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Granodiorite from
Empress Mine, Kwekwe District, Midlands, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granodiorite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granodiorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Empress Mine, Kwekwe District, Midlands, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1518609
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1518609:4
GUID (UUID V4):21858057-2749-40d1-b3a5-0d2680ae9e22
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along the shearzoneare, Jane,Bluff, Fairview, Empress,and Victoria. The total productionof copperfrom...SalmonRiver, Premier Mine, Engineer Mine of Atlin, Bear River, Dolly Varden Mine o.f Alice Arm, Hazelton...Vertical Sectionof Fairview Mine. Theargillaceous quartzite intheJane mine usually carries the mineralization...accordingto J. A. Bancroft and as a sill at the Premier mine. 3 The Silica Rock.---The largestwedgeof all, the...well as from the fact that the other wedgesof the Empress and Victoria mines do not show silicificationto
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Premier Mine K Kimberley Ko Koffiefontein J Jagersfontein I Madziwa II III Trojan Mine Empress...Empress Mine IV Tati V VI VII VIII IX Magogaphate Selibe Vlakfontein Barberton Insizwa FOCI OF MANTLE...work indicates a Precambrian age for the Premier Mine kimberlite (Van Zyl, 1968). However, the presenceof...recognizedin West Africa and in Russia (Bardet, 1965). district. association between crustal weaknesses and mafic...geneticlink with been suggestedthat intrusive granite, granodiorite the LesothoTrend is postulated. and diorite
Report (issue)
lead-silver-zinc district ______________ _ Geochemical prospecting ___ ._ ____________ _ Future of the district ___________________...___________________ _ Zinc Hill district ___________________________ _ Lee district _______________________________...Hills-----------------------------------Santa Rosa mine ______________________ _ Deposits in the Talc City...acknowledgments _________ _ Deposits in the Darwin district ______________ _ Geology~------------------------------...City' Hills. Geologic map and sections of the Darwin mine area. Map of part of 400 level and section of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nogenic Cu-ZnSulfideDeposits in the Britannia District, British Columbia J. G. PAYNE, 877 Lillooet Road...Britannia was completedby H. J. THF• Britannia district, 25 milesnorth of Vancouver, James(1929). His...Au. The deformedrocksare cut by dacitedikes Jane mine and the ubiquitous presence of anhydrite and severalmajor...hoods." 7OO CU-ZN SULFIDE DEPOSITS, BRITANNIA DISTRICT, B. C. 701 Subsequentto preparationof the present...advanced. R. J. Beatty (1974), in a project suggestedby mine were shearedtuffs and agglomerates and that, "movementalong
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
will not leave their miningunderthe British'flag to mine the promisingtin depositsunderthe flag of the Chineserepublic;that...Chinawithsimilarresults andthatthelateDowager Empress of Chinahadin heremploy for twenty-five yearsa...followingmountainbuilding,judging from ,the deformationof the granodiorite. This intrusionwas responsible for the quar
Report (issue)
of vug. Reflected light, in air, 183 X. Smuggler mine; c. Galena (gn) replaced by hessite (hs) which was...gold (Au). Reflected light, in air, 218 X. Nancy mine; d. Tetrahedrite (td) interstitial to pyrite (py)...quartz (qz). Reflected light, in air, 153 X. Croesus mine; f. Single crystal of tellurium (Te) was largely...visible. Reflected light, in air, 157 X. Emancipation mine; g. Subhedral, bladed tellurium in penecontemporaneous...quartz. Reflected light, in air, 28 X. John Jay mine; h. Sylvanite (sv) and native tellurium (Te) in
Book
USSR Academy of Sciences, Chernogolvka, Moscow district, U . S . S . H . J. Foden, Bureau of Mineral Resources...Rhodesia, Box M.P. 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. R.W. Ojakangas, Department of Geology, University...O. B o x . MP. 1 6 1 , Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. B.F. Windley, Department of Geology, University...MINERALISATION IN THE EARLY PRECAMBRIAN CRUST OF ZIMBABWE J.F. Wilson and T.H.C. Nutt 555 MINERAL OCCURRENCES...631 LITHIUM PEGMATITES OF AMARESHWAR, RAICHUR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA T.C. Devaraju, N. Rajshekhar
Report (volume)
