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Pyrite from
Fairview Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fairview Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:779721
Long-form Identifier:1:3:779721:7
GUID (UUID V4):aa94d309-9335-4925-81a6-22495ee705ad
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
4.3km (2.7 miles) ⓘSheba Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
7.8km (4.8 miles) ⓘBarberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘNew Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
9.5km (5.9 miles) ⓘBon Accord Ni deposit, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
15.7km (9.8 miles) ⓘAgnes Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
17.8km (11.1 miles) ⓘLily mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
20.0km (12.4 miles) ⓘBarberton Barite Drilling Project No. 2 borehole, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
25.3km (15.7 miles) ⓘEast dump, Havelock Mine, Bulembu, Hhohho Region, Eswatini
25.6km (15.9 miles) ⓘWest dump, Havelock Mine, Bulembu, Hhohho Region, Eswatini
28.9km (18.0 miles) ⓘBien Venue deposit, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Sheba and Fairview gold mines: Clues to Mesoarchean mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt...Belt, South Africa Andrea Agangi a,⁎, Axel Hofmann a, Wojciech PrzybyƂowicz b,c,1 a b c PaleoProterozoic...University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Materials Research Department, iThemba LABS...Foundation, PO Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty...Mesothermal gold Pyrite Arsenopyrite Archean Barberton Greenstone Belt a b s t r a c t The Fairview and Sheba
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structurally-controlled gold mineralisation of the Barberton Greenstone Belt Andrea Agangi a,⇑, Axel Hofmann...Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa c UniversitĂ© Lyon, UJM –Saint Etienne, Laboratoire...Archaean Gold Barberton Greenstone Belt Multiple S isotopes a b s t r a c t The Barberton Greenstone Belt...Belt of southern Africa hosts several Mesoarchaean gold deposits. The ores were mostly formed in greenschist...isotopes in sulfide ore from Sheba and Fairview mines of the Barberton Greenstone Belt to distinguish ‘‘deep”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Hope reef at Fairview Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa Jonathan Gloyn-Jones, Alexander...mineralization in the Hope reef at Fairview Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, Ore Geology Reviews (2018)...mineralization in the Hope reef at Fairview Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa Jonathan Gloyn-Jones* and...Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa * corresponding author: gloynjonesgeologist@gmail...auriferous shear zones at Fairview Mine in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa, collectively referred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex of the Fairview Mine—multiphase gold mineralization during regional folding, Barberton Greenstone...Greenstone Belt, South Africa Jonathan Gloyn-Jones 1 & Alexander Kisters 1 Received: 5 September 2018 / Accepted:...Abstract Gold production in Fairview Mine in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, is focused on high-grade...metasedimentary rocks. The main ore shoot of the MRC at Fairview shows a steep southeasterly plunge that can be...relationships with other auriferous reefs from the Fairview Mine complex indicate a late timing of the MRC-type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Consort Gold Mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa* Windeati Argapadmi, Eniko...Archean (3.55–3.10 Ga) Barberton greenstone belt of the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa. Published structuralgeologic...(higher temperature, close to granitoid contact), Fairview, and Sheba (lower temperature in the interior...isotopic analