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Quartz from
Upington, Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Upington, Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262712
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262712:0
GUID (UUID V4):0fa7bd84-d9e9-4619-bc32-57aac17182f5
References
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the eastern margin of the Namaqua Province, South Africa Russell Bailie ⁎,1, Jens Gutzmer 2, Hariharan...Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...geochemistry combined with Sm–Nd-isotopic data from the northern and southern ends of the succession to test its...differences in the lithological architecture on a local scale the Areachap Group exhibits coherent geochemical...address: University of the Western Cape, Belville, 7535, South Africa. 2 Present address: TU Bergakademie
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Resources, University of Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein (South Africa) (Received April 6, 1982; revision accepted...southern Africa. Precambrian Res., 21: 39--54. The Prieska area of the Cape Province of South Africa lies...oceanic suture. INTRODUCTION The western part of South Africa is b o u n d e d by the crystalline basement..., being obscured by y o u n g e r cover in the south and by the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The eastern...is exposed near the Orange River area, between Upington and Prieska, where the high-grade gneisses and
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NAMAQUA PROVINCE EASTERN BOUNDARY, KENHARDT DISTRICT, SOUTH AFRICA H U W C. H U M P H R E Y S and JAN M. VAN...Geology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17 BeUviUe (South Africa) (Received September 24, 1985;...Namaqua Province eastern boundary, Kenhardt district, South Africa. Precambrian Res., 36: 39-64. The junction...Tectonic Province (1.8-1.7 Ga) in the Northwest Cape, South Africa, is marked by a 50 km-widebelt of strike-slip...Kheis Subprovince (1.7 Ga) to the east. To the south, the work of Vajner (1974a) and Coward and Potgieter
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THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE NAMAQUA MOBILE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA -- A POSSIBLE MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC VOLCANIC ARC...University o f the Orange Free State, Bloernfontein (South Africa) ABSTRACT Geringer, G.J., Botha, B.J.V., Pretorius...the eastern margin of the Namaqua mobile belt, South Africa -- a possible middle Proterozoic volcanic arc...Precambrian Res., 33: 139--170. The Boksputs and Upington sequences of the Areachap Group, present along...eastern margin of the Namaqua mobile belt in southern Africa, contain amphibolites with chemical properties
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Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa e-mail: cornell@gvc.gu.se; david.cornell@cantab...cornell@cantab.net © 2019 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. Abstract The type area of the...104, Somuspan 105 and Dooniespan 108 in Prieska District. Outcrop is poor and the type material is preserved...gedrite fels and strongly foliated, leucocratic quartz-perthite-sillimanite gneiss. The ore is interpreted...Prieska Copper Mines and Areachap Mine north of Upington, where the Jannelsepan and Bethesda formations
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the Friersdale Charnockite (Keimoes Suite), South Africa C.W. Lambert, P.H. Macey and S. Doggart Council...for Geoscience, PO Box 572, Bellville, 7535, South Africa e-mail: clambert@geoscience.org.za; pmacey@geoscience...and R.H. Bailie University of the Western Cape, South Africa e-mail: shane.sedzani@gmail.com; rbailie@uwc...ac.za © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract The Friersdale Charnockite is a late-Mesoproterozoic...opalescent quartz that outcrops in the KeimoesUpington region of the Northern Cape, South Africa. The weakly
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porphyroblast growth in the Zoovoorby staurolite schist, South Africa H. C. HUMPHREYS* AND J . M. VAN BEVER DONKER...University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Z.30 Bellville, South Africa ABSTRACT This paper describes...material in the 1.3-1.0Ga eastern Namaqua Province, South Africa. The supracrustal Biesjepoort Group, of which...outcrops along the Orange River in the northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is part of the supracrustal...by low-pressure high-temperature metamorphism. Local geology The 2%is part of the Biesjepoort Group
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SHRIMP age for Koras Group bimodal volcanism, Northern Cape Province J. Gutzmer and N.J. Beukes Department...O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006 Republic of South Africa E-mail: jgutzmer@uni-muenster.de; njb@na.rau...unconformity. Zircons from the Swartkopsleegte quartz porphyry, close to the base ofthe Koras Subgroup...which post-date the Kibaran Orogeny in southern Africa. However, extrusion of the Koras lavas predates...rocks to the east and north ofUpington in the Northern Cape Province (Figure 1). The succession unconformably
