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Pyrite from
Vaalhoek Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Bismuth-bearing Tetrahedrite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Bismuth-bearing Tetrahedrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vaalhoek Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1438952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1438952:4
GUID (UUID V4):14c0f7ec-2283-4385-b3db-8fa71da835dd
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
19.1km (11.9 miles) Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
20.0km (12.5 miles) Frankfort Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
25.3km (15.7 miles) Echo Caves, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
39.9km (24.8 miles) Rietfontein Mine, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
41.5km (25.8 miles) Lone Creek Falls cave, Lone Creek Falls, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
43.0km (26.7 miles) Potloodspruit farm, Lydenburg, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
71.0km (44.1 miles) Helena Chrome Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
77.3km (48.0 miles) Booysendal North Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
81.0km (50.3 miles) Magnet Heights carbonatite, Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
85.8km (53.3 miles) Discovery pit, Gravelotte Emerald Mine, Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal, South Africa Roger Tyler a,b Noel Tyler...The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 31 May 1993; revised version accepted...from numerous stratiform ore bodies within the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield. The epigenetic stratiform ore bodies... The gold-silver emplacement model for the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield infers fluids derived from a deep-seated...Complex (Rustenburg Layered Suite) to the west of Pilgrim's Rest is thought to be the source of the auriferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesothermal-Type Mineralization in the Sabie-Pilgrim's RestGoldField,SouthAfrica R. H. BOER, Economic...differentclass of mesothermal golddeposit at Sabie-Pilgrim's Restwhichis probably associated withtheBushveld...estimates indicate that the ore fluidsof the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfield,whichoccurs withinthe EarlyProterozoic...However, a numberof features distinguish the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restoresfromtypicalmesothermal deposits: (1) thepresence...cleargeneticlink.Characteristic features of the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfieldthatcorrespond to thosewithintheabovespectrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation at the Elandshoogte Mine, Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, South Africa M. Harley 1,2 and E. G. Charlesworth...Charlesworth 2 1.2 Geological Survey of South Africa, Private Bag X112, 0001 Pretoria and 2 Department...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 PO Wits, South Africa Received: November 29, 1990/Accepted: April...Sequence sedimentary succession, in the SabiePilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal. These deposits have...Australia. Detailed examination of the Elandshoogte Mine shows that gold deposition occurred in two stages
Report (issue)
••• ••• Rhodesia •• • ••• ••• ••• Union of South .Africa ••• ••• British Guiana ••• ••• ••• Canada ••...... Belgian Congo ••• ••• • •• ••• French West Africa •• • ••• ••• Madagascar ... •• • ••• ••• ••• Mexico...carry35576 A 3 6 ing metallic sulphides, especially pyrite ; often, also, as an impregnation of the country...Oregon and California, and the west coast of the South Island of New Ze.a land. 1 ' r 7 • • The...(c.o nglomerate.s) of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa; · the quart.z veins o,f the Kolar goldfield
Journal (volume)
Manriland Report Benue Dredge Berenguela Tin District *54 265 342 *380 203 109 270 69 271 5 H. A...A. Lewis *369 "260 A 345 Bishop Creek Mine 8S Black Diamond Header H. Briggs 208 Blackwater Mines Report...(Torrington) Report 152 Bolivia, Berenguela Tin District of *369 H.A.Lewis Bolivia, Conditions in 277 Botha...*1'71 British Columbia Zinc Industry *31 British South Africa Charter 214 Broken Hill Block 10 Report 151...Beresite Dikes Biological Necessity, -J. A Report Mine Tunneling 332 330 6 72 149 113 109 Report Report
Journal (volume)
; > PAGE Abosso Gold Africa, Africa, Report German South-West German South-West African Railways...Railways Air, Moisture in Mine Air, Moisture in Mine Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska S. Rice Whittome...A. C. Gold Mines Mexican Report Perseverance Mine Treadwell Treadwell Treadwell, Fall of Ground at...56 (p.t.) as Precipitant (p.t.) H. Mining District W. Turner {.c.l.) Amalgamated Properties v...Shaft, Recovering the Barnato Group of Mines Bawdwin Mine, see Burma Corporation Bell Reef Report... Bell
Book
t a t e d Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of t h e U S S R ) a n d Australasia...him. I have tried to include all ore districts in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the U.S.S.R.)> and Australasia...incluir todos los distritos mineros conocido en Africa, Asia (con exclusion de la Union Soviética), y...Greenland. This volume covers mineral deposits in Africa, Asia exclusive of the U.S.S.R., and Australasia...Philippines, and Japan are included with Asia. In South Africa, the deposits are arranged by prov­ inces, in
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...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...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Journal (volume)
