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Goethite from
Sishen Mine, Kathu, Gamagara Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Goethite
Formula:α-Fe3+O(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Goethite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sishen Mine, Kathu, Gamagara Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1269119
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1269119:7
GUID (UUID V4):2c299a59-28c8-49ab-bf7c-af35fd499b2d
Nearest other occurrences of Goethite
38.5km (23.9 miles) Mamatwan Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
49.5km (30.7 miles) Perth Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
49.6km (30.8 miles) Doornfontein Farm, Western Belt, Gamagara Ridge, Northern Cape, South Africa
52.7km (32.8 miles) Paling farm, Western Belt, Gamagara Ridge, Northern Cape, South Africa
55.5km (34.5 miles) Aucampsrust, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
68.2km (42.4 miles) N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
68.8km (42.7 miles) N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
70.9km (44.1 miles) Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
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the Sishen and Sishen South (Welgevonden) iron ore deposits, Northern Cape Province, South Africa M. D...Palaeo-Proterozoic Transvaal Supergroup in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa is host to the largest known resources...being exploited at Sishen and Beeshoek. Hematite occurrences on the Sishen South exploration project...project (some 65 km south of Sishen mine) are, at present, the focus of an intensive investigation. At both...both the Sishen and Sishen South deposits, mineralisation is found within lithologies belonging to the Transvaal
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Ore-Structure Relationships at Sishen Mine, Northern Cape, Republic of South Africa, Based on Fully-Constrained...Ore-Structure Relationships at Sishen Mine, Northern Cape, Republic of South Africa, Based on Fully-Constrained... Ore-Structure Relationships at Sishen Mine, Northern Cape, Republic of South Africa, Based on Fully-Constrained...West, South Africa 2 Sishen Iron Ore Company (Pty) Ltd., Private Bag X506, Kathu, 8446, South Africa...0157, South Africa Abstract A fully-constrained, implicit, 3D geological model of Sishen Mine reveals
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1007/s00126-017-0784-y ARTICLE 3D implicit modeling of the Sishen Mine: new resolution of the geometry and origin of...Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017 Abstract The Sishen deposit is one of the largest iron ore concentrations...faults that show relatively minor uplift to the south, probably due to the Lomanian Namaqua-Natal Orogeny...ore volumes, implying that Fe mineralization at Sishen cannot be exclusively attributed to supergene enrichment...Introduction Mined since 1953, Sishen Mine near the town of Kahtu in the Northern Cape Province (RSA) represents
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c development of the Sishen South (Welgevonden) iron ore deposit, South Africa, as deduced from ground...Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup in the northern Cape Province of South Africa hosts high grade (.60%Fe) hematitic...structure known as the Maremane dome. The bulk of South Africa’s iron ore production is currently provided...megaton Sishen iron ore mine on the northern end of the dome, and the smaller Assmang Beeshoek mine on the...the southern closure. The undeveloped Sishen South deposit, which contains ,400 Mt of high-grade hematite
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Banded Iron Formation-Hosted Hematite Ore Deposits John G. McLellan and Nicholas H. S. Oliver 185 Part...Warren Thorne, Steffen Hagemann, Adam Webb, and John Clout v 197 Chapter 9: The Itabirites of the...Approach to the Sishen South Iron Ore Deposit, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, and Its Implication...Deposit, Simandou Range, Republic of Guinea, West Africa I. L. Cope, J. J. Wilkinson, A. J. Boyce, J. B...ore exploration project in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. He completed his B.Sc. (Hons)
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manganese ores of the Postmasburg manganese field, South Africa J. GUTZMERAND N. J. BEUKES Department of Geology...University, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa Abstract The diagenetic to very low-grade metamorphic...peak metamorphic conditions. It is suggested that local variations of the metamorphic mineral association...Transvaal Supergroup, manganese ore, Postmasburg, South Africa. Introduction TIlE manganese ores of the Postmasburg...Supergroup is overlain unconformably by red beds of the Gamagara Formation of the late Palaeoproterozoic (2.2-1
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years ago, of high-grade iron ore deposits in South Africa, India and Brazil, including a comparison with...BIF-hosted high-grade hematite iron ore deposits in South Africa, India, Western Australia and Brazil reveal...hematite deposits stand in contrast to martite–goethite ores which are generally accepted to be the result...the Griqualand West region of South Africa, including the giant Sishen deposit, that are regarded to...University, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa and Dr Mukhopadhyay is in the Department of
