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Magnetite from
Franke Mine, Giyani Greenstone Belt, Greater Giyani Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Franke Mine, Giyani Greenstone Belt, Greater Giyani Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1349331
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1349331:6
GUID (UUID V4):ef5f8aad-0476-44e1-9508-b42825b3d24e
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
96.7km (60.1 miles) Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
96.9km (60.2 miles) Loolekop pipe, Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mineralization in the Giyani Goldfield, Northern Kaapvaal Craton/ Limpopo Complex C.A. Smit and D.D...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa email: christofasmit@gmail.com; dirkvr@uj.ac...Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa email: mccourts@ukzn.ac.za J.M. Huizenga Economic...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa email: jan.huizenga@jcu.edu.au G. Belyanin Department...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa Email: gbelyanin@uj.ac.za N.A. Vafeas Department
Book
Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa Regional Geology Reviews Series editors Roland... Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa 123 Editors Alfred Kröner Institut für Geowissenschaften...Geology University of Johannesburg Auckland Park, South Africa ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic)...continued interest. The Kaapvaal Craton of Southern Africa is featuring prominently in early Earth studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20 The Hadamengou Mine: A Typical Gold Deposit in the Archean Granulite... Box 524 Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa b Department of Geology , Shenyang Institute... Box 524 Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa Published online: 06 Jul 2010. To cite this...-Y. Yang & D. D. Van Reenen (1994) The Hadamengou Mine: A Typical Gold Deposit in the Archean Granulite...& Son, Inc. All rights reserved. The Hadamengou Mine: A Typical Gold Deposit in the Archean Granulite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in mid-crustal auriferous mylonites of the Renco mine, southern Zimbabwe Received: 27 October 1998 /...the Renco mine in the Northern Marginal Zone of the late-Archaean, granulite-facies Limpopo Belt in southern...Marginal Zone onto low- to medium-grade granite-greenstone terrains of the Zimbabwe craton. Mineral assemblages...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa undergone extensive post-entrapment modi®cations...were generated from dehydration of subcreted greenstone terrains of the Zimbabwe craton. Introduction
Book
LEGACY OF THE MINE LEGACY OF THE MINE LEGACY OF THE MINE ILAN GODFREY JACANA CONTENTS The...The Long (and Dark) Shadow of Mining in South Africa 10 The Photographs 7 Extended Captions 131 ...ese talicim'y z i Palabora Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, Limpopo, 2013. = SS > a 7 =i - — ~— )...Ose The Long (and Dark) Shadow of Mining in South Africa Sakhela Buhlungu For nearly 150 years the mining...mining industry has been the catalyst for South Africa’s economic development and therefore the country’s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the mineralized lithologies of the Renco gold mine are dominated by carbonic inclusions of highly variable...Müller 1997; Ridley et al. 2000) and Southern Africa (Limpopo Belt: van Reenen et al. 1994; Gan and van Reenen...conclusions for gold mineralization in the Ashanti Belt, Ghana, and proposed a new category of ore-forming...granulitefacies Northern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. An attempt has been made to compare microthermometric...The Renco gold mine is situated in the Northern Marginal Zone (NMZ) of the Limpopo Belt in southern Fig
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...for interpretive bedrock mapping in the Giyani area (South Africa) .. ...................................mineral potential map of the Neoproterozoic Gariep Belt in Namibia .......................... 480 . ...area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden .......................................A. Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation .............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conglomeratic hard ironstone, mostly made of magnetite, which testifies for sub-aerial reworking. The...The source of the iron is to be related to local, glacio-eustatic driven, emergence of Upper Ordovician...same stratigraphic interval in NW Sardinia (Nurra district) as oolitic ironstones. Phanerozoic ironstones...ascertain whether: Fig. 1. Schematic view of the south European Variscan chain (after Cappelli et al.,...connected to a glacio-eustatic sea level drop. 2. Local geology The Sardinia and Corsica segment of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meggen and those deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Introduction The Palaeozoic volcano-sedimentary...7, D-95652 Waldsassen, Germany (previously Chief Mine Geologist, Preuûag AG Metall, Goslar, Germany) ...hunting expedition. The wealth generated by the mine was the basis for the development of the city of...immediately to the north of the mine in the Harz Mountains. The mine was an important source of revenue...activities. Agricola (1557) mentions the Rammelsberg mine only once (De re Metallica ± 6th Book), and describes
