 | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe Budd photo...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) | | 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) | | Inesite Wessels Mine, Northwest of Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese District Cape Province, South Africa I ...inesite: Broken Hill mines, New South Wales, Australia; Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California; Kalahari...Kalahari manganese district, Cape Province, South Africa; and Fengjiashan mine, Hubei Province, China...China. Of these, the Wessels mine within the Kalahari manganese district has yielded a sufficient number of...stunning rhodochrosite that came from the same district. From a Historic Perspective Because inesite was |  | | Catalog/List | | 4461_txt.indd 5 5 1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong, China 7.5... 1/18/21 11:02 AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia...11:02 AM Aquamarine with Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm...surrounded by lustrous black tourmalines and clear quartz crystals. It is rare to have these three species...1/18/21 11:02 AM Scheelite on Muscovite Pingwu Beryl Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan, |  | | 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 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 (issue) | | Bryan K. Lees (2008) Stephen Neely (2008) Anne & Joe Ondraka (2008) Daniel Trinchillo (2008) Stuart Wilensky...Robinson Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Renato Pagano Joe Polityka Associate Photographers Jeffrey A. Scovil...Famous mineral localities: The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany . . . . . . . ...Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa . . . . . . . . . 373 by R.... . . . . . . . . 350 by C. J. Stanley Founder John Sampson White Editing & Advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES |  | | Journal (issue) | | affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian...Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................Thomssen, Walt Risch, Star Northam, Carolyn Wilson, John Muntyan and Wayne DeBrusk assisted with record keeping...Brazil) Pierre and Nellie Bariand (Paris, France) F. John Barlow (Appleton, WI) Ron Bentley (Windsor, CT)...Cureton, David Wilber, Miguel Romero, Richard Webster, John Barlow and Rustam Kothavala made cash donations |  | | 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... Figure 3. Blue wesselsite partially coated by quartz and associated with minor purple sugilite, from |  | | 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 |  | Moore, John M., Kuhn, Barbara K., Mark, Darren F., Tsikos, Harilaos (2011) A sugilite-bearing assemblage from the Wolhaarkop breccia, Bruce iron-ore mine, South Africa: Evidence for alkali metasomatism and 40Ar-39Ar dating. European Journal of Mineralogy, 23 (4) 661-673 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2117 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bruce iron-ore mine, South Africa: Evidence for alkali metasomatism and 40Ar-39Ar dating JOHN M. MOORE1,...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa *Corresponding author, e-mail: h.tsikos@ru.ac...breccia at the Bruce iron-ore mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The upper portion of the breccia...similar mineralogy, comprising albite, K-feldspar, quartz, sugilite, norrishite, serandite, armbrusterite...Similarities to sugilite-bearing assemblages at the Wessels mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field suggest that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Lucas Becker photo. T Jacobus...N’Chwaning III mine in the Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Crystals are...180 ROCKS & MINERALS aniajacoite is named after South African married couple Jacobus “Jaco” Stephanus...Heidelberg in what was then the Transvaal Province, South Africa, and grew up on a farm located between Bethal...three years before relocating to Kakamas in Northern Cape Province. This town is situated on the Orange |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Prehnite from the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa, and its possible implications B. Cairncross... P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Gauteng, South Africa e-mail: bc@na.rau.ac.za C. Harris Department...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, Western Cape, South Africa *Present address: Department...Prehnite is described herein from the N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field for the first time. The...manganese mines of the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa (Figure 1) are well-known for their suite of |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Occurrence and Gemological Properties of Wessels Mine Sugilite James E. Shigley, J o h n 1. Koivulti...The Rutilated Topaz Misnomer Robert E. Kane 100 John I. Koivula REGULAR FEATURES 104 Ill 113 115 Gem...Associate Editors Peter C. Keller D. Vincent Manson John Sinkankas Technical Editor Carol M. Stockton Editor...Misiorowski Contributing Editor and Editor, Gem News John I. Koivula PRODUCTION STAFF Jennifer Erosions...Kampf Los Angeles, CA Robert E. Kane Los Angeles, CA John 1. Koivula Santa Monica. CA Hcnry 0. A. Mcyer West |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | needle-pointed crystals from the Kalahari Desert of Africa. Few carvings are as vibrantly colorful as the...Home Sweet Home mine, A l m a , Colorado; and the N'Chwaning mine, Kuruman, South Africa. These localities...the N'Chwaning mine, Black Rock district, Hotazel, North Cape Province, South Africa. Pala Properties...Colorado, beginning with the superb finds at the John Reed mine, Alicanti, near Leadville (Kunz, 1887), rhodochrosite..."gathering" of rhodochrosite from the N'Chwaning mine, South Africa, as seen at the 1981 show. Photo by Robert |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa University College Dublin (UCD) School of Earth...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: ljolly@uj.ac.za; fanusv@uj.ac.za P....University of Cape Town, South Africa e-mail: petrus.leroux@uct.ac.za © 2019 Geological Society of South Africa...classic supergene enriched, hydrothermally enriched (Wessels-type ore) and thrusted manganese ore. When normalised...“Diagenetic ore”; and the high-grade, low-carbonate Wessels-type ore. Displaying numerous kutnohorite (Ca(Mn2+ |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | oxymica associated with sugilite from the Wessels Mine, South Africa: Crystal chemistry and 40Ar-39Ar dating...silicate-rich sample from the Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. The mineral forms centimeter-sized...submarine exhalative origin of the Hoskins mine in New South Wales, Australia (Ashley 1986; Eggleton and...al. 1995). There, the mineral occurs in quartz-free and quartz-bearing assemblages associated with Mn-rich...occurring in pockets in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Mn field, South Africa (e.g., Cairncross et al. 1997) |  | | Report (issue) | | months” in the Big Bear orebody in the Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri; these...twin, 6 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...Galena, 4 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...“needle” quartz; the locality for these attractive specimens has been given as the Ortega mine in the Mundo-Tamboras...Mundo-Tamboras district, Sanchez Carrion Province, La Libertad Department, Peru. I was told years ago |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za All photos by author Figure...photographing some fine mineral specimens from various South African mineral collections. These include private...manganese field in South Africa are still producing mineral specimens. The N’Chwaning mine is especially noteworthy...a contract to legally recover specimens at this mine. Some of the specimens shown here originated from...fluorite from Riemvasmaak in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa; Balayer is also mining for fluorite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Wessels and adjacent N’Chwaning II manganese mines in the Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape...Cape Province, South Africa. Three flats of this material, initially thought to be ferrobustamite, were...collector specializing in the minerals of southern Africa. Preliminary analysis showed that the material...and a hardness of 5.5. At the type locality (Wessels mine), it occurs as aggregates of blade-shaped crystals...has a special interest in minerals from southern Africa and the United Kingdom. 380 ROCKS & MINERALS |  | | Report (issue) | | 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... xonotlite, quartz. Distribution: From the central-eastern ore body of the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese...Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Named for the Wessels mine, South Africa, where the |  | | Journal (issue) | | FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix... . . . . 209 by F. M. Bastos Collector Profile: John Jago Trelawney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...by B. Larson Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama...crystal cluster, 13.6 cm, from the famous Malmberget mine, Gällivose, Lapland, Sweden. Peter Lyckberg collection; |
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Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa