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Quartz from
Frankfort Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Arsenopyrite1 photo of Quartz associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Frankfort Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:251214
Long-form Identifier:1:3:251214:3
GUID (UUID V4):68866027-2f58-43d1-b673-e47117477810
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
12.7km (7.9 miles) Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
52.4km (32.6 miles) Thorncliffe Chrome Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
53.2km (33.0 miles) Helena Chrome Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
65.0km (40.4 miles) Penge Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
67.1km (41.7 miles) Magnet Heights carbonatite, Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
81.4km (50.6 miles) Mica, Maruleng Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
83.7km (52.0 miles) Union mine, Mica, Maruleng Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
96.5km (60.0 miles) Selatidrift, Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
97.5km (60.6 miles) Nkomati Mine, Uitkomst Complex, Waterval, Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
97.5km (60.6 miles) Leydsdorp, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal, South Africa Roger Tyler a,b Noel Tyler...The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 31 May 1993; revised version accepted...from numerous stratiform ore bodies within the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield. The epigenetic stratiform ore bodies... The gold-silver emplacement model for the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield infers fluids derived from a deep-seated...the mineralizing fluids, recalculated from ~tSo quartz ( + 12.1%o to + 19.5%o), point to a magmatic source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesothermal-Type Mineralization in the Sabie-Pilgrim's RestGoldField,SouthAfrica R. H. BOER, Economic...differentclass of mesothermal golddeposit at Sabie-Pilgrim's Restwhichis probably associated withtheBushveld...estimates indicate that the ore fluidsof the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfield,whichoccurs withinthe EarlyProterozoic...However, a numberof features distinguish the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restoresfromtypicalmesothermal deposits: (1) thepresence...cleargeneticlink.Characteristic features of the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfieldthatcorrespond to thosewithintheabovespectrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation at the Elandshoogte Mine, Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, South Africa M. Harley 1,2 and E. G. Charlesworth...Charlesworth 2 1.2 Geological Survey of South Africa, Private Bag X112, 0001 Pretoria and 2 Department...Wits, South Africa Received: November 29, 1990/Accepted: April 30, 1990 Abstract. Stratiform quartz-sulphide-gold...Sequence sedimentary succession, in the SabiePilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal. These deposits have...Australia. Detailed examination of the Elandshoogte Mine shows that gold deposition occurred in two stages
Book (volume)
Library); April Davies (lowa City Community School District); Lynn El-Hoshy (Library of Congress); Sara Shatford...College of Law); Scott Opasik (Indiana University, South Bend); Tom Williamson (retired staff engineer, Intel)...University); April Davies (lowa City Community School District); Daniel Joudry (University of Pittsburgh); Patricia...studi di Padova); Peter Donovan (University of New South Wales); John Hostage (Harvard Law School); Dorothy...State Library of South Africa, and to librarians in the United Kingdom and South Africa, for their contributions
Book (volume)
of development of Edition 23: a member from South Africa. Since the publication of Edition 22, the following...of Pittsburgh) Welna van Eeden (University of South Africa) Beacher Wiggins (Library of Congress) Deane...National Library of Norway National Library of South Africa (also 780) National Library of Sweden (also...364.1 Criminal offenses Pauline de Graaf ( New South Wales Police College) 610 Medicine and health (adolescent...Public Library) Joel Hahn (Niles Public Library District) Valerie Hodges ( Kansas City, Kansas Public Library)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Figure 1. Map showing the location...William Besse. Figure 2. The Rubicon pegmatite mine, the largest source of lithium in Namibia (see fig...beryl, quartz, and bismuth. Bruce Cairncross photo (September 2014). Karibibite Karibib District, Namibia... Figure 3. Karibibite on quartz from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer district in Morocco; field of view is...was described from a pegmatite in the Karibib district of Namibia by von Knorring, Sahama, and Rehtijärvi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a coarse, dark gray sand consisting chiefly of quartz (smoky, grayish-blue chalcedony) with some lustrous...coarse, brown sand (not attractive) . It consists of quartz (smoky, brownish), brown sandstone, sj a t e (brown...stands at the headwaters of Jordan Creek."—on label. Quartz Sand from Sitka, Kansas Glen E. Kiser, Douglass...reddish-brown sand consisting almost entirely of quartz (colorless but stained red) with some reddish clay..."From Hiwy 183 in Kansas (north of Oklahoma line) south of Sitka (Clark Co.,) Kansas.'-—on label. River
