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Bultfontein Mine

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 Südafrika / Nordkap (Northern Cape), Provinz / Frances Baard, Distrikt / Kimberley / KEM JV Mine / Bultfontein Mine

Kind of Exposure

Mine (active)

Geology

Diamanten in Kimberlit.

GPS Coordinates

Bultfontein Mine


Bultfontein Mine

WGS 84: 
Lat.: 28.768163° S, 
Long: 24.792061° E
WGS 84: 
Lat.: 28° 46' 5.387" S,
   Long: 24° 47' 31.42" E
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https://www.mineralatlas.eu/?l=16084
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Shortened path specification

âš’ Bultfontein, KEM JV Mine, Kimberley, Frances Baard, Nordkap, ZA
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Bultfontein Mine

English

Bultfontein Mine

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German

 Südafrika / Nordkap (Northern Cape), Provinz / Frances Baard, Distrikt / Kimberley / KEM JV Mine / Bultfontein Mine

English

 South Africa / Northern Cape / Frances Baard, Distrikt / Kimberley / KEM JV Mine / Bultfontein Mine

Additional Functions

Minerals (Count: 60)

Rocks (Count: 4)

External links

Cairncross, B. 2017, Bultfonteinite: The where of mineral names. Rocks & Min.: 92(6): S.578-81.

Reference- and Source indication, Literature

Literatur

  • Spencer, L.J. (1924). An Inclusion of Magnetite in Diamond. Min. Mag.: 20(107): 245-47.
  • Parry, J., Williams, A.F., Wright, F.E. (1932). On bultfonteinite, a new fluorine bearing hydrous calcium silicate. Min. Mag.: 23(138): 145-62. (Typ-Publ.)
  • Mountain, E.D. (1957). Rhodesite, a new mineral from the Bultfontein mine, Kimberley. Min.Mag.: 31(239): 607-10.(Typ-Publ.)
  • Gard, Taylor, Chalmers (1957). Mountainit. Min. Mag. 31, 611. (Typ-Publ.)
  • Mathias, M., Siebert, J.C., and Rickwood, P.C. (1970): Some Aspects of the Mineralogy and Petrology of Ultramafic Xenoliths in Kimberlite. Contr. Min.Petrol. 26, 75-123.
  • Gübelin, E., Wolgensinger, M. (1976). Edelstenen. Uitgeverij Artis, Brussel.
  • Haggerty, S.E., Smyth, J.R., Erlank, A.J., Rickard, R.S., Danchin, R.V. (1983). Lindsleyite (Ba) and mathiasite (K): two new chromium-titanates in the crichtonite series from the upper mantle. Am. Min.: 68: 494-505. (Typ-Publ.)
  • Mining Annual Rev. (1985):147.
  • Haggerty, Grey, Madsen, Criddle, Stanley, Erlank (1989). Hawthorneit. Am. Miner. 74, 668. (Typ-Publ.)
  • Cairncross, B. (2004). Field Guide To Rocks & Minerals Of Southern Africa: 67.
  • Field, M., Stiefenhofer, J., Robey, J., and Kurszlaukis, S. (2008): Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of S Africa: A review. Ore Geol.Rev. 34, 33-75.
  • Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Phillips, D., Kendrick, M.A., Wyatt, B.A., Goemann, K. (2012). Nature of alkali-carbonate fluids in the sub-continental lithospheric mantle. Geology: 40(11): 967-70.
  • Cairncross, Bruce (2017). Bultfonteinite: The where of mineral names. Rocks & Min.: 92(6): 578-81.
  • Giuliani, A. et al. (2017). The final stages of kimberlite petrogenesis: petrography, mineral chemistry, melt inclusions and Sr-CO isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). Chemical Geology: 455: 342-56.

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) uoUsbwiOPUGb9Yg52dDWlA
GUID (Global unique identifier) 6F2C85BA-8E08-413D-9BF5-8839D9D0D694
Database ID 16084