 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of southern Africa: A review Matthew Field a,⁎, Johann Stiefenhofer...Southdale, 2135, South Africa c De Beers Group Services, PO Box 47, Kimberley, South Africa d De Beers Canada...deposits in central South Africa in the mid nineteenth century, it was at Kimberley where the volcanic...industrial development of southern Africa. Following the discoveries at Kimberley, even more valuable deposits...deposits were discovered in South Africa and Botswana in particular, but also in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe |  | | Book | | Reunert's Diamond Mines of South Africa. ADVERTISEMENTS. A REVELATION. The frequent the transactions... more SOUTH . 25 MILLIONS -65 . than 1843 IT . . 13 OF POUNDS. 32 AFRICA—CAPE TOWN, ...L THE OF EG NERA FIELDS WEST. AFRICA. DIAMOND GRIQUALND SOUTH [Reproduced , with permission,... from the Map of n an d South African Exploration Company.] ADVERTISEMENTS. £. BVlRfllESTW... VS, GOODS, Street, (BURMESTER’S BUILDINGS) CAPE SOLE Berlin AGENT FOR TOWN, THE CELEBRATED |  | | Book (edition) | | iMi THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR AND DEVELOPMENT RISE BY GARDNER F. ...The Rush The to 87 114 . the Vaal 140 Kimberley 164 Camps Great White Opening 32 . the...267 The 297 Essential Combination Systematic Mining 307 Winning 360 the Diamonds XIII. "^Obstacles...XIV. XV. XVI. The Workers in the Mines The Mining Towns 407 450 . Formation of the Diamond 479...Statistics of De Beers Main for Shaft, Kimberley Mine Kimberley Mine Company . 605 667 669 670 671 |  | | Book (volume) | | rise and development of the diamond mines of South Africa, from an historical, economic and technical...days on the diamond fields when the mines in the Kimberley and Jagersfontein areas were the only diamond...information of a mining nature, which included, besides the data on under ground and surface mining operations...crystals with the object, if possible, of deter mining the conditions under which the diamond crystal...collect during my many visits to all parts of South Africa where kimberlite deposits occurred and the filing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE KIMBERLEY MINING DISTRICT, SOUTH AFRICA By I N C R I D P A S U T I N Geologist - Geology Editor Route... W i s c o n s i n . 5 3 1 2 0 INTRODUCTION in Africa was discovered The diamond has been prized for...Union of South Africa in the vicinity of the town of Kimberley. The mining district lies in the Cape of Good...northeast of Cape Town. Near Kimberley lies the first profitable diamond mine in South Africa: The Kim...Kim berley Mine. It is located on the edge of town, but within a few miles and closely spaced, lie the other |  | | Book | | Phase 5. Sample Treatment D) World Production E) South African Diamond Occurrences 1. Large Kimberlite...Finsch 1.4 Kimberley 1.5 Koffiefontein 2. Smaller mineralised kimberlites in South Africa 2.1 The Oaks... their relative production contributions in South Africa were, primary (kimberlite) 8.63 million carats...suggest approximately 40% for the Kimberley mines and 55% for Premier mine. The proportion of gems in the...deposits is over 98%. The MIBA mine in the Congo and the Argyle mine in Australia have an average gem |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3b7S02.W;O Ultramafic nodules from the Kimberley pipes, South Africa F. R. BOYD Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...from the Kimberley pipes differ from suites collected in a number of other areas in southern Africa in two...low-temperature (< 1100°C) peridotites from the Kimberley pipes have textures ranging from coarse to fluidal...mosaic-porphyroclastic. In most nodule suites from southern Africa and elsewhere in the world, these low-temperature...Petrographic and electron microprobe study of the Kimberley peridotites shows that they are depleted in basaltic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magma evolution of the De Beers dyke (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys 1 & Andrea Giuliani 1,2...intrusion bordering the De Beers pipe (Kimberley, South Africa). Petrographic features and mineral compositions...intrusions of the main Kimberley pipes (i.e., Wesselton, De Beers, Bultfontein). However, the composition...distinct from those in ‘evolved’ intrusions of the Kimberley cluster (e.g., Benfontein, Wesselton water tunnel... Crystallisation sequence . Melt evolution . Kimberley Introduction Editorial handling: B. Kjarsgaard |  | | Book | | not attempted to describe diamond prospecting and mining and, although I have attempted to give some of...with whose research groups at the universities of Cape Town and Chicago I have had long and fruitful collaboration...collaboration. Much of my fieldwork in southern Africa has been carried out with the cooperation and assistance...7.3 2.8 2.9 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . .... . . . . Central Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Africa. . . . . . . . . . |  | | Book (volume) | | rmf ' j^lr ^1 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA VOL. II Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/diamondminesofso02will THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA BY GARDNER F. WILLIAMS, M.A. GENERAL MANAGER...Office. . . .24 . The Dangers of Old Methods of Mining. Fire Damp in the Shales. The Storing and Handling...Handling of Dynamite. The Fire in De Beers Mine, iith July, 1888. The Occurrence of “Mud Rushes.” The Workers...Schools and Churches in the Compounds. The Mining Towns Kimberley : its ........ Public Buildings, Streets |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Soltys, Ashton, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Goemann, Karsten, Woodhead, Jon D., Drysdale, Russell N., Griffin, William L. (2017) The final stages of kimberlite petrogenesis: Petrography, mineral chemistry, melt inclusions and Sr-C-O isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Chemical Geology, 455. 342-356 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani, Ashton Soltys...isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), Chemical Geology (2016),...geochemistry of the SC RI PT Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani1,2,3*, Ashton...hypabyssal sample (BK) from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South MA Africa). Sample BK consists of...Sr/86Sr ratios to perovskite in the Bultfontein and the other Kimberley kimberlites, i.e. magmatic values |  | | Book | | Soc., Brit. Assoc., Inst. Soc. Soc. Psych. Hon. Cape Sc.D. of Good Elect. Eng., Hon. Mem. Roy. Phil... Pharm. Soc., Chem. Metall. and Mining Soc. of South Africa, Amer. Chem. Soc., Amer. Philos. Soc...Consolidated Beers their quest In on and Kimberley, at F. Williams, when Mr. Gardner Manager ... month per- on two during observations Kimberley, based are pages and had me to to take...members were Association which held its in South Africa. the it Association natural was Diamonds |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | following paper:NOTES ON THE DIAMOND ROCK OF SOUTH AFRICA. By W. H. HUDLESTON, M.A., F.G.S., F.C.S. PART...regarded as absolutely novel in the history either of mining or prospecting. Moreover, at the present time,...conversations with gentlemen connected with the Kimberley mine, who have been kind enough to supply me with...who are well versed in the history of South African diamond-mining will not object to a brief l'isume of...announcement of the discovery of diamonds at the Cape was received. As a matter of fact, diamonds were |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | underlying units in the Ventersdorp Supergroup of South Africa D.H. Cornell Department of Earth Sciences, University...Department of Geology, University of the Free State, South Africa e-mail: pgm@pgmmanagement.co.za; willemvdw1950@gmail...Matieland, South Africa Present address: Department of Earth Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Private...Bellville, South Africa e-mail: dirkfrei@uwc.ac.za © 2017 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...underlies the Makwassie Formation in Wesselton Mine at Kimberley, gave an age of 2781 ± 5 Ma. A 30 Ma period |  | | Book (volume) | | DIALLAOE MICA SPINEL AND PICOTITE PLEONASTE • MAGNETITE CHROMITE JLMENITE RUTILE PYRRHOTITE GRAPHITE CYANITE...DIAMOND-BEARING ALLUVIAL GRAVELS OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA DIAMOND-BEARING GRAVELS DRAINAGE WEATHERING...SYSTEMS THE ORIGIN OF THE ALLUVIAL DIAMONDS THE SOUTH-WEST AFRICA DIAMOND DEPOSITS THE VAAL RIVER ALLUVIAL GRAVELS...Plate No. 96. THIN SECTION (359, X 12) FONTEIN MINE BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM JAGERS facing page 368...FROM BuLTFONTEIN - following plate MINE THIN SECTION (8, x 12) BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM BuLTFONTEIN 98 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | upper mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton, Southern Africa A.B. Woodland , M. Koch Mineralogisches Institut...the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa (Kimberley, Jagersfontein, Frank Smith Mine, Monastery) and Lesotho...coverage from V80 to 220 km. For the Lesotho and South African xenoliths there is a systematic, but not...VFMQ31 (i.e. one log unit below the fayalite^magnetite^quartz reference oxygen buffer) are obtained,...attended metasomatism, as recorded in samples from Kimberley. Our results emphasise that the upper mantle cannot |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of some peridotites from the Kaapvaal craton (South Africa) Received: 27 October 2005 / Accepted: 15 January...replaced by Fe-poor heazlewoodite and abundant magnetite, while Cu-sulphides are replaced by native copper...in peridotite xenoliths from Kaapvaal