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Sphalerite from
Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:650846
Long-form Identifier:1:3:650846:3
GUID (UUID V4):92a5046a-c7aa-4f1b-8556-980279416a94
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
55.2 2.4 7.7 Total 101.0 100.5 (1) Insizwa deposit, South Africa; by electron microprobe, average of...vein cutting massive pyrrhotite ore (Insizwa deposit, South Africa); in Cu–Ni sulfide ore (Sudbury, Canada)...parkerite, galena, sphalerite, magnetite, pyrrhotite. Distribution: From the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall...Waterfall Gorge, East Cape, South Africa [TL]. In the Coleman mine, Sudbury, and the Strathcona mine, Falconbridge...western Siberia, Russia. Name: For the Insizwa deposit, South Africa, where it was discovered. Type Material:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Carolusberg and East Okiep, Namaqualand, South Africa Received: 12 April 1999 / Accepted: 27 November... due to the paucity of refractory ores in the district. Assimilation of Cu-rich country rocks during...The Cu-sulphide ores of the Okiep district of Namaqualand, South Africa (Fig. 1), remain one of the more...more enigmatic mineral deposits in southern Africa. The ores are hosted by the pyroxenitic and, to a lesser...Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa e-mail: wdmaier@scientia.up.ac.za et al. 1983;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1986), O'Toole, Brazil (Marehetto, 1990), Waterfall Gorge, Pondoland (Tischler et al., 1981), Ivrea-Verbano...striking northeast and plunging steeply to the south. Mine workings include the T-1 and T-3 underground...whereas the T-3 mine and the open pit are on the eastern limb (Fig. 2). The locus of the Ni sulphide ore...of about 5 kin, with local concentrations along the southern portion of the eastern limb of the fold, around...pyrrhotite with minor chalcopyrite and pyrite. Local Lithologies. Lithologies defining the fold structures
Book (edition)
hedenbergite), b) its meaning may shift over time - sphalerite, for instance, was dumped by early miners, while...Polymorphism as, for instance, found in the ZnS system (sphalerite/wurtzite), is often difficult to discern: Changes...replaced by sphalerite. Only under XPL it stands out from the lighter coronal sphalerite overgrowth by...to the next). Left: Galena (lighter grey) and Sphalerite (darker grey). When minimum/maximum values are...brown internal reflections) in a massive Fe-poor sphalerite (orange internal reflections), jordanite (dark
Book (edition)
Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Artrocitc, Ivigtul cryolitc deposit. Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK...2iOH)~. Lric.,3 km south of thc mouth of Akatorc Crcek, castcm Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
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1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees 6.3.3. Anorogenic metamorphism and intraplate...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contaminated by LIL and LRE elements derived from local greywacke-slate turbidites (Peltonen, submitted)...whole-rock chemistry is proposed. Regional and local geology The Fennoscandian (formerly known as Baltic)...north (Nironen, 1989) and probably also to the south. The areal extent of moderate gravity anomaly maxima...VNiB and in particular around the Vammala Mining District, are best depicted as boudins, lenses or pipes...ultimate source of the LIL and LRE elements were local Svecofennian greywackeslate turbidites. The mechanism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
show geopetal indicators. Sulphur isotopes imply a local crustal source of S in these from pyritic sediments...of these sulphide occurrences was controlled by local country rock type. Low Ni/Cu and Pt/Pd ratios, also...abundant pyrite as large cubic crystals. Further south, in the Eskimonaes Segment, the Miki Fjord Macrodyke...xenoliths in the area around the ‘Saddle’ on the eastern side of the dyke (Fig. 3b), as described in the...Zone of the Skaergaard Intrusion on the latter’s eastern side. In addition to gabbroic rocks, it has a granophyric
Journal (issue)
a great rarity. However recent discoveric in South Africa mean that g od hand pccimcns arc now readily...adamitecrystal2 mm acrossfrom PuttapaMine, Beltana,South Australia.This image is a combinationof 9 separateslices...per anally may be available through friends or a local ociety. Using the combination technique with a digital...acrossin quartz-fluoriteveinstoneassociatedwith sphalerite,ullmannite, bismuth, bismite,gersdo,jfite,an...nickeliferous deposits at Waterfall Gorge, Insizwa, Pondoland, Transkei, South Africa. There was insufficient
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 (article/letter/editorial)
