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Pforte, Pforte Mountain, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Pforte | - not defined - |
| Pforte Mountain | Hill |
| Arandis Constituency | Constituency |
| Erongo Region | Region |
| Namibia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
22° South , 15° East (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~1km
Köppen climate type:
Pforte has been a train station of the first train line between Swakopmund and Windhoek, built in German South-West Africa (now Namibia), from 1898 until 1902. The locality is known for well-crystallized dark violet to nearly black fluorite octahedrons and fine groups of crystals up to 4 cm in size. The fluorites might have been found during the construction of the railway tracks and station, due to extensive earth and rocks movements in a difficult topographic environment and/or in one or the other copper ore exploration shafts in the very nearby Pforte Mts range; at that time including the Husab deposit, which initially had been mined for copper and only later in the 1970s became a producing fluorite mine.
The localities are hardly accessible, as they are situated in the Namib desert Namib-Naukluft National Park; however, the exploration shafts with traces of fluorite still exist.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 References: |
| ⓘ Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S References: |
| ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 References: |
| ⓘ Scheelite Formula: Ca(WO4) |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Scheelite | 7.GA.05 | Ca(WO4) |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| W | Tungsten | |
| W | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
AfricaContinent
African PlateTectonic Plate
- Damara Orogenic BeltOrogenic Belt
Namibia
- Namib-Naukluft National ParkNational Park
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Pforte, Pforte Mountain, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia