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Sphalerite from
Vergenoeg Mine, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa


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 Vergenoeg Mine, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:483723
Long-form Identifier:1:3:483723:7
GUID (UUID V4):6de027d5-6e8c-486a-a549-57e45ca39ea5
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
39.1km (24.3 miles) ⓘAlbert silver mine, Thembisile Hani Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
45.5km (28.3 miles) ⓘBoekenhouthoek, Mkobola, Thembisile Hani Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
48.4km (30.1 miles) ⓘEdendale Lead Mine, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
50.1km (31.2 miles) ⓘHoutenbeck, Groblersdal, Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
60.6km (37.7 miles) ⓘZwartkloof defunct Fluorite Mine, Bela-Bela, Bela-Bela Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
86.6km (53.8 miles) ⓘBuffalo Fluorspar Mine, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
89.0km (55.3 miles) ⓘArgent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
89.3km (55.5 miles) ⓘEast Trench, Transvaal Mine, Dwarsfontein Farm, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
99.8km (62.0 miles) ⓘSlipfontein, Brits, Madibeng Local Municipality, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, North West, South Africa
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Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isùre, France...albite, variety cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill...Scovil photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals...Analcime, Connecticut, 159 Anastasenko, G. F., Diamonds of Russia, 508–17 Anatase, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 119;...and Mineral Museum— Home of the Somerville Collection, Barthurst, New South Wales, M. Rheinberger, E
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RG E N O E G GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA T FLUORITE MINE he Vergenoeg fluorite mine is located in...the Gauteng Province of South Africa, approximately 80 kilometers northeast of Pretoria. The mine is somewhat...somewhat of an anomaly regarding the production of fluorite mineral specimens—it is located on the largest...virtually devoid of large, aesthetic fluorite crystals. Even so, there is an interesting array of other secondary...addition, the mine has produced spectacular botryoidal and stalactitic goethite and a variety of micromount-sized
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granites of the Bushveld Complex Judith A. Kinnaird Economic Geology Research Institute, School of Geosciences...Geosciences University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050 South Africa email: kinnairdj@geosciences...School of Geosciences University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050 South Africa email: krugerj@geosciences...School of Geosciences University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050 South Africa cawthorng@geosciences...2004 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Lebowa Granite Suite of the Bushveld Complex is
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OREGEO-01179; No of Pages 19 Ore Geology Reviews xxx (2014) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect...com/locate/oregeorev Mineralogy of high-ïŹeld-strength elements (Y, Nb, REE) in the world-class Vergenoeg ïŹ‚uorite deposit...deposit, South Africa Torsten Graupner a,⁎, Caroline MĂŒhlbach b, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera a, Friedhelm Henjes-Kunst...D-30171 Hannover, Germany Vergenoeg Mining Company (PTY) LTD., South Africa d Chair of Geology and Economic...Economic Geology, University of Leoben, Peter-Tunnerstraße 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria b c a r t i c l e i n f
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Media Reviews Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 19:34 11 October 2014 New Minerals from...update of the author’s original 1998 work on the Minerals First Discovered on the Territory of the Former...geography of the type locality and the history of discovery, origin of the name, location of type material...and explanation of abbreviations. The next 45 pages contain the alphabetical listing of minerals and their...educational. Of particular interest is an in-depth discussion of wiluite, the boron-dominant analogue of vesuvianite
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Fluorine Chapter G of Critical Mineral Resources of the United States—Economic and Environmental Geology...1802–G U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Periodic Table of Elements 1A 8A 1 2...(Minerva) Mine, Cave-in-Rock subdistrict, Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district, showing the sequence of mineral...solely for its fluorine content. Photograph courtesy of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard...MGMH 124614 © Copyright 2012, President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Fluorine
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KESLEB, * RUDOLF H. BOER,** Department of Geology, University of theWitwatersrand, P.O.WITS,Johannesburg...Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, AnnArbor,Michigan 48109 Abstract Vergenoeg is a...genetically relatedto granites of the Bushveld Complex. It consists of a pipe-shaped bodycontaining primaryfayalite...bystratiform bodies of felsiteandfragmental hematite-fluorite debris.With the exception of its abundant fluorite...fluorite,Vergenoeg is similarto massive iron oxidedeposits suchasKiruna,PeaRidge,andCerroMercado, allofwhicharerelatedto
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173–199 DOI 10.1007/s00710-003-0012-6 The giant Vergenoeg fluorite deposit in a magnetite–fluorite–fayalite...Global Metallogeny, School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley...Australia 2 Vergenoeg Mine, Farm Kromdraai, Rust De Winter, SA, Pienaar’s River, South Africa Received February...world-class Paleoproterozoic Vergenoeg fluorite deposit in South Africa is hosted in a breccia pipe comprising...comprising units with varying proportions of pegmatoidal fayalite, magnetite, fluorite and siderite.
