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Chalcopyrite from
Shackleton Mine, Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shackleton Mine, Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:717922
Long-form Identifier:1:3:717922:8
GUID (UUID V4):75b36822-d055-493c-b51f-685f970128c4
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Avondale Mine, Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
12.5km (7.8 miles) Alaska Mine (incl. Hans Mine; Angwa Mine), Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
38.6km (24.0 miles) Miriam Mine (Norah Mine), Mhangura, Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
44.4km (27.6 miles) Mangula Mine, Mhangura, Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
44.6km (27.7 miles) Silverside copper-silver deposit (incl. Old Hat Mine; Manchester Mine; Shebaside Mine), Makonde District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
76.4km (47.5 miles) Bay Horse Mine, Chegutu District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
82.2km (51.0 miles) Perseverance mine, Kadoma District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
82.2km (51.1 miles) Sanyati Mine, Gokwe North District, Midlands, Zimbabwe
93.9km (58.4 miles) Scheelite King Mine, Mazowe gold field, Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
94.5km (58.7 miles) Hartley Mine, Chegutu District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper Mine, Klein Aub (SWA/Namibia) 3 Formerly M.T.D. (Mangula) Limited, Mhangura, Zimbabwe; now General...Limited, Mhangura (Zimbabwe) 5Lomagundi Smelting and Mining Limited, Chinhoyi (Zimbabwe) ABSTRACT Maiden...Sinclair Sequence; (2) Alaska and Mhangura in Zimbabwe, where deposits are hosted by argillites,arkoses...SELECTED DEPOSITS Klein Aub, SWA/Namibia Klein Aub mine is at the south-western extremity of a m ~ r a l...developed along this belt, but the only operating mine is at Klein Aub. Over most of the belt, the copper-bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy of the Yangzhaiyu gold deposit, Xiaoqinling district, southern North China craton Shi-Jian Bi & Jian-Wei...predominant sulfide mineral, with minor amounts of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena. Based on morphology...pyrite. The G3 pyrite, invariably intergrown with chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena, contains the highest...Mesozoic magmatic rocks widespread in the Xiaoqinling district and other parts of the southern North China craton...composed primarily of pyrite and lesser amounts of chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, marcasite, pyrrhotite, and Zn–Pb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
six terranes (Cassidy et al. 2006): Narryer, South West, central Youanmi, Kalgoorlie, Kurnalpi, and Burtville...in these veins include pyrite + magnetite + chalcopyrite + pyrrhotite. Magnetite close to the mineralization...emplacement of regional high-Ca granite and the East–West compression deformation. The M3a metamorphism is...Stage II veins are mainly pyrite, with trace chalcopyrite, galena, rare sphalerite, and molybdenite. The...cubic in shape and can be up to 1 cm in size. Chalcopyrite is anhedral and fills the interstices between
Report (issue)
interest in the geo logy and mineral resources of Zimbabwe which followed the removal of United Nations sanctions...original Bulletin is the insertion of Table IIIA, Zimbabwe Mineral Production and Value, on page 114A. Due...for views of Wankie Colliery and the Trojan nickel mine, and to the Photographic Section of the Ministry...near Salisbury. facing page 23 IV Trojan Nickel Mine, near Bindura. facing page 33 V The Great Dyke...Complex. VI Chrome seam in the Great Dyke, Vanad Mine. VII Lower Karoo Landscape. No. 1 Colliery, Wankie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblages at the Viceroy Mine, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe T. OBERTHÜR* AND T. W...2008] ABSTR ACT Gold mineralization at the Viceroy Mine is hosted in extensional veins in steep shear zones...liquid/melt-collecting mechanism was probably active at Viceroy Mine, where the distinct Au-Bi-TeS assemblage either...Archaean, Viceroy and Mazowe Mines, Zimbabwe, Passagem de Mariana Mine, Brazil. Introduction FOR a long...deposits. Well known examples are the classic mining district and type area of many telluride minerals, the
Report (issue)
........................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure...........................................at the Kankberg deposit in the Skellefteå VMS district of Västerbotten County, Sweden. Combined, these...Celsius (oC) (for example, Zhang and Spry, 1994; Shackleton and others, 2003), although in some magmatic...sulfides. At the tellurium-rich Cripple Creek district gold deposits in Teller County, Colorado, Lovering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Standing Jigsaw Geoscience Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 488, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia Present...e. prior to mine development). The Golden Pride Miner Deposita (2009) 44:751–764 Mine (∼60 Mt at 1...indicated resource) is an open pit carbon-in-leach mine with an annual production of 2.5 Mt at an average...core supplemented by observations from the open pit mine. Supporting ore paragenesis and sulphur isotope...Archean Nyanzian Supergroup (Borg 1990; Borg and Shackleton 1997). The super group can roughly be divided
