 | | Book | | AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits |  | | Book | | REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m C o... palygorskite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Spurr mine—Imperial Heights (near Michigamme) clinochlore var...selenite U . S . G y p s u m C o . quarry T a y l o r mine (and outcrops)—Alberta barite (r), goethite, graphite...pyrite Kent C o u n t y Grand Rapids Gypsum C o . mine—Wyoming Delta C o u n t y (old quarry east of...hematite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz Groveland mine Loretto mine—Loretto (near Monroe) calcite, celestite |  | | Catalog/List | | clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment... 14. APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen....Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B.... ARSENOPYRITE/BORNITE/CASSITERITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne, Cornwall. Grey sulphidic,vuggy matrix...lustre. specimen. SC,.t4. 23. AURICHALCITE.Cha Kouh Mine,Isfahan,Iran. Earthy,limonlte stained vuggy matrix |  | | Book | | Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite with chrysocolla, Majdanpek, Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite...hundred kilometers. Most of them orbit the Sun in a region called the asteroid belt, which is between the...Corundum encke Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arkansas was scheduled and being the weekend of the Mt. Ida Quartz Festival could be advantageous for making...the roadside dealers and the dealers in the Mount Ida Quartz Festival. Inexpensive lapidary and fossil...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story is located near the northwest end of...Show. We might have done better buying a bucket of mine run quartz and cleaned it at home. These run from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the few mines around the small village of Mount Ida in Mountgomery County, Arkansas. A few of these are...miles southeast of Mount Ida. Should you wish to collect at the Stan ley Mine, first contact Mr. Ocus...in Mount Ida, which is on Highway 270, about a half hour drive west of Hot Springs. Mount Ida is lo cated...mailing address of the Stanleys is P.O. Box 163, Mount Ida 71957. Driving from the center of town, locate the...wholesale dealers of quartz crystals from their mine, as well as of other Arkansas minerals. The Stanleys |  | | Journal (issue) | | Superior’s mystery gems. 22 14 By Jack Hobart MOUNT IDA CRYSTAL HUNT 22 Collecting Arkansas quartz in the...Mountains. By Tim Miller 34 THE TALE OF A TOURIST MINE A new life for Colorado’s Last Chance. 34 By Steve...Cover This bournonite specimen from the Herodsfoot mine (Lanreath, Cornwall, England) is a really fine example...Benitoite Mine Update I’d like to clarify some information about the California State Gem mine and about...about present-day access to the mine that was published in Bob Jones’ article Benitoite (June 2017). People | | | Book | | Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite with chrysocolla, Majdanpek, Serbia ¢ 11x8x7cm LEFT: Fluorite...hundred kilometers. Most of them orbit the Sun in a region called the asteroid belt, which is between the...Microcline, Madagascar * 12 x 23 x 3 cm. Quartz, Mount ida, Arkansas, USA * 14 x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26x 16 cm 22 |  | | Journal (issue) | | stilbite, and calcite, and has been a favorite of mine for a number of years. Less commonly, molybdenite...examined was labeled, "Anglcs ite in s ulfur, A humada mine. Los La mentos, C hihuahua, Mex ico·• with a m a...cerussite were the m ai n o re minerals o f the mine and they littered the fl oors of som e natu ra l...ite , the best known specimen m inera ls fro m the mine, were collected . As I remem ber, the early eng...even ment ions wu l feni te in his visit to the mine yet s ince then m any tho usands of spec im ens |  | | Book | | Republic, 6 cm). 6 by Figure 1.2 Halite crystals (Namibia, 5.8 cm). section devoted to the display of such...about identifying a Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). microscopes, or chemically...in groups 8-12, show marked deviation. In this region of the Periodic Table, electronegativity increases...substances, the electrons are confined to the region between the nuclei of the bonded atoms and they...Fluorite showing stepped, cubic crystal faces (Erongo, Namibia, 5.8 cm). hence occurs less commonly. Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through |  | | Catalog/List | | 80x60x50mm. 11.00. 24, AZURITE. Tsumcorp Hine,Otavi,Namibia. Cholce,small boxed speclmcn. Royal blue,terminated...hexagonal Himetites, 30x30x!Omm. 16.25. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St llllary,Wcst Cornwall, Spcclmcn carries an Arnold...110.00. 