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Pyrobitumen from
Carbon Leader reef, Free State, South Africa


Locality type:Reef
Classification
Species:'Pyrobitumen' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrobitumen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carbon Leader reef, Free State, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:920278
Long-form Identifier:1:3:920278:8
GUID (UUID V4):716eb939-c39b-4666-aa81-5f80725d9b9e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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distribution in pyrobitumen of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa: Evidence for...distribution in pyrobitumen of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa: Evidence for...Distribution in Pyrobitumen of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand PT Supergroup, South Africa: Evidence...Foundation, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa 4 ED AGH University of Science and Technology...+49-177-234-1904 (GER) Keywords: LA-ICP-MS, pyrobitumen, oil migration, gold, uranium, Witwatersrand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and hydrocarbon) in the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa Sebastian H.J. Fuchs...and hydrocarbon) in the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa, Precambrian Research...and hydrocarbon) in the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa Author names: Sebastian...and transmission-electron microscopy of pyrobitumen-hosted uraninite reveal that uraninite grains...that were converted to pyrobitumen during burial and metamorphism. The pyrobitumen in the pores of the gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in hydrocarbons of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa S. Fuchs a,⁎, D. Schumann...gold-bearing pyrobitumen from the Carbon Leader Reef in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, was investigated...of uraninite and anatase nanocrystals in the pyrobitumen, implying mobilization and concentration of uranium...distributed and locally isolated within the pyrobitumen matrix. Crystallization of uraninite and anatase...abundant uraninite and anatase nanoparticles in pyrobitumen, a new model is proposed for the transport and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Mesoarchaean Witwatersrand conglomerates (South Africa) supports placer model and magmatogenic source...conglomerates of the Mesoarchaean Central Rand Group in South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin by in situ laser ablation-inductively...University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa e-mail: hartwig.frimmel@uni-wuerzburg.de P....Mesoarchaean Witwatersrand Supergroup (Fig. 1) in South Africa hosts both the world’s largest known concentration...many places intimately associated with pyrobitumen. Pyrobitumen is a conspicuous component of several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photosynthesizers at around 3.0 Ga, the first ‘whiffs’ of free oxygen produced by photosynthesis under an overall...gold is still preserved in thin kerogen layers ("carbon seams") that typically developed on erosional ...University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa e-mail: hartwig.frimmel@uni-wuerzburg.de Q....compared with average continental crust, average South African peridotite xenolith and Allende meteorite...more or less abundant stratiform kerogen layers (carbon seams) that represent former microbial mats (Hallbauer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/precamres The indigenous origin of Witwatersrand “carbon” D.J. Mossman a,∗ , W.E.L. Minter b , A. Dutkiewicz...Rondebosch 7700, South Africa c School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006,...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia f Evolving Gold Corporation...Accepted 29 April 2008 Keywords: Witwatersrand Carbon Indigenous Spatial distribution Kerogen Bitumen...is intimately associated with so-called “carbon” in “carbon seam reefs”, which occur in over a dozen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa c GeoZentrum Nordbayern, University of Erlangen-NĂŒrnberg...uraninite in the Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa), as well as for forensic purposes to track...the low solubility of Th4+, the only oxidation state of this element. Consequently, high-temperature...Archaean Dominion Group of the Kaapvaal Craton of South Africa (Rantzsch et al., 2011). Thus Th content in...occur in the Mesoarchaean Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa. We extended therefore our study to include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Finland; hugh.obrien@gtk.fi AIRIE Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482, USA; Holly...hydrocarbon-bearing fluid flow which produced pyrobitumen crusts around grains of uraninite. Gold precipitated...stromatolitic carbonates preserving the Jatuli–Lomagundi carbon isotope “excursion” [20]. These rocks are intercalated...Norrbotten and other Svecofennian microcontinents to the south with the Karelian domain and also the final collision...from middle to upper greenschist facies in the south to amphibolite facies in the north (Figure 1). Occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeoproterozoic marine shales of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Glen T. Nwaila 1,2 & Hartwig E. Frimmel 2...