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charnockite-granolite province in southwestern Africa M.P.A. Jackson D e p a r t m e n t o f G e o l...e r s i t y o f Natal Piete'maritzburg, 3200 South Africa ABSTRACT Recent studies on the Proterozoic...Namaqua mobile belt in the southwestern part of Africa have revealed the widespread presence of granolites...1969). The granulite-charnockite associations in Africa were reviewed in detail by Clifford (1974) and...Proterozoic Namaqua and Natal mobile belts of southern Africa (Fig. 1 inset) and was based on two localities
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Kaaien Terrane, Namaqua–Natal Province, southern Africa a David H. Cornell , Linus Brander a b a ,...Kaaien Terrane, Namaqua–Natal Province, southern Africa, International Geology Review, 55:12, 1471-1489...Kaaien Terrane, Namaqua–Natal Province, southern Africa David H. Cornella*, Linus Brandera,b , Thomas Zacka...Mines in the Namaqua–Natal Province of southern Africa. It is a massif-type anorthosite, previously regarded...only juxtaposed with the Prieska Copper Mining District by late-tectonic uplift and transpressional movements
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sulfides in the Areachap Group, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Russell Bailie & Jens Gutzmer &...schists of the Areachap Group, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Areachap Group represents...Bailie (*) University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa e-mail: rbailie@uwc.ac.za J. Gutzmer...McClung University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa from that of associated sulfides. At one of...isotopes . Zn–Cu deposits . Areachap Group . South Africa . Sulfides . Barite Introduction The Areachap
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sulphide mineralisation at Boksputs, Northern Cape, South Africa H. C. Humphreys Department of Geology...Geology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville,RSA Abstract. A small stratiform F e - C u - Z n mineralisation...new growth and redistribution of sulphides and by local replacement ofpyrrhotite by pyrite. Group. This...occurs on the farm Boksputs in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa along strike from the much larger...by K-feldspar+sillimanite+ plagioclase+quartz, hercynite+quartz, coexistent almandine garnet and cordierite
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936 An unusual cordierite-roclcfrom Upington, Cape Province. By MORNAMATronS, M.A., Ph.D. Department...Department of Geology, University of Cape Town. [Taken as read March 27, 1952.] Introduction. AMPLES of an unusual...unusual cordierite-rieh rock from near Upington, Cape Province, were collected by Dr. A. Poldervaart who...interstitial matter appears to consist principally of quartz with some felspar and white mica. The rock has...which is reproduced by Dr. L. C. King in his book 'South African Scenery'. No further data are given by Rogers
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gu.se © 2007 December Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Ion probe U-Pb dating of different...1241 ± 12 Ma for the Jannelsepan Formation at Upington and 1285 ± 14 Ma for the Copperton Formation....Copperton Formations, which crop out to the north and south of this shear zone, both formed in the interval...leading to extensive magmatism, D3 deformation and local migmatisation. Introduction and geological setting...‘Controls of sulphide mineralization in the northwest Cape’. It was conceived as a group of subduction-related
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University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa waynecolliston@ymail.com *Corresponding author:...aesc@iafrica.com b Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, South Africa, jcole@geoscience.org.za Key-words: Namaqua-Natal...and migmatitic Grünau Terrane. Upper amphibolite Upington Terrane was thrusted from the west onto thrust...below. Mesoproterozoic fold and thrust belts in Africa have traditionally been referred to as Kibaran...bound by crystalline and supracrustal rocks of the Upington and Olifantshoek Terranes (Colliston et al., 2012
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SOUTH-WEST AFRICA In By Preparation. Albert GERMAN Over 200 THE Over 150 F, Calvert...Calvert. EAST AFRICA. Illustrations and Maps. CAMEROONS. Illustrations and Maps. TOGOLAND. Over THE ...COLONIES AFRICA. With Coloured Plates. AFRICA. WEST SOUTH LUDERITZBCH, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA DURING...LOUIS THE AS THIS AN THE COLONY UNION OF SOUTH EXPRESSION ADMIRATION BOOK IS AND FORCES,...FORMATION BRITISH PROFOUND CAPE CAPE BOTHA, AMBITION AN AFRICA, OF AND ESTEEM, DEDICATED
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Margin of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, South Africa Cyrille Stephane Tsakou Sonwa * , Jan van Bever...University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa; jvanbeverdonker@uwc...Margin of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, South Africa. Minerals 2021, 11, 759. https://doi.org/10...the east. This structure, together with the more local Neusberg Thrust Fault, forms part of an intensely...Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province of southern Africa is part of the global Grenvillian age orogenic