craton (South Africa) provided compelling evidence for the occurrence...high-grade Archean Terranes: the Western Terrane, the South-Eastern Terrane, the Central Terrane and the Pietermaritz...kimberlite pipes of the Kimberley area (De Beers Mine; Bultfontein, Kimberley, South Africa) and Jagersfontein |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyroxene-ilmenite xenolith from the Weltevreden mine, which they suggest is also genetically related...ilmenites from the Mayeng Kimberlite Sills, South Africa (adapted from Apter et al. 1984). Solid circles...suite of ilmenite megacrysts from west Africa and South Africa. However, he notes (Haggerty, pers. comm...to be particularly abundant inclusions in the Bultfontein kimberlite. Ilmenite is also present as a metasomatic...rare group of polymict peridotites from the Bultfontein kimberlite, described by Lawless et al. (1979) |  | Soltys, Ashton, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Woodhead, Jon, Rodemann, Thomas (2016) In-situ assimilation of mantle minerals by kimberlitic magmas — Direct evidence from a garnet wehrlite xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Lithos, 256. 182-196 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys, Andrea Giuliani...xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), LITHOS (2016), doi: 10.1016/j...xenolith entrained in SC RI the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). Ashton Soltys1,*, Andrea...kbar (~140-145 km)] from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). This vein assemblage is dominated...from the Bultfontein kimberlite, as well as perovskite from the other kimberlites in the Kimberley area. |  | | Book (edition) | | The Indian Mines - Current Mining - Mining in Brazil — Diamonds in Africa — The First Diamond — First...First Authenticated Diamond — Mining Rights — The First Big Find — First Diggings — Hope Town — The Diggers’...The ‘Big Hole’ of Kimberley — Present Small Diggings — The Diggers’ Press THE BIG MINING COMPANIES Cecil...Rhodes at Kimberley — Barney Barnato — De Beers Consolidated Mines — The Town of Kimberley — The Wesselton...Oranjemund Founded — Other Discoveries in Africa — Mining in Botswana — Pipes in Lesotho — Diamonds up |  | | Book | | DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS RALPH S. G. STOKES Latk Mining Editor, Rand Daily Mait, Johannesburg, S.A. WITH... TO THE PIONEERS TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL OF THE MINING INDUSTRY WHOSE ENERGIES HAVE CONSTITUTED THE CHIEF...to rank as factors of considerable moment in the mining world. So vast is the subject as a whole that in...classified by natural than national distinc tions, mining fields are closely linked by the bonds of mutual...established abundantly throughout the colonial mining world. The bulk of this volume is based upon observations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Isotopic Composition of Strontium in Some South At)ican Kimberlites ROGE~I-I. MITCNELL D e p a r...work a number of fresh whole rock samples from South African pipes and fissures have been analysed in...Premier Premier Premier Monastry Dutoitspan Bultfontein Doornkloof Kirkland Lake 208 93 136 265 20 63...Wesselton kimberlite pipe, one of the important Kimberley group of pipes. I t is emplaced in a thick series...presents data for the Monastry, Dutoitspan und Bultfontein kimberlites and Doornkloof and Kirkland Lake |  | Fitzpayne, Angus, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Hergt, Janet, Woodhead, Jon D., Farquhar, James, Fiorentini, Marco L., Drysdale, Russell N., Wu, Nanping (2018) Kimberlite-related metasomatism recorded in MARID and PIC mantle xenoliths. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112. 71-84 doi:10.1007/s00710-018-0573-z | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the sample (0.70814 ± 0.00002) and the host Bultfontein kimberlite (0.70432 ± 0.00005), suggesting that...southern African kimberlites and orangeites from the Kimberley and Barkly West areas. MARID and PIC rocks are...lithospheric mantle, which have been recovered from the Kimberley and other southern African kimberlites (Grégoire...samples studied here originate from the Kimberley kimberlites (Bultfontein, Wesselton, De Beers, and Kamfersdam)...localities are situated in or close to the town of Kimberley, in the Western terrane of the Kaapvaal craton |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys, Andrea Giuliani...case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). The address for the corresponding...case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) a SC RI PT Ashton Soltysa*...kimberlite (sample BK-1) from the MA Bultfontein mine (Kimberley, South Africa). The accuracy of this whole-rock...evolution. The primitive melt parental to the Bultfontein kimberlite is estimated to contain 17.4- AC |
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