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 2 Bavarian Georesources Centre (BGC), Institute...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa and PGE content in modern seawater are extremely...studied marine shales with low sulphide and organic carbon contents. Published gold values in settings other...rocks such as the Witwatersrand conglomerates and carbon seams. Previous data on Archaean shales suggest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals 2022, 12, 544 2 of 20 uraniferous pyrobitumen, or anthraxolite have been used to describe the...structure, named by ChaloupskĂœ [29]ChaloupskĂœ as the South KrkonoĆĄe Tectonic northern part is limited by a...a tectonic structure, named by [29] as the South Zone (Figure 1). Zone (Figure 1). KrkonoĆĄe Tectonic wellaccessible...structure of the South KrkonoĆĄe Tectonic Zonewas wasalso VrchlabĂ­ road cut, structure of the South KrkonoĆĄe Tectonic...FOR PEER REVIEW 4 of 19 the dip growing to the south from approximately 16◩ in the southern part of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mining City in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa Michael Shapi 1 , Maryam Amra Jordaan 1, *,...Mining City in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Minerals 2021, 11, 1133. https://doi.org/10...Technology, 511 Mangosuthu Highway, Durban 4031, South Africa; MShapi@mut.ac.za (M.S.); mbamboa@webmail.co...C.D.) Council for Geoscience, Tshwane 0184, South Africa; echirenje@geoscience.org.za (E.C.); mdube@geoscience...+27-86-616-3453 Abstract: The town of Krugersdorp in South Africa is the locus of an important wildlife game reserve
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
“Yangtze Continent Block” of the “Qiangtang–Yangtze–South China Plate”, Minerals 2022, XX, x Minerals 2022..."Yangtze Continent Block" of the "Qiangtang–Yangtze–South China Plate", which is divided by the tectonic regional...discussed in detail. The Dayutang U deposit is in the south of Fenggang County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province...mainly controlled by the trending of near north–south faults (The strike is 10◩ –15◩ ) (Figure 2a,b)....experiment and GC-MS analysis were carried out in the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was proposed for the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa in the form of mobile liquid hydrocarbons that...M2+ refers to any divalent metal ion, and R is any free radical species (e.g., unbonded H+ or hydrocarbon...X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) within a glassy carbon cell up to 250 °C (Crede et al., 2017; Crede et...in hydrocarbons of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa. Chem. Geol. 393-394...distribution in pyrobitumen of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa: evidence for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AIRIE Program, Dept. of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 2 Dept. of Earth...Australia (Murphy, 1990) and hosted in Devonian reef carbonates of the Lennard Shelf 4 (Druce and...Bluffs Extension (340-354 Ma) (Shaw et al., 1994). Reef development was contemporaneous with the evolution...to 4.6 wt.% total organic carbon (TOC) and yield 0.3-20.3 mg/g combined free oil and kerogen (D’Ercole...indicate a potential combined yield of 4.9-208.2 mg/g free oil and kerogen determined by Rock-Eval pyrolysis
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Kensington WA 6151, Australia 8 dThe 9 Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia of Applied Geology, Curtin...Mitigation and Technologies, PMB2, Glen Osmond, South 1 20 Keywords 21 Gold; organic; McLaughlin;...fluorescence 33 microscopy of microscopic silica-free carbonaceous material reveals that the CM contains...of organic carbon-rich material) or hydrocarbons (HC; natural 45 material rich in carbon and hydrogen...Au–U deposits 54 (Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa; Fuchs et al., 2015; 2016); Pb-Zn-(Ba) deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide to generate carbon free solutions prior to ICP-MS analysis. This procedure... AC CE Figure 1: 2D structure of n-dodecane. Carbon atoms between the two methyl groups are represented...ml screw top titanium autoclaves to produce carbon-free, homogeneous aqueous solutions suitable for ICP-MS...prevents the detection of compounds with a smaller carbon number than n-hexane, compounds with concentrations...reduction by the X-ray beam and the use of a glassy carbon tube to contain samples, facilitated precipitation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
