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Orthoclase from
Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Farm
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:250126
Long-form Identifier:1:3:250126:0
GUID (UUID V4):b13b9c21-fa81-4d3e-978b-0efad3896f61
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
53.2km (33.0 miles) Gaidip Farm 146, Karasburg West, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spinel associated with the Aggeneys Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Namaqualand, South Africa P. G. Spry Department...pegmatites associated with the Aggeneys base metal deposits, Namaqualand, South Africa. Zincian spinel in, sulphidebearing...Zn-rich spinels represent guides to ore in the Aggeneys area and elsewhere in the Namaqualand Metamorphic...Fe-rich spinels occur within metres of sulphides at Aggeneys. Zincian spinel, or gahnite, [(Zn, Fe,Mg)A1204]...gahnite-bearing sulphide-free assemblages. On the local scale, Bernier et al. (1984) utilized the Z n O
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Bushmanland Group supracrustal succession, Aggeneys, Bushmanland, South Africa: Provenance, age of deposition and...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa Present address: Paleoproterozoic...O. Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006. South Atrica e-mail: russellb®postgrad.uj.ac.za Richard...Sciences, University of Cape Town. Private Bag. Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa e-mail: dlr@geology.uct...uct.ac.z;i e 2007 March Geolt^cal Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The cenini] portion of the structurally
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Margin of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, South Africa Cyrille Stephane Tsakou Sonwa * , Jan van Bever...University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa; jvanbeverdonker@uwc...Margin of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, South Africa. Minerals 2021, 11, 759. https://doi.org/10...the east. This structure, together with the more local Neusberg Thrust Fault, forms part of an intensely...Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province of southern Africa is part of the global Grenvillian age orogenic
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Hill-type Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, Namaqua Province, South Africa M. Stalder Department of Geology, University...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa email: mstalder@freesurf.ch A. Rozendaal Department...7602, South Africa Corresponding author: ar@sun.ac.za © 2005 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...amphibolite-facies metamorphosed Bushmanland sequence of South Africa. In the Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, barite has been...concentrations of Ba within the wall rocks of the Aggeneys-Gamsberg deposits indicate that hydrothermal discharge
Journal (issue)
level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum;...Chapman photo. • 1.4 cm, Chapman’s Gully, South Australia. South Australian Museum collection; Jeff Scovil...Jeff Scovil photo. • 4.2 cm, Mongalata goldfield, South Australia. Geoscience Australia collection; Jeff...Nigel Richardson Barry Schubert Robert Sielecki South Australian Museum Malcolm & Angela Southwood Lee...these is the Australian Museum, established in New South Wales in 1829. The Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston
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2002), Gamsberg, South Africa (Rozendaal and Stumpfl, 1984) and Aggeneys, South Africa (Ryan et al., 1986)...1968; Billington, 1979) and in the Broken Hill district (Barnes, 1983; Leyh, 2000). Widely divergent views...subsidiaries (1885–1939) and later by Broken Hill South, North Broken Hill, MM&M and tribute miners. Underground...Supergroup of the Curnamona Craton in western New South Wales (Fig. 1). The Broken Hill Domain has undergone...deformation (D1) occurred in the Olarian Orogeny at 1600 Ma (Page and Laing, 1992; Stevens, 1999) as a synchronous
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the Fe20 8 content (fig. 2). The sample from Aggeneys has a shorter b o unit cell length than the sample...creaseyite, copper Mountains, South Africa. oa "~2 b_ silicates, Aggeneys 15.t3~ 13 T. Q. MEYER, W....Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa X 9 . 80 ~4 I 21 .3G I 21.4@ 21 [Manuscript...infra-red absorption spectrum of creaseyite from Aggeneys was obtained with a Hitachi model 270-50 spectrometer...the 1-3 and CSIR as well as Goldfields of South Africa Ltd. for their financial support. Thanks are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEDIMENTS, GAMSBERG Zn–Pb DEPOSIT, NAMAQUA PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA MARCEL STALDER AND ABRAHAM ROZENDAAL§ Department...