 | Mondillo, Nicola, Boni, Maria, Balassone, Giuseppina, Forrester, Nigel, Putzolu, Francesco, Santoro, Licia (2020) Mineralogy and Genesis of the Kihabe Zn-Pb-V Prospect, Aha Hills, Northwest Botswana. Minerals, 10 (8) 685 doi:10.3390/min10080685 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Genesis of the Kihabe Zn-Pb-V Prospect, Aha Hills, Northwest Botswana Nicola Mondillo 1,2, *, Maria Boni 1,2...the boundary between Namibia and Botswana (Aha Hills, Ngamiland District) in a strongly deformed Proterozoic...this part of Botswana from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene. Keywords: Botswana; Aha Hills; sulfides;...Introduction Mineral exploration and mining in Botswana has been historically dominated by diamonds and...Cu-Ag deposits intensified in western parts of Botswana, in the so-called Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB) [1] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract Bechuanaland/Botswana has a long and colourful history in exploration...pre-historic, historic and modern. Quarrying stone in Botswana was ongoing 500,000 years ago during the Early...Late Stone Age (LSA) 20,000 to 2,000 BP. In east Botswana iron and copper were mined from AD 800 onwards;...had already surfaced in the 1880s, and it was Ngamiland, in the northwest, that was first explored systematically...Beers believed that these diamonds had come from west of the Motloutse headwaters, across the watershed |  | Singletary, Steven J, Hanson, Richard E, Martin, Mark W, Crowley, James L, Bowring, Samuel A, Key, Roger M, Ramokate, Lepate V, Direng, Brets B, Krol, Michael A (2003) Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics. Precambrian Research, 121 (1) 47-71 doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(02)00201-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics...USA c British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK d Geological Survey...Survey Department, Private Bag 14, Lobatse, Botswana e Department of Earth Sciences and Geography, Bridgewater...and drill-core samples in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana constrain the distribution and temporal evolution...outboard of older crustal provinces in eastern Botswana. The subsurface part of this orogen includes a |  | | Book | | REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Water Affairs Geological Survey Department ...Geology of Botswana to 1966 PRICE Rl.OOc PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER GABERONES BOTSWANA ISRIC LIBRRRY...Annotated Bibliography and Index of the Geology of Botswana to 1966 Compiled by C.A. Laughton, Geologist...This is the first Bibliography of the geology of Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) and it includes both published...the main source of information on the geology of Botswana i s to be found in the files of unpublished reports |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | provenance signature of sandstone from the Okwa Group, Botswana T. Andersen Department of Geosciences, University...from the Tswaane Formation of the Okwa Group of Botswana have been dated by U-Pb and analysed for Hf isotopes...PROVENANCE SIGNATURE OF SANDSTONE FROM THE OKWA GROUP, BOTSWANA ablation inductively coupled multicollector plasma...Tswaane Formation of the Okwa Group in western Botswana, in order to ďŹll a gap in the detrital zircon...Durrheim, 2018; Oriolo and Becker, 2018) in western Botswana (Figure 1a). The crystalline basement of the Okwa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clasts that were derived mainly from the surrounding hills and experienced limited degree of source rock chemical...2005). These sub-basins stretch over 2200 km in a north-south direction, and for the (Figure 1). CE purposes...Dithionite for Feox2 (goethite, PT akagane´ite and hematite), and ammonium oxalate FeMAG (magnetite). RI...throughout the section is Feox2 (goethite, akagane´ite, hematite), which usually accounts for more than 20% of...in the ephemeral Rietfontein River in western Botswana (Figure 5) that drains the interior of the Kalahari |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rivers, which discharge into the Atlantic in the west, lie close to the eastern margin of the continent...river systems - the Okavango-ZambeziLimpopo in the north, flowing eastwards through the failed Limpopo Rift...grabens astride the Limpopo River, in central Botswana (largely beneath a cover of Kalahari Group sediments)...probably underlie Cretaceous sediments off the east and west coasts (Flores, 1973; Dingle et al, 1983; Burke...of southern Africa are also revealed by the east-west topographic sections shown in Figure 4 (Rowberry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Enniskillin, Western Cape, South Africa; (b) Mount Wood Hills, near Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia; and...developed within Red Bluff Sand at Taylor Creek, north of Melbourne, Australia; (c) Drainage-line silcrete...Drift, Botswana; (d) Pan/lacustrine silcrete exposed at the southern margin of Lake Ngami, Botswana. may...bar 2 mm, image courtesy of John Webb), (e and f) north of Albertinia, Western Cape, South Africa (plain...predominantly opaline cements, contains goethite and hematite, sometimes alunite, and retains clay minerals |  | | Book | | These rocks were characterized by âa general north-northeasterly trendâ, and du Toit (1927) attributed...that, by the early Ediacaran, the Amazonian and West Africa Cratons were probably still attached to Laurentia...the Central Eburnean Zone and Lubango Zone in the west. Magmatism recorded in these domains is attributed...peak metamorphism and deformation associated with north-northwest-south- Preface Preface xi southeast...shortening by c. 512â508 Ma. A switch to eastâwest shortening and northâsouth extension is evident in the Damara |  | | Conference Proceedings (Volume) | | View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and...of the world class Siguiri orogenic gold district (Guinea, West Africa) .................................mineral systems â Hodgkinson metallogenic zone, north Queensland, Australia ...........................the carbonate-hosted Sadiola gold deposit, Mali, West Africa. ..........................................Kostin Proterozoic metallogeny in the NW border of Botswana Sergi Cardona, Lisard TorrĂł, Marc Campeny, Eloi |  | | Book | | 253 C. 6,000-Meter Peaks in the Andes 255 D. North Americaâs 257 14,000-Footers E. The Worldâs Highest...by Numbers Seven Summits The 6 + 1 Great Alpine North Faces 144 185 190 2 144 189 159 Volcanic Seven...depth of challenge presented by these formidable âhills,â them, the tender colors roar of avalanches...perspective in of Mont condi- Blanc in the north, along the ArĂŠte de Bionassay, af- tion is precisely...Our objective lay straight ahead, a mile to the west of the refuge. I roped up with Lau- Saas-Fee. We |
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