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
owned by Stark Riggs. This place is about 15 miles south of Dos Cabezos, Arizona. Am mailing you a specimen...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark., some fine quartz xls containing chlorite phantoms have been obtained...1/2" xl in a 2" matrix which consisted of minute quartz xls, and vellow cookeite. Lepidolite: some choice...sheets y2" in length were noted on a specimen of quartz. This noted pegmatite locality, although not being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
real need, not only for the beginner but for the rest of us also. It has been my observation that 9 5...Morning Star zinc mine near the little village of Rush, Marion Co., Ark. CALIFORNIA—From a mine in Darwin, Inyo...letter from him he writes: "The Darwin, Calif., mine is lead and zinc, with occasional high grade silver...Colorado School of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following...the owner drove up and told me I could visit the mine. On the way, I stopped to collect specimens of malachite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
x, 355-368). Native Tellurium-Found at Red Cloud Mine, Goldhill, Boulder Co., Colorado. Occurs in small...usually finely disseminated through inch long and quartz. Cleavage perfect : colour tin-white t o grey :...Uncle Sam’s Mine, Highland District, Montana. It is here accompanied by gold and quartz; and is also...remarkable t,hat the tetradymite from Uncle Sam’s Mine contains sulphur, while that from the gold-washings.................. .............. .............. Quartz Gold.. Bismuth Copper.. Iron.. Tellurium Selenium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ferroan dolomite, with lesser amounts of calcite, quartz, illite, and pyrite; siderite is absent. The bodies...Dolomite, ferroan dolomite, calcite, barite, and quartz are the main vein minerals; pyrite, marcasite,...vein minerals typically is dolomite, barite, and quartz. Ironstone Septaria: Shale beds with abundant clay...Ming strata dolojtooc fctroan dolomite. calcite. quartz, pyrite fcrroan dolomite, calcitc. barite, quanz...shales (Huron Shale) irnnMune siderite. i Díte, quartz, calcite, bitumen barite. sphalerite, calcite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cube of limonite (pseudo pyrite) embedded in milky quartz. ARKANSAS—Byron C. Marshall, 204 Central A v e...same. It condenses down to the same o'd story, - local things seem never worth the effort to go see. "There...COLORADO—The Colorado State Museum, immediately south of the State Capitol in Denver, Colo., houies a...tourmaline, occur in a mixture of light green diopside, quartz, colorless fluorite, and plagioclase feldspar,...5, were picked up along a canal about one mile south-east of Ft. Lauderdale, Broward County, southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the terrain over for pebbles—found a ferruginous quartz pebble nearby, Chester is a small town on the Ohio...miles—Oberlin, on Ohio 58. Here we stopped at the Campus Rest (near Oberlin College). One of the desserts on the...113. 868.6 miles—South Amherst. 869.7 miles—We turn right on black top road (in South Amherst). 869.9...869.9 miles—Sandstone quarry. 870.1 miles—Back in South Amherst where we turn right on Ohio 113. 870.2 miles—Large...called gravel). Among the minerals noted (all are quartz) are: basanite (black), ROCKS AND MINERALS chalcedony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that Keith wandered around the neighboring gold mine dumps and developed an interest in minerals. He...ROCKS AND MINERALS collection of local minerals, particularly quartz, pyrite, and galena. In fact, Keith... The specimen was found in 1967 in the Pioneira mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Downloaded...tourmaline from the Barra de Salinas mine, Aracuai-Itinga district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Although the...from the Jonas mine in Brazil have sold for several hundred thousand dollars. A Jonas mine rubellite called
Report (issue)
northward; calcarenite, formed above surf base in the south, grades successively northward to fossiliferous...have connected with open oceanic waters to the south. INTRODUCTION Most of the inner Blue Grass region...CARLISLE 0 0 x178 177 )( :E .158 Frankfort ~.1..0 ~ FRANKFORT FRANK~ .... ~p86.EAST xx w L:;: 0::...sections 29, 30A, 30B, 1007, and 1009, which are in south zone. Location of sections shown in fig. 2] Section...(Perryville North). 30B ______ Perryville B (Perryville South). 31 ------ Valley View A (Cuzick). 34 Valley View
