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Zircon from
Witwatersrand goldfield, South Africa


Locality type:Mining Region
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Witwatersrand goldfield, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:264956
Long-form Identifier:1:3:264956:6
GUID (UUID V4):d380746b-710d-4397-a681-89e9889fa7f0
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JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica and Harold Van...“Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307 Albite, California, 160; Witwatersrand, 395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane...Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385; Utah, 244; Witwatersrand, 395 Barite from the Cedar Creek Anticline,...from the Carletonville Gold Mines, Witwatersrand Goldfield, South Africa, 390-99 Calcite, Colorado, 309;...253; Michigan, 342; Missouri, 227; Utah, 244; Witwatersrand, 398 California, tourmaline, 156-68 Carl Bentley
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thereare listedthreeanalysesof bulk samplesof Witwatersrand ore, two of theserepresentingselecteduranium-richsampleswhich...75 n.d. I. Kimberley Reef, Vogelstruisbuilt, South Africa. 150-200 lb. sample selected for high uranium...I. Ventersdrop Contact Reef, Westerm Reefs, South Africa. 150-200 lb. sample selected for high uranium...Monarch Reef (Bird Reef), Luipaards Vici Estates, South Africa. Run-of-mine ore. Quoted from J. E. Clay and...carriesuraninitein amountsgreatly subordinateto zircon,monazite,and refractoryuranium minerals. The so-called
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Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot
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543–558. Auriferous Precambrian Conglomerates of Witwatersrand I. M. Simanovich Geological Institute, Russian...mineralogical specificity of the world’s largest Witwatersrand gold deposit was defined by geodynamic processes...Numerous conglomerate interbeds were formed in the Witwatersrand Basin section due to vigorous eolian processes...model of the origin of gold mineralization in Witwatersrand, suggesting a hydrothermal-metamorphic redistribution...10.1134/S0024490209050071 The Precambrian Witwatersrand Basin is the world’s largest source of gold
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Formation of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa* Ross R. Large,1,† Sebastien Meffre...Johannesburg, South Africa of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa Science...and gold from the Carbon Leader Reef in the Witwatersrand basin provide new evidence that a significant...two competing theories for the origin of the Witwatersrand gold reefs are likely to be correct. We suggest...the conglomerates of the Witwatersrand basin, the world’s greatest goldfield, has been hotly debated.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE MESOARCHEAN WITWATERSRAND SUPERGROUP, SOUTH AFRICA B.M. GUY AND N.J. BEUKES Paleoproterozoic...University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa e-mail: bradguy5@gmail.com; nbeukes@uj.ac.za...University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa Department of Mineralogy, Technische Universitat...tu-freiberg.de Š 2010 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT A petrographic and mineral chemical...non-conglomeratic sedimentary rocks of the 3.0 to 2.8 Ga Witwatersrand Supergroup. Detailed petrographic analyses revealed
Journal (issue)
Twenty-three, Number Three Ž Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................Record, ,¡olume 23 , Ma.,¡-June. 1992 GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA Bruce Cairncross Department of Geology Rand...Afrikaans University P.O. Box 524 Johannesburg 2000 South Africa Carl R. Anhaeusser Economic Geology Research...the Witwatersrand P.O. Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa Gold has been mined in South Africa for over...has been won from conglomerate reefs of the Witwatersrand goldfields, where production from individual
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Tourmaline with Cleavelandite N Chwaning I Mine, South Africa Stak Nala, Pakistan 10.0 x 6.0 x 3.6cm 4.4 x...Arrows point to a large mineralized pocket in the south end of the Auglaize quarry’s eastern highwall (2018)...southeast of the original quarry entrance (on the south side of the current access road), occasional exposures...contrast, current blasting, now mainly along the south wall, tends to The Mineralogical Record, volume...pocket was found near the overburden slope on the south side of the entry road near the right turn into
