 | | Journal (issue) | | n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ........... 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's |  | | Report (issue) | | Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. This is not too bad a match for the locality designation...Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Repulic of Congo. Weinrich Minerals specimen and photo. Elbaite...Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Repulic of Congo. Weinrich Minerals specimen and photo. Elbaite,...Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Repulic of Congo. Weinrich Minerals specimen and photo. In his three-page...thumbnails of cerussite attributed to the Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Cuprosklodowskite Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 18:27 10 November 2014 Musonoi, Democratic...Democratic Republic of Congo T he current emphasis on nonpetroleum energy resources and the coincident renewed...certainly collectible of all uranium minerals, cuprosklodowskite, has been suggested for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...The specimen selected comes from the famous Musonoi mine, a locality that produces the world’s finest...finest examples of this mineral. Cuprosklodowskite occurs in a spectacular range of greens from lustrous apple-green |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals to 5 mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection...great mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f...nearly 50 km in width. It extends from the town of Kolwezi in the west to the city of Lubumbashi in the east...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960. “ Shaba” means “copper” in |  | | Book | | INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical |  | | Report (issue) | | c = 7.084(1) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Musonoi mine, Congo. 8.39 (F), 7.29 (F), 3.55 (mF), 6.68 (m)... (3) 17.24 66.65 11.91 4.20 100.00 (1) Musonoi mine, Congo; H2 O by the Penfield method. (2) Do.; by...Cu–Co sulfide deposit (Musonoi mine, Congo). Association: Malachite, cuprosklodowskite, kasolite, marthozite...wulfenite (Musonoi mine, Congo). Distribution: From the Musonoi Cu–Co mine, near Kolwezi, and at Shinkolobwe...Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). Name: Honors Dr. Claude Guillemin (1923–1994) |  | | Report (issue) | | 639(2) α = 89.78(4)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Musonoi mine, Congo. 2.97 (FFF), 5.42 (FF), 5.89 (F), 3.34 (F)...20.55 18.31 4.15 Total 100.3 100.00 (1) Musonoi mine, Congo; H2 O by the Penfield method; corresponds...selenium-bearing Cu–Co deposit. Association: Cuprosklodowskite, kasolite, guilleminite, derriksite, chalcomenite...Distribution: From the Musonoi Co–Cu mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire) |  | | Report (issue) | | (H3 O)2 Cu(UO2 )2 (SiO4 )2 ² 2H2 O Cuprosklodowskite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2...Total 100.2 99.07 100.00 (1) Shaba Province, Congo; Fe2 O3 trace. (2) J¶achymov, Czech Republic; Fe2...uranophane-beta, compreignacite. Distribution: In Congo (Zaire), from Katanga (Shaba) Province, at Kambove...exceptional specimens from Shinkolobwe and the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi. From J¶achymov (Joachimsthal), Czech Republic...Saxony, Germany. From West Wheal Owles and the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. In the Rab¶ejac uranium |  | Kanzundu, M, Loris, N, Numbi, B.B, Chabu, M, Kasongo-Numbi, K (1991) Contribution à l'étude de la distribution des minéraux uranifères au Sud-Shaba (Zaïre) Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East), 13 (3) 401-405 doi:10.1016/0899-5362(91)90104-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | samples. Uranylsilicates, namely: uranophlme, cuprosklodowskite, sklodowskite and soddyite are by far the...(1977). Au Sud-Shaba, la billietite est observee Musonoi e t ~ Kalongwe o~ elle est souvent melangee ~ u...observations macroscopiques, correspondrait ~ la cuprosklodowskite. C u r i t e Pb.~Us Oz~"4H=O - Schoep avait...est u n mineral de couleur b r u n e Uraninite, Kolwezi 38 16 orange vff que r o n trouve habltuellement...etudi~ par Buttgenbach ( 1924}. Au Sud-Shaba, Musonoi, r u r a n o p h a n e se developpe s u r la gummite |  | | Report (issue) | | = 92.16(4)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 5.55 (10), 7.74 (9), 6.88 (8), 3.448 (8), 3.226...71.79 7.36 13.31 7.54 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, H2 O determined on a separate...becquerelite, cuprosklodowskite, uranophane, heterogenite, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo). Distribution:...Shinkolobwe, near Kolwezi, at the Musonoi mine, and in the Kamoto mine, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province |  | | Report (issue) | | c = 6.089(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kalongwe, Congo. 4.29 (10), 2.92 (8), 5.06 (4), 2.56 (4), 2.09 (3)...8.97 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; recalculated to 100% after deduction of SiO2 0...copper-bearing uranium deposits. Association: Cuprosklodowskite, kasolite, sklodowskite, malachite, chalcocite...(Kalongwe, Congo); curite, uranophane, sharpite (Shinkolobwe, Congo). Distribution: In Congo (Zaire), in...Luiswishi mine; at Kalongwe; from Shinkolobwe; at Kambove; from Swambo; and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi |  | | Catalog/List | | and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...locality. 1¾x2x¾11 $600. 00. 14. DIAMOND Roko, Congo Republic. Superb lustrous olive-gray macle type...or display. 8x7x4 mm. $75.00. 15. DIAMOND Itoko, Congo Republlc. Superb ollve-gray twinned cube. 8x8x7...