26 Miner George Quist in front of the Red Lead mine portal after a long day of specimen extraction....the Red Lead mine, Tasmania, Australia. Thanks to a successful partnership between mine owner Shane Dohnt...and specimen mining company Collectors Edge, the mine was reopened for specimen mining in 2013. The last |  | | Book (volume) | | alteration of different kinds of stacking of layers, local defects, etc.). For this reason, the interpretation...example, in IR spectra of magnesium serpentines, brucite and kaolinite, the strongest O–Hstretching bands...Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Rastsvetaeva et al. 2009) from the Yoko-Dovyren massif, Northern Baikal area 14 1 The Application of IR Spectroscopy...Ca2[Si2O5(OH)2]·H2O from the YokoDovyren massif, Northern Baikal area Fig. 1.18 IR spectrum of acid triorthosilicate |  | | Journal (issue) | | Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White European Correspondent Michael P....from the Wessels mine, South Africa ............365 by J. Gutzmer & B. Cairncross The Parker mine, Notre...resort from 1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran...HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS Local tradition credits the first use of The Geysers to the local Indians, who bathed...fumaroles or openings and outlets in a volcanic district. 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Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa