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Gold (commodity) from
Arcturus Mine, Goromonzi District, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Gold (commodity)
Significance:Significant commercial deposit of this mineral.
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Gold (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Arcturus Mine, Goromonzi District, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1209426
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1209426:0
GUID (UUID V4):704bb414-7d18-4bab-9781-dd342751a0f2
Nearest other deposits of Gold (commodity)
7.1km (4.4 miles) Viceroy Mine, Goromonzi District, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
46.4km (28.9 miles) Mazowe gold field, Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
52.4km (32.6 miles) Rane Mine, Bindura District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
52.8km (32.8 miles) Mazowe Mine [including Jumbo Mine], Mazowe gold field, Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
52.9km (32.9 miles) Rebecca Pit, Freda Rebecca Mine, Bindura District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
53.3km (33.1 miles) Freda Rebecca Mine, Bindura District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
53.3km (33.1 miles) Freda Pit, Freda Rebecca Mine, Bindura District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
58.0km (36.0 miles) Connaught Mine, Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
58.1km (36.1 miles) Shamva Mine, Shamva District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
95.9km (59.6 miles) Muriel Mine, Zvimba District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mapeto Gold mineralization in the Mazowe area, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: I. Tectonic...Archaean craton, west of the Chinamora batholith. Gold mineralization in the form of quartz (‹sul®de) reefs...shear zones that dip moderately north at Mazowe mine, and conjugate steep strike-slip shear zones striking...suites. These observations show that signi®cant gold deposits can form in relatively minor deformation...intrusions. Introduction Two basic tectonic settings for gold mineralization in Archaean granite-greenstone terrains
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter June, 2008 Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter...SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE, P.O. BOX CY 1719, CAUSEWAY, HARARE Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...……………………………………………….. 5 Geology of the Chewore Inliers, Zimbabwe: Constraining the Mesoproterozoic to Palaeozoic...Triassic/EarlyJurassic Forest Sandstone, Mana Pools Basin, Zimbabwe ..…………. 9 AGM - CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2007………………………………………………………...Honorary Life Membership of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe …………………………………………………….. 14 NEWS ………………………………………………………………………………………
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter September 2006 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter September...Tarka Forest ‘Gold Rush’ July, 2006 Collins Mwatahwa THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE, P.O. BOX CY...1719, CAUSEWAY, HARARE Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter September 2006 Contents EDITORIAL...Department, University of Zimbabwe ………………………………………….. 8 The Geological Survey of Zimbabwe ……………………………………………………...…………………………………………………… …. 15 2 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter September 2006 Editorial Welcome
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
72(4), pp. 953–970 Gold-bismuth-telluride-sulphide assemblages at the Viceroy Mine, Harare-Bindura-Shamva...Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe T. OBERTHÜR* AND T. W. WEISER Federal Institute for Geosciences and...Accepted 15 October 2008] ABSTR ACT Gold mineralization at the Viceroy Mine is hosted in extensional veins...transect metabasalts of the Archaean Arcturus Formation. The gold mineralization is generally made up...(Bi6Te2S), bismuthinite (Bi2S3), native Bi, native gold, maldonite (Au2Bi), and jonassonite (AuBi5S4). The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Weiser Gold mineralization in the Mazowe area, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: II. Genetic...the Mazowe area some 40 km NW of Harare in Zimbabwe, gold mineralization is hosted in a variety of lithologies...the mainly granodiorite-hosted workings at Mazowe mine are on pyrite-rich reefs, mines of the Bernheim...arsenopyrite-rich ores, and Stori's Golden Shaft and Alice mine, both in metabasalts, work sul®de-poor quartz veins...the Mazowe gold ®eld markedly contrast to ore ¯uids ``typical'' of Archean mesothermal gold deposits on
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe G S Z Newsletter June 2019 No. 2 of 3 of 2019 Nyagande Pools, Sunungukai...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ... 6 10 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe – Maideyi Meck …………… Midlands State University...Survey Department – Forbes Mugumbate ………………………… Zimbabwe Geological Survey – New Publications ……………………...Industry – Forbes Mugumbate ……………………….. Mining in Zimbabwe: From the 6th to the 21st centuries – Book Launch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Freda-Rebecca gold deposit ± Bindura District, Zimbabwe Received: 4 January 1999 / Accepted:...Abstract The Freda-Rebecca Mine is currently the largest gold producer in Zimbabwe. The ore deposit is hosted...second, lower temperature stage gave a polyphase gold-rich mineralization that developed in four phases...chalcopyrite. Phase 2. Chlorite, epidote, calcite, gold, native Bi, Bi-Pb sul®des, galena, chalcopyrite...CoFe-gersdorte. Phase 4. Chlorite, calcite, quartz. The gold mineralization is exclusively associated with phase
