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Magnetite from
Steenkampskraal Mine, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Steenkampskraal Mine, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:562157
Long-form Identifier:1:3:562157:6
GUID (UUID V4):5e5f0ec9-d724-4062-a305-a9d4a016304d
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
57.9km (36.0 miles) ā“˜Unnamed REE occurrence, Komkans Farm, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
78.3km (48.7 miles) ā“˜Namakwa Sands Mine, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
81.7km (50.8 miles) ā“˜Tormine mine, Lutzville, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
82.3km (51.1 miles) ā“˜Geelwal Karoo deposit, Geelwal Karoo Farm, Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
89, 1994, pp. 994-1016 The Geologyof the Steenkampskraal MonaziteDeposit,SouthAfrica: Implicationsfor...numberof vein-type monazite-apatite-chalcopyrite-magnetite deposits, whichclusterin a ā€¢ 30-km2area160 km...copperdistrict.The largestof theseveins,at Steenkampskraal, hasbeen minedintermittentlysincethe late 1950sfor...relationshipsdemonstratethat the monazite-apatitevein of Steenkampskraal is parallelto a sheared,cuspateanticlinestrikinglysimilarto...andcharnockitethat havea regionaldistributionin the Steenkampskraal area.Texturalrelationships indicatethat monazite
Report (issue)
SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN...and environment, as well as waste management and mine closure. Other topics covered include storage of........................................ 35 5.3.4. Mine closure .................................................................................. 50 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................................................... 51 7.5.1. Steenkampskraal mine .......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com 2 South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA), PO Box 582, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 3 Schonland...University of the Witwatersrand, PO Box 3, Wits 2050, South Africa 4 Dept. of Geology, Rand Afrikaans University...University, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 5 Dept. of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum...was undertaken at the Steenkampskraal monazite mine, South Africa. Steenkampskraal is among the richest...uranium, actinides, monazite alteration, Steenkampskraal, South Africa. Introduction The geochemical stability
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORES FROM Oā€™OKIEP AND KLIPRAND, NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS FROM CHALCOPHILE METAL CONTENTS...maier@oulu.fi M.A.G. ANDREOLI South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, South Africa; School of Geosciences...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa e-mail: marco.andreoli@necsa.co.za D.I. GROVES...Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia e-mail: di_groves@hotmail...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The petrogenesis of sulphide ores in the Oā€™okiep district has remained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
-x ARTICLE The Oā€™okiep Copper District, Namaqualand, South Africa: a review of the geology with emphasis...Abstract The Oā€™okiep Copper District is the oldest formal mining area in South Africa. Between 1852 and 2002...Suite. Almost all of the copper in the Oā€™okiep District occurs in the Koperberg Suite, of which there...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: tom.clifford@wits.ac.za ore) that,...amphibolite facies conditions to bornite+Tifree magnetite (Carolusberg-type ore). Meteoric fluids resulted
Report (issue)
SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN...CARIBBEAN ISLANDS .................................. 36 SOUTH AMERICA ..........................................Summary for South America ................................................................ 49 AFRICA......................................... 55 6.5.19. South Africa ..................................................................... 60 6.5.24. Summary for Africa ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Concordia Granite, Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa: Sources, ļ¬‚uids, and the mobility of actinides...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa d UniversitĆ© de Lorraine, CNRS, GeoRessources...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Keywords: Zircon Monazite Fluids REE Granite South Africa a b s t r a c t A network of monazite-rich...area near Springbok, Namaqualand, North Cape Province, South Africa, are described with respect to their