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Proterozoic shales from the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa YUMIKO WATANABE,1HIROSHI NARAOKA,2'. DAVID J...and eastern regions of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. The Kaapvaal shales are characterized by generally...preserved in the northern Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa (Fig. 1). The 100 samples investigated in this...summarized in Fig. 2. The oldest unit sampled is the Witwatersrand Supergroup, which overlies volcanics of the...greenstone-granitoid complexes older than 3.0 Ga. The Witwatersrand Supergroup is divided into the West Rand Group
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was based on the following reasoning. The first goldfield comprises unique placers in the Shturmovy, Chek-Cheka...mineralization. The Utinaya River–Basugun’ya goldfield is less productive; nevertheless, a few tons of...is accompanied by an alluvial gold placer. The goldfield includes intrusive bodies that cut through the...the present-day erosion level in the Srednekan goldfield; however, a series of minor stocks may be projections...that deposit, located in the western sector of the South Tien Shan and central Kyzylkum, is hosted in the
Report (issue)
views of the famous Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Supergroup in South Africa that contains Earth’s largest...Atmospheric Evolution 6. The sedimentary setting of Witwatersrand placer mineral deposits in an Archean atmosphere.........................105 W.E.L. Minter 7. Witwatersrand gold-pyrite-uraninite deposits do not support...glacier-associated sediments of the Neoproterozoic of south China: Oceanic anoxia or sulfate limitation? .....4-billion-year-old biogenic pyrites from Barberton, South Africa: Sulfur isotope evidence: Science, v. 262, p
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...reason of the great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Report (issue)
geology of a portion of southern Damaraland, South West Africa, with particular reference to the petrogenesis...southeast Georgia and adjacent parts of Florida and South Carolina. Washington, B.C. ; U.S. G.P.O. ; Denver...University. P(232) C535f CLIMATig GEOMORPHOLOGY AFRICA. Beitrage zur Geomorphologie Afrikas. G(530) Z33...characteristics of the Edisto River system, South Carolina. Columbia, S.C. : South Carolina Water Resources Commission...514(200) P734 D only ENERGY DEVELOPMENT KOREA (SOUTH) . Republic of Korea/United States cooperative
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Mowry Place Tucson, AZ 85741 Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................Afrikaans University P.O. Box 524 Johannesburg 2000 South Africa Carl R. Anhaeusser Economic Geology Research...O. Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa Gold has been mined in South Africa fo r over a century. Most...has been won from conglomerate reefs o f the Witwatersrand goldfields, where production from individual...INTRODUCTION Gold was mined in pre-European times in South Africa by the indigenous tribes. Most of the gold was
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and uranium is an important by-product of many South African gold ores. The properties of a mineral govern...occur along a 2400 km belt from Queensland to New South Wales. Most have quartz fillings and some are mineralized...copper-bearing breccia pipes of Messina in South Africa (Jacobsen & McCarthy 1976). Fig. 2.6. Plan...together with well rounded, obviously detrital zircon. In other parts of the orebody, concentrations...mining areas of the beach sand deposits of Crowdy South Wales, Australia. (After Winward 1975.) 15 concordant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2001 (South Africa) (Received June 24, 1986; revised...continental crust. Interestingly, the giant Witwatersrand goldfield formed at about the same time. Introduction...deposits. In 1984, he joined the University of the Witwatersrand as a senior lecturer in geochemistry, where...interest has been metamorphic processes within the Witwatersrand Basin. He is currently a consultant to the mining...geographically discrete greenstone belts occur in southern Africa (e.g. Foster, 1985) and Canada with, fbr example
