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Uraninite from
Beaufort West, Beaufort West Local Municipality, Central Karoo District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beaufort West, Beaufort West Local Municipality, Central Karoo District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:599583
Long-form Identifier:1:3:599583:7
GUID (UUID V4):975bcaa9-e2ff-4ca3-b8c1-2d895c1a15c4
Localities for Uraninite in this Region
Rietkuil, Beaufort West, Beaufort West Local Municipality, Central Karoo District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
256-269 Uranium Mineralization in the Karoo Basin, South Africa BRIAN R. TURNER Departmentof Geology...PermianBeaufortGroup of the southwestern Karoo basin, South Africa, is mainly confinedto one sandstone-richunit...differentialpermeability,uranium was precipitatedas coffinReand uraninite. Postburial changesin ground-waterchemistrycausedthe...TRACESof uraniummineralizationoccurthroughout the Karoo basin, SouthAfrica (Fig. 1), at different stratigraphiclevels...deposits, however, occur in the BeaufortGroup in the south- with carbonaceousdebris and the accessoryopaque
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paleoenvironment of uranium deposits in the Permian Beaufort Group, South Africa Aharon Horowitz Palynological Laboratory...Prospecting for u r a n i u m in the Karoo region of the Republic of South Africa revealed several occurrences...occurrences of mineralization near the town of Beaufort West (Von Nackstrom, 1974; Beeson, 1980) (Fig. 1 ). Stratigraphically...Beeson, 1980; Cole and Labuschagne, 1985 ) of the Beaufort Series of the K a r o o Supergroup. The uranium-bearing...uranium-bearing minerals, coffinite and uraninite, are disseminated primarily in finegrained sandstones o
Report (issue)
deposits in Quaternary volcano-sedimentary basins in Central Italy ...........................................Y. Sakamaki SOUTH AMERICA Map and index list for sandstone-type uranium deposits in South America .....hydrogeologic environment of tertiary uranium deposits, South Texas uranium province ...........................lacustrine host rocks in the western United States ............ 229 J.K. Otton AFRICA Map and index list for...for sandstone-type uranium deposits in Africa ................................................ 244 W.I
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;
Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...©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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R a b b i t L a k e (Canada) 1 1 SANDSTONES Western USA A r I it_(N i..9e._r_} l 1 CALCRETE Yeelirrie...Deposits") b) Witwatersrand - Orange Free State, South Africa. (Liebenberg 1955; Schidlowski 1966; Hiemstra...Whiteside 1970) The veinlike deposits of the Massif Central in France are similar in appearance, but here the...rich in pyrite. The dominant ore minerals are uraninite, brannerite and locally uranothorite. T h e ~ranium...a) The economy of the Blind River Elliot Lake district is based upon uranium only. The average grade
Book
was on Africa. As chance would have it, I just happened to accept a consulting contract on Africa. After...basins, pull-apart basins, as well as rift basins in Africa. About this time, our choice of the editor for...China or in Africa, and could consult an opus on Sedimentary Basins of China, or that on Africa accordingly...on China and Africa, volumes on sedimentary basins of Australia, South America, Central America, and...chapter of the second volume m A Distant View of the South Pacific Geology. The volume edited by Peter Ballance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Island basalt, forms the projecting headland at the south -end of the Great Perhaver Beach, north of Gorran...in the Whitehaven Coalfield. The fault forms the south-eastern limit of the Coal-measures, and has been...distance of six miles. In its course towards the south-west it passes under five outliers of Permian rocks...north-western frontier of the Lake District. On the north-eastern side also of the Lake District the Permian...which intervened between the two periods. On the south-eastern frontier also the Carboniferous rocks had
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countries. This type was not considered economic by Western World standards and was therefore not designated...recognition criteria of uranium mineralizations on a local (individual deposit) and regional scale (uranium...individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...(general), Bernik J. (Yugoslavia), Brynard S.A. (South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA)...Fohse H. (general), Fuchs H. (Brazil), Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA),
Book (volume)
British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Department Florida Georgia...Wis. Wyo. Yukon 3 New Mexico Nova Scotia New South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories New...Pennsylvania Queensland Rhode Island South Australia South Carolina South Dakota Saskatchewan Tasmania Tennessee...Virgin Islands Virginia Victoria Vermont Western Australia West Virginia Washington Wisconsin Wyoming Yukon...(Wales) Aberdeen (Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa : District) Aberdeen Angus cattle Aberdeenshire (Scotland)
Book (volume)
Socialist Republic N.T. N.Y. Neb. Nev. Scotia South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories ...Socialist Republic South Australia Ind. Indiana S.C. South Carolina Kan. S.D. South Dakota Ky. Kansas...Vermont W.A. W.Va. Western Australia British Mich. N.J. N.M. Columbia District of Columbia New...Mexico P.E.I. P.R. Aust U.K. Island Wash. West Virginia Washington Wis. Wisconsin Wyo. Yukon...(Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa T2- -429 27 T2- -412 35 : T2- -687 15 District) Aberdeen Angus cattle
Report (issue)
4.2. Geologic setting of Witwatersrand district, South Africa..................... 38 2.4.3. Ore geometry...geometry and metallogenesis of Witwatersrand district, South Africa..........................................(Transural Region), Malinovskoye (West Siberia), Khiagdinskoye (Vitim district) in Russian Federation and Beverley...main representative is the Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia. Significant deposits and prospects of...in Australia; Candelaria, Salobo and Sossego in South America; Michelin and Sue-Dianne in Canada. 4. Quartzpebble
Report (issue)
for Surficial Uranium Deposits — An Example from Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Deposits in Calcretes and Associated Sédiments in Western A u s t r a l i a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Mann, R.C. Horwitz Lake Austin Uranium Deposit, Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Gamble 141 Lake Way Uranium Deposit Wiluna, Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Alien 149 The Yeelirrie Calcrete Uranium Deposit Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
................... M.T. Holroyd SAMINDABA — A South African mineral deposits database ................Katti Uranium exploration in the Precambrian of West Greenland using integrated gamma spectrometry and...deposits in the Namaqualand metamorphic complex, South Africa ..............................................t r i c t i o n s can be a p p l i e d w i t h central c o n t r o l . O f course i f these r e s t r... Geology Department (1984) 32 SAMINDABA - A SOUTH AFRICAN MINERAL DEPOSITS DATABASE S.S. HINE, E
Report (issue)
includes the deposit or occurrence name, the mining district, the tectonic setting, the geological type, status...exceptionally good for those countries queried in Asi?, Africa and Latin America. An example of a Uranium Occurrence...Deposit Status is as follows: An anomaly is a local feature distinguishable in a geophysical or geochemical...1,000 - 10,000 Tonnes U > 10,000 Tonnes U For South America Data collected from the PREU (Programa...or deposit DEPOSIT NAME Assigned Deposit name DISTRICT or QUAD If the occurrence is from the MURE programme
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aspects which have become generally accepted in the West in the last few years, parts of both the tectonic...is international acceptance throughout both the western world and Soviet bloc, a publication of a few pages...Basin and Range Province, western USA 2 Porphyry molybdenum deposits of the western cordillera, North America... Angola, Brazil and Uruguay Kimberlites in western Africa, Brazil and Australia Basic/ultrabasic intrusions...Ocean Floor Subduction and Back-arc Spreading 1 West-facing arc systems 2 Outer arcs 3 East-facing arc
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making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...of the Proterozoic, beginning 3,000 m.y. ago in Africa and 2,500 m.y. ago elsewhere. These basins received...iron ores were concentrated (without silica) in local oxidizing sinks on the con¬ tinents. Uranium responded...Precambrian se¬ quences of rocks were deduced for local areas, but correlations between them, except in... . The main period of ore deposition within a district seems to represent a relatively short time span
Book (volume)
Papers and Discussions Volume I , I JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY 1961... 01", ~TALLUf>iYY. © Copyright 1961 by The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Ext'racts...I (1v DEC 196f Printed in t!te Republic of South Africa by Hortors Limited, Johannesburg V r. 1 The...and n1anagement of the gold mining industry in South Africa -C. B. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . page r J ... ( 2. The economy of the Union of South Africa-W. J. BusSCI-IAU 9 3. An introduction to the physical
Book (volume)
(RHODESIA) Longmans Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd THIBAULT HOUSE, THIBAULT SQUARE, CAPE TOWN Longmans, Green and...and Co Inc Ilg WEST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK 18 Longmans, Green and Co 137 BOND STREET, TORONTO 2 Orient...G. H. Stanley, Proc. Chem. Met. Mining Soc. South Africa, 10. 162, 1909 ; B. J. Harrington, Rep. Geol...1908 ; L. Treuheit, ib., 30. 1192, 1910 ; O. D. West, Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Eng., 34. 235, 273, 1912...cavities and containing yellow particles ; the central, denser mass consists of small, bluish, shining
 
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