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter February 2017 No. 1 of 3 of 2017 The last great...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...collision for a Neoarcaean Limpopo orogen and Zimbabwe Craton since 2.75-2.74Ga ……… A field trip to the...11 12 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe – Maideyi Meck …………… The Professor Tom Blenkinsop...………………………………... 13 16 17 18 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE - AGM ……………………….. 20 RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Report (chapter)
26, 2015 Neoarchaean tectonic evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton HIELKE A. J E L S M A 1 & P A U L H....the Neoarchaean granites and greenstones of the Zimbabwe Craton, southern Africa. A major tectono-magmatic...University on June 26, 2015 TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ZIMBABWE C R A T O N ~, ~ - - ~'~" ~ ~ ' ,~ _~... o o o o ~ o o o o o o o o o o o o F-F- ~ ZIMBABWE THE ~ o o o o o o o o o o o ~ 0 F- OF 9...compatibility with a review of the evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton, using a collation of geochronological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe, MP167, Harare, Zimbabwe (Manuscript ucceptecl July 14, 1997)...structural metamorphic data froni the Trojan nickel mine area i n the Shamva-Bindura Greenstone Belt (SBGB)...stratigraphy, while metamorphic conditions in the mine area reached about S O O T at pressures of 3-4 kbar...occurs along the boundary ofthe lron Mask and Arcturus Formations. DJM? structures are related to doming...rccrystallisation of M, assemblages. M? temperatures in the mine area reached 565°C. Such high contact metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Constraints on Archaean crustal evolution of the Zimbabwe craton: a U-Pb zircon, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb whole-rock...felsic volcanic and plutonic rocks from northern Zimbabwe combined with field data and Pb-Pb and Sm-Nd wholerock...Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Harare, Zimbabwe P.J. Valbracht Institut de Physique...lithostratigraphic correlations for the late Archaean in Zimbabwe. Zircon ages for a syn-tectonic gneiss (2667+4...compare well with a Pb-Pb age of shear zone related gold mineralization (2659+13 Ma) associated with the
Report (issue)
ZIMBABWE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN No. 90 The Erosion Surfaces of Zimbabwe L. A. LISTER, M.Sc., D.Phil...LIBRASÏ ZU - 06.01 Ölungen ïte Cstteilands 72& ZIMBABWE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN No. 90 iSRiC LIBRARY...Wagentngen, The Netherlands The Erosion Surfaces of Zimbabwe L. A. LISTER, M.Sc, D.Phil. ISSUED BY AUTHORITY...the erosion surfaces of Zimbabwe. She has lectured at the University of Zimbabwe since 1963 and this Bulletin...earlier authors had postulated. Cainozoic tilting in Zimbabwe, which raised the eastern margin of the country
Report (issue)
of the Connors Pass Quadrangle Schell Creek Range East-Central Nevada By HARALD DREWES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Rib Hill Sandstone ________________________ _ Arcturus Formation ________________________ _ Lithology...___ _ Taylor mining district _________________ _________ _ Cleve Creek district ____________________________...54 65 21 13. Geologic map of Taylor mining district __ _ 75 80 24 14. Map showing distribution...of Rib Hill Sandstone ___ _______________ _ 9. Arcturus Formation ___________ _ 4 19 30 36 38 40 45
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
models for komatiite-hosted nickel deposits in Zimbabwe using multiple-sulfur, iron, and nickel isotope...ca. 2.7 Ga volcano-sedimentary sequences of the Zimbabwe craton. At both mines, nickel sulfide mineralization...these competing models. Massive ores at Shangani Mine show mass-dependent fractionation of sulfur Editorial...mass-independent Δ33S values in ore samples from Trojan Mine likely reflects high-temperature assimilation of...Fe isotope values of some samples from Shangani Mine are more fractionated than expected to occur in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
certain limestones and related sedimentary rocks of east-central Idaho. The Ferguson Mountain Formation,...(Wolfcampian and Leonardian age). Shelf facies to the east consist, in ascending order, of: Callville Limestone...intra-geosynclinal highlands, and shelves to the east, numerous lithologic associations formed, including...Sandstone 1093 Hogan Formation, Moorman Ranch area, Arcturus Formation 1093 White Pine County, Nevada Pequop...Gcrster Limestone 1099 4. Outcrops of the Gold Hill district, Utah, and Garden Valley Formation 1100 North
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LOITER PERMIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF EAST-CEHTRAL NEVADA AND ADJACENT UTAH by Patrick James... 75 Paleoecology and Geologic History ...... Arcturus Formation ... o o .. 76 .......... 77 Lithology...Distribution in the Arcturus Formation ............." ! I it " LOWER PERMIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA...carbonates, both formations of Steele (1960)5 Arcturus Formation, divisible into a Lover Member composed...The Wolfcamp-Leonard boundary occurs vithin the Arcturus Formation. West of Ely the Riepe Spring Limestone
Report (issue)
.......................... . Situation of the district ...................................................................... General geology of the district ........................................................................................... . Arcturus limestone ........................... ~ ........40 41 41 4 CONTENTS. General goology of the district-Continued. Structure ........ ~ . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition of mine water ........................... ·. . . . . .