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Depositsand AssociatedPyroclastic Rock Suite at Vergenoeg, BushyeldComplex I. T. CROCKER GeologicalSurveyof...farms Kromdraai and Naaupoortnear Rust de Winter is of volcanogenic originandis relatedto a rhyoliticpy...withinthe pyroclastic suite.At surfacethe Vergenoeg orebodyis madeup of an oxidizedgossan,which consistsof massiveto...strikingnorthnorthwestand consisting of similarmetsparoriginatefrom the apicalpart of theseplugs. The contactof...sulfidessuchas pyrite, pyrrhotite, and minor sphalerite, chalcopyrite,bornite, and galena. The Plattekoporebodyis
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Economic potential of the Rooiberg Group: volcanic rocks in the floor and roof of the Bushveld Complex...0002, South Africa Received: 17 May 1994/Accepted: 9 December 1994 Abstract. Volcanic rocks of the Rooiberg...preserved in the floor and roof of the marie Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex. Field and...and geochemical characteristics of these volcanic rocks imply that they are genetically related to the...lowermost portion of the Rooiberg Group, underlying the Rustenburg Layered Suite. This type of mineralisation
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granites of the Bushveld Complex – examples from the central southeastern lobe R.H. Bailie School of Geosciences...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa Current address: Department of Geology...Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa e-mail: glgy13@na.rau.ac.za L.J. Robb EGRI-HAL, School of Geosciences, University...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa e-mail: robblj@geosciences.wits.ac.za...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Field mapping of a region in the central southeastern portion of the Bushveld
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©2020 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 115, no. 7, pp.1603–1604 INTERESTING...Economic Geology prints partial tables of contents of a number of journals as an information service. Please...to obtain copies of the journals or papers. If you cannot arrange to get copies of interesting papers...normal library sources, please contact the offices of the individual journals for assistance. Where possible... CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOPHYSICS Vol. 57, No. 7, 2020 Timing of magmatic crystallization
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288 www.elsevier.com/locate/chemgeo Geochemistry of fluid inclusion brines from Earth's oldest Mississippi...Supergroup, South Africa Stephen E. Kesler a,⁎, Martin Reich a,b , Marlon Jean a,c a Department of Geological...Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, United States Departamento de Geología, Facultad...Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State...Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic Transvaal basin in South Africa, which were deposited before the 2.4 to 2.0
Report (volume)
~o~.iSP:~.,~r of'Atrica Fluorspar Resources of Africa By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE and PAUL G. SCHRUBEN ...OFFICE. WASHINGTON 1980 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY H. William Menard Dit-ector Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Van Alstine...resources of Africa. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1487) Bibliography: p. 1. Fluorspar-Africa. I. Schruben...[5-53' 95] 79-20343 For sale by Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington
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Published by Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07...(Oxbow Crescent), Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...(M) Sdn Bhd, Malaysia All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval...or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner(s). ISBN: 978 1 43170 084 4 e-Pub:
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China M. P. SMITH†,* AND P. HENDERSON Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road...deposit. The deposit consists of replacement bodies hosted in dolomite marble and of magnetite, hematite, and...from 0.3 to 0.45, at temperatures of >280Âș to 330ÂșC and pressures of >0.7 kbar. Fluids in apatite and...carbonate dissolution at temperatures of >400Âș to ~300ÂșC and pressures of >0.9 to 1.4 kbars. Evidence for phase...pressures of 0.8 to 1.0 kbar during vein formation. These pressures can be used to infer temperatures of 430Âș
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