| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | clinopyroxenesfrom the Guide Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, South Africa SuseuC. EmrssoNr Department of Geology...Johannesburg,South Africa Abstract The feldspathic pyroxenite of the Guide Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, South Africa...clinopyroxenes range in composition from diopside to aegirine-augitewithin a single crystal. Superimposedon...(1937)suggestedthat finer-scaleoscillations result from local disequilibrium and coarser ones from more extensivechemicalor...Guide Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, South Africa, are strongly zoned from diopside to aegirine-augite.Superimposed | | Decrée, Sophie, Cawthorn, Grant, Deloule, Etienne, Mercadier, Julien, Frimmel, Hartwig, Baele, Jean-Marc (2020) Unravelling the processes controlling apatite formation in the Phalaborwa Complex (South Africa) based on combined cathodoluminescence, LA-ICPMS and in-situ O and Sr isotope analyses. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 175 (4) doi:10.1007/s00410-020-1671-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | controlling apatite formation in the Phalaborwa Complex (South Africa) based on combined cathodoluminescence...Nature 2020 Abstract The Phalaborwa world-class phosphate deposit (South Africa) is hosted by a Paleoproterozoic...the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 3 Etienne Deloule etienne.deloule@univ‑lorraine...phosphate deposit of Phalaborwa, located in the Archean Kaapvaal Craton of South Africa (Eriksson 1989).... The Phalaborwa deposit is related to an alkaline and carbonatitic complex dated at 2060 ± 2 Ma (Reischmann | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large | | Wu, Fu-Yuan, Yang, Yue-Heng, Li, Qiu-Li, Mitchell, Roger H., Dawson, J. Barry, Brandl, Günther, Yuhara, Masaki (2011) In situ determination of U–Pb ages and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Lithos, 127 (1) 309-322 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa Fu-Yuan Wu a,⁎, Yue-Heng Yang...Council for Geoscience, Limpopo Unit, P.O. Box 620, Polokwane 0700, South Africa e Department of Earth...Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes Carbonatite Phalaborwa a b s t r a c t The Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, situated...situated in the northeastern part of South Africa, is characterized by copper and zirconium mineralization,...emplaced. In contrast to other carbonatites, the Phalaborwa Complex is characterized by high initial Sr and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa Abstract The rare Li-mica taeniolite is described...metasomatism. Introduction CAR•ONATITES are enriched in Ba, St, REE, Nb, Ti, Zr, Th, P and F (Gold, 1966; Henrich...(Deans, 1981), while the Phalaborwa complex of north-eastern Transvaal, South Africa, is not only a major...by-products of Zr, P, U, Ni, Au, PGE, Ag, Se and Te (Palabora Mining Company Ltd, 1976; Ericksson, 1989). However...with the large volumes of ore being processed at Phalaborwa. Clearly the mechanisms of formation of carbonatites | | Korobeinikov, A. N., Mitrofanov, F. P., Gehor, S., Laajoki, K., Pavlov, V. P., Mamontov, V. P. (1998) Geology and Copper Sulphide Mineralization of the Salmagorskii Ring Igneous Complex, Kola Peninsula, NW Russia. Journal of Petrology, 39 (11) 2033-2041 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.11-12.2033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | example, the carbonatite body of the Phalaborwa complex in South Africa contains one of the world’s largest...sub-economic copper sulphide ores (except for Phalaborwa) are rather uncommon in alkaline rocks and carbonatites... Clinopyroxenite is composed predominantly of aegirine–augite and augite with lesser amounts of magnetite...melilite, clinopyroxene (augite, diopside and aegirine–augite) and phlogopite. Monticellite, magnetite...cm in thickness), or calcite (up to 20 cm) with aegirine, mica, and ± sulphides. The coarse-grained melteigite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Guli, Russia (Kogarko et al. 1991); and Palabora, South Africa (Sharygin et al. 2011), suggests that calcite-...well documented carbonatite provinces: (a) East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and one occurrence in...common in typical magmatic carbonatites, and local enrichment in Ba suggests that by today’s terminology, the...country rock by fenitisation-type metasomatism are Ba, Nb, Sr, Sc, Rb, Zn, V (Le Bas 2008) and in some...itself by the development of Na- and Kamphiboles, aegirine-augite, K-feldspar, albite, perthite, mesoperthite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | wt RE2O3) and 1 Mt Nb (0.13% Nb). The Bayan Obo Mine produced 55,300 tons of RE2O3 in 2005, accounting...associated apatite, fluorite, barite, albite, aegirine, aegirine– augite and phlogopite alteration assemblages...association