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Carolusberg and East Okiep, Namaqualand, South Africa Received: 12 April 1999 / Accepted: 27 November... due to the paucity of refractory ores in the district. Assimilation of Cu-rich country rocks during...The Cu-sulphide ores of the Okiep district of Namaqualand, South Africa (Fig. 1), remain one of the more...more enigmatic mineral deposits in southern Africa. The ores are hosted by the pyroxenitic and, to a lesser...Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa e-mail: wdmaier@scientia.up.ac.za et al. 1983;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chinese REE producers had a competitive edge over western producers due to inexpensive and abundant labor...Chinese government, highlighted the vulnerability of western high technology industries to disruptions of critical...Canada (33 %), Australia (16 %), USA (10 %), South Africa (8 %), and Greenland (8 %). The remaining projects...monazite and apatite-rich mineralization (Steenkampskraal vein, SA). d Typical REE-bearing phosphate...These deposits are economic because they are easy to mine and process. No blasting or crushing is required
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zone from the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex, South Africa: evidence for higher-P, T metamorphism? { H...Pretoria, South Africa South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, P.O. Box 582, Pretoria 0001, South Africa...Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex (NMC) (South Africa). The magnetite-bearing rocks hosting the corundum-quartz...The magnetite-bearing rocks are characterized by the presence of abundant crystals of magnetite together...corundum both displaying a sharp contact with magnetite and quartz. However, in some micro-domains, spinel
Book (edition)
Southern Africa a Collectorā€™s Guide ā–  Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & ā€” - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collectorā€™s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...Ā©E.K. Macintosh Cover design by Neville Poulter, Cape Town Lithographic reproduction by Tien Wah Press...Ltd, Singapore Photoset by McManus Bros (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town Printed and bound by Interpak, Pietermaritzburg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CSIRO Mineral Resources, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, VIC 3169, Australia Abstract Rare earth elements...Obo but with smaller resources at Palabora, Steenkampskraal, and Mary Kathleen) and 12.4 Mt TREO + Y is... USA; Nolans Bore, Australia; ā€‚ Steenkampskraal, South Africa Alkaline complexes and Khibina and...Laterite/soil/clay Tantalus, Madagascar Tailings Steenkampskraal, South Africa; Port Pirie, Australia; ā€‚ Mary Kathleen... 2011), South Africa using the South African Mineral Resource Committee (SAMREC) code (South African
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dixon, R. Minerals of South Africa, Johannesburg (Geological Society of South Africa), 1995. xix + 296 pp...2104, South Africa). This volume, which deals exclusively with minerals found in South Africa, combines...chronostratigraphic approach, from the Archaean (Monarch cinnabar mine, the asbestos deposits of the Barberton greenstone...manganese field to the W of Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, with numerous mines yielding not only...the largest open pit copper mines in the world; magnetite, uraninite-thorianite and baddeleyite are subsidiary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WOawas produced, occur in theOkiepcopper district, South Africa, whichispartofa high-temperature, low-pressure...qualand Metamorphic Complex, NorthCapeprovince, South 0361-0128/95/1764/1934-21 $4.00 1934 TUNGSTEN...Lombaard et al.,1986)andlocation oftheOkiepcopper district, NorthCapeprovince, SouthAfrica.Onlymajorsupracrustal...boreholes(FMS,Flat MineSouth;WHS,WhealHeathSouth)areshown. Africa,thatformspartof theextensive Namaqua-Natal oro-...postorogenie intrusive rocksof isknownastheOkiepcopper district (Fig.1). different ageandcomposition (Fig.2).Thethreeoldersuites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the largest open pit copper mines in the world; magnetite, uraninite-thorianite and baddeleyite are subsidiary...Province includes the 3000 km 2 0 k i e p copper district with well-crystallized chalcopyrite and chalcocite...widely distributed in the NW part of the Northern Cape Province, yielding crystals of tantalite, libethenite...Ag), various small tungsten deposits and the Steenkampskraal highgrade monazite deposit. The Phanerozoic...deposition of sediments in two large basins (the Cape supergroup and the Karoo supergroup) and at least
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
forming high grade ā€˜hard rockā€™ deposits such as Steenkampskraal (Andreoli et al., 1994) and Kangankunde (Wall...silicification is most prominent in the north-western area of the intrusion (Zone 2 of Dunai, 1989),...which is the subject of this paper (Figure 2). The local area is commonly capped by a layer of calcrete approximately...concentrations up to 0.8 wt.