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Chromite from
Mutorashanga, Zvimba District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mutorashanga, Zvimba District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:267148
Long-form Identifier:1:3:267148:2
GUID (UUID V4):aedda1b5-d41e-442d-a6a3-ed2f444dea2f
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
67.3km (41.8 miles) ā“˜Trojan Nickel Mine, Bindura District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
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DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE GREAT DYKE, ZIMBABWE M.D. PRENDERGAST Guesachan, Shielhill Road, Kirriemuir... buttes, and accordant summits. To the east and west, inselberg-bearing, granitic plains form a composite...climatological and geomorphological histories of northern Zimbabwe and of equatorial and tropical Brazil. Introduction...serpentinous or olivine-rich ultramafic rock. Zimbabwe, which lies near the southern margin of Africaā€™s...arc-smelting of the laterite, together with fine chromite concentrated from eluvial soils in the same area
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Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter October 2013 Victoria Falls from on high. Photo:...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...AND REPORTS The first record of Native Silver in Zimbabwe ................................................4 5 5 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.. 7 Mennell Society Field Trip, June...debeer@cadline.co.zw 2 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter October, 2013 Editorial Not much
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Geological Society of Zimbabwe G S Z Newsletter June 2018 No. 2 of 3 of 2018 Artisanal chrome...chrome mining on the Great Dyke south of Mutorashanga Photo: Rolf Hangartner www.geologicalsociety.org.zw...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...du Toit Memorial Lecture ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦...ā€¦.ā€¦. The Zimbabwe Craton in Mozambique: A brief review of its geochronological...Department, University of Zimbabwe ā€“ Maideyi Meck ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ News from the Zimbabwe School of Mines ā€“ Maideyi
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PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS IN RIVERS DRAINING THE GREAT DYKE, ZIMBABWE Thomas OBERTHƜRĀ§, Thorolf W. WEISER, Frank MELCHER...and PGE-oxides (unstable). Keywords: Great Dyke, Zimbabwe, alluvial sediments, Pt-Fe alloy, Os-Ir-Ru alloy...Bushveld Complex of South Africa, the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in Russia came into...intrusions (Bushveld, South Africa; Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; Stillwater, USA) that host the overwhelming proportion...of knowledge on the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe. The Great Dyke of Zimbabwe constitutes the worldā€™s second largest
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in the Musengezi Subchamber of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe M.D. Prendergast Guesachan, Shielhill Road, Kirriemuir...Great Dyke straddles the boundary between the Zimbabwe craton and the late Archaean Migmatitic Gneiss...zones suggestive of sequential stacking towards the west. Shearing and associated metasomatism increase from...and deformation along the northern edge of the Zimbabwe craton at ca. 2.57 to 2.62 Ga. Thrust deformation...IN THE MUSENGEZI SUBCHAMBER OF THE GREAT DYKE, ZIMBABWE Introduction The P1 Pyroxenite layer of the Great
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and human beings. When I first visited Sukinda chromite belt in 1964, it was a sleeping hamlet, gifted...the area was only for small-scale production of chromite ore for the indigenous market. M/s Ferro Alloys...thesis on the Sukinda chromite deposits of Orissa, India. Mining for chromite had just begun in the country...country. The chromite belt was located in a valley between the Mahagiri and the Daitari hill ranges....myself that I would return to the platinumā€“nickelā€“chromite industry at an opportune phase and share my knowledge
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dunite with 1 to 2% chromite, followed upward by a harzburgite w i t h - 1 % chromite, and an upper-most...upper-most orthopyroxenite with only a trace of chromite. Within each cyclic unit whole-rock and mineral compositions...in magmas, the formation of a layer with >90% chromite must involve a column of magma hundreds of times...olivine and chromite, ceased to crystallize olivine for a period of time, while chromite remained the...Orthopyroxene/lY Field r 7 ~~M / OI O,,v,n,-0.4 Chromite ,\, 0.8 1.2 Cation Percent 1.6 Chr - ' ~
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Mineralogie University of Zimbabwe Harare TU Miinchen Miinchen Zimbabwe e-mail: tgb@icon.co.zw Deutschland...Distributions in Chromitites from the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe T. G. Blenkinsop and T. R. C. Fernandes 523 ...Geology University of Zimbabwe P.O. Box MP 167 Mount Pleasant Harare Zimbabwe E-mail: tgb@icon.co.zw...Distributions in Chromitites from the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Tom G. BLENKINsop! and T. R. C. FERNANDES? ...from seams in the early Proterozoic Great Dyke, Zimbabwe, has three types of microstructure. Grains in
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Redistribution in the Main Sulfide Zone of The Great Dyke, Zimbabwe T. OberthĆ¼r, F. Melcher 75-96 97-111 6. Placers...Systems: Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C...geochemical surveys M.L. Zientek, S.R. Corson, R.D. West 391-407 19. Exploration and Mining Perspective...Perspective of the Main Sulfide Zone of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H...REDISTRIBUTION IN THE MAIN SULFIDE ZONE OF THE GREAT DYKE, ZIMBABWE T. OberthĆ¼r, F. Melcher INTRODUCTION GEOLOGICAL
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PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West MontrĆ©al, QuĆ©bec, Canada H3Z 3B8 ISBN 1-894475-27-5...Platinum-group element mineralization of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe. In The Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and...Company. The PGE mineralization in the Great Dyke (Zimbabwe), which is the worldā€™s second largest reserve...Layered Complex (Sierra Leone) and the Great Dyke (Zimbabwe). The Papers, Third Group: Beneficiation and Metallurgy...minerals in the Karoo-age Somabula gravels, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Canadian Mineralogist, 40, p. 435-456. TOLSTYKH
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000 tonnes, becoming available to traders in the west. Before the Soviet Stocks added to the problem,... there was already enough uranium in the west for the industry to live off its stocks until the year...the industry seems remote. The metals which the west would probably miss most, should Soviet exports...Tiananmen Square set Chinaā€™s relationship with the west back considerably and its future remains clouded...Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zimbabwe Corp CV Corporation United States of America
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rocks, associated with ilmenite, magnetite and chromite, and as a placer deposit. Like gold, it does not...(Germany); it occurs elsewhere at Lake Valley District (New Mexico, USA), Atonopah (Nevada, USA), Broken...include Broken Hill (NSW, Australia), Mammoth District (Arizona, USA) and the Mendip Hills (Somerset...Crystal system: cubic 89 OXIDES AND HYDROXIDES Chromite C hromite Is chemically related to magnetite...leather tanning, llreproofing fabrics and in paints. Chromite Is used as a refractory for lining furnaces in
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rocks, associated with ilmenite, magnetite and chromite, and as a placer deposit. Like gold, it does not...(Germany); it occurs elsewhere at Lake Valley District (New Mexico, USA), Atonopah (Nevada, USA), Broken...include Broken Hill (NSW, Australia), Mammoth District (Arizona, USA) and the Mendip Hills (Somerset...Crystal system: cubic 89 OXIDES AND HYDROXIDES Chromite C hromite Is chemically related to magnetite...leather tanning, llreproofing fabrics and in paints. Chromite Is used as a refractory for lining furnaces in
 
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