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February, 2009 Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter...SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE, P.O. BOX CY 1719, CAUSEWAY, HARARE Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ... 4 The Indigenisation of the Mining Sector in Zimbabwe, A Reality Check and Practical Perspective .……...9 Open Pit Operations and Grade Control at Ngezi Mine ...…………………………………….. 9 Use of a Niton XRF instrument...Nickel Belt ….. 14 Structural Setting and Control of Gold Mineralisation in the Eastern Limb of the Harare
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter June, 2011 Geological Society of Zimbabwe 1960 -2010 G S Z...Newsletter June 2011 Tectonic evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton in the early Palaeoproterozoic. (a) Following...Following Söderlund et al. (2010), the Zimbabwe craton is positioned along the eastern margin of the Superior...basin initiated. (c) Assembly of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons, and unknown terrane, Terra Incognita...Incognita at ca. 2.0 Ga led to tectonic escape of the Zimbabwe Craton and dextral shearing in the Limpopo Belt
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter October 2012 Chirambakadoma and the Chewore Mountains...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...and their felsic country rocks, south-central Zimbabwe: a revised age for the Reliance komatiitic event...Society of Zimbabwe – Historical Notes ………………………… 5 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe …………………………………...Committee, on behalf of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe, would like to offer a sincere vote of thanks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thousand sections is carefully taken down and ARCTURUS. jcittttifit �mtti,an. the model is lifted from...combined with its large proper motion, gives Arcturus the tremendous velocity of 381 miles per second-a...than the figure So that while the veloci t y of Arcturus may be 50 or even 100 miles less per second than... Elkin's startling figures, and consider Arcturus as 181 light years away, and rushing through ...it will be seen, almost identical with that of Arcturus. Many comets which come from interstellar regions
Report (issue)
interest in the geo logy and mineral resources of Zimbabwe which followed the removal of United Nations sanctions...original Bulletin is the insertion of Table IIIA, Zimbabwe Mineral Production and Value, on page 114A. Due...for views of Wankie Colliery and the Trojan nickel mine, and to the Photographic Section of the Ministry...near Salisbury. facing page 23 IV Trojan Nickel Mine, near Bindura. facing page 33 V The Great Dyke...Complex. VI Chrome seam in the Great Dyke, Vanad Mine. VII Lower Karoo Landscape. No. 1 Colliery, Wankie
Corporate Document
Report for the Malmbjerg Project, located on the east coast of Greenland. The Technical Report is intended...license area is located in the central portion of the east coast of Greenland, approximately 600 km north of...Minekompagni conducts a feasibility study for an open pit mine operation. The study concluded that the deposit...not conduct any exploration work. 2004 – Galahad Gold Plc acquires an exploration license over the deposit...youngest): perthite granite, quartz porphyry (Arcturus porphyry), porphyritic aplite, and weakly feldspathic
Report (issue)
Sections on different thrust plates show similar east-west trends and these trends vary north and south...fossils exist below the Retort, but at the Frank mine prospect, in a very thin Retort, occurs an abundant...northwestern Utah. The type section is located on the east flank of Murdock Mountain, north-center sec. 36...of the Park City Group, in west-central Utah and east-central Nevada, and to the Rex Chert Member of the...equivalent Plympton Formation of west-central Utah and east-central Nevada and the Rex Chert Member of the Phosphoria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
again. Its color is paler Now, having found what Arcturus' distance is, an- now than it has been in past...junction, two small h�ir-like spines which are as Arcturus does:' in other word8, that it would take the...county, sun gives us enormously more light than Arcturus and I have always found it more agreeable to watch...of their neighbors, the trum­ away than the sun Arcturus is.' Let us suppose, then, pets (Sarracenias)...of evil" political"doers." between the sun and Arcturus. In that case those House of Representatives,
 
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