Report (issue)
location of Calaveras County Map of the Angels Camp district showing geology and lode mines Sketch map of the...._ West Point-Railroad Flat-Glencoe of the district, — of the Carson Hill Figure 7. Cross section...of the Figure 9. Cross section of Royal gold mine Map Figure 11. 38 46 area Figure Figure 10...mines map 10 34 48 Hill 48 Hill Gwin gold mine 58 68 of portions of the workings of the Gold...Central drift of Calaveras County showing map and mine 85 ... 94 plant... 99 distribution of limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusion-related Au(-Cu) deposit, Swayze greenstone belt, Ontario, Canada—Laura R. Katz, Daniel J. Kontak...Naga-Manipur ophiolite complex, Indo-Myanmar orogenic belt, northeast India—Federica Zaccarini, A. Krishnakanta...Reiner Klemd, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, and Henrike Franke 25 67 Evidence of multiple halogen sources in...Devdoraki copper deposit, Kazbek volcanic center, the Greater Caucasus— V.A. Lebedev, A.V. Chugaev, G.T. Vashakidze...understanding the tectonic evolution of the south Altay orogenic belt, northwest China—Chengdong Yang, Fuquan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Germany Abstract The Rhenohercynian thrust- and fold-belt of Central Europe hosts a syn- to post-kinematic...massif, but is mainly developed in the Siegerland district as synkinematic lodes which are hosted by low-grade...gradually decrease from S.E. to N.W. across the belt. This trend correlates with decreasing degree of...the postkinematic magmatism of the Rhenohercynian belt. Main(-siderite)-stage mineralisation of the Rhenish...the Variscan siderite lodes of the Siegerland district, Germany, which have been among the world's largest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archean chromitite deposits of the Shurugwi greenstone belt and not from the Great Dyke. Geochemically...deposits of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa, the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in Russia...Maandagshoek farm, in the then eastern Transvaal, South Africa, led to the discovery of the largest known PGE...draining the great layered intrusions (Bushveld, South Africa; Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; Stillwater, USA) that...(PGE) after the Bushveld Complex in neighboring South Africa (Sutphin & Page 1986, Vermaak 1995, Zientek
Book
France and Related Areas (1994) R.D. DALLMEYER, W. FRANKE, and K. WEBER {Eds.}: Pre-Permian Geology of Central...Central and Eastern Europe (1995) R.D. Dallmeyer W. Franke K. Weber (Eds.) Pre-Permian Geology of Central...University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602-2501 USA W. FRANKE Justus-Liebig-Universität Senckenbergstrasse 3... DALLMEYER W. FRANKE K. WEBER Contents I Introduction R.D. DALLMEYER, W. FRANKE, and K. WEBER...Rhenohercynian Foldbelt III.A Introduction W. FRANKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...sediments of the Ediacaran Rocha Formation (Dom Felicano Belt) at the Atlantic coast of Uruguay. These metasediments...Oranjemund Group (Gariep Belt) cropping out in the western borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split...split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”. Photo by Mathias Hueck Printed on acid-free...Ortelius was the first to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BRENNER,*N. A. TEIXEIRA,J. A. L. OLIVEIRA,N. D. FRANKE,AND J. F. H. THOMPSON BP MineraqtioLtda., Bio de...major ArchcanParamirimcratonin the central The local geologyhas been describedbriefly by part of Brazil...percent Ni the stratigraphyof the Morro do Ferro greenstone Morerecently,Carvalhoet al. (1989-), cutoff are...are estimated at 6.6 million metric tons of ore belt sequence. Morales et al. (1983), and Choudhuriet...andtectonicsetting zone between the craton and mobile belt is highly andformthe basisfor understanding the
Book