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Copper Mine, Namaqua-Natal tectonic Province, South Africa D.H. Corneli a, H. Humphreys b, H.F.J. Theart...Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa bPrecambrian Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch...Rondebosch 7700, South Africa CAnglovaal Ltd, P 0 Box 62379, Marshal#own, South Africa dDepartment of Geology...University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa (Received April 9, 1991; accepted after revision...Copper Mine, Namaqua-Natal tectonic Province, South Africa. Precambrian Res., 59:43-71. Prieska Copper
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LEERKRANS FORMATION, WILGENHOUTSDRIF GROUP, SOUTH AFRICA – BACKARC BASIN TO THE AREACHAP VOLCANIC ARC...2006, South Africa Present Address: Department of Earth Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Private...Private Bag X17, Belville, Cape Town, 7535, South Africa e-mail: rbailie@uwc.ac.za J. GUTZMER Paleoproterozoic...Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa Present Address: Department of Mineralogy, TU... 2006, South Africa e-mail: hmrajesh@uj.ac.za © 2011 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT
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deposits in a high-grade metamorphic terrain, South Africa, a lithogeochemical exploration application...SRK Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) (Ltd), PO Box 55291, Northlands 2116, South Africa Mining, Oil, and...Johannesburg, South Africa d Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, South Africa b a r t i c...eastern part of the metamorphic Namaqua Province, South Africa, at Areachap, Kantienpan and the defunct Prieska...the eastern part of the Namaqua Province in South Africa were reported by Middleton (1976), Geringer
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Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch 7600, Republic of South Africa (Received September 27, 1989; revised and accepted...pre-date the Westerberg dyke-sheet intrusion. D 3 south-verging folds and thrusts are the oldest post-Matsap...Transvaal Basin sediments in Griqualand West, northern Cape Province are bordered by multiply folded orogenic...parts of the Ghaap Group (Table 1) from north to south across Griqualand West regardless of possible structural...Button and Burger, 1983) 10RMATION and AGE (Ma) in Upington Terranc (U), Kheis Subprovince( K1 I) and Kaapvaa[
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Council for Geoscience, P.O Box 775, Upington 8800, South Africa e-mail: gmoen@lantic.net R.A. Armstrong...anu.edu.au © 2008 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Mapping and stratigraphic analysis...rocks adjacent to the Kaapvaal Craton east of Upington has suggested that the area previously defined...Introduction The Precambrian crustal architecture of South Africa is dominated by two distinct domains, the Kaapvaal...generally believed to be marked by the Southern Cape Conductive Belt (De Beer and Meyer, 1984; Du Plessis
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AND OBSERVATIONS ON AN EXPEDITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE COLONY. By Lieut. J. A. G. ELLIOT. (With Map and...forms the boundary between Cape Colony on the one side and German South-West Africa, Bechuanaland, Griqualand...running the one for some distance along lat. 31° South, in the vicinity of the upper Zak River, and the...Orange River in lat. 28J° and 29° South, in the neighbourhood of Upington. (See Map, p. 402.) On the completion...portion of the most important watershed in that district. This watershed may be said to commence at Tulbagh
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deposits I. R. Plimer University of Newcastle, New South Wales, 2308, Australia Abstract. Three types of...Tourmalinites are rarely the host for stratabound quartz-scheelite + wolframite veins remobilized from the...scheelite deposits in Australia (Mt. Isa district, Qld.; Broken Hill district, N.S.W.; Olary Block, S.A.; Yilgarn...Orogen of Namibia; and the Namaqua Mobile Belt of South Africa. Tweto (1960) recognised that scheelite occurred...Scheelite occurs as beds, porphyroblasts and in local discordant features. In most places scheelite occurrences
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mineral localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . ...Bonin Fluorite from Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape Province, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . ...gather up rocks and stones from the desert or from local quarries and then slice and mineral specimens,...Arizona, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, and local mining companies (including especially Phelps Dodge...Mineral Localities: The Sapo Mine Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais, Brazil Luiz Menezes
 
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