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(CPO) OE HEMATITE ORES EROM THE SISHEN MINE, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AERICA H. SIEMES Institut fCir...siemes@rwth-aachen.de © 2013 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Banded iron fonnatiotis (BIFs) are...can be determined by neutron diffraction and the local texture on small areas of polished sections by electron...types (including a conglomerate pebble) of the Sishen Mine is characterized by a weak, usually circular...of preceding primary minerals (e.g. magnetite, goethite, siderite/calcite, ankedte/dolomite) of the Banded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THF,Postmasburg manganese field,situated in the Northern replacement of the countryrockbymanganeseCapeProvince...In contrast Schneiderh6hn (1931)suggested in the south(Fig. 1). Miningof the manganese orescom- Borchert...ores of the Postmasburg mangacurrently minedat Sishen (VanSchalkwyk andBeukes,1986) nesefieldandprovides...ng AnalyticalTechniques the centralpartof the Gamagara ridge.Siliceous oresoccur in the Easternbelt alongthe...100 the northernand southernextremitiesof the Gamagara manganese oresamples, covering all macroscopically
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figures and 1 plate Zusammenfassung Aus der FERTECO-mine, Eisernes Viereck, M.G. Brasilien, werden Mineralogie...cocTaBaermbix nopo~aMn BbmeTpm~anmq,.3 perriona Ferteco-mine, M.G. Bpa3Hnm4. Hponcxo:~(~e~He ~x CB~IBbIBatOTC...characterized by surface related increase of gibbsite arid goethite and by groundwater governed newformation of magnetite...magnetite, traces of Mn-minerals and local elevated gold contents. The canga on top is interpreted as...formation BIF (banded iron formation) (rEgion de la mine de FERTECO, M.G., Br&il). Ces min&aux lat&itiques
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2. Model Test Area: Moanda Deposit, Gabon, West Africa 2.2.2.1. Introduction 20 20 23 23 23 25 25 27...Postmasburg Region, Griqualand West, Cape Province, South Africa 3.3.1. Geological Setting 3.3.2. Genesis...Manganese Ore Formation Manganese Ore Deposits of North Africa: Imini, Morocco 3.4.1. Geological Setting 3.4.2...ancient glaciers, and the glaciation epoch of the northern countries - in Scotland, in Scandinavia, in Finland...northeastern part of Russia, in states of Canada and the Northern Ameriea - they are found here in rivers, where
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metamorphosed banded iron formations, Northern Province, South Africa Received: 4 July 1996 / Accepted:...ore would be quite unique in a South African context as South Africa is well endowed with high-grade...of enrichment. The low-grade iron ores in the Northern Province represent meta-banded iron formations...The main iron-bearing mineral is magnetite. The Northern Province ores have to be milled to sizes smaller...the largest integrated steel manufacturer in South Africa, employs a 40-year raw materials resource plan
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(Karatau, Khubsugul, and South China basins), Australia (Georgina basin), Africa Fig. 1. Geological structure...Karatau range (Kazakhstan). (b) Section of the northern Tszyangsi Province (Bushinskii, 1966). (c) Section...Depression (Bushinskii, 1966). (d, e) Sections in the northern Sinan Depression (Bushinskii, 1966). (1) Gneisses...(11) Mn-bearing rocks. (Upper Volta, Benin), and South America (Minas Gerais basin). North America is the...Fe–Mn hydroxides. These ore minerals constitute local autonomous laminae alternating with thin layers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the Postmasburg Mn Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Brenton J. Fairey 1,† , Martin J...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa Correspondence: h.tsikos@ru.ac.za Current address:...Postmasburg Manganese Field (PMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa, once represented one of the largest...Postmasburg manganese field; hydrothermal; karst; South Africa Minerals 2019, 9, 408; doi:10.3390/min9070408...(KMF), the Postmasburg Manganese Field (PMF) was South Africa’s largest producer of this important component
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affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian...Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................Thomssen, Walt Risch, Star Northam, Carolyn Wilson, John Muntyan and Wayne DeBrusk assisted with record keeping...Brazil) Pierre and Nellie Bariand (Paris, France) F. John Barlow (Appleton, WI) Ron Bentley (Windsor, CT)...Cureton, David Wilber, Miguel Romero, Richard Webster, John Barlow and Rustam Kothavala made cash donations
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of Canada, and of the Transvaal Supergroup of South Africa, are syntheses considerably superior t o any...University, Auckland Park, PO 524, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa. J.A. BUNTING Exploration Department, BHP...Australia. E.C. PERRY, J R . Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115,...DEPOSITIONAL BASIN O F THE TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP. SOUTH AFRICA N.J. Beukes Introduction . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Cape Smith-Wakeham Bay basin . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the later 1970s during a concerted search for Sishen-style orebodies along the southern margin of the...hematite conglomerates were also noted in the northern Pilbara near Shay Gap but were of indeterminate...compelling evidence of goethite enrichment at that time. The two main goethite-rich ore bodies in the...1986; Ramanaidou et al. 2003). It is likely that goethite occurring in the high-grade hematite-rich Brockman...suggested above, these ores are dominantly soft goethite-rich ores and may be more associated with the