Book
Council Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas B. Young NEWCASTLE UPON...siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272 099...NG12 5GG Plumtree (060 77) 6111 Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA 031-667 1000 Windsor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Golden Mile Fault over a strike of 8 km within a district-scale zone marked by porphyry dykes and chloritic...the Golden Mile Fault exposed on the Mt Charlotte mine 22 level. They are filled Editorial handling: B...Johnson 2000; Chang et al. 2011). In the Kalgoorlie district, located in the Eastern Goldfields Province of...discovery of the telluride ore in the Hidden Secret Mine close to Mt Charlotte (Simpson 1912), the scarcity...assumption that deposits in the northwest Kalgoorlie district are unrelated to those in the Golden Mile (e.g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
western edge of the basement exposures, changes west of the Nile into a series of high-grade Precambrian...lithological associations in the Eastern Desert (Shackleton et al., 1980; Ries et al., 1983; El Gaby et...direction over the pre-PanAfrican continental margin (Shackleton et al., 1980; Ries et al., 1983; Habib et al...metavolcanics (El Ramly, 1972) and ophiolitic melange (Shackleton et al., 1980; Ries et al., 1983). Volcanic N...orebody are represented mainly by sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite and minor galena. Secondary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of orogenic gold mineralisation at the Betam mine, south Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem A. Zoheir Received:...pyrite, arsenopyrite and subordinate galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and gold. Gold occurs in the quartz...Eastern Desert of Egypt has long been a mining district for gold, with more than 95 gold occurrences mostly...native gold, As-bearing pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite together with subordinate sphalerite, galena...relationship between gold mineralisation at the Fawakhir mine area (26°16′N, 33°38′E) and transpressional tectonics
Report (issue)
99 Base-metal and gold mineralisation in north-west Anglesey, North Wales D C Cooper, M J C Nutt, I...Series Base-metal and gold mineralisation in north-west Anglesey, North Wales Geochemistry D C Cooper...1989. Base­ metal and gold mineralisation in north­ west Anglesey, North Wales. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme...BGSKEY G Fax-;;;, 060 77-6602 Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA ';} 031-667 1000 ...Manager British Geological Survey Murchison House West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3LA FIGURES CONTENTS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vanadium-rich gold ore from the Oroya Shoot, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 3. Ore mineralogy, Pb-Te...and pyrite (10–20 vol%), minor arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite, and accessory pyrrhotite, gersdorffite...pyrite-arsenopyrite-chalcopyrite brackets telluride deposition. Bornite-chalcopyrite aggregates, sphalerite...December 2018) is located in the Kalgoorlie mining district of the 2.7 Ga Eastern Goldfields fold belt, Yilgarn...associated with native gold, magnetite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite were identified by chemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblages: quartz, sphalerite-pyrite, pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite, and carbonate. Each mineral assemblage is characterized...Sulphide ore deposits 1. Introduction Macalder mine is located near the western margin of the Migori...researchers, among them Hitchen (1936), Pulfrey (1938), Shackleton (1946), Sanders (1964), and Hutchinson(1981)...(Homa Bay Rept. No 32 1944). The closure of the mine in 1966 was mainly a result of the decrease of mineral...Kuja rivers and in the open-cast section of the mine. The width of metabasalt and pillow lavas decreases
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
part of Springer Nature 2020 The Kalgoorlie district in the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...emphasis on structural data from the Paringa South mine (Part 1). The steeply dipping Fimiston shear zones...Representative ore bodies (lodes) in the Paringa South mine (Part 2) are described in Mueller based on detailed...magnetite, hematite, auriferous pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and tennantite. Oroya Au-Te ore overprints Fimiston...main D3 ore body (> 62 t Au) in the Paringa South mine (Part 3). The shoot is famous for its telluride-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
