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Shortite from
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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Shortite
Formula:Na2Ca2(CO3)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Shortite 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
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1233198
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1233198:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
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, AA (2022) Mineralogy Assemblage of Olivine-Hosted Secondary Melt Inclusions from Bultfontein Pipe (South Africa) and Constraints on the Primary Kimberlite Melt Composition. X International Siberian Early Career GeoScientists Conference: Proceedings of the Conference (13-17 June 2022, Novosibirsk, Russia)/ IGM SB RAS, IPPG SB RAS, NSU. – Novosibirsk: IPC NSU, 2022. - 228 p. - ISBN 978-5-4437-1337-3..
 
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