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Gold from
Otjihase Mine, Von Francois Farm 60, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Otjihase Mine, Von Francois Farm 60, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:103717
Long-form Identifier:1:3:103717:3
GUID (UUID V4):492e22e3-5988-4d27-bee4-2d3e196dc2b9
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
38.7km (24.1 miles) Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
40.9km (25.4 miles) Thorn Tree Mine, Okamuvia Farm 144, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
45.2km (28.1 miles) Matchless Mine, Friedenau Farm 16, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
46.4km (28.8 miles) Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
85.7km (53.2 miles) Duruchaus Farm 249, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
93.1km (57.8 miles) Swartmodder, Rehoboth Urban West, Hardap Region, Namibia
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Field Trip Notes
the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia II I -· --· ...... ----·----, Editor: M. Niall...the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia -- - -- .. --- ----• • ·- •• -1 · ~. ,. :...LC. Schneider Geological Survey or Namibia, P O Box 2168, Windhoek 1.0 Day 1 - Monday, 22 August 1994...08:00 Windhoek - Otjihase Mine 1.2 08:00 - 12:00 Otjihase Mine 1.3 12:00 - 12:30 Otjihase Mine - Windhoek...Windhoek 1.4 12:30- 13:30 Lunch in Windhoek 1.5 13:30 - 16:00 Windhoek-Karibib 1.6 16:00 - 17:00 Capra Hill
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COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA...Formation in the Southern Zone or Khomas trough of the Damara Orogen in Namibia. It comprises a sheeted-vein...pyrite-magnetite-chalcopyrite-apatite-molybdenite-native gold ore mineralogy. Adjacent alteration comprises proximal...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara...Damara Orogen, some 65 km north-east of Windhoek, Namibia (Figure 1). It operated intermittently throughout
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SIERRA LEONA AMIBIA 0 WINDHOEK ----------- MP mineral perspectives NAMIBIA This current report has...provide the latest available data and information on Namibia. Comments, revisions, and additional information... Thispublication hasbeencataloged asfollows: Namibia (Mineral pcrspecri vcs) Bibliography: p. 47-55...of Docs. no.: I 28.37/2: 1. Mineral indusrrics-Namibia. I. Coakley, George J. iI ! I l I I TN19...••••..••••••.•.••••.••• Rights of landowners and mine owners•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Special
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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
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S. R. Lawrence and A. E. Harrison Synopsis The gold and base-metal potential of the Pan-African orogens...diamonds, a range of base-metal deposits and lode-gold deposits further expanded the mineral production...inflation-driven leap in the gold price in the late 1970s, culminating in a short-lived gold price of $860/oz in...interest in the known gold-bearing terranes of southern Africa, the higher gold price drove explorers...Tanzania. The result was the discovery of many new gold deposits, a number of them of world-class dimensions
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Settingof the MatchlessBelt Pyritic Copper Deposits,Namibia JORGH. BREITKOPF Universityof the Witwatersrand...mphibolitebelt in the Damara orogenin central Namibia. The amphibolitesrepresent metamorphosedtholeiitic...southernmargin 1983b), predominate.Northeast of Windhoek and zone.It containsonlythe highestlithostratigraphic... 1). At the time of writing, only one deposit,Otjihase,is being mined. staurolite q- chlorite q- muscovite...metric tons kyanite + biotite + H20 (1) . of ore (Otjihase);in additionto copper,it carries TECTONIC SETTING
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dition Schloss Freudenstein Ludi von Bezing RainerBode • SteffenJahn in Collaboration with PeterLyckberg... AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree . Khomas Highland...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits
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.,,., ..,,.... w + ..... . ·. .... . - Namibia Zauberwelt edler Steine und Kristalle ooa Dieses... Dieses Buch entstand mit finanzieller Unterstützung von Dr. Reinhardt Bast (Miltenberger Mineralienfreunde)...Erdgeschichte 8 Zur Geschichte des Bergbaus in Namibia 17 Der Brandberg und die Mineralfunde in seiner...Riesenquarze von Otjua 110 Auf Turmalinsuche in Namibia Die Demantoide von Tubussis in Zentral-Namibia 112...112 116 Sodalith von Swartbooisdrif, Kaokoveld 118 Goldberyll (Heliodor) vom Hoffnungsstrahl-Pegmatit