droplets are found in a varitextured gabbronorite (the local term for this is a taxitic gabbro). The droplets...samples and Genkin et al. (1982) have identified sphalerite as being present in much of the Noril’sk ore...study of sulphide ores from the Noril’sk-Talnakh district Siberia. Can Mineral 30:249–287 Distler VV (1994)...geology and geochemistry of the Waterfall Gorge section of the Insizwa complex with particular reference...platinum symposium abstracts. Geol Soc South Africa and South African Inst. Min. Metall. Symposium Series
Book
Bushveld chromite–platinum group metals (PGMs), South Africa, Sudbury nickel–copper, Canada, and a few new...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including Australia)...Earth’s element family. The working deposits in South Africa and Russia are by far the largest for the PGM...significant in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa, Brazil, New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia...Caribbean. The largest chromite deposits are in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Finland, and
Book
contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...possess even higher contents of lead and galena, sphalerite, silver, gold, and palladium. I n places of extreme...differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also found...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits
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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)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...the only minerals having this kind of bonding. sphalerite, and a number of the sulfides have the homopolar...included. Groups, however, are not here restricted sphalerite form another group. Chemical similarities or
Book
the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...of disseminated , scattered to banded pyrite, sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, minor tetrahedrite, frequently...locality contains disseminated pyrite and minor sphalerite and galena coating bleached rounded cobbles and...(dickite-kaolinite). The Zn-Mn zone has mostly sphalerite veins with rhodochrosite gangue. An earlier (62
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...Isotope Studies on the Platreef SHEBA’S RIDGE, EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX EAST BULL LAKE INTRUSIVE SUITE...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit
Book
the south-eastern corner of the Coastal Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the...-W. in the north-eastern portion of the batholith. They are parallel with the local alaskite, porphyry...of disseminated , scattered to banded pyrite, sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, minor tetrahedrite, frequently...locality contains disseminated pyrite and minor sphalerite and galena coating bleached rounded cobbles and...(dickite-kaolinite). The Zn-Mn zone has mostly sphalerite veins with rhodochrosite gangue. An earlier (62
Journal (volume)
trends between 1969 andand 2002 in South trends between 1969 2002 in South Finland localisation of the ore...targets), Thompson Ni belt, Canada (1207/31) and Cape Smith belt, Canada (287/27), the fertility analysis......................................... 207 14.5 Cape Smith belt .......................................After the selection of the exploration area or district, ultramafic and mafic intrusions and extrusions...(Noril’sk), to sulphide-bearing pelites (e.g. Kambalda, Cape Smith. Muskox) and black schists. Graphite-bearing
Book (edition)
(lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota,
Report (issue)
........................................... 46 South Kalimantan .......................................platinum-group element prospect, Riam Pinang area, South Kalimantan........................................from the Riam Pinang area, Tanah Laut subprovince, South Kalimantan APPENDIX G: Detailed description of rock...paleochannels, South Kalimantan. Figure 15. Photograph of diamonds from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan....flattened gold and PGM particles from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan. Figure 17. Chromitite occurrences in
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...(ferroactinolite), Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming (nephrite), South Dakota , Minnesota, Pennsylvania (byssolite), Vermont...mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; at Tsumeb , South West Africa; and at Laurium , Greece. Other occurrences
Book
Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
Book (edition)
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...wolframite Quartz Opal, some yellow varieties of sphalerite Nepheline Tale, brucite Sillimanite such terms...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15...15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities section includes a description of the...Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia
 
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