43. BOTALLACKITE, Submarine Lode,Levant Mine,Trevcllard,\·:cst Corn1<;:ill, A 60x25mm surface...150xl00xl00mm. Ll0.00. .i,,,... CHALCEDONT. Botallack Mine,Botallack,Cornvall. Tvo spccimcns. Veln Quartz fragments...Botallack Quartz matrix capped 80x50x50••• L4.00. Mine,Botallack,Cornvall, vith botryoidal,burr Shale |  | | Journal (issue) | | vertoont enig e gelijkenis met dat van Tsumeb, Namibia, en heeft tal van uitzonderlijke specimen s opgeleverd...metaal . Ter vergelijking : de mijn van Tsumeb, Namibia heeft van 1906 tot 1984 ongeveer 2 0 miljoen ton...to the level 3 0 has been worked out as open pit mine . probable plane of level 700 Piane Of level 500...Geonieuws 20(5) . mei 1995 101 Chrysocoll a Chrysocolla komt voor met veszelyiet, en botryoidale korsten...de kleur varieert van blauw naar grijswit . Chrysocolla van Kipushi is niet veel zaak s vergeleken met |  | | Catalog/List | | 5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee brown...APATITE (Var: Francolite) - Holmbush Form. Holmbush Mine, Nr. Callington, East Cornwall. Vuggy Quartz/Chloritic... APATITE (Var: Francolite). Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Pale coloured, fine textured |  | | Journal (issue) | | A New Occurrence of Allophane From the Laochang Mine, Gejiu City, Yunnan, China Tony Nikischer Excalibur...exceptional allophane specimens from the Laochang Mine (see figure I) came as a complete surprise. Our...neither species had previously been reported from this mine, best known for its pale blue hemimorphite. Figure...colorful specimenof allophane from the laochang Mine, near Gejiu City in YunnanProvince.This sample providedthe...(Continues on page 2) A Discovery of Gem-Grade Chrysocolla From Ontonagon County, Michigan Tom Rosemeyer |  | | Book | | shore, in the desert, in the National Parks, on old mine tips or even in the soil in their yard. Many people...lightweight, it floats. Found at Moons Hill & Blaine, Ida. Used for insulation & soft abrasives. Ignimbrite...in several counties of Cal. as well as in Col., Ida., Mon., Nev., N.Y., Ut., Geo., Ver. and Mar. Quarried...deep-seated masses of igneous rock. Found in Ariz., Cal., Ida., Nev., N.J., and at Rockland, N.Y. Recognized by...deposits in limestone. Splendid crystals occur at Ogden mine, N.J. Also found at Climax, Col., at Bingham Canyon |  | | Book (edition) | | or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a...there may be others. The biggest problems are with mine names and occasional1y mining district names. Mining...come from one ore zone, but not others. So if the mine is still operating, some of the minerals may not...discovered the outcrops of ore that became the Tiger Mine near Burke. That same year, the discoveries of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite mine (f)-near Amelia beryl (var. aquamarine), microcline... magnesite, magnetite, pyrite, talc Stony Point mine-near Charlottesville chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite...goethite, malachite, siderite Buck Mountain mine-near Forks of Buffalo arsenopyrite, fluroite, gold, scorodite...perrierite, rhabdophane, zircon Christian tract mine (copper)-near Sweet Briar actinolite-tremolite, |  | | 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) | | crystal mine, the avid rock hunter can enjoy the beauty of Lake Ouchauita and Coleman's Crystal Mine. My...of the size and clarity produced at the Coleman Mine existed. The largest quartz crystals in our area...in is now $4.00 per person. It was at the diamond mine that we Sondra Bauernfeind using a Gad Pry Bar...of huge quartz crystals and were told that Mount Ida had been blasted years before by a government agency...The passes to hunt crystal in the Coleman Crystal Mine are $1.00 per person, with special rates for students |  | | Report (issue) | | mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...azurite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, covellite, cuprite, jasper, limonite...powellite, pyrite. Black Rock mine - specular hematite. Galena mine - galena. Iron Mountain Pass deposits...deposits - hematite. Skylark mine - azurite, calcite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, cuprite, diopside |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pseudomorphs after pyrite, pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine—near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...ilmenite, magnesite, magnetite, talc Stony Point mine—near Charlottesville chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite...calcite crystals (some with pyrite inclusions) Crimora mine (manganese)—near Waynesboro cryptomelane, psilomelane...minerals) Amelia County Bath County Beryl pegmatite mine (0—near Amelia beryl, muscovite (rum colored), quartz...crystals, quartz (rose), tourmaline Morefield pegmatite mine (0—near Amelia beryl, cleavelandite, columbite-tantalite |  | | Catalog/List | | matrix. 17Xli-x1 ", £1. SOp 4~ ANHVDRITE. Bancroft Mine, Zambia. Select pure light lavender coloured rhombic...Malachite. 2~x1b<1t", £.11.00 9. BARVTES. Char Kounhi Mine, Iran. Lustrous creamy coloured tabular crystals...r~inium. 4x2b<2", £6.5Op 10. BARVTES. Silverband Mine, Great Dun Fell, Westmoreland. A select sharp mostly...crystal. 2x1", £2.50p ( 11. BARVTOCALCITE. Blagill Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. Specimen A: A 2x1t" cavity...2-b<2~", £1.7Sp 14. BORNITE after ENARGITE. Stewart Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, U.S.A. Well formed |
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