and 1970s were decades of mineral exploration and mine development unprecedented in the northwestern Cordillera...the 30 years since the opening of the Bethlehem mine in late 1962, porphyry mines in British Columbia...for survival of the Bell mine in fascinating detail. The paper on the Brenda mine presents insights into... Endako has been the major molybdenum producing mine in British Columbia, operating since 1965. Other...developers, through operators and esearchers, to mine closers and reclaimers. Where possible the Board
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
464 JOSEPH E. A. KANIA. The rocks of the district are Culm (lower-Carboniferous) slatesintruded...slate with sulphides. Hidden Creek Mine, Anyox, B.C.47 This mine,duringthe last few years,averagedaroundoneand... and.I7 oz. Ag perton. The total production(the mine closedpermanentlyduring I935) was aroundtwenty-twomillion...Trans.,vol. 22, pp. x35-I54, I92o. Bancroft,J. A.: Mine Reporton the Geologyand Ore Depositsof the AnyoxMap... Kania, J. E.: Ore Deposits of the Hidden Creek Mine, Anyox, B.C. (unpublished), x927. ORIGIN OF PYRITIC
Report (issue)
(occurrence number 1028) 2. Webbs silver mine (1018) 3. Ottery mine (1312) 4. Butlers lode (1207) 5. Dutchmans.................................. Wellingrove Granodiorite ..................................................................................... Bismuth mine ................................................................................... Poverty Point mine ................................................................................................. Mine data sheet CD-ROM .............................
Report (issue)
Heyl 77""V" Zinc-Copper Deposits of the Big Bend Mine, Butte County, California, bv John H. Eric Geology...County, Newton Copper Mine, Amador R. Heyl and John H. Eric ""~V" Pemi Zinc-Copper Mine, Calaveras County...California, by George R. Heyl La Victoria Copper Mine, Mariposa County, California, by ^Tr"'" ^ ^ ...California, by John H. QOX The Jesse Belle Copper Mine, Madera County, California, by Manning W. Cox and...Plate of View of Newton mine, Amador County, from south. B, View ^ o4-o& Newton mine from northwest copperPenn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michal E. Fleet Empressite, AgTe, from the Empress-Josephine mine, Colorado, U.S.A.: Composition, physical...bedrock sources for the Estero Hondo alluvial gold mine, western Ecuador—M. Potter and M.T. Styles 0361-0128/98/000/000-00...related host rocks of the Orlovka–Spokoinoe mining district, eastern Transbaikalia (Russia)—A. Dolgopolova...METALLURGY No. 1, 2004 Targeting a large open pit gold mine at Mt Gibson, Western Australia Incentives for mineral...and ore estimation at the Callie Underground gold mine, Tanami, NT 44 53 71 BASIN RESEARCH Vol. 16, No
Report (issue)
elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...circa 1910 view of the old mine portal on the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA....An 11 cm tall elbaite group from the Pederneira Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The bottom of the group...Bronze-brown; streak: yellow-brown; luster: vit­ district Corinthia in Austria and Slovenia, dravite is...Graeber Right: this dravite from the Mikhaylovskoye Mine in the Transbaikal Region of Russia is 4.5 cm tall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aggregates more than 10 km and is intruded by granodiorite and quartz-feldspar porphyry with SHRIMP U–Pb...geographical links with the ca 2.4 Ga Sebanga Poort Dyke (Zimbabwe), the Ringvassoy (Kola-Karelia) and du Chef dykes...considered a smaller analogue of the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe (Campbell et al., 1970), due to its funnel-shape...nium deposit, currently the largest underground mine in Australia, with ore reserves of 473 Mt at 1.66%...comprising granite, hornblende-quartz monzonite, granodiorite, gabbro and diorite intrusions. Uranium–Pb zircon
Book
Opal Precious beryl Argentina Rhodochrosite Zimbabwe Peridot Chrysoberyl Precious beryl Emerald...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...years later as a wedding gift from Napoleon III to Empress Eugénie, who was fascinated by, and modeled her...Antoinette is born in Vienna, 15th child of the Empress of Austria, Maria Theresa 1774 Louis Auguste takes...earrings remain in the French royal family 1870–72 Empress Eugénie is thought to sell the earrings to Duchess