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa ABSTRACT Calderite-rich garnet and franklinite–jacobsite-rich...overlie the Proterozoic Gamsberg Zn–Pb deposit, South Africa. The minerals are restricted in occurrence to...manganese silicate rocks, Gamsberg deposit, South Africa. SOMMAIRE Nous documentons la présence de grenat...that occur in the central Namaqua Province of South Africa. In previous contributions, we described petrological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa Editorial responsibility: I. Parsons...intrusion of the early part of the complex at 49 Ma (Reid et al. 1990). Country rock granitoids and granitic...represent an alteration product of a ferroan carbonate or ma®c silicate phase(s). Potash feldspar phenocrysts...spectroscopy at the geochemical laboratories, University of Cape Town, are listed in Table 1. The trachytes are,...character is re¯ected in the extreme normative orthoclase contents, which reach 88 wt% in Table 1. The
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sulphur isotope study of the Broken Hill deposit, New South Wales, Australia P. G. Spry Department of Earth...high-grade ore from the Broken Hill deposit, New South Wales, Australia, have been determined and show...metamorphic events. Abstract. The Willyama Complex, New South Wales, Australia contains several hundred small...fluorite, rhodonite, bustamite, garnet, quartz, orthoclase and gahnite. There are over sixty such deposits...at about 1,800 Ma and underwent a granulite-grade metamorphic event at about 1,700 Ma (Shaw 1968; Laing
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and northern parts of the Bushmanland Domain of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, southern Africa and...and northern parts of the Bushmanland Domain of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, southern Africa and...and northern parts of the Bushmanland Domain of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province, southern Africa and...University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, 7535, South Africa b Schlumberger Petroleum...Matieland, Western Cape, South Africa d Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
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isotope signature from the Pinnacles Mine, New South Wales, Australia J. Parr Department of Geology...Geology, Universityof Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Received: September 3, 1991/Accepted:...km southwest of the Broken Hill deposit in New South Wales (Fig. 1). The deposit, which lies in the Cues...metavolcanic rocks were deposited between 1670 and 1690 Ma (Page and Laing 1990). The succession include several...early ProterozoicWillyamaSupergroup in New South Wales and South Australia, and the location of the Pinnacles
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University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Corresponding author: Present address: Mineral...University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa e-mail: j.moore@ru.ac.za B.S. MAPANI Department...sattler@tu-clausthal.de © 2011 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The stratigraphic position of the...Gamsberg (Broken Hill-type) base-metal deposit in South Africa and may represent the distal or shallow-water...penecontemporaneous Tsongoari and Rosh Pinah deposits. SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 2011, VOLUME 114.1 PAGE
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Pretoria0001,SouthAfrica Abstract The ca. 1100 Ma NamaqualandMetamorphicComplexis hostto a numberof...s of 1010 to 1278 Ma (chondriticuniform reservoirmantle, CHUR) or 1450 to 1770 Ma (depletedmantle resevoir...preferred as it comparesto a publishedUoPbageof 1180 _ 40 Ma andto ournewwhole-rockU-Pbagefor the oreof 1150 _...Steenkampskraal monazitemine,sit- uated 350 km north of Cape Town (Fig. 1). The Steenkampskraal mine first operatedfrom...1987). Mostof theseoccurrences are advanced from south to north to intersect the ore. in the form of veins
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from among the oldest terrestrial rocks, about 3800 Ma in the Akilia association of southern West Greenland...of Zimbabwe (ca. 2500 Ma) and the Bushveld Complex of the Transvaal (ca. 2000 Ma). Podiform or "Alpine"...fragmentary examples in the age range of 1000 to 650 Ma along possible suture zones in Egypt and Arabia,...small chromitites in the 2700-Ma greenstone belts of Canada, southern Africa, and Australia, plus some of...and richest chro­ mite ores in the world in 3300-Ma serpentinites and talc schists near Selukwe, Zimbabwe