fruition and where they develop depends on a host of local factors, but the broad environmental controls in...and possibly enrage some of those with first-hand local knowledge. To such people I can only offer an advance...their willingness to share freely of their time and local expertise with an itinerant academic. Without their...Deposits of Principal Arcs ...... 64 1.6.1 Massive Magnetite Deposits ............... 1.6.2 Manto-Type Copper.................. . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico ..........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and two Manto-type TE deposits: Altamira and Franke. Calculated Re-Os ages for some of these deposits...age, indicating that the Cretaceous Manto-type Cu belt of central Chile extends further north than previously...ppt level, respectively, with many sulfides and magnetite bearing appreciable no common Os. The Re and Os...ppb Re, PT and Os less than 156 ppt, whereas magnetite has lower Re and Os contents (0.7-129 ppb RI...Os). However, rhenium and Os concentrations in magnetite might be attributed to small sulfide inclusions
Book
North American Craton (less Greenland Shield) 1.6.6 South American Craton 1.6.7 African Craton 1.6.8 Indian...Wisconsin and Michigan 2.6.7 Wyoming Uplift 2.7 South American Craton 2.7.1 Guiana Shield 2.7.2 Central...African Craton: Southern Africa 2.8.1 Kaapvaal Craton 2.8.2 Limpopo Mobile Belt 2.8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2...Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton and Trans-Saharan Mobile Belt 2.10.1 Man Shield...2.1 1.2 Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of
Book
North American Craton (less Greenland Shield) 1.6.6 South American Craton 1.6.7 African Craton 1.6.8 Indian...Wisconsin and Michigan 2.6.7 Wyoming Uplift 2.7 South American Craton 2.7.1 Guiana Shield 2.7.2 Central...African Craton: Southern Africa 2.8.1 Kaapvaal Craton 2.8.2 Limpopo Mobile Belt 2.8.3 Zimbabwe Craton 2...Craton: Central Africa 2.10 African Craton: West African Craton and Trans-Saharan Mobile Belt 2.10.1 Man Shield...2.1 1.2 Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of
Journal (issue)
like to take on this task, see show chairman Nevin Franke. Next Meeting Tuesday, September 23, 7 p.m. AB20...jrwashburn3@att.net Oct 11-13: Warren, MI 2013 Greater Detroit Gem, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show, Fri...last bag of Combos instead. Blue Point Amethyst Mine was a nice place to stop and collect. Most people...Wisconsin accent sounded Canadian to her. Talked to the mine owner Linden Swanson who gave me an unattractive...for me was the probably about 100-year old silver mine shaft there. Probably dug about 100 years ago on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
complexes within the Saxothuringian zone of the Variscan belt (Fig. 1). Moreover, the MGCR is documented by crystalline...which had opened during the Devonian, was closed by south-east directed subduction in late 400 f" IIIL[IIIIII...the central European Variscides (modified after Franke 1989a). Blank, Sedimentary cover of Permian and...Devonian or early Carboniferous time (e.g. Franke 198%, b, 1990; Franke and Oncken 1990; Dallmeyer et al. in...Fe-oxides present present present generally magnetite absent absent absent generally ilmenite absent
Report (issue)
357 deposits, including deposit name, country, local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...Au-quartz vein deposits are commonly found in greenstone belts. Rock types hosting deposits include greywacke...used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent feature...appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills (Knopf, 1929)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australia Abstract Gold mineralization at the Tropicana mine occurs within the Plumridge terrane along the eastern...Tropicana mineralization is distinctly younger than greenstone-associated gold deposits elsewhere in the Yilgarn...craton. As in the Dharwar craton, India, and the Limpopo belt, Zimbabwe, economic gold mineralization at Tropicana...Renco in Zimbabwe, Hutti in India, Challenger in South Australia, and Griffins Find and Big Bell in Western...reworking is amphibolites-granulite facies in the south, greenschist facies in the north (Spaggiari et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction Formation of the Variscan orogenic belt culminated in the Carboniferous, when northern Gondwana...preceded by the transfer of terranes from North Africa to Baltica and Laurentia 840 U. MARTIN ET AL...al., 1996), and the exchange of terranes between South America and Laurentia (Dalziel, 1997; Bahlburg and...basement blocks in the European Variscan orogenic belt is given by the presence of magmatic and metamorphic...found in the Variscan Fold Belt of Central Europe including the Alps, south of the Rhenohercynian Zone
 
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