with high concentrations of Fe, Mg, F, P, Nb, Ba, Sr, and Th. Such mineral and chemical signatures...associated fenitic alteration in the Bayan Obo ore district (Le Bas et al., 1992; Yang et al., 2000) suggests...rock-associated REE deposits, such as Maoniuping LREE-Ba, China (Wu et al., 1995; Yuan et al., 1996), Huanglongpu | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | carbonatites and phoscorites from Sokli, Siilinjärvi, Phalaborwa, Jacupiranga and Fen, which contain Mg-rich calcites...Russel et al., 1954; Zaitsev & Bell, 1995) from Phalaborwa (PA3) and Sokli (SO2), and a glimmerite from...ijolite–sodic fenite as evidenced by abundant aegirine, nepheline, and K-feldspar. Quebec, Canada Quebec...during emplacement (Zhabin, 1978). Sövites from Phalaborwa and Siilinjärvi contained irregular exsolutions... Apatite sövite Söve Mine, Fen, Norway FE5 Apatite sövite Söve Mine, Fen, Norway AL1 Pegmatitic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | distinct igneous rock type in the South African Palabora (Phalaborwa) ijolite-carbonatite complex [22]...carbonates known to be secondary (a mistake which the South African geologists did not make). Therefore it seems...basement rocks. Nelsonite and apatitite rich in aegirine-diopside and phlogopite, in the form of steeply...carbonatite of the first intrusive phase of the South Carbonatite Pluton. The fragments are angular or...Sette-Daban, and in East Africa, Brazil, and Canada. In the Kovdor and Phalaborwa plutons, they form exploitable | | | Report (issue) | Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Sector (MPS) (retired); Sebastiaan J. Van Graan, South African Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs... Of these resources, some 71 percent are in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. The principal | | | Journal (issue) | 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...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 | | Neave, David A., Black, Martin, Riley, Teal R., Gibson, Sally A., Ferrier, Graham, Wall, Frances, Broom-Fendley, Sam (2016) On the Feasibility of Imaging Carbonatite-Hosted Rare Earth Element Deposits Using Remote Sensing. Economic Geology, 111 (3) 641-665 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.3.641 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Germany, Mount Weld in Australia, and Phalaborwa in South Africa. Carbonatites from Tororo and Sukulu...Panda Hill Chilwa Island, Songwe & Tundulu Phalaborwa Jacupiranga −30˚ −180˚ 60˚ Fen 0˚ −60˚...Pass, and Mount Weld represent currently active REE mine sites and are labeled in a larger font. order to...= strontianite 2 BM 1 Collection East and South Africa Kangankunde, Tundulu, Songwe, and Chilwa Island...Mineral labels are as follows: Ab = albite, Aeg = aegirine, Alk Amph = alkali amphibole, Ap = apatite, Bast | | | Book (edition) | Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal | | | Catalog/List | 4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...mass 4x4 and l cm thick Wiperminga Hill, Olary South Australia £8 39 STILPNOMELANE on QUARTZ thin brown...with a small amount of quartz 4x3.5cm £26 Erongo district Namibia 3 .,, ,r ·" .. ; :t.: 1-,: • - � | | Benaouda, Rachid, Kraemer, Dennis, Sitnikova, Maria, Goldmann, Simon, Freitag, Ralf, Bouali, Abdelhafid, Mouttaqi, Abdellah, El Haloui, Rachid, Essaadaoui, Mustapha, Bau, Michael (2020) Thorium-poor monazite and columbite-(Fe) mineralization in the Gleibat Lafhouda carbonatite and its associated iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco. Gondwana Research, 77. 19-39 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2019.06.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco Rachid Benaouda, Dennis Kraemer, Maria...iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco, Gondwana Research(2019), https://doi.org/10...iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco Rachid Benaoudaa*, Dennis Kraemera, Maria...Pre-proof Abstract Recent exploration work in South Morocco revealed the occurrence of several carbonatite...an area Journal Pre-proof of 20,852 km² in the south of Morocco. The results of these geophysical surveys | | | Report (issue) | pod et Map of fenitized rocks at the Vermiculite mine, showing sample localities and radioactivity anomaly...site of limited mining sin°.e the 1880's. The Gem mine, which consists of a group of shallow workings at...old vermiculite mine in the central part of the complex (called the Vermiculite mine in this report)...report) and the Niles mine at the west edge of the complex produced a combined total of somewhat less than 3...magnetite ore was scraped from the surface at the south border of the complex but the amount recovered and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (Brandberg and Erongo) related to the opening of the South Atlantic and the Paraná–Etendeka large igneous province...exceptionally well-preserved