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Down, Northern Ireland, 253; fibres, flexibility of, 327; Zr-bearing, Igaliko Dyke Swarm, South Greenland...55 BALDWIN, J. R., tantalum minerals, Southern Africa, 571 Bannisterite, barian, Japan, 85 Bariandite...Ferrontantalite replacing manganotantalite, South Africa and Namibia, 571 FLEISCHER, M., see ATENCIO...387 Gahnite-quartz-sillimanite assemblages, South Africa, 63 Galena, Silvermines, Ireland, 293 GARNER...H6gbomite, Aldan Shield, USSR, 376; zincian, South Africa, as an exploration guide to metamorphosed massive
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...Ke.we Tongbao LPS Lunar and PlanefOIJ' Science MA Mineralogical Absrracts MAML.J Milfeihmgen Abteilungfiir...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
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in Huancavelica, Peru. The famous Minas Gerais district of Brazil has been the source of lovely gemmy...siderite crystals, too. The Aggeneys Mine in Cape Province, South Africa, has produced unusual hand-sized...we can hope for new discoveries in the future. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our...Cross Roads (across from Skyline Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls...minerals at sites along the way or purchased them at local markets. Casper will bring samples of spinel, topaz
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Australia BARNEY STEVENS, Geological Survey of New South Wales, 32 Sulphide Street, Broken Hill, NSW 2880...dominated by expulsion of basinal brines in response to local and/or regional tectonic events. Low temperatures...Australia to better understand global, regional, and local controls on Zn-Pb-Ag mineralization. The Temporal...Balcooma-Thalanga province Handcuff Liontown Balcooma Dry River South-Surveyor Thalanga Bangemall region Abra Bonaparte...Ozmin (Ewers and Ryburn, 1997) supplemented by New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources database and
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Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa e-mail: simon.schorn@hotmail...Subprovince of the Namaqua–Natal Metamorphic Complex (South Africa) reveal a disparity of some 60–70 ◦ C in estimated...Namaqua–Natal Metamorphic Province (NNMP) in South Africa. The Namaqua Sector is a classic high-T –low-P...the west coast of Namibia to the south-eastern coast of South Africa and consists of the eastern Natal...Paleoproterozoic (∼2050–1800 Ma) and the Mesoproterozoic (1300–1080 Ma; Clifford, Barton, & Stern, 2004;
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;
Book
Australia Jim Graham 4th 1991 Pretoria, South Africa Sybrand de Waal 3rd 1989 Montréal, Canada...USA Donald Hausen 1st 1981 Johannesburg, South Africa S.A. Hiemstra INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR APPLIED...since the inaugural meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1981 and this decenary event perhaps heralds..., 93–773 Lombard, A., 80–665 Lor, Y.A., 44–369 M Ma, Y.H., 96–795 MacDonald, M., 50–419 Macé, N., 84–699...Tassinari, MMML 9 3 Metallogeny of Culampajá Gold District, Argentina Avila, JC, and Lazarte, JE 4 Systematic
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the Concordia Granite, Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa: Sources, fluids, and the mobility of actinides...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa d Université de Lorraine, CNRS, GeoRessources...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Keywords: Zircon Monazite Fluids REE Granite South Africa a b s t r a c t A network of monazite-rich...area near Springbok, Namaqualand, North Cape Province, South Africa, are described with respect to their
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Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia c Teale & Associates, PO Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia...melted sulfides in the Broken Hill deposit, Aggeneys, South Africa. 2. Geologic setting 2.1. Regional geological...geological setting The Broken Hill mine occurs in the south-eastern part of the Curnamona Craton (Fig. 1), a...grade rock-types ranging in age from ∼1710 Ma to ∼ 1570 Ma and generally overlain by younger cover. In...geological mapping at 1:12,500 scale by the New South Wales Geological Survey has compiled a ∼ 7 km thick
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in the central Namaqua Metamorphic Complex (South Africa, Namibia): Evidence from geochemistry and geochronology...in the central Namaqua Metamorphic Complex (South Africa, Namibia): Evidence from geochemistry and geochronology...Metamorphic Complex (South Africa, Namibia): Evidence from Germany, jb@min.uni-kiel.de} MA [1] {Institut...Earth Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, PT s.buettner@ru.ac.za} CE [3] {Department...Geology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, AC dirkfrei@sun.ac.za} Correspondence to:
 
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