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Diopside from
New Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1242287
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1242287:0
GUID (UUID V4):2bc99e77-a402-4131-ad93-83bf0888357d
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
34.4km (21.4 miles) ⓘEast dump, Havelock Mine, Bulembu, Hhohho Region, Eswatini
34.7km (21.6 miles) ⓘWest dump, Havelock Mine, Bulembu, Hhohho Region, Eswatini
64.9km (40.3 miles) ⓘKafferskraal, Lydenburg, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
76.7km (47.7 miles) ⓘDokolwayo Mine (Dvokolwayo Mine), Dokolwayo, Lubombo Region, Eswatini
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purposely lacking, as all information on regional and mine geology, host rock and ore sample descriptions,...discussed are indicated in square brackets: New Consort, South Africa [1–9]: Cuiabá Brazil [10–13]: Ajjanahalli...Buddini [28,29], India; Pilgrim’s Rest [30–33], South Africa; Lega Dembi, Ethiopia [34]; Navachab, Namibia...Figure 1. Four deposits are situated in southern Africa, three in India, two in Russia, one in Ethiopia...host formations is diverse on regional scales. New Consort, Cuiabá, Hutti, Ajjanahalli, Hira Buddini and
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POST-OROGENIC EXTENSION IN THE NEW CONSORT GOLD MINE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA M.R. MUNYAI School...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, South Africa e-mail: mphoyanga@yahoo.com; guy.charlesworth@wits...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, South Africa School of Earth and Environmental Science, James...2050, South Africa e-mail: guy.charlesworth@wits.ac.za © 2011 June Geological Society of South Africa...Africa ABSTRACT The area around New Consort Gold Mine (NCGM) was complexly deformed during at least five
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medium-P basement rocks in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa A . D Z I G G E L ,1 S . K N I P...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa ABSTRACT The P–T evolution of amphibolite...margin of the Paleo to MesoArchean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, has been reconstructed via detailed...decompressed basement rocks. Key words: Archean; Barberton greenstone belt; decompression; exhumation; K(Mn)FMASH...INTRODUCTION The c. 3550–3100 Ma Barberton greenstone belt in South Africa is generally considered to be
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hydrothermal alteration system at Nalunaq gold deposit, South Greenland Robin-Marie Bell 1,2 & Jochen Kolb 1,2...grade deposit situated on the Nanortalik Peninsula, South Greenland. Mineralisation is hosted in shear zone-controlled...site of Greenland’s only operating metalliferous mine until its closure in 2014, having produced 10.67...Multi-stage hydrothermal alteration . Ketilidian Orogen . South Greenland Editorial handling: R. Moritz Electronic...Nanortalik Peninsula, South Greenland, which operated as Greenland’s only metal mine from 2004 until its
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tectonic development of the Kaapvaal basin, Southern Africa By V.~CLAVVAJNER, Rondeboseh *) With 6 figures...University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, C. P., South Africa, 7700. 333 Aufs~itze Belt im Frlihproterozoikum...same time boundary is also distinct in Southern Africa, where the minimum age of the pre-Ventersdorp granitoids...of Southern Africa. geoteetonie conditions which existed in many regions of Southern Africa since e. 2...and Waterberg successions in the l~epublie of South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana (Fig. 2). Stable geotectonic
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and minerals of Li, Sn and Ta are found in the Barberton greenstone belt and neighboring Swaziland, and...record, e.g., tourmaline formed at 3230 Ma in the Barberton greenstone belt and at 3550 Ma in the Isua supracrustal...polylithionite (FKa), tugtupite (NaKa, ClKa), diopside (MgKa, CaKa), anorthite (AlKa, SiKa), sanidine... pyrope (MgKa), almandine (AlKa, SiKa, FeKa), diopside (CaKa), rutile (TiKa), Cr2O3 (CrKa), rhodonite...424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 4.1.2 FTIR and local atomic arrangements around the (OH) sites 446 447
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Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego - San Francisco -...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...CONDIE Department of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za) K. HORIE Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of
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Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego - San Francisco -...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...CONDIE Department of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za) K. HORIE Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of
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OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...mineral resources are extensible in the sense that new deposits can be discovered by exploration, to recover...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
