 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of southern Africa: A review Matthew Field a,ā, Johann Stiefenhofer...Southdale, 2135, South Africa c De Beers Group Services, PO Box 47, Kimberley, South Africa d De Beers Canada...deposits in central South Africa in the mid nineteenth century, it was at Kimberley where the volcanic...industrial development of southern Africa. Following the discoveries at Kimberley, even more valuable deposits...deposits were discovered in South Africa and Botswana in particular, but also in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES |  | | Book | | not attempted to describe diamond prospecting and mining and, although I have attempted to give some of...with whose research groups at the universities of Cape Town and Chicago I have had long and fruitful collaboration...collaboration. Much of my fieldwork in southern Africa has been carried out with the cooperation and assistance...7.3 2.8 2.9 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . .... . . . . Central Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Africa. . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of some peridotites from the Kaapvaal craton (South Africa) Received: 27 October 2005 / Accepted: 15 January...solid solution (Mss) phases, coexisting with pentlandite (Pn) and Cu-rich sulphides. Textural relationships...in peridotite xenoliths from Kaapvaal craton (South Africa) provided compelling evidence for the occurrence...high-grade Archean Terranes: the Western Terrane, the South-Eastern Terrane, the Central Terrane and the Pietermaritz...kimberlite pipes of the Kimberley area (De Beers Mine; Bultfontein, Kimberley, South Africa) and Jagersfontein |  | | Book (volume) | | rise and development of the diamond mines of South Africa, from an historical, economic and technical...days on the diamond fields when the mines in the Kimberley and Jagersfontein areas were the only diamond...information of a mining nature, which included, besides the data on underĀ ground and surface mining operations...crystals with the object, if possible, of deterĀ mining the conditions under which the diamond crystal...collect during my many visits to all parts of South Africa where kimberlite deposits occurred and the filing |  | Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Kendrick, M.A., Phillips, D., Wyatt, B.A., Maas, R. (2013) Oxide, sulphide and carbonate minerals in a mantle polymict breccia: Metasomatism by proto-kimberlite magmas, and relationship to the kimberlite megacrystic suite. Chemical Geology, 353. 4-18 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polymict breccia (DU-1) from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). Xenolith DU-1 contains heterogeneous...isotope values (initial ĪµHf =2.1ā3.0) in the range of South African Group I kimberlites and associated megacrysts...xenolith (DU-1) collected from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). Textural relationships, mineral...1) collected from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). The Bultfontein Dumps comprise waste...the Bultfontein mine, which is one of four major diamond-producing kimberlites in the Kimberley cluster |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Re^Os isotopes in eclogitic sulĀ¢de inclusions in Kimberley diamonds S.H. Richardson a; *, S.B. Shirey b ...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa Department of Terrestrial Magnetism...Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa, and brought to the surface by the Kimberley kimberlites, show low Ni...to subduction associated with accretion of the Kimberley block to the rest of the craton and subsequent...diamonds recovered from the type Kimberley kimberlites, South Africa, which were emplaced on the Archean |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Fiorentini, Marco L., Martin, Laure A.J., Farquhar, James, Phillips, David, Griffin, William L., LaFlamme, Crystal (2016) Sulfur isotope composition of metasomatised mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa): Contribution from subducted sediments and the effect of sulfide alteration on S isotope systematics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 445. 114-124 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa): Contribution from subducted...Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2019, New South Wales, Australia b KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds)...Keywords: sulfur isotopes sulļ¬des mantle xenoliths Kimberley SIMS * a b s t r a c t Sulfur isotopes are a...metasomatic ļ¬uids beneath the diamondiferous Kimberley region (South Africa), we investigated the S isotope systematics...metasomatised mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite. Pentlandite and chalcopyrite in these xenoliths |  | Soltys, Ashton, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Woodhead, Jon, Rodemann, Thomas (2016) In-situ assimilation of mantle minerals by kimberlitic magmas ā Direct evidence from a garnet wehrlite xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Lithos, 256. 182-196 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys, Andrea Giuliani...xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), LITHOS (2016), doi: 10.1016/j...xenolith entrained in SC RI the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). Ashton Soltys1,*, Andrea...kbar (~140-145 km)] from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). This vein assemblage is dominated...from the Bultfontein kimberlite, as well as perovskite from the other kimberlites in the Kimberley area. |  | Fitzpayne, Angus, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Hergt, Janet, Woodhead, Jon D., Farquhar, James, Fiorentini, Marco L., Drysdale, Russell N., Wu, Nanping (2018) Kimberlite-related metasomatism recorded in MARID and PIC mantle xenoliths. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112. 71-84 doi:10.1007/s00710-018-0573-z | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the sample (0.70814 Ā± 0.00002) and the host Bultfontein kimberlite (0.70432 Ā± 0.00005), suggesting that...southern African kimberlites and orangeites from the Kimberley and Barkly West areas. MARID and PIC rocks are...lithospheric mantle, which have been recovered from the Kimberley and other southern African kimberlites (GrĆ©goire...samples studied here originate from the Kimberley kimberlites (Bultfontein, Wesselton, De Beers, and Kamfersdam)...localities are situated in or close to the town of Kimberley, in the Western terrane of the Kaapvaal craton |  | Abersteiner, Adam, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Goemann, Karsten, Golovin, Alexander V., Sharygin, Igor S., Giuliani, Andrea, Rodemann, Thomas, Spetsius, Zdislav V., Kamenetsky, Maya (2019) Djerfisherite in kimberlites and their xenoliths: implications for kimberlite melt evolution. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174 (1) doi:10.1007/s00410-018-1540-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pre-existing FeāNiāCu sulphides (i.e. pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite), but can also occur as individual...obtained from the mine dumps of the Bultfontein (Group I, or archetypal) kimberlite (South Africa) and comprise...Roberts Victor orangeite (or Group II kimberlite; South Africa). 3. Nine kimberlite rock samples from the Udachnaya-East...harzburgite XM1/422 Bultfontein kimberlite (Group I), Kaapvaal Craton (South Africa) ~ 84 Ma (Allsopp and...orthopyroxene, garnet, Crāspinel and Craton (South Africa) minor clinopyroxene. Olivine and orthopy128 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Roberts Victor, but hotter than for the Finsch, Kimberley, KoĀefontein and Premier Mines. This is ascribed...J.J. Gurney Geological Department, University of Cape Town, 7700, Rondebosch, RSA L.R.M. Daniels Nomathata...presently the only diamond producing kimberlite mine in Zimbabwe, where more than 30 kimberlites have...which is a high-grade metamorphic terrane in the northern part of the Kaapvaal craton. The Early Archean...subdivided into three zones separated by faults: the Northern Marginal Zone (NMZ); the Central Zone (CZ); and |  | Fitzpayne, Angus, Giuliani, Andrea, Hergt, Janet, Phillips, David, Janney, Philip (2018) New geochemical constraints on the origins of MARID and PIC rocks: Implications for mantle metasomatism and mantle-derived potassic magmatism. Lithos, 318. 478-493 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.08.036 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch...Rondebosch 7701, South MA 3 AC CE Corresponding author. PT E * D Africa ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract...MARID and PIC samples from the Kimberley- D Barkly West area in South Africa. Similarities between compositions...PIC xenoliths originate from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa), although MARID samples have also...relative abundance of archetypal MARID rocks in the Kimberley kimberlites compared to other localities remains |  | Clark, A. M., Smith, D. A., Symes, R. F., Tandy, P. C., Hart, A. D. (1995) Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in the Natural History Museum, London - With an appendix listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles. Natural History Museum, London. | Book | | the description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality... 1221. Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England...(Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright (1925) Min...277. Agardite (Cotype) BM 1978,00024 Bou Skour mine, Bou Azzer, Jbel Sarho, Morocco J.E. Dietrich, M...pp. 189, 276. Allanite (Cotype) BM 94377 Alluk, South Greenland T. Thomson (1810) Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh |  | Aulbach, Sonja, Giuliani, Andrea, Fiorentini, Marco L., Baumgartner, Raphael J., Savard, Dany, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Caruso, Stefano, Danyushevky, Leonid V., Powell, Will, Griffin, William L. (2021) Siderophile and chalcophile elements in spinels, sulphides and native Ni in strongly metasomatised xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (South Africa). Lithos, 380. 105880pp. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105880 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metasomatised xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (South Africa) Sonja Aulbach, Andrea Giuliani...metasomatised xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (South Africa), LITHOS (2020), https://doi.org/...metasomatised xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (South Africa) Sonja Aulbach1,*, Andrea Giuliani2... and PANGEA Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia 6 CSIRO Mineral Resources, Kensington...serpentinised peridotite xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite in the Kaapvaal -p Craton, and integrate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cretaceous kimberlite of the central Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Two episodes of interaction between the host...emplacement ages of Cretaceous kimberlites in the Kimberley area. The age spread is interpreted as a result...al. / Lithos 182ā183 (2013) 165ā184 South Africa. In the Kimberley area numerous Cretaceous kimberlites...xenolith sampled by one of the kimberlites of the Kimberley cluster from the central Kaapvaal Craton, for...km W of the center of Kimberley. These dumps contain xenoliths from the Kimberley cluster of kimberlites |  | | Book | | DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS RALPH S. G. STOKES Latk Mining Editor, Rand Daily