Ashanti Rivers and Concessions 305 {c.l.) .... Ashio Mine, Japan 154 Associated Gold Mines of Western Australia...Auckland Letter Abosso Gold Accounts, Gold Mine Africa, In South Central Air-Blasts on Rand Aladdin Cobalt...E. Jacobs. Report Report Report {p.t.) North South . . . . . . . . . ... Report . . ...Report Hill Proprietary Hill Proprietary's Iron Mine Hill, Hill, . . ... {c.l.) {p.t.) British... . 458 *406 *279 West Africa {p.t.) .... *30O Rainy Hollow Copper District .... *448 Steel Sets in
Journal (volume)
316 350 127 1.58 (m.d.) 138 316 70 74,330 South Africa Award 8, 263 373 Broken Hill .\ssociated Smelters...CyanideSolutions. Rand (m.d.) ' Coal Problems in South Africa Coal, Pulverized, and Oil 61 113 22, 81 122...Fields Mining Institute Diamond Output in South- West Africa Diamond Pipes, Brazilian , .......(m.d...Position at Dolly Varden Litigation Dolly Varden Mine, History of Dolmaee, V Dome Mining Corporation...Corporation Dust in Rock-Drilling. A. J. Ellis West Africa Premier Ores 201 72, 330 327 201 *244 *217 8 74,
Journal (volume)
Mining Costs at Anantapur Gold Field Anchor Tin Mine Anonymous *223 70 406 428 426 (p.<.) Steel for...instead of Water in 386 Report Botallack 37 Braden Mine, Chile 160, 393 Brakpan 293 .... Rand Future of...Iron Ores of 74 Report Briseis Tin 324 British South Africa Co.'s Land Proposals Brokaw, A. D. Precipitation...Broken Hill Proprietary 306 Report .... Broken HiU South 168 Litigation Brown, Alden H., Cyanide 230 Report...Concentration Tests (c.l.) .... 147 Cape Copper Co.'s Mine in India 400 Carn Brea & Tincroft 400, 422 Cam Brea
Journal (volume)
Abbontiakoon Mines Abosso Gold 118 370 Broken Brown. South Coggin 14 Accounts, Presentation of Companies'...Minerals Separation Plant at 60 Report Antelope Gold Mine (m.d.) .... 241 Antimony Ores in Rhodesia 131 Aramayo-Francke...moves office to Geneva 196 Areaehap Copper & Sulphur Mine 184 Report Arizona Copper 53 (m.d.) Arsenic. Collecting...Manufactures in Canada 123, 196, 323 Ashanti Gold Mine ol A. M. Matheson (m.d.) Assavs of Complex Tin Ores...Broken HiU Proprietary's Taxes *. 324 Broken HiU South . . Report Hill .T. 367 283 Minerals in Sze-chuan
Journal (volume)
Practical Associated Northern Blocks Australia, South, Oil in Australian Gold Output Australian Metal...Belgian Congo 51 133 Bantjes 246 Barramia Gold Mine 187 Barramia Mining and Exploration Report 240 Basset...Mines Report 366 Bauchi Prospects 248 Bauchi Tin Mine 61 Beatty, A. Chester, v. Guggenheim Exploration...Leaching with Ammonia (p.t.) *295 Berenguela Tin District H. A. Lewis 228 Beringer, J. J., Death of 188...289 German South-West Africa Bolitho, T. B., Death of .. Bolivia, Berenguela Tin District Bolivia, Milluni
Journal (volume)
Anglo-Persian buys Scottish Oil Antelope Report Antelope Mine to close (m.d.) Arsenic, Estimation of Ashanti Goldfields...Reconstruction ., Bateman's Tin Process Bauxite in West Africa A. E. Kitson (m.d.) Belgian Non-Ferrous Metal Industry...Broken Hill, Prospecting at Broken Hill South Broken Hill South Fire Buena Tierra 131 315 261 101 126...Outputs Platinum and Gold Corporation South Africa Co.'s Claim South Africa Co.'s Mining Department Burma Corporation...Report 9 75 127 200 Brakpan Progress Brandlehow Mine Jumbil and Trevascus Bullen, F. Bullfinch Proprietary
Journal (volume)
Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, Editorial...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...company Aerial tramway across Andes mountains. South America. Tramway, Irvinebank Editorial. Tramway...Salt Co., California . . . . . . Aerolites Africa, copper In Central Phosphate , Agitation Slime
Journal (volume)
Digest." Report. Abbontiakoon's New Shaft {m.d.) Africa, Iron Ore Resources of British African Steel Companies...others (m.d.) Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Anglo-Persian Oil Co's. Profits (m.d.) Antimonial...Labour Troubles 319 Report Broken Hill South *329 Broken Hill South, Concentration at. .V. F. Stanley Low...Pulverizing Machine, Blyth's Coal Resources of South Africa (m.d.). . . (m.d.) .... R. Gahl (m.d.)....Concentration, Electric Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa Consolidated Gold Mines of New Zealand Consolidated
Journal (volume)
Westmorland A. E. Kitson (m.d.) .... 189 Bauxite in West Africa Report. ... 64 Berengiiela Tin Mines 102 Bolivia's...Bolivia's Case for the League of Xations 2^1 Greenside Mine. Borlase, W. H Emmons and Grnner (m.d.). . 2r)3...starts Production .' . . . . British West Africa . . . . . . 137 Co., Collapse Broken Hill...in Report 255 Consolidated Diamond Mines of South Africa Report 318 Consolidated Langlaagtc Mines « 135...Diabase, Use of the Tenn Diamonds, .alluvial in South .Mrica. . .E. F. O. F. C. Cornell 259 59 »372
Book
Precambrian Transvaal Dolomite of NE-Transvaal, South Africa. R. Forster and H. Wachendorf. With 1 Figure...trichome cells attenuating at the end, a possible local shrinkage. Interpretation of Microbial Fossils...(Precambrian) of the Barberton Mountain Land (South Africa). Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 5, 9—29 (1967). Schopf...stromatolites have also been reported in North Africa Paleozoic limestone (Bertrand-Sarfati, 1976). Finally...etc. . . have been found at depths of 20—25 m off South Eastern Florida and the Bahamas. In fresh water
Book
Precambrian Transvaal Dolomite of NE-Transvaal, South Africa. R. Forster and H. Wachendorf. With 1 Figure...trichome cells attenuating at the end, a possible local shrinkage. Interpretation of Microbial Fossils...(Precambrian) of the Barberton Mountain Land (South Africa). Rev . Palaeobot. Palynol. 5, 9 -29 (1967)...stromatolites have also been reported in North Africa Paleozoic limestone (Bertrand-Sarfati, 1976). Finally...etc ... have been found at depths of 20-25 m off South Eastern Florida and the Bahamas. In fresh water
 
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