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the next few weeks. Other planned trips are to How Mine, Sternblick Quarry and the Antech Laboratory in...there is anyone interested in hosting us at their mine or project, please come forward and assist. In other...bedrock. Panners dig pits to this rubble layer and mine the rubble that they then pan to recover the gold...Beers. The kimberlites are located about 90 km south by road from Matare in the Marange Communal Land... as seen from the accompanying photograph. The local people have piled the rocks on the edges of their
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit—Kalahari Manganese Ore Field (Northern Cape, South Africa): Geochemistry of Isotopes (δ13C and...1134/S0024490212030054 The Northern Cape manganese ore province (South Africa) is confined to the Kalahari...southeastern Kalahari Desert (Fig. 1) 60 km north of the Sishen Settlement. The province accommodates huge manganese...Manganese ores of the Kalahari Desert (Northern Cape province, South Africa) are confined to rocks of the Hotazel...Supergroup (Fig. 2). At ore deposits in the Northern Cape province, the Early Proterozoic section of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dust is mainly composed of haematite, martite and goethite while quartz and kaolinite are the gangue minerals...magnetite to martite, and replaced chert/jasper with goethite. During basin evolution, the Singhbhum Iron Ore...north might have further suffered burial, and the goethite seems to be upgraded to microplaty haematite....oxides (haematite and martite) and hydroxide (goethite). The Blue Dust invariably occurs with BHJ in...occurrence and formation of Blue Dust are studied. Local geology Important iron ore deposits occur mainly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1966, pp. 572-581 ALTERED PYROCLASTIC ROCKS IN SOUTH AFRICAN IRON-FORMATION GENE L. LABERGE ABSTRACT...the iron-formation of the Transvaal Systemin South Africa. It is basedupon observationsmade in the field...Western Australia. The writer spent 2 monthsin South Africa examining,and collecting samplesfrom, a numberof...extensivebelt of iror•-formation in the Transvaal and in the Cape Province. The localitiesat which observations were...Kuruman, Sishen, Lohatla, Hotazel, Post- masburg,Griquatownand Koegasin the northern Cape Province.
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plumes—Zhang Zhaochong, Hao Yanli, Wang Fusheng, and John J. Mahoney 40 Origin, age and significance of pseudotachylites...biogenic nanocrystalline sphalerite and wurtzite—John W. Moreau, Richard I. Webb, and Jillian F. Banfield...Fleet Empressite, AgTe, from the Empress-Josephine mine, Colorado, U.S.A.: Composition, physical properties...Mulder, Ishmael Hassan, Wilson A. Crichton, and John B. Parise ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA Vol. 5024, No....the Sishen and Sishen South (Welgevonden) iron ore deposits, Northern Cape Province, South Africa—M.D
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The THABAZIMBI Mine Cave Limpopo Province, South Africa Downloaded by [University of California Santa...Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za ALLAN FRASER PO Box 369 Fourways 2055 Gauteng, South Africa. mineralman@telkomsa...Iron Ore PO Box 9679 Centurion 0046 Gauteng, South Africa stuart.macgregor@angloamerican.com Figure 1...photos by Bruce Cairncross The Thabazimbi mine cave in South Africa contains fine examples of aragonite speleothems...and/or damaged by human or animal activity. N SOUTH AFRICA, the Transvaal Supergroup comprises a geological
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PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa JOYDIP MUKHOPADHYAY, Paleoproterozoic Mineralization...PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa, and Department of Geology, Presidency College...PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa Abstract High-grade hematite ores of the Iron...Supergene ores, in contrast, are comprised of goethite-rich duricrust and soft saprolitic hematite ores...economically important deposits in Australia (Hamersley district: Barley et al., 1999; Powell et al., 1999; Taylor
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Bruckard CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia J.M.F. Clout Ironist Pty Ltd, Nedlands...Deev CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia E. Donskoi CSIRO Mineral Resources...Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia N. Haque CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia... Clayton South, VIC, Australia R.J. Holmes CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia...Jahanshahi CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton South, VIC, Australia A. Jankovic Metso Process Technology
 
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