| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Dolomite |
| Formula: | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Dolomite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Bultfontein Mine, KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1233188 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1233188:8 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
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| 3.6km (2.3 miles) | ⓘDe Beers Mine, Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa |
| 5.9km (3.7 miles) | ⓘBenfontein sills, Kimberley, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa |
| References |
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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) 967-970 doi:10.1130/g33221.1 Giuliani, Andrea, Soltys, Ashton, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Goemann, Karsten, Woodhead, Jon D., Drysdale, Russell N., Griffin, William L. (2017) The final stages of kimberlite petrogenesis: Petrography, mineral chemistry, melt inclusions and Sr-C-O isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Chemical Geology, 455. 342-356 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.011 Tarasov, A., Sharygin, I., Golovin, A., Dymshits, A., & Rezvukhin, D. (2021, April). Mineral assemblage within secondary crystallized melt inclusions in olivine of mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite pipe (Kaapvaal craton, South Africa). In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-4486). |
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