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mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibia—a review and regional interpretation A.F. Kamona...Günzel b a b University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia Ongopolo Mining Ltd., Main Street...Street, P.O. Box 40, Tsumeb, Namibia Received 16 May 2004; accepted 10 April 2006 Available online 4...Neoproterozoic Damara mobile belt in northern Namibia (Fig. 1). The northern part of the metallogenic...of the Tsumeb Subgroup is the same in northern Namibia (Table 1). However, the Mulden Group in the OML
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may opt for student membership. Persons living over 60 miles from Haywards Heath may opt for associate membership...precious stone. Opalbanya is the name of the original mine location. Possibly Magyar, ancient Hungarian. These...are fine Some aren't unpacked yet -a few are now mine! But rocks in the garage and more in the shed, Were...for Vitec, our contact for our visit to the Tsumeb Mine. It has to be said that some of that time was spent...Figure 1 Headframe of the De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb 1 Namibia Handbook (Footprint) p324 -7- SMLS Journal 176
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economic development: Mineral resource accounts in Namibia Glenn-Marie Lange Directorate of Environmental...Environment and Tourism, Private Bag 13306, Windhoek, Namibia Tel: + 264 (0)61 249 015 Fax: + 264 (0)61...12 3. Mineral accounts for diamonds, uranium and gold ........................................................... 7 Table 3 Extraction of minerals in Namibia, 1980 to 2001 ........................................ 13 Table 5 Resource rent from mining in Namibia and, 1980 to 2001 ($N millions) ..............
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GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA: HYDROTHERMAL EXHALATIVE VERSUS HYDROGENETIC (INCLUDING...Department of Geology, University of Namibia, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia e-mail: b.mapani@unam.na M...GENESIS OF THE OTJOSONDU FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA Figure 1. Simplified geological map of the Pan-African...Pan-African Damara orogenic belt of Namibia (Miller, 2008), with the Otjosondu ferromanganese deposit located...southern Central Zone of the Damara Orogen in Namibia (Figure 1). Their enigmatic nature stems partly
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the GorobMassiveSulfideProspect, DamaraOrogen,Namibia HORSTH)•USSINGER,* MARTIN OKRUSCH, Mineralogisches...lensesand several smaller sulfide occurrencesat Gorob, Namibia, are hostedby metaturbidites of the KuisebFor...mineralexploration. TheGorobprospect in theNamibdesertof Namibia consists of five smallmetamorphosed, sedimenthostedmassive...alteration. GOROB MASSIVE SULFIDE PROSPECT, NAMIBIA 73 Variousauthors(e.g.,Miller, 1983;Schmidt and...intracontinental branch of the Pan-African Damaraorogenof Namibia,about250 km southwest lites,althoughBreitkopfa
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systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide...(Gariep Belt) cropping out in the western borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic...concerning the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of this region during the Precambrian. Major tectonometamorphic...ähnliche Vergleichungen auf die vereinigte Masse von Asien, Afrika und Europa anzuwenden, so zeigt sich...tectonostratigraphic domains and structures of the region are presented, together with implications for the
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Moroni Lusaka*--- • Ha B MOZAMBIQUE NAMIBIA ( Windhoek* Gaborone * Pretoria * Mbabane REPUBLIC... 105 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Nigeria . ...of diversified experience in mineral exploration, mine design, development, and operations, as well as...mineral industry of Canada, Iran, Mexico, and Namibia. He is also the Bureau's specialist on the North...in Africa and the Middle East, especially Iraq, Namibia, South Africa, and Zaire. Hendrik G. van Oss is
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57(1), 02.06 7-14 Zur Herstellung von Dünnschliffpräparaten von Evaporitgesteinen 15-21 Redgillit -...- ein neues Cu-Sulfatmineral von zehn Fundstellen aus Deutschland 22-33 Bariumreiche Phillipsite in Oberpfälzer...cupro-allophan, chrysokoll, Partzit und Clarait von der ehemaligen Fluoritgrube Floßberg im Großen Andreasbachtal...WAVES 35(5), 12.05 2-4 Collecting at the Strawberry mine (CA) 7-8 The new "Superbright" * UV WAVES 35(6)...Rosenzweig 5-60 The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada AGAB MINIBUL 39(2), 02.06 25-29 La mine d'or de