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LE CONGLOMERATE AND QUARTZITE TYPE 335 The Witwatersrand / 336 14-1 GREGORY,J. W: The Origin of Gold...14-4 MELLOR, E. T.: The Conglomerates of the Witwatersrand / 373 Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans. 25:261-291...Origin of Gold and Radioactive Minerals in the Witwatersrand System, the Dominion Reef, the Ventersdorp Contact...Contact Reef and the Black Reef / 404 Geol. Soc. South Africa Trans. 58:218-222 (1955) 14-6 PRETORIUS, D.... A.: The Depositional Environment of the Witwatersrand Goldfields: A Chronological Review of the Speculations
Report (edition)
bookseller 1936 Price 3s. Net IMPERIAL INSTITU1··E SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 7 Ts E~ Imperial Institute was...Protecto1·ate .. Southe1n Rhodesia • • • • Union of South Africa • • • • Canada .. •• • • • • Newfoundland •...Empire, especially in Canada and the Union of South Africa. During 1913, Russia was responsible for over...the list of producers of the platinum metals. South Africa has large reserves of platinum ore, and is the...recent years in the Rustenbu1·g district of 8011th Africa. Next in economic importance to native platinum
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Platinum; qualities Africa. British and distribution. Ural Mountains. South Columbia. Genesis of Platinum...Pneumatolytic Rossland, South Australia, and Braden Mine, Chile. Lodes of Cornwall. Pipe Lodes South Australia and...and South Africa. Disseminations. Pyritic Masses Spain and Mt. Lyell. Secondary Ores Secondary Enrichments...< Almaden Mines: Price. 1 Mi". New the South Africa. Idria, Califor: of Ores with Kainoxoic Formation...Pneumatolytic *57 Origin. Gems— Diamond, South Africa Asbestos. Monazite. The Brazil; theories of
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critical in the USA, but in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), a major source of all three, they are...and uranium is an important by-product of many South African gold ores. Among industrial minerals the...develop the 450+ Mt eu-U-Au Roxby Downs Project in South Australia, Western Mining Corporation and British...Australia, along a 2400 km belt from Queensland to New South Wales, there are hundreds ofpipes in and close to...the copper-bearing breccia pipes of Messina in South Africa (Jacobsen & McCarthy 1976). Mantos and pipes
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Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
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mining companies took him to the Far East, South and East Africa, North America, and most of the countries...fields, chiefly from the Congo Republic, Ghana, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. For the five-year period...000; 1,600,000; South Africa, 2,900,000; Sierra Angola, 1,300,000; South West Africa, 920,000; Tanganyika...metric carats. (b) by value: South West Africa, ÂŁ16,500,000 sterling ; South Africa, ÂŁ16,100,000; Congo Republic... 45 Congo Republic South Africa Sierra Leone Angola YJ), south West Africa WY, Tanganyika Y, Ivory
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Eastern Goldfields, Western. Australia Barberton, South Africa Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Manitoba... Large layered complexes Bushveld Complex, South Africa Stillwater Complex, USA Great Dyke, Zimbabwe...Skaergaard, Greenland 4. Kimberlites Kimberly, South Africa B, Intrusions in cratonic areas Diamond C...Bushveld, South Africa Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Sudbury, canada Bushveld, South Africa Bushveld, South Africa...Australia Pechanga, Russia Diamond Kimberly, South Africa Yakutia, Russia Kimber lites Carbonatite complexes
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CONGLOMERATES OF THE WITWATERSRAND.......... F. H. Hatch.. Development of the Witwatersrand .....°-......-..........0-+.0+-Stratigraphy of the Witwatersrand: The Witwatersrand system............... “ga sida ee...ascitic 2 < sic suis dive eels ne « ects North-South No. 7 Vein; 90-Ft. Level; 12 Inches Wide; Kerr Lake...se)sv30 4 obs) cis saree Ideal Section of Bendigo Goldfield, Showing the Three Main Lodes..... Secon smo niCwan...Opposite Section by F. H. Hatch Across the Witwatersrand Beds.............. Double Outerop of the Main
Journal (volume)
; > PAGE Abosso Gold Africa, Africa, Report German South-West German South-West African Railways...Hill Proprietary, Steel for Shells Broken Hill South Silver Report Broomassie Brown, Gilmour E... Prospecting...169 169 247 *344 Cowan, E. W {c.l.) Crovdon Goldfield Crushing Tests, Standardizing Cuban Iron Ore ... Expansion of Plant German South-West Africa German South- West Africa Giant Mines Arthur GifEord...Diamond Mining at Kimberley Diamond Situation in South Africa Gold Gold Gold Gold 130, 161 Helping the
 
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