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Sphalerite from
Belingwe Star Mine, Sandawana-Belingwe District, Mberengwa District, Midlands, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Belingwe Star Mine, Sandawana-Belingwe District, Mberengwa District, Midlands, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:155466
Long-form Identifier:1:3:155466:3
GUID (UUID V4):d5879ef4-39c5-4c61-bae8-1dbf16e3a6bb
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
44.5km (27.7 miles) Sandawana Mine (Zeus mine), Sandawana-Belingwe District, Mberengwa District, Midlands, Zimbabwe
75.6km (47.0 miles) Zulu pegmatite, Pioneer village No. 2, Insiza District, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
References
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Mazowe area, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: II. Genetic relationships deduced from mineralogical...In the Mazowe area some 40 km NW of Harare in Zimbabwe, gold mineralization is hosted in a variety of...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...Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe U.F. Hein Institut fuÈr
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mineralization in the Midlands greenstone belt: a new type of low-grade gold deposit in Zimbabwe Received: 29...the Kwekwe district near the Indarama mine, approximately 200 km southwest of Harare, Zimbabwe. Based on...shear-zone hosted gold mineralization in the Kwekwe district, for which a deep crustal origin has been discussed...central part of the Midlands greenstone belt is one of the largest gold districts in Zimbabwe and, on a world...gold-antimony deposits. During the past ten years, the Midlands greenstone belt has been the subject of several
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Fluid Evolution in the Kwekwe District, Midlands Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: A Combined Geochemical, Mineralogical...Kwekwe district comprises the central part of the Archean Midlands greenstone belt of Zimbabwe and represents...stage 3. Four gold deposits within the Kwekwe district have been studied. The Primrose and Globe and...OVER THE PAST DECADE, the Archean Midlands greenstone belt of Zimbabwe has been subject to several research...in the central part of the Midlands greenstone belt, the Kwekwe district, has led to the discovery of
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more intricate. These ores have minor amounts of sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcostibite...Boiron et al., 1989, 2001 Briod Massiac (ore district), France 350–250 260–150 — — Bril and Beaufort...deposits pyrite, gold, galena, arsenopyrite, quartz, sphalerite, and boulangerite (Fig. 2, a). Gold is highly...forming low-temperature parageneses with galena, sphalerite, boulangerite, and stibnite, though these parageneses...formation of parageneses including chalcopyrite and sphalerite (Fig. 3). Galena is absent from this region of
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antimony-gold deposits (Boocock et al. 1987). In Zimbabwe, Buchholz et al. (1994) 937 described gold-antimony...gold-antimony mineralization in the Kwekwe district within the Midlands greenstone belt. In the Yilgarn Craton...inclusions in transparent minerals (quartz, bright sphalerite) were measured with the IR microscope and also...by Robert and Kelly (1987) for the Archean Sigma mine in Quebec, by Hagemann (1993) for the Archean Wiluna...JR (1987) Antimony-gold mineralisation at Monarch Mine, Murchison schist belt Kaapvaal craton. Univ Western
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hedenbergite), b) its meaning may shift over time - sphalerite, for instance, was dumped by early miners, while...Polymorphism as, for instance, found in the ZnS system (sphalerite/wurtzite), is often difficult to discern: Changes...replaced by sphalerite. Only under XPL it stands out from the lighter coronal sphalerite overgrowth by...to the next). Left: Galena (lighter grey) and Sphalerite (darker grey). When minimum/maximum values are...trillings is highly diagnostic for some minerals. Left: Star-like safflorite trillings. Minerals with a structure
 
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