group comprises the 'granulite-facies rocks' of the West Nile Province, termed 'Watian' by MacDonald (1963...1974; Cahen and Snelling, 1984). In the Bunyoro District, NW of Masindi, van Straaten (1976) recognized...graphite-bearing quartzite in the 61 Bunyoro District on map sheet Bokwe (39/1). The concordantly intercalated...sedimentary-volcanic assemblage' of Hepworth (1964)). In the West Nile Province, the Watian granulites are partly...(MacDonald, 1963, 1964) and also occur mainly in the West Nile Province. The Aruan gneisses, isoclinally folded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separating the metavolcano-sedimentary sequence to the west and gneissic terrain to the east (Fig. 1). This...were accreted during the Gondwana collision (Shackleton, 1994 and 1996; Stern, 1994; Abdelsalam and Stern...Kenticha zone. These zones are enveloped in the west and east by the gneissic terrain (Fig. 1).In this...Quartz-feldspar-mica-schist: Gold mineralization at the Lega Dembi mine occurs in quartzo-feldspathic mica- l&zlm!J Ore...and to the west by meta-gabbro (Fig. 2). All these units dip at approximately 70" to the west and strike
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Gold Field, near the current Mt Charlotte mine. After Paddy Hannan lodged the claim on 17 August...Golden Mile in 1975. Production from the Mt Charlotte mine continued, however, due to the low-cost mechanized...and, together with the Mt Charlotte underground mine, produce up to 850,000 ounces of gold each year...paleo-craton at ca. 2.7 Ga, with evolved crust to the west (the Proto-Yilgarn) and juvenile crust to the east...Kalgoorlie Terrane (Fig. 1) that is bounded on the west by a lithospheric boundary, broadly marked by the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that the carbonates of the Lomagundi Group of Zimbabwe were highly enriched in 13C. In a detailed follow-up...MF — Murchison Falls; S — Singo batholith; WN — West Nile Block. are geochronologically poorly dated...Archean highgrade gneissic–granulitic terranes of the West Nile Block and Northern Uganda Basement Complex...Tanzanian craton in Tanzania (e.g., Borg and Shackleton, 1997; Borg and Krogh, 1999). More recent U–Pb...marked increase in metamorphic grade from east to west have resulted in the lack of a coherent stratigraphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSIT, KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA JILL M. SHACKLETON AND PAUL G. SPRY§ Department of Geological and...SOMMAIRE Le gisement aurifère de Golden Mile, dans le district de Kalgoorlie, en Australie occidentale, est un...strike of 315° – 330° and a dip of 80–85° east or west), caunter (a strike of 270–290° and a dip of 55–70°...greenstone belt. after the now defunct Fimiston gold mine) accounts for 70% of gold production within the...compressional event (D1), consisting of east-over-west thrusting 1506 THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST FIG
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bushveld complex the geographical location of the west-and northern Figure 1. Geological map of the Bushveld...of pyrrhotite (≈40%), pentlandite (≈30%), and chalcopyrite (≈15%). The major PGMs are cooperite (PtS),...a typical UG2 Reef consist predominantly of chalcopyrite, pentlandite, and pyrrhotite, containing 200–300...occurring thealmost sulCu-Ni ores of the Norilsk district the Kolaby Peninsula, which together accountinfor...accountinfor phide Cu-Niresources ores of the Norilsk district and the Kola Peninsula, which together the entire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fawakhir–El Sid gold mining district in the central Eastern Desert. This mining district has an ~5000-yearold...well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional NNWtrending...pyrite-arsenopyrite-pyrrhotite-sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite-electrum plus a number of tellurides of Ag,...mineralization in the ancient Fawakhir– El Sid mining district in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Gold of Egypt:...story The Red Sea Hills and the Nubian Desert district supplied much of the gold used by the Egyptian
Report (issue)
not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...Canada Dzhezkazgan, Kazakstan 40 Afganistan 50 Zimbabwe Aitik, Sweden, Dong Chuan China Kilembe, Uganda...chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite...zone are fairly stable minerals in the oxidizing mine environment, and pyrite occurs only as trace amounts...zone. In the low-grade zone, pyrite accompanies chalcopyrite and becomes increasingly abundant outward as
Report (issue)
Reports 10 11 Geophysical surveys around Talnotry mine, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland A study of the space...Copper-bearing intrusive rocks at Cairngarroch Bay, south-west Scotland 40 Stratabound barium-zinc mineralisation...margin of the Loch Doon granitoid complex, south-west Scotland 47 An airborne geophysical survey of...reconnaissance survey of the Doon-Glenkens area, south-west Scotland A reconnaissance geochemical drainage survey...copper mineralisation at Black Stockarton Moor.south-west Scotland 31 Geophysical investigations in the
Journal (issue)
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter June, 2011 Geological Society of Zimbabwe 1960 -2010 G S Z...Newsletter June 2011 Tectonic evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton in the early Palaeoproterozoic. (a) Following...Following Söderlund et al. (2010), the Zimbabwe craton is positioned along the eastern margin of the Superior...basin initiated. (c) Assembly of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons, and unknown terrane, Terra Incognita...Incognita at ca. 2.0 Ga led to tectonic escape of the Zimbabwe Craton and dextral shearing in the Limpopo Belt
 
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