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Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Abstract At the Archean–Paleoproterozoic Troia...surrounding cratonic domains (e.g. Guiana shield and West Africa craton). Gold mineralization in the Serra das Pipocas...with quartz veins, calc–silicate alteration (e.g. diopside, K–feldspar, amphibole, titanite, biotite, pyrite...of the Pedra Branca gold deposit is composed of diopside – amphibole – biotite – titanite – pyrite – magnetite...domain of the Borborema Province, limited to the south by the Patos shear zone (Fig. 1 A), the basement
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Geology University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa 6 7 * Corresponding author e-mail: aagangi@uj...Abstract 9 In the Kaapvaal craton of southern Africa, as well as other Archaean cratons worldwide, the...Hf) 14 data and zircon U-Pb ages. We also report new whole-rock major and trace element analyses, zircon...conglomerate of the 3.2 Ga Moodies 16 Group of the Barberton Greenstone Belt. Many of these clasts are derived...D 10 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT link them to GMS. New analyses of some of these clasts indicate elevated
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started... Garuti, A. Rojas-Purón, F. Longo & A. Chang A new mineralogical method for the determination of metal...charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...mineralisation of the Riwaka Complex, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand . . ......................................Complex in the vicinity of the Steelpoort fault, South Africa – petrogenetic implications ...............
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advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. For permission to...Chemistry of Boron and its Compounds, p 25-154 Wiley, New York, NY; Kidd RG (1983) Boron-11. In: P Laszlo (ed)...Newly Accessible Nuclei, p 50-78 Academic Press, New York; Shannon RD (1976) Revised effective ionic radii...are merged onto pages 115-116 and 385. A table of new B-minerals since 1996 is given on p. 28, and many...research related to B are mentioned in the addenda: New minerals. Twenty-two boron minerals have been or
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advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. For permission to...Chemistry of Boron and its Compounds, p 25-154 Wiley, New York, NY; Kidd RG (1983) Boron-11. In: P Laszlo (ed)...Newly Accessible Nuclei, p 50-78 Academic Press, New York; Shannon RD (1976) Revised effective ionic radii...to reduce boric acid. Davy originally named this new material boracium, while Gay-Lussac and Thenard called...abstracts in the American Mineralogist in which data on new minerals are summarized or updated. In cases where
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garnet from the San Juan chimney in the El Mochito mine, Honduras. The upper photograph shows a small chapel...5 3.6 Skarn Geochemistry, Zonation Models, and New Discoveries . . . 35 Future Skarn Studies . ....future where I would have to reinvent my life in a new setting. Second it meant subordinating my career...office of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (8th district of Arizona) and was there at the time of the tumultuous...to or understood. There is an excitement in the new and the unexplored. It is somewhat like my work as
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Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”...Ortelius was the ïŹrst to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ‘if comparisons are made between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is clear that different areas in...Kontinente und Ozeane, Alfred Wegener considered South America, Africa, India and Australia as the main parts of
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Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific, China...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
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aïŹ€ected the StorĂž Supracrustal Belt (SSB). These new garnet ages conïŹrm previous Re-Os isotope ages for...(ScherstĂ©n et al., 2012). The implication of our new data is that both Au mineralization events within...compositions and trace element content. Here we report new Lu-Hf isotope data for bulk-rock samples from Szilas...separates in sample KSZ 15. This rock unit consists of diopside and/or pale green amphibole ± hornblende (Fig...StorĂž supracrustal belt. The signiïŹcance of the new Lu-Hf isotope garnet ages (2697 ± 8 Ma to 2646 ±
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AC models (epithermal vs. orogenic style) for a local gold occurrence, which is hosted by sheeted quartz-veins...gneiss; NU Nuuk region Research highlights: New major and trace element data for 40 rock samples...being that of the StorĂž Supracrustal Belt for which new geochemical data are presented here. AC The Nuuk...yield a pelitic sediment. After presenting the new geochemical data (Section 5) and carrying out mass-balance...to the aluminous gneiss and contains amphibole, diopside, plagioclase, quartz, garnet, and minor amounts
 
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