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Gold from
Barkly West, Dikgatlong Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Barkly West, Dikgatlong Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:259380
Long-form Identifier:1:3:259380:7
GUID (UUID V4):0fa7c261-41aa-4f16-bc14-de5c669a790c
References
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mechanized miningoperaresult of the work of Krige in the South African tion. The independent minersanddiggers nowtook...thesediaTheseare the alluvialdiamonddepositsof the Cape mondsto the localcanteen-operators (Cohen,1911,...theGovernor duringthemiddleof 1872. land West Area of the Cape Province Thesebeganwith the requirement...includingthe date,the consignee, and (Griqualand West, The first South African diamondswere discovered theweightof...the town beverages of diamonds beof Klipdrift (Barkly West). In lessthan a year, and51 of 1872),andthe exchange
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M.C.J. DE WIT 53 Canteen Koppie at Barkly West: South Africa’s first diamond mine M.C.J. de Wit Department...Department of Geology, Pretoria University, South Africa Present address: BRC Diamond Corporation, 14 Avenue...mdewit@brcdiamond.com © 2008 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Canteen Koppie, a national monument...monument of historical value, occurs next to Barkly West on the north bank of the Vaal River. Diamonds were...became the first alluvial diamond diggings in South Africa. The digging continued, albeit on and off in
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[University of New Brunswick] at 01:58 29 May 2014 South African Diamonds Department of Geology University...Johannesburg PO Box 524 Auckland Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Photographic Personal Perspective...with gold, are inextricably woven into the social, economic, and political fabric of South Africa. For...originally the mainstay of the South African mining industry, and although South Africa no longer leads the world...New Brunswick] at 01:58 29 May 2014 Figure 3. South African diamond deposits. Map used with permission
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Phase 5. Sample Treatment D) World Production E) South African Diamond Occurrences 1. Large Kimberlite...kimberlites in South Africa 2.1 The Oaks 2.2 The Zebediela Kimberlites 2.3 The Bellsbank-Barkly West Area 2.4...River 3.3 Bushmanland 3.4 The Lower Orange River 3.5 West Coast Onshore Deposits 3.5.1 Koingnaas Complex 3...Port Nolloth to Alexander Bay 4. Marine Deposits (West Coast Offshore) F) Glossary of Terms Diamond Geology... their relative production contributions in South Africa were, primary (kimberlite) 8.63 million carats
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SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
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BETWEEN BARKLY WEST AND THE VAAL-HARTS CONFLUENCE IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA By FABRICE...diamond deposits along the Vaal River, alluvial Barkly West and the Vaal-Harts confluence, have been worked... system in the area as well as the presence of local of the drainage trap sites in the river profile... Anglo-Aaerican Mines Ltd., Corporation of South Africa and De Beers Consolidated for the provision...indicator minerals. The Minerals Bureau of South Africa in Johannesburg for providing the diamond production
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Catalogue ian yan Sera a Age Artefacts from Southern Africa in The British Museum Peter Mitchell A with...Catalogue of Stone Age Artefacts from Southern Africa in The British Museum Peter Mitchell with contributions...Catalogue of Stone Age Artefacts from Southern Africa in The British Museum Peter Mitchell with contributions...cover:Acheulean handaxes and cleavers, Pniel, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (photograph, P. Mitchell) For acomplete...Southern Africa Physiography Climate Ecological zones Historical Geography of Southern Africa 2. Southern
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3JH, UK Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Publication details, including instructions...Department of Social Anthropology , University of Cape Town Published online: 26 Mar 2010. To cite this...GRAVELS, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 16:1, 77-102, DOI: 10.1080/00359192809519659...Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. (With Plates VI-XVI, Map, and nine Text-figures..."Several years ago I mapped the gravels round Barkly West, where the first diamonds were discovered, and
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Reunert's Diamond Mines of South Africa. ADVERTISEMENTS. A REVELATION. The frequent the transactions... more SOUTH . 25 MILLIONS -65 . than 1843 IT . . 13 OF POUNDS. 32 AFRICACAPE TOWN, ... PLAN L THE OF EG NERA FIELDS WEST. AFRICA. DIAMOND GRIQUALND SOUTH [Reproduced , with permission...permission, from the Map of n an d South African Exploration Company.] ADVERTISEMENTS. £. BVlRfllESTW... VS, GOODS, Street, (BURMESTER’S BUILDINGS) CAPE SOLE Berlin AGENT FOR TOWN, THE CELEBRATED
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Nigeria, — 68 South— The changes and expansions in the 95 Papua New Guinea in Table ern Africa, and area...unworkable (areas — 669, — 711 and — 95) or when local literary warrant made expansion necessary (areas...assistant editors; and Melba D. Adams, Kenneth Austin, Frances A. Bold, Michael B. Cantlon, Delia M. Chase, Rosalee...area and history numbers for South Africa in cooperation with the South African Institute of Library...of the country, e.g., T2— 4333 Lower Franconia district is listed as Unter- in the franken Regierungsbezirk
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discovery of diamonds in a remote region of the Cape, in the middle of the last century, attracted an...an extraordinary collection of adventurers to South Africa. From all over the world men flocked to the...VELD CECIL RHODES AND THE PRINCESS CHURCHILLS IN AFRICA BRIAN ROBERTS The Diamond Magnates ILLUSTRATED...buying office. 10 Solly Joel giving evidence at the South African trial of Baron von Veltheim. 11 (a) Barney...which the first important diamond was found in South Africa. In March 1867, John O'Reilly, a travelling
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dynasty (320–298 B.C.) who regulated an active local diamond trade (Maillard, 1980). Legends associated... Figure 4. A diamond crystal in “blue ground” from South Africa, probably from the collection of Gardner and...stones found by Brazilian garimpeiros in an alluvial gold deposit near the town of Tejuco (now Diamantina)...Brazilian era continued until the South African discoveries of the 1860’s, and South African diamond production...until the first decades of the 20th century. South Africa is still a significant producer, but since about
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Metallurgy, Glasgow Technical College and VicePresident, West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. With 25 ;...OF CAPE COLONY THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENCE SERIES. EDMONDS' for (H.) ELEMENTARY BOTANY, South Africa...PLANTS AND THEIR WAYS IN SOUTH AFRICA. By BERTHA STONEMAN, Huguenot ton, South Africa. grams, and Map. With...College, Welling- Illustrations, 3s. Dia- 6d. SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS : for the use of Beginners...AND CALCUTTA. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF CAPE COLONY BY A. W. KOGEBS, D.Sc., F.G.S. AND L
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where the crystallization of spinel affects the local environment ahead of the growing spinel crystal...zoning and also on atoll-spinel formation. Very local conditions such as nucleation, or lack of nucleation...in the crystals therefore may be due to a very local effect caused by depletion of chromium in the immediate...Schulze Doden et al. (1998) Eendrag (II) Barkly West, SA Hypabyssal D. Schulze Schulze (2001) ...sample Nowicki et al. (2004) Frank Smith Barkly West, SA Hypabyssal D. Schulze Bell & Mofokeng
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HISTORY The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa “[An] accessible, nimble and moving account...creation of pre-apartheid South Africa.” —Washington Post Book World SOUTHERN AFRICA was once regarded as...upon the world’s richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British...leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great...behind Britain’s empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high
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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)...Sophie Boganski (West Virginia University); April Davies (lowa City Community School District); Daniel Joudry...studi di Padova); Peter Donovan (University of New South Wales); John Hostage (Harvard Law School); Dorothy...Bernie Karon (University of Minnesota); Jane Keefer (West Chester University); Sara Shatford Layne and Marion