Mait, Johannesburg, S.A. WITH... TO THE PIONEERS TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL OF THE MINING INDUSTRY WHOSE ENERGIES HAVE CONSTITUTED THE CHIEF...to rank as factors of considerable moment in the mining world. So vast is the subject as a whole that in...classified by natural than national distinc tions, mining fields are closely linked by the bonds of mutual...established abundantly throughout the colonial mining world. The bulk of this volume is based upon observations |  | | Book (edition) | | The Indian Mines - Current Mining - Mining in Brazil ā Diamonds in Africa ā The First Diamond ā First...First Authenticated Diamond ā Mining Rights ā The First Big Find ā First Diggings ā Hope Town ā The Diggersā...The āBig Holeā of Kimberley ā Present Small Diggings ā The Diggersā Press THE BIG MINING COMPANIES Cecil...Rhodes at Kimberley ā Barney Barnato ā De Beers Consolidated Mines ā The Town of Kimberley ā The Wesselton...Oranjemund Founded ā Other Discoveries in Africa ā Mining in Botswana ā Pipes in Lesotho ā Diamonds up |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in relatively small geographical areas such as northern Tanzania, xenoliths from diĀerent eruptive sites...xenoliths from kimberlite, specimens from Kimberley, South Africa have formed the basis of several metasomatism...veined and metasomatised harzburgite xenolith from Kimberley which provides evidence for further metasomatic...from the kimberlite waste dump at Boshof Road, Kimberley. It is an angular block measuring approximately...the 82Ā2-Ma age for the kimberlite magmatism at Kimberley (Allsopp and Barrett 1975). When examined by backscattered |  | | Book | | calcite, clay minerals and fragments of crustal and local host country-rock. At Lattavaram the kimberlite...Iherzolite nodules in kimberlites(from Lesotho and South Africa) and were analysed for isotopic compositions...Extended Abstract, First Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town, 23. Basu, A. R. and Murthy, V. R.(1977) EPSL...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2001, South Africa) Radiometric age determinations were undertaken...undertaken on 15 kimberlite occurrences in Southern Africa, emphasis being placed on a wide areal distribution |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jagersfontein (Hops et al. 1989, 1992) in southern Africa. (The locations of these and other southern African...diopsides, from Jagersfontein and a number of the Kimberley pipes, and noted that these are chemically comparable...the Nouzees kimberlite in North-West Province, South Africa (Jones 1987). Paired high- and low-Cr ilmenite...Weltevreden-Frank Smith; 4 Kimberley cluster (Bultfontein, de Beers, du Toitspan, Kimberley and Wesselton kimberlites);...referred to as Crown); 8 Kaalvallei; 9 Monastery; 10 Northern Lesotho cluster (Thaba Putsoa and Letseng kimberlites); |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Kendrick, Mark A., Phillips, David, Goemann, Karsten (2013) Nickel-rich metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle by pre-kimberlitic alkali-SāCl-rich CāOāH fluids. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165 (1) 155-171 doi:10.1007/s00410-012-0801-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (XM1/422) derives from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) and hosts Ni mineralisation...Tasmania, Hobart, Australia xenolith XM1/422 show local chemical disequilibrium, and modelling of the Ni...mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein Kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), we found an atypical Ni mineralisation...1987). Geological setting The Bultfontein Kimberlite is part of the Kimberley cluster of kimberlites, which...phlogopite Rb/SrāAllsopp and Barrett 1975). The Kimberley kimberlites are classified as Group I kimberlites |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Fiorentini, Marco L., Farquhar, James, Kendrick, Mark A. (2014) Stable isotope (C, O, S) compositions of volatile-rich minerals in kimberlites: A review. Chemical Geology, 374. 61-83 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.03.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partial overprinting by secondary processes at the local scale. Carbonates in southern African Group I (or...stable isotope compositions of carbonates from the Kimberley, Lac de Gras and Udachnaya-East kimberlites reveals.... . . . . . . 2.2.3. Local variations of CāO isotopes: Kimberley (South Africa), Lac de Gras (Canada)...hypabyssal kimberlite samples from: (a) the Diavik mine (Lac de Gras, Canada), and (b) the Gollapalle pipe...range of mantle carbonates. These regional and local variations can be attributed to different isotopic |  | | Book (edition) | | Southern Africa a Collectorās Guide ā Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & ā - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collectorās Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...Ā©E.K. Macintosh Cover design by Neville Poulter, Cape Town Lithographic reproduction by Tien Wah Press...Ltd, Singapore Photoset by McManus Bros (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town Printed and bound by Interpak, Pietermaritzburg |  | 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 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). The inclusions host abundant...polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). In this paper we show that...xenolith (DU-1) from the Bultfontein dumps, Kimberley (South Africa). The Bultfontein dumps comprise waste...(including abundant mantle xenoliths) from the Bultfontein mine, which is one of four major diamond-producing...Off-cut of polymict breccia xenolith DU-1 (Kimberley, South Africa). Coin diameter = 2.4 cm. include blebs |
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