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue | | | Catalog/List | | and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...locality. 1¾x2x¾11 $600. 00. 14. DIAMOND Roko, Congo Republic. Superb lustrous olive-gray macle type...or display. 8x7x4 mm. $75.00. 15. DIAMOND Itoko, Congo Republlc. Superb ollve-gray twinned cube. 8x8x7...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue |  | | Journal (issue) | | Six Articles Hubeite, a new mineral from the Daye mine near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China . . . . . ...for minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . 473 by R. H. Currier The Nueva Vizcaya mine, Burguillos del Cerro Badajoz, Spain . . . . . ...specialization, such as the minerals of a certain state or mine, the minerals of a particular metal or compositional...Karl von Haidinger (1795–1871) with 63. Figure 1. Dr. Pete J. Dunn, U.S. National Museum of Natural History |  | | Catalog/List | | lxl-3/4" to 1-1/2x2-3/4" $ 10.00 BOLEITE Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...2x10 mm 10 Specimens $ 7.50 KALIBORITE Enrique mine, Sallent, Spain Choice pure white granular micro...inclusions. l-l/4x2" and 2x2-l/2" MALACHITE Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Choice pure green single elongated...3/4x3/4" 8 Specimens $ 5.00 METAVAUXITE Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bolivia Choice pale green to silky white |  | | Journal (issue) | | net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal |  | | Catalog/List | | green varieties approach the rich hue of cuprosklodowskite; the yellow of metavanuralite is rarely matched... Gabon and Shaba, Zaire (then Katanga, Belgian Congo). Mr. Gilbert Gauthier, a noted mining engineer...of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered...Collections from Africa CUPROSKLODOWSKITE, META-VANURALITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Very attractive...attractive emerald-green cuprosklodowskite crystals in radial cluster (4 x 4.5 cm) in matrix (7 .5 x 6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | these processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure...weathering of the crystal surface. The Daybreak mine in Washington has produced the finest United States...crystals were mined from the nowabandoned Shinkolobwe mine in Zaire. A large amount of remarkable yellow-orange...yellow-orange transparent crystals were pro duced from this mine years ago. Unfortunately few are available on today's...uranium silicate originally discovered at the Delta mine, Emery County, Utah. It has been found more recently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1975 Refinementof the Crystal Structureof Cuprosklodowskite, Cu[(UO,),(SiOaOH),]. 6H,o' AsneHe[{ RoseNzwErc...thereis a questionofhow the The structureof cuprosklodowskite was deter- formal chargebalanceis to be accomplished...Commission. cuprosklodowskite (Piret-Meunierand van Meers- 449 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF CUPROSKLODOWSKITE Tlsl-e...1963)or hydroniumions (Smith et al, 1957; for Cuprosklodowskite Huynen and van Meerssche,1962),or by replacing...illuminating 7 . 0 4A a 9.257(8) 9.18 b of cuprosklodowskite thisproblemthat therefinement 6.655(s) 6.66 |  | | Book | | . ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...Saskatchewan, is the world's largest high-grade uraniu1n mine. The ore from that ,nine is crushed and treated |  | | Book | | tetrahedrite crystals; from the Home Sweet Home mine near Alma, Colorado. Found in 1965, it is considered...variety known as k1111zire; from the Pala Chief mine, San Diego County, California. Found shortly after...the finest pieces ever recovered from the Tsumeb mine in Namibia; the \\"orldwide tourmaline collection...specimens of azurite from a major find at the Tsumeb mine in Namibia, Desautels and Sams bought the entire...leadhillite, stottite, jere mejevite, sperrylite, cuprosklodowskite and spangolite. This combination, pieces of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen... quartz, and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen,...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen...Brazil, spessartine, 42–45 Brochantite, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico, R. B. Cook, 48–53 Buchholz... 367; Virginia, 354 California, Colorado Quartz mine, 396–412 Carlson, E. H., Mineralogy and Paragenesis |  | | Catalog/List | | 9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix...MALACHITE, . . . $120.00 AESCHYNITE-Y Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire. •82834 (a) Excellent green...specimens set attractively for display.) Hillveit Mine , Setesdal District, Norway. (a) Large (4.2 x 1... . . . . . . . . . $750.00 MARTHOZITE Musonoi Mine , Kolwezi , Shaba , Zaire. Exceptional triangular...mass (2 .5 x 2.5 cm) of vandenbrandeite in cuprosklodowskite, uranophane, and very minor malachite. •82B54 |  | | Book | | Uranotile (Uranophane) 124 Sklodowskite and Cuprosklodowskite. . . 126 Apatite 40 Aragonite 54 Artinite...34 Cuprite 92 Curite 114 Cyanotrichite 98 Cuprosklodowskite. . . .126 Dioptase 102 Dolomite 54 Diamond...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the...some remarkably beautiful specimens are the royal mine at Konsberg (Norway), which has now been abandoned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | few millimeters in length. It is orthorhombic (2/ Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining...minerals formed in the oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper...Shattuckite occurs at the New Cornelia open-pit mine in the Ajo district, Pima County, occasionally in |
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Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo