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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline 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:1209137
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1209137:9
GUID (UUID V4):787ad809-33c6-4711-9221-e8116d96d8f5
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
47.5km (29.5 miles) ⓘMalalane, Nkomazi Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-007-0135-5 ARTICLE The New Consort Gold Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: orogenic gold mineralization...The New Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one...Group. This contact, locally referred to as the Consort Bar, formed during ductile D1 imbrication of the...petrological investigations indicate that the Consort Bar represents a major structural break, which...Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa mineralization can be distinguished. Loellingite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sheba and New Consort Gold Mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa* Windeati...Archean (3.55–3.10 Ga) Barberton greenstone belt of the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa. Published structuralgeologic...variably tectonized former chert. Observations at New Consort (higher temperature, close to granitoid contact)...isotopic analyses were performed on native gold from Barberton, on two other lode gold deposits and two carbon...sulfide-rich ores. Different gold samples from Barberton yield Δ109Ag values (differences in 109Ag/107Ag
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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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for a gruneritic Archean gold deposit, Barberton, South Africa Patrick J. Williams ) National Key Centre...Abstract The Lily mine, located some 24 km northeast of Barberton in South Africa, occurs stratabound...ides in graphite-depleted, biotite–grunerite–tourmaline schists and massive grunerite–ankerite rocks...gold; Archean; metamorphism; grunerite; Barberton; South Africa 1. Introduction Stratabound deposits in...rocks of the 3.5–3.0 Ga Barberton granite–greenstone association in southern Africa contain an exceptional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag1991 Tourmaline mineralization in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: early Archean...Abstract. Tourmaline-rich rocks are common in the lowgrade, interior portions of the Barberton greenstone...greenstone belt of South Africa, where shallow-marine sediments and underlying altered basaltic and komatiitic...komatiitic lavas contain up to 50% tourmaline. The presence of tourmaline-bearing rip-up clasts, intraformational...intraformational tourmalinite pebbles, and tourmaline-coated grains indicates that boron mineralization was a low-temperature
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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
Journal (issue)
RELATING TO THE BARBERTON MOUNTAIN LAND AND SURROUNDING GRANITIC TERRANE, SOUTH AFRICA 2002-2019 Compiled...Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa) ECONOMIC GEOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INFORMATION...RELATING TO THE BARBERTON MOUNTAIN LAND AND SURROUNDING GRANITIC TERRANE, SOUTH AFRICA 2002-2019 This...variety of aspects relating to the geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt and surrounding granite-gneiss...granite-gneiss terrane in the eastern part of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa and the adjacent Kingdom of eSwatini
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN THE SHEBA-FAIRVIEW MINE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA P.H.G.M. DIRKS School of Geosciences...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa Current Address: School of Earth and Environmental...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa e-mail: guy.charlesworth@wits.ac.za; mphoyanga...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Gold mineralisation in the world-class Sheba-Fairview mining district in the...the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, occurs along a fracture network that is arranged in overlapping
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deposit of Ag-rich gold (electrum), native Bi, tourmaline, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and notably bismuth...hydrothermal overprint. Nevertheless, at the Turmalina gold mine (1.172 Moz with 4.22 g/t), the only other known...Pitangui belt may lead to the identification of new mineralization patterns, contributing to discoveries...references therein) yielded the Mineiro Belt to the south (Fig. 1A). Most of the QF behaved as an autochthonous...metamorphosed; the allochthonous domain is located to the south (Fig. 1A – Alkmim and Noce, 2006; Hasui, 2012).
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ARTICLE Two stages of gold mineralization at Hutti mine, India A. J. Rogers & J. Kolb & F. M. Meyer & T...# Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract The Hutti gold mine is located in a high-angle, NNW–SSE-trending shear...fluid pulse, which gave the Hutti mine its status as the largest gold mine in India. The metamorphic evolution...2007; Dziggel et al. 2010). In this paper, we employ new data on the geochemical and stable isotope compositions...assemblages from the ore bodies of the Hutti gold mine in order to classify and distinguish the fluid fluxes
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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...e-pyrrhotite(-chloriteplagioclase-löllingite-tourmaline-titanite), which is best developed in areas of...Multi-stage hydrothermal alteration . Ketilidian Orogen . South Greenland Editorial handling: R. Moritz Electronic
Journal (issue)
Twenty-three, Number Three Âź Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................Cairncross & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin............ 267 by M. P. Cooper & M. Calvo What's new in minerals? Tucson Show 1992 .....................really good result of the museum having come under new management in recent and important is out on display...in extraordinary, aesthetic specimens. In 1979 a new mineral species, desautelsite, was named in his honor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks older than ca. 3000 Ma, thus the lithian tourmaline (ïŹ‚uor-elbaite) and mica (lepidolite) assemblage...is the ïŹrst reported occurrence of a lithian tourmaline and lepidolite in the geologic record, as well...mineral evolution; lithium; cesium; tantalum; tourmaline; mica; pegmatite; crystal structure; optical...and minerals of Li, Sn and Ta are found in the Barberton greenstone belt and neighboring Swaziland, and...the geological record, e.g., tourmaline formed at 3230 Ma in the Barberton greenstone belt and at 3550
Journal (issue)
Mowry Place Tucson, AZ 85741 Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................Cairncross & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County,Iowa ..................... 231 by............267 by M. P. Cooper & M. Calvo What's new in minerals? Tucson Show 1992......................This is a result of the museum having come under new management in recent years, by people who do not...taught chemistry at Haddon Heights High School in New Jersey, then took a position as professor of chemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for sediment deposition in the early Archean Barberton greenstone belt: evidence from the Upper Onverwacht...Tree groups of the early Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa. Zircons from dacitic rocks of...observed in the Barberton greenstone belt. 1. Introduction The early Archean Barberton greenstone belt...other Archean terrains, the deeply dissected Barberton Mountains allow an excellent three-dimensional...(De Wit, 1982; De Wit et al., 1987). We present new age data on thin zircon-bearing tufts interbedded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation, Fig Tree Group, northeast Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa E.A. Kohler a,b,*, C.R. Anhaeusser...Geoscience, Geological Sur6ey of South Africa, P/Bag X112, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa Hugh Allsopp Laboratory...Witwatersrand, P/Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 24 November 2000; accepted 11 February...northeastern part of the Barberton greenstone belt (BGB) has delineated a new lithostratigraphic unit...within the Fig Tree Group, Swaziland Supergroup, South Africa. The formation is composed mainly of quartz–muscovite
Book (edition)
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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point to the occurrence of new paragenetic modes, including those related to new tectonic and biological...reported new appearance is added to the number of minerals that had been reported before this new appearance...axis indicates the cumulative number of reported new minerals; it does not indicate the number of minerals...pegmatites associated with a greenstone belt in South Africa (Poujol 2001). Ten more species are found in...Paleoproterozoic, the last to appear before a burst of 28 new species toward the close of the Paleoproterozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mestorozhdenii, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 470–500. New Promising Gold-Ore Objects in the Strelna Greenstone...volume of the performed works, their results yielded new information on volca- nic–sedimentary complexes...within the studied area. The largest gold object of a new genetic type for the northeastern Fennoscandian Shield...GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS Vol. 59 No. 6 2017 NEW PROMISING GOLD-ORE OBJECTS IN THE STRELNA Lake Imandra...width reaches ~40 km near the Sergozero– Babozero district. The SGB occurs in the northern part of Strelna
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
low for Li, Be, and B minerals to form (except tourmaline); this requires further enrichment by 1–2 orders...geologic record at 3.0–3.1 Ga, later than Li-free tourmaline at 3.6 Ga. Spikes in species diversiïŹcation coincides...be discovered earliest in the historic search for new minerals and to have appeared earliest in Earth’s...beryllium; boron; mineral evolution and ecology; new minerals; statistical mineralogy. 1. Introduction...mining activities and social justice issues on the local society” on page 8. One aspect of mineral ecology
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa b Walkabout Resources Ltd, PO Box 263, West...Region, 50 km east of Lake Malawi and about 125 km south from the town of Njombe (Fig. 1). The APGD lies...the various lithofacies present in the open-cast mine (see Fig. 2). The sediment samples, each weighting...transect of one of the Au nuggets. 4. Results 4.1 Local geology and geomorphology The study area encompasses...show a proximal association with the ASZ, where local artisanal miners target them for native gold. Widespread
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 ...............
Report (volume)
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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