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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Gemstone and mineral geology applied to prospecting course
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 294486" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>No it was a ball going down in the cage before first light when the winder driver had been on the turps, crawling up the scraper gullies in the square set stopes, being knocked down by miners as the roof started to fall (massive galena), being in a pillar as it collapsed (fortunately saved its 40 m drop until later that night), driving in convoy to avoid snipers.....but one is bulletproof in your mid-twenties.</p><p></p><p>Actually the minerals were even better than you could ever photograph, We would get open solutuion cavities in the limestone so big that you could walk into them, except you had to be careful not to cut yourself on the sharp crystals completely covering the walls so that sometimes little rock was visible (mimetite, azurite, malachite, cerrusite, dioptase, calcite, wulfenite.....crystals to many cm long. And the wierd sulphides like sulvanite, germanite, renierite, briartite, gallite, cadmian wurtzite). We ran out of names for new minerals - Stottite (Charlie Stott the mine manager), Gierite and Brunogierite (previous mine mineralogist), Tsumebite, Tsumcorite (Tsumeb Corporation)......either chalcocite or djurleite was first described from there. </p><p></p><p>At one time the government only issued two permits to legally collect specimens - me and my mate the mine mineralogist, John Innes. John died young of kidney failure in the Namib Desert when we worked there (dehydrated around Goanakontes) - he didn't drink enough in the Namib and dehydrated badly but hung in there. He described at least 5 new minerals from Tsumeb and Kombat, so after he died someone named a mineral after him - Johninnesite. His collection was worth a couple of million.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 294486, member: 4386"] No it was a ball going down in the cage before first light when the winder driver had been on the turps, crawling up the scraper gullies in the square set stopes, being knocked down by miners as the roof started to fall (massive galena), being in a pillar as it collapsed (fortunately saved its 40 m drop until later that night), driving in convoy to avoid snipers.....but one is bulletproof in your mid-twenties. Actually the minerals were even better than you could ever photograph, We would get open solutuion cavities in the limestone so big that you could walk into them, except you had to be careful not to cut yourself on the sharp crystals completely covering the walls so that sometimes little rock was visible (mimetite, azurite, malachite, cerrusite, dioptase, calcite, wulfenite.....crystals to many cm long. And the wierd sulphides like sulvanite, germanite, renierite, briartite, gallite, cadmian wurtzite). We ran out of names for new minerals - Stottite (Charlie Stott the mine manager), Gierite and Brunogierite (previous mine mineralogist), Tsumebite, Tsumcorite (Tsumeb Corporation)......either chalcocite or djurleite was first described from there. At one time the government only issued two permits to legally collect specimens - me and my mate the mine mineralogist, John Innes. John died young of kidney failure in the Namib Desert when we worked there (dehydrated around Goanakontes) - he didn't drink enough in the Namib and dehydrated badly but hung in there. He described at least 5 new minerals from Tsumeb and Kombat, so after he died someone named a mineral after him - Johninnesite. His collection was worth a couple of million. [/QUOTE]
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