% have been reported from Steenkampskraal monazite-(Ce) (Andreoli et al., 1994). Moreover...mismatched geometry, and would likely result in local defects and structural distortion. Moreover, these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Abdul Rahim and Liwan, 2012). Meanwhile, as the local coal productions are insufļ¬cient (2,893,962 metric...from countries such as Indonesia, Australia, South Africa and China (Basri et al., 2015). The major challenge...comprises two tectonic blocks, the Sibumasu block (Western region) and Sukhothai Arc (East Malaya block) which...core of South East Asian (Metcalfe, 2013). The Sibumasu block is derived from the North-West Australia...referred the East Malaya block) is derived from the South China (Indochina) continental block during the Late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WITWATERSRAND, PRIVATE BAG 3, WITS 2050, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA "BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH...UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 'DIVISION OF EARTH, MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE...SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CSIR, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA ā€¢DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS...suggest mines have been established in the O'okiep District in the a crustal-melt source for the intrusive...metamorphism in the O'okiep District is The two principal copper-producing areas in South recorded by a Rb-Sr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mining and processing, GHG emission, Radioactive mine waste Introduction Rare earth elements (REEs) have...Process Science and Engineering, Box 312, Clayton South, VIC 3169, Australia 2 *Corresponding author, email...Bronze Age (3300ā€“1200 BC); widespread 1838: BastnaĢˆs mine, VaĢˆstmanland, Sweden 1920: Kelly Gulch, Stanley...1901: Naujakasik, Narsaq, Greenland 1962: Bassick mine, CO, USA Kola Peninsula, Russia 1955: Firetown,... Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 1751: BastnaĢˆs mine, VaĢˆstmanland, Sweden Chera, Travancore, India 1839: Ural
Report (issue)
gov/images/periodictable.pdf. Cover. The Mountain Pass Mine, San Bernardino County, California, was the only...............................................O21 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................O22 Mine Closure...........................................Figures O1. O2. O3. O4. O5. Graph showing world mine production of rare-earth oxides, by country and................O6 Photograph of the Mountain Pass Mine in San Bernardino County, California, which was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Earth Element Resources from Ore and Historical Mine Waste in the Eastern Adirondack Highlands, New York...Highlands, New York, are historical high-grade magnetite mines that contain variable concentrations of...Adirondack Highlands have been exploited for rich magnetite iron ore since their discovery in the mid1700s...mined in the United States since the Mountain Pass mine, California, was put on care and maintenance at..., 2017). The fluorapatite is intergrown with magnetite within the ore seams and is found in variable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the near future (Mountain Pass, Mount Weld, Steenkampskraal), as well as many other similar deposits currently...Australia; 6, Kukisvumchorr, Russia; 7, Steenkampskraal, South Africa; 8, Hoidas Lake, Canada; 9, Nolans,...Russia; 17, Vergenoeg (apatiteā€“mag netite ore), South Africa; 18, Kutessay II, Kyrgyzstan; 19, Lemhi Pass...in REE and U in South Russia and Kazakh stan (Stolyarov and Ivlieva, 2005); (3) South China deposits...rite ore known from the Vergenoeg deposit in South Africa (Goff et al., 2004) and at many other deposits
Report (issue)
................... M.T. Holroyd SAMINDABA ā€” A South African mineral deposits database ................Katti Uranium exploration in the Precambrian of West Greenland using integrated gamma spectrometry and...deposits in the Namaqualand metamorphic complex, South Africa .............................................. Geology Department (1984) 32 SAMINDABA - A SOUTH AFRICAN MINERAL DEPOSITS DATABASE S.S. HINE, E...HAMMERBECK Geological Survey of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Abstract The South African Mineral Deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
external domain of the Ediacaran-Cambrian AraƧuaĆ­-West Congo orogen (AWCO). Generated by the closure of...Neoproterozoic Adamastor ocean during the assembly of West Gondwana, the AWCO also encompasses a high-grade...as well as the West Congolian belt exposed in Angola and Gabon in west-central Africa (Pedrosa-Soares...affect a substantial CE portion of the mining district known as the QuadrilĆ”tero FerrĆ­fero (QF; Fig.1)...of the 21Ā°S latitude. Metamorphic rocks to the south of this arbitrary boundary comprise the Neoproterozoic
Report (issue)
___________________ ----Republic of South Mrica ___________________ _ Cape of Good Hope Province ___________...omali Republic ________ - ____ -_---------- -- South-VVestAfrica _________________________ _ Swaziland...-----------------Queensland and New South Wales _______ _ South Australia ____ -------------------Tasmania...----_ Western Australia ___ ------------------New Zealand ______ -----------------------South Island_-----------------...________ _ Southeastern Alaska ___ ------------South-central Alaska _______________ _ East-central Alaska
 
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