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Southern Africa Hielke A. Jelsma CIGCES, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch...Rondebosch 7701, South Africa De Beers Exploration Division, GeoScience Centre, PO Box 82232, Southdale...Southdale 2135, South Africa Corresponding author: e-mail: hielke.jelsma@debeersgroup.com Maarten J. de Wit...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa e-mail: maarten@cigces.uct.ac...Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa e-mail: christie@cigces.uct.ac
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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)
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Diamond World Robbers and Cops Harry Oppenheimer: South African "Radical" Diamond Diggers 9 Anatomy of...to the "karat" that signifies the proportion of gold in an alloy. Traditionally, one carat was the weight...are worth thirteen thou- sand times as much as gold. No other medium of trade packs their value per...to have moved any substantial amount of wealth in gold bullion would have required a small boxcar, which...the diamond-producing countries of Central and West Africa, It is — countries with many small diamond-mining
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Africana Library P O Box 627 Kimberley 8300 South Africa e-mail: afrilib@global.co.za Fax: 053 8331954...GRIQUALAND WEST. SOUTH w MMIC Cgfs PGod Glpn coco Dany Prenri EOI) Fa)0} aes}: EDDM gia Gaal AFRICA. Aerial...diamonds in what is now known as the Northern Cape province of South Africa; firstly, the alluvial finds in...rapid industrial development of South Africa, particularly when the gold fields were discovered on the...wealth accumulated from the diamonds that saw the gold fields - in the form of Johannesburg - become the
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field trip to the “Nickel laterite deposits of the Northern part of the Great Dyke” www.geologicalsociety...overview of a field trip to the Pongola Supergroup in northern Kwazulu-Natal ……………………..…………………………………………. Impressions...Impressions of the 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town ……. The Herald 23/08/2016 50 years ago ……………………………………...staged between 27th August and 4th September in Cape Town. Under the auspices of the International Union...main organizers in South Africa came from the Geological Society of South Africa and the Council for
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discovery of these rocks in the Orange Free State of South Africa. The name is not a new one: In 1928, Percy Wagner...Orangeites . 1. 8.1. Finsch . . . . . . . . 1.8.2. Barkly West Region. 1.8.2.1. Bellsbank. 1.8.2.2. Sover ....3. Boshof District . . . 1.8.3.1. Roberts Victor 1.8.3.2. New Elands 1.8.4. Winburg District ... 1.8.5...Kroonstad District .. 1.8.6. Swartruggens District. 1.8.7. Dokolwayo .. 1.8.8. Prieska District 1.8.9. Summary...derived from kimberlites were first found in South Africa in October 1869 on the farms Bultfontein and
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Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of southern Africa: A review Matthew Field a,⁎, Johann Stiefenhofer...Southdale, 2135, South Africa c De Beers Group Services, PO Box 47, Kimberley, South Africa d De Beers Canada...discovery of diamonds in river deposits in central South Africa in the mid nineteenth century, it was at Kimberley...economic and industrial development of southern Africa. Following the discoveries at Kimberley, even more...more valuable deposits were discovered in South Africa and Botswana in particular, but also in Lesotho
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Our thanks go to the Geological Society of South Africa and Assmang Limited for making Nic’s visit possible...Straßburger spoke to us on the topic of "Pre-colonial Gold Mining in Zimbabwe: A mining archaeological view"...terraced terrain as having evolved as a possible gold-concentrating mechanism, the talk was attended by...Symposium, Harare Chewore Dinosaur Footprints IGC, Cape Town Description Talk Talk Field Trip Lecture One...around the world from countries such as Brazil, South Africa and Australia. Siderite: Composition: FeCO3
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BEAVER, M . A. AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AFRICA ' GEOGRAPHIES FOR ADVANCED STUDY Edited by...Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Philippines West Africa The Scandinavian World A Regional Geography of...Human Geography AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AFRICA BY N. C. POLLOCK, B.A., B. LITT., M.A. AND...EXPLORATION AND MIGRATION 2 EARLY DAYS AT THE CAPE 3 THE EASTERN FRONTIER . 1 35 69 99 4 THE...xvn Aerial view of Cape Town 12 A Portuguese map based on Ptolemy's outline of Africa 13 Portuguese caravel
 
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