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Opal Precious beryl Argentina Rhodochrosite Zimbabwe Peridot Chrysoberyl Precious beryl Emerald...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...years later as a wedding gift from Napoleon III to Empress Eugénie, who was fascinated by, and modelled her...Antoinette is born in Vienna, 15th child of the Empress of Austria, Maria Theresa 1774 Louis Auguste takes...earrings remain in the French royal family 1870–72 Empress Eugénie is thought to sell the earrings to Duchess
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Globe-Miami District, Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Globe-Miami District, Arizona By N. P. PETERSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Within the district of known...1898Geology and ore deposits of the Globe-Miami district, Arizona. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,...Geology-Arizona-Globe-MJami district. 2. Ore-deposits-Arizona-Globe-Miami district. 3. Copper mines and mining-Arizona...mining-Arizona. I. Title. II. Title: Globe-Miami district, Arizona. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusive series (units 3, 4 and 5) and a later granodiorite series, (units 6, 7, 8 and 9). Log-concentration...Log-concentration diagrams indicate that the granodiorite series has undergone considerable chemical fractionation...by separation of hornblende and oligoclase. Granodiorite magmas from the West Okanagan, with initialisotopic...(grey) Jura (Osprey Lake) McNulty Creek (red) Empress Valhalla (Mount Kathleen) ( w h i t e ) Coryell...hornblende diorite tonalite to granodiorite K-feldspar megacryst-bearing granodiorite leucogranodiorite h o l
Journal (issue)
.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................years he was Resident Geologist at the Copper Queen mine until Phelps Dodge Cor­ poration closed all the...transferred to Ajo as Mine Planning Engineer and later promoted to General Mine Foreman. He left Ajo in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the beryl subtype that intrudes the Songo Granodiorite. It is part of the Sebago granite-pegmatite...in Russia where he was first appointed by the Empress Catherine II (also known as Catherine the Great)
Report (issue)
Headframe, concentrator and waste dump at the Lacarne mine of Molybdenite Corporation of Canada, Limited (June...and other economic aspects (by R. J. Jones) World mine production......... .. .............. .. ... . United......... .... ..... .... .... .... ... . Kenora district (Patricia portion) .... ... .... . Red Lake area... .. .. .. .... .. .... .. ...... ... . Kenora district...................... .... .. ............. ..... .. ... .... .. .. .. .. .. .... Rainy River district..... .. ..... .... ..... .. ........ . .. ...
Field Trip Notes
Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus...adapted from the 1991 guide are noted by (91). All mine production values are from the 1941 or 1991 guides...even more productive Grass Valley-Nevada City district and other gold-bearing areas of the northern Sierra...Fairgrounds, Mariposa COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS : Mariposa Mine A mile south of Mariposa, in the vicinity of the...of the Mariposa mine (49). - Kit Carson is reputed to discovered the Mariposa mine in 1849, but it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ct. Insufu rough emerald extracted from the Kagem mine in 2015. Lastly, on the 2th of October, the remarkable...(“the lion elephant”) was extracted from the same mine [3]. Other giant crystals have been discovered in...emerald crystals was discovered in the Carnaíba mine, Brazil; the specimen weighed 341 kg with 1.7 million... le Règne Minéral; (c) Emerald in quartz, Kagem mine, Zambia, longest crystal: 7.9 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm. The...(Figure 2). Colombia, Brazil, Zambia, Russia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (Figure
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work, ranging from the group of fellow workers in Zimbabwe (M.J. Bickle, A. Martin, J.L. Orpen, J.F. Wilson)...debt to those geologists who have worked for the Zimbabwe Geological Survey and its predecessors over the...Special Publication of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe, R.P. Foster (ed.), by permission of A.A. Balkema...Surv. Bull. No. 67 by permission of the Director, Zimbabwe Geological Survey; Figure 6.3 reproduced from... Bull. No. 83, by permission of the Director, Zimbabwe Geological Survey. Figure 8.4 reproduced by permission
 
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