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Fuchsite from
New Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Fuchsite
Formula:K(Al,Cr)3Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fuchsite data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1242286
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1242286:1
GUID (UUID V4):2e160bca-3d06-4bbf-84dd-c6fa23395eab
Nearest other occurrences of Fuchsite
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘFairview Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
9.8km (6.1 miles) ⓘSheba Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
46.3km (28.7 miles) ⓘNkomati Mine, Uitkomst Complex, Waterval, Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
47.5km (29.5 miles) ⓘMalalane, Nkomazi Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sheba and New Consort Gold Mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa* Windeati...Archean (3.55–3.10 Ga) Barberton greenstone belt of the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa. Published structuralgeologic...variably tectonized former chert. Observations at New Consort (higher temperature, close to granitoid contact)...isotopic analyses were performed on native gold from Barberton, on two other lode gold deposits and two carbon...sulfide-rich ores. Different gold samples from Barberton yield Δ109Ag values (differences in 109Ag/107Ag
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoarchean mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Andrea Agangi a,⁎, Axel Hofmann...University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Materials Research Department, iThemba LABS...Foundation, PO Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty...Mesothermal gold Pyrite Arsenopyrite Archean Barberton Greenstone Belt a b s t r a c t The Fairview...gold mines in the Paleoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt of Southern Africa. At these mines, gold is associated
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for a gruneritic Archean gold deposit, Barberton, South Africa Patrick J. Williams ) National Key Centre...Abstract The Lily mine, located some 24 km northeast of Barberton in South Africa, occurs stratabound...gold; Archean; metamorphism; grunerite; Barberton; South Africa 1. Introduction Stratabound deposits in...rocks of the 3.5–3.0 Ga Barberton granite–greenstone association in southern Africa contain an exceptional...1986a.. The Lily deposit some 24 km northeast of Barberton ĆœFig. 1. offers a particular opportunity to study
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structurally-controlled gold mineralisation of the Barberton Greenstone Belt Andrea Agangi a,⇑, Axel Hofmann...Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa c UniversitĂ© Lyon, UJM –Saint Etienne, Laboratoire...Archaean Gold Barberton Greenstone Belt Multiple S isotopes a b s t r a c t The Barberton Greenstone Belt...Belt of southern Africa hosts several Mesoarchaean gold deposits. The ores were mostly formed in greenschist...sulfide ore from Sheba and Fairview mines of the Barberton Greenstone Belt to distinguish ‘‘deep” S sources
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POST-OROGENIC EXTENSION IN THE NEW CONSORT GOLD MINE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA M.R. MUNYAI School...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, South Africa e-mail: mphoyanga@yahoo.com; guy.charlesworth@wits...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, South Africa School of Earth and Environmental Science, James...2050, South Africa e-mail: guy.charlesworth@wits.ac.za © 2011 June Geological Society of South Africa...Africa ABSTRACT The area around New Consort Gold Mine (NCGM) was complexly deformed during at least five
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mineraliza‐ tion at Sheba Mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Lucas Pintos Cerda, Caitlin...gold mineralization at Sheba Mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Ore Geology Reviews (2020)...mineralization at Sheba Mine, 4 Barberton Greenstone Belt, South 5 Africa. 6 Lucas Pintos Cerda1*...Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 10 11 *Corresponding author: E-mail address:...data from Sheba gold mine in the 17 Barberton Greenstone Belt of South Africa indicate that gold mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of gold mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa M.A.H. Altigani, R.K.W. Merkle...Pretoria, Private Bag X20, HatïŹeld, Pretoria 0028,South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...2015 Available online 18 December 2015 Keywords: Barberton Gold Hydrothermal Halogen Mineralisation a b...sulphides at Sheba, Fairview, and New Consort gold mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) identify...Introduction The Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa (Fig. 1), is one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of the northwest part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: A review C.R. Anhaeusser Economic...2050, South Africa e-mail: carl.anhaeusser@wits.ac.za © 2019 December Geological Society of South Africa...Abstract Formations on the northwestern ïŹ‚ank of the Barberton Greenstone Belt have hosted over 85% of all the...the gold recovered from the ca. 3550 to 3000 Ma Barberton Supergroup since early discoveries in 1872. This...Pluton invaded the area north of present day Barberton town causing the separation of the greenstones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN THE SHEBA-FAIRVIEW MINE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA P.H.G.M. DIRKS School of Geosciences...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa Current Address: School of Earth and Environmental...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa e-mail: guy.charlesworth@wits.ac.za; mphoyanga...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Gold mineralisation in the world-class Sheba-Fairview mining district in the...the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, occurs along a fracture network that is arranged in overlapping