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black coating on chert. The writer also found small quartz crystals with the graphite in one clay bank. The...velvety-black specimen is basanite, a variety of quartz. A common name for basanite is touchstone. ARIZONA—From...— "Please identify the green inclusions in this quartz specimen? It comes from Woodbury, Litchfield Co...Parker, R.F.D. 1, Woodbury, Conn. The dark smoky quartz mass contains bright green thin plates of green...forest service road, is found the Bethlehem mine. The mine is located about y4 mile east of the Camp Nine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W e call it 'laminated quartz'.It is the white milky quartz of the district and a black sphalerite in...pyrites in form of a many rayed star in the white quartz. Though it resembles marcasite in structure it...I visited the Toll Gate Quarry, just iy2 miles south of Middletown, on Rout 9"Dave Seaman, of the American...History in New York, told me he had collected beryl, quartz and feldspar crystals, as well as manganocolumbite...and the only nearby collecting locality is a strip mine (coal) which are common to this area. This yields
Report (issue)
information on radon for specific areas are state and local departments of health, state departments responsible...offices. More detailed information on state or local geology may be obtained from the state geological...were available in existing, published reports of local field studies. Where applicable, such field studies...least likely to cause radon problems include marine quartz sands, non-carbonaceous shales and siltstones,...enter a home from the soil is dependent on several local factors, including soil structure, grain size distribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Other minerals found are bauxite, coal, mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full...carrying cobalt worth $50,000, near Rock Run. "Quartz, mica, iron ore, coal and limestone are found all...first comes from the abandoned Leona Heights Pyrite Mine in Oakland, Calif. The minerals are halotrichite...silver also occurred with the pyrite though the mine is now closed and partially caved-in, many rare...specithat yellowish melanterite is given, as the men of quartz crystals ( I have more) identification of one of
Book (volume)
British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Department Florida Georgia...Wis. Wyo. Yukon 3 New Mexico Nova Scotia New South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories New...Pennsylvania Queensland Rhode Island South Australia South Carolina South Dakota Saskatchewan Tasmania Tennessee...(Wales) Aberdeen (Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa : District) Aberdeen Angus cattle Aberdeenshire (Scotland)...Abitibi (Quebec : Regional T2--714 134 County Municipality) Abitibi, Lake (Ont. and T2--713 142 Quebec)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of malachite also present. "Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...Rhode Island border. Small crystals of calcite and quartz on trap rock have been found in a huge cut at the...location it is getting harder to look around as the local Police Department is starting to chase away collectors...colorless calcite xls associated with deep black smoky quartz xls on black basalt (trap rock). The other consists
Book
Jewelry, 146 Breastplate of the High Priest, 144 South America, Beryl in the Bible, 80 Emerald and 140...Derivations of Names and Portugal, 490 Republic of South Africa, Romania, 549 601 Yugoslavia, 485 Pakistan... 445 Greenland, India, 500 Republic, South West Africa 445 Ghana, Inner Somali 443 Germany... But if antiquities, so an and scriptions quartz] “it of a to seems only two that be For...pearl, zircon, coral, soberyl, garnet, carnelian, quartz, and 10 as The shown gems on a emerald
Report (edition)
cover photograph: Pink tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield...visiting those which are still open. The words "mine" and "quarry" are often used interchangeably in...localities. We have followed the convention of using "mine" only for sites that are chiefly underground workings...are the same minerals that fonn ordinary granite: quartz, feldspar, and mica. Concentrations of high-quality...quarries, and help point the way to collecting sites. Quartz occurs in a variety of colors, but most of it is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
preceding deposit, and each layer in turn comes to rest directly on the old surface on which the fan is...conglomerates and sandstones have been found to rest either conformably or unconformably on the complex...Virginias on the north and Georgia-Alabama on the south there are two series of deposits, which have as...for= mation of the Cincinnati dome is merely a local I phase of the higher Trenton, higher, of course...member of the Maysville § series and overlies the Frankfort or Eden shale ~ of the Cincinnati dome region
Book (volume)
Socialist Republic N.T. N.Y. Neb. Nev. Scotia South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories ...Socialist Republic South Australia Ind. Indiana S.C. South Carolina Kan. S.D. South Dakota Ky. Kansas...Australia British Mich. N.J. N.M. Columbia District of Columbia New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico...(Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa T2- -429 27 T2- -412 35 : T2- -687 15 District) Aberdeen Angus cattle...Abiogenesis Abitibi (Quebec Regional County Municipality) T2- -666 8 371.254 153.93 371.26 658.311 25
 
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