Kruidfontein and Goudini in South Africa, Mount Weld and Gifford Creek ferrocarbonatite...many of the non-carbonatitic complexes of southern Africa (Woolley, 2001; Woolley and Kjarsgaard, 2008)....carbonatites from Namibia (Brandberg, Erongo), South Africa (Kruidfontein, Goudini), Western Australia (Mount...B, F), REE and LILE incompatible elements (P, Zr, Ba, Nb, U, Th, Sn, Ta and W) (Bailey et al., 1974; Bailey | | Rampilova, Maria, Doroshkevich, Anna, Viladkar, Shrinivas, Zubakova, Elizaveta (2021) Mineralogy of Dolomite Carbonatites of Sevathur Complex, Tamil Nadu, India. Minerals, 11 (4) 355 doi:10.3390/min11040355 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | primary minerals. They are indicative of Na, Sr, Mg, Ba, and LREE enrichment in their parental carbonatitic...alteration of pyrochlore into hydropyrochlore, and Ba-enrichment. Also, it leads to formation of monazite-(Ce)...present new mineralogical data on the Sevathur Nb-Ba-REE minerals because little information on many of...between carbonatite and peninsular gneiss contains aegirine- and orthoclase-rich zones while outcrops of syenite...synthetic and natural minerals: SiO2 (O,Si), BaF2 (F,Ba), NaAlSi3 O8 (Na), MgCaSi2 O6 (Mg,Ca), Al2 O3 (Al) | | Wilde, Andy, Otto, Alex, Jory, John, MacRae, Colin, Pownceby, Mark, Wilson, Nick, Torpy, Aaron (2013) Geology and Mineralogy of Uranium Deposits from Mount Isa, Australia: Implications for Albitite Uranium Deposit Models. Minerals, 3 (3). 258-283 doi:10.3390/min3030258 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | paragenetic stage includes albite, riebeckite, aegirine, apatite, zircon and magnetite. This paragenetic...Introduction Uranium deposits of the Mount Isa Uranium District (Queensland, Australia) are examples of the epigenetic...ores. Table 1. Uranium resources in the Mount Isa district. Deposit Valhalla Skal Mary Kathleen Odin Bikini...that is particularly well developed along north-south trending structures (Figure 1) [5,6]. Additionally...enrichment in Na, Ca, P, Sr and F with depletion in K, Ba and Si has been noted at Valhalla [3]. Ar-Ar and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | dikes and are enriched in rare elements; Sr, Nb, REE, Ba, Zr, and Ta. Carbonatite complexes occur mainly in...canoes at Elgon, Napak, Rangwa, and Bunyaruguru in Africa). However, formations of medium scale predominate...Oldoinyo Lengai, Toror, Jombo, Hanang, and Burko in Africa). The volcanoes always include tuffs and agglomerates...melilitites and melanephelinites (the Eastern Rift in Africa), which are sometimes enriched in K2O (containing...complexes of various ages are known: Proterozoic in Africa, India, Greenland, Finland, and the Ukraine, Early | | Kozlov, Evgeniy, Fomina, Ekaterina, Sidorov, Mikhail, Shilovskikh, Vladimir, Bocharov, Vladimir, Chernyavsky, Alexey, Huber, Miłosz (2020) The Petyayan-Vara Carbonatite-Hosted Rare Earth Deposit (Vuoriyarvi, NW Russia): Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Minerals, 10 (1) 73 doi:10.3390/min10010073 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | REE (up to 2.0 wt. %), Sr (up to 1.2 wt. %), and Ba (up to 0.8 wt. %). These carbonatites underwent several...crystallization of apatite in the carbonatites. A sulfate-rich Ba–Sr–rare-earth elements (REE) fluid (probably brine-melt)...ancylite-dominant. The influence of sulfate-rich Ba-Sr-REE fluid on the apatite-bearing rocks resulted...Zealand [57], Norwayin[58], Russia [59–64], South Africa [65,66], [10,11], Canada [12–17], China [18–37]...Namibia New Zealand Norway [58], Russia [59–64], South the weight percentage levels of[54–56], REEs required | | | Report (issue) | for foreign countries, if a given name refers to a mine or deposit, a nearby location or administrative...names may be used to refer to a single deposit or mine. For large deposits or mineralized areas, a 3 single...Deposit/Site_Name, is meant to identify the area, deposit, district, mine, or occurrence to which the geologic, economic...duplicates, for some areas we report information for a district or area, as well as for specific deposits or mines...149-158. Birch, G., 1990, Phosphorite deposits on the South African continental margin and coastal terrace, | | | Journal (volume) | dolomite tr iangu lar d iag r am constr u ct ed on the ba si s of pet ro ch emistr y. In the U + T a-ThNb /5... 1954). An alternative spelling is foskorite (Palabora Mining etc , 1976). Egorov (1975) does not accept...pisolitic metacarbonatite from the Goudini complex, South Africa. The rock is highly altered but, presumably...characterized by the widespread development of a system of local fracturing, crushing and shearing and complicated...terstit ial to ot her miner als . Fig. 17 . Small aegirine needles (pale grey longitudinal secti ons, dark | | | Book (edition) | OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. 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