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(mantovani@usp.br) R.McG. Miller PO Box 11222, Windhoek, Namibia (rmmiller@mweb.com.na) A. Misi Centro de Pesquisa...Africa), 2004 in São Paulo (Brazil), 2005 in Windhoek (Namibia), 2006 in Punta del Este (Uruguay), 2007 in...and Numees (Frimmel et al., 2002) formations of Namibia and the Jacadigo Group and Puga Formation of the...thermally subsiding basins, such as in northern Namibia, South Australia and northwestern Canada. The so-called...problematic fossil Otavia in middle Cryogenian rocks in Namibia as a sponge (Brain et al., 2001, 2003, 2008) and
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deposits versus pyrite-sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite-gold mineralization in the Kuroko-type deposits. The...earthquakes during the 20th century (Ulomov and the GSHAP Region 7 Working Group, 1999; Lee et al., 2003; Buslov...30 22 59 15 50 53.4 30 48 224.5 106.7 2.0 4.5 3.1 60 125 10.8 9 40.3 10 25 4.7 2.6 5.1 3.9 10 4 2 11.1...12’’ 48o30’ 40’’ 85o18’ 32’’ 48o30’ 40’’ b GROZA gold-quartz occurrence 85o10’ 12’’ 48o27’ 40’’ 85o18’...Metallogeny The Irtysh terrane hosts copper and gold occurrences (Kuzebnyi, 1975; Nazarov et al., 1982;
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Availability curves Operating and capital costs Mine and mill operating costs Total production costs...developing, and explored deposits Total availability by region Annual availability U.S. availability Total production...explored deposits Total copper availability by major region Potential annual copper production from producing...deposits Potential annual copper production by major region Total copper availability from U.S. mines and deposits...26 26 27 27 27 28 TABLES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. World mine production of copper Nimiber and status of copper
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An Chloridkomplexe gebundenes Silber ist auch bei Gold- und Silbervorkommen in massiven Metallsulfid-La-...beobachteten Sieden der austretenden L~5Lagerst~itte hSngt von komplexen, sich gegenseitig beeinflus- sungen. Diese...erm/Sglicht den Transport Transport und FSllung ab. von Gold, das an Bisulfidkomplexe gebunden ist. In diesem...diesem Unterschiedliche Lagerst~ittentypen werden von ~ihnlichen Fall ist die Yerbindung auch bei niedrigeren...betr'Schtlich; sie befinden sich in ensima- kann das Gold zusammen mir Blei, Zink und Silber in mehr tisch-ozeanischen
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description of specific techniques for diamonds, gold and uranium in tropically weathered terrains, and...dispersion mechanisms that have operated in each region and environment and indicate suitable exploration...warmest month > 22°C. f: rainfall, driest month > 60 mm. m: monsoon rain. S: steppe. b: warmest month...Mediterranean No dry season Cfa Subtropical <60 >60 >(100- r/25) A: Tropical humid climates Af Rainforest...presence of a dry season, defined as months having < 60 mm rain. This effectively divides the rainforests
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papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi Greisen System.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 Intrusion-Related Gold, Polymetallic and Uraniferous Vein Systems and Breccia...Complexes. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold-Rare Earth Elements-Uranium Mineral Systems . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 Gold Skarns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold. Photo: Olof Martinsson, Luleå University of Technology...3D/4D modelling tools in exploration for epithermal gold potential areas in Eastern Rhodope zone (Western...the ore body structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . .............................Integrated 3D mineral systems maps for iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) Deposits, Eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia
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Pasadena, CA Editors A. EI Goresy, Heidelberg W. von Engelhardt, Tiibingen . T. Hahn, Aachen F. J. Sawkins...current and, almost certain, future emphasis on gold within the exploration community, I have paid particular...the geological settings and generative models of gold deposits of all kinds. There doubtless will be much...Indio Gold Deposit, Chile ......... 1.5.6 Discussion and Suggestions for Exploration 52 59 60 62 1...Suggestions for Exploration. 97 98 101 2.5 Backarc Gold Deposits ................... 102 2.5.1 Discussion
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reasons for the approach taken Mineral deposit or mine? A genetic model as the basis for exploration The...hydrothermal gold deposits Hydrothermal gold deposits in Archaean terrain Exploration for gold in Archaean...Exploration for porphyry molybdenum deposits Porphyry gold deposits Porphyry tin deposits Volcanic-associated...Council, BP Minerals International, Consolidated Gold Fields PLC, Gencor (UK) Ltd and RTZ Services Ltd...many geologists who have given their time during mine visits and responded to our queries. We have benefited
 
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