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studies have been made on several chromium micas (fuchsite and mariposite) of the type associated with many...deposits. A study of available analyses of fuchsite, including a new one by Whitmore yieldd the following chemical... representing the ideal unit cell content. In fuchsite Cr replaces Al up to 4.8lVo Cr1OB,cofie' sponding...chromium per unit cell. Optical properties of fuchsite show 30"-46", the following variation: a= 1.559to...X-ray studies confirm the structural identity of fuchsite with muscovite. The varietal name chromian muscotiteis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lithologies across the Makhonjwa Mountains of South Africa and Swaziland linked to geochemical, magnetic...Uma Martinez a, f, Sam Bowring g a AEON-ESSRI (Africa Earth Observatory Network-Earth Stewardship Science... Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology... Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa e Department Geophysics, GFZ - German Research...14473 Potsdam, Germany f GISCAPETOWN, Cape Town, South Africa g Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmaline mineralization in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: early Archean metasomatism by...lowgrade, interior portions of the Barberton greenstone belt of South Africa, where shallow-marine sediments...the volcanic sequence of the Barberton greenstone belt in South Africa. Early twentieth century geologists...de Wit et al. 1982). Interior portions of the Barberton greenstone belt are ideally suited to test these...widespread. Stromatolites and microfossils from Barberton sedimentary rocks (Byerly etal. 1986b; Walsh and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fairview Mine—multiphase gold mineralization during regional folding, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa...Gold production in Fairview Mine in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, is focused on high-grade...relationships with other auriferous reefs from the Fairview Mine complex indicate a late timing of the MRC-type mineralization...protracted fluid flow events. Keywords Orogenic gold . Barberton Greenstone Belt . Sheba fault . Multiphase timing...years, gold mining in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) in South Africa has produced some 350 tons
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 fĂŒr 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
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Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego - San Francisco -...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...CONDIE Department of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za) K. HORIE Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of
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Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego - San Francisco -...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...CONDIE Department of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za) K. HORIE Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the StorĂž Supracrustal Belt. Zircon grains from fuchsite-bearing quartzite were dated by LA-ICPMS U-Pb...aïŹ€ected the StorĂž Supracrustal Belt (SSB). These new garnet ages conïŹrm previous Re-Os isotope ages for...(ScherstĂ©n et al., 2012). The implication of our new data is that both Au mineralization events within...ultramaïŹc schist, garnet-sillimanite-mica schist, and fuchsite-bearing quartzite, and the SSB experienced regional...compositions and trace element content. Here we report new Lu-Hf isotope data for bulk-rock samples from Szilas
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...mineral resources are extensible in the sense that new deposits can be discovered by exploration, to recover...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Abstract At the Archean–Paleoproterozoic Troia...surrounding cratonic domains (e.g. Guiana shield and West Africa craton). Gold mineralization in the Serra das Pipocas...domain of the Borborema Province, limited to the south by the Patos shear zone (Fig. 1 A), the basement...leucogranites, tonalitic intrusions as well as local mafic–ultramafic metaplutonic rocks (Pessoa and...lineation plunging with 20–35° to the NE (Fig. 2). Many local– and regional–scale fold axies also plunge with
Report (issue)
Data Geologic evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa I edited by Donald R. Lowe and...-9 J. Barberton Greenstone Belt (South Africa and Swaziland) 2. Greenstone belts--South Africa--Barberton...Africa--Barberton Region. 3. Geology-South Africa--Barberton Region. I. Lowe, Donald R., 1942ll. Byerly, Gary R....556.82'6- -dc21 CIP Cover: Rocks typical of the Barberton Greenstone Belt. (Background photo--pale green...Fig Tree Group in the outheastern part of the Barberton Belt. Bright red layer are composed of jasper
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started... Garuti, A. Rojas-Purón, F. Longo & A. Chang A new mineralogical method for the determination of metal...charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...mineralisation of the Riwaka Complex, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand . . ......................................Complex in the vicinity of the Steelpoort fault, South Africa – petrogenetic implications ...............
Book
Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”...Ortelius was the ïŹrst to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ‘if comparisons are made between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is clear that different areas in...Kontinente und Ozeane, Alfred Wegener considered South America, Africa, India and Australia as the main parts of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AC models (epithermal vs. orogenic style) for a local gold occurrence, which is hosted by sheeted quartz-veins...gneiss; NU Nuuk region Research highlights: New major and trace element data for 40 rock samples...being that of the StorĂž Supracrustal Belt for which new geochemical data are presented here. AC The Nuuk...yield a pelitic sediment. After presenting the new geochemical data (Section 5) and carrying out mass-balance...some parts of the biotite schist, which suggest local anataxis within the metasedimentary sequence. Again
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Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific, China...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
 
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