but are brecciated at the top, consistent with a south-facing dome interpretation. Rhyolite colors vary...butweak are brecciated at the top, consistent a south-facing dome interpretation. Rhyolite E–W dipping...(A) visible free in gold gold)Source in drillAMEX hole PE-20-192. Inc. (B) Brown visible free Examples gold...porphyroblastic amphiboles in mafic rocks were analyzed in carbon-coated thin sections using a Cameca SX-100 microprobe...orogenic gold deposits are dominated by water with carbon dioxide (e.g., [25–31]). Implications of such particular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 10 11 Abstract 12 We describe the presence...Paleoproterozoic basins. 61 The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, similarly sized to the Huronian Basin, is known...Paleoplacer Deposits 140 The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa is the world’s largest known gold province,...occasionally, for 170 example in the case of the Carbon Leader Reef, as lag surfaces ranging from decimeters...deposition in shallow braided streams flowing 238 south on a south-dipping paleoslope (Fralick and Miall, 1989)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transport of gold (Au) in model oil compounds (S-free n-dodecane, CH3(CH2)10CH3, DD; and S-bearing 1-dodecanethiol...equilibration kinetics in the beaker and glassy carbon tube. Since sulfur and organothiol compounds are...in Nevada, USA (Emsbo and Koenig, 2007) and in South China (Zhuang et al., 1999; Sun et al., 2009; Gu...1dodecanethiol (98%) directly into either a glassy carbon cell for XAS measurement, or into a beaker, from...were sampled and measured separately in glassy carbon tubes, that were open at the top. XAS standards
Book
BELARUS BELGIUM BELIZE BENIN BOLIVIA, PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BOTSWANA BRAZIL BRUNEI...SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN...Greenland; Poços de Caldas, Brazil Phalabora, South Africa; Catalão, Brazil La Crouzille district, France;...Lignite-coal Carbonate Phosphate Black shale Examples South Texas, USA LodÚve Basin, France; Franceville Basin...Elliot Lake district, Canada Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa Kamushanovskoye, Kyrgyzstan; Flodelle Creek
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Nucleares Brasileiras (NUCLEBRAS), a Brazilian state-owned nuclear company, identified the Moeda metaconglomerate...the world-class Witwatersrand gold deposit, in South Africa, and the Blind River-Elliot Lake uranium deposit...Supegroup with those of the Transvaal Supergroup of South Africa, suggesting a correlation with respect to lithology...(see below, under sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.2), but free of such inclusions in the western limb. Antimony–As–S...secondary porosity and oxidation of U to the hexavalent state. All these factors contribute to low totals (Frimmel
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Wenxuan Hua, Xiucheng Tanc, Xingwang Tianb a State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School...Field Company, Chengdu, Sichuan 610051, China c State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology...million amounts of major elements in addition to carbon (i.e., organic matter). Na and K in the bitumen...correlations between Ca or Mg and total organic carbon (TOC) content (Shi et al., 2018). There is no obvious...form of “invisible” nano-minerals in an emulsiïŹed state. 5.3.2. Elements related to Fe porphyrins (Al,
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permeability for migration or storage of hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide or water), but they also represent valuable...the preceding stages of the diagenetic evolution. Carbon species, like ­CO2, ­CO32− and H ­ CO3−, could...of anatase nanocrystals next to uraninite in pyrobitumen representing formerly mobile liquid hydrocarbons...rutile recrystallization to anatase. The authors state that such anatase domains keep a dominant part of...uplift known for the Pompeckj Block and the region south of the Groningen High—to the east and west of the
Report (issue)
Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The availability of free oxygen would have had a strong effect on the (bio)geochemical...elements that exist in more than one oxidation state in nature. Of the major rock-forming elements, only...elements in ore deposits respond to the oxygen-carbon-sulfur geochemistry of the atmosphere and oceans...iron-sulfides. Next, Grassineau et al. use sulfur and carbon isotope geochemistry of Archean v Downloaded...famous Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Supergroup in South Africa that contains Earth’s largest gold-uranium deposits
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 ... Each book aims to provide the reader with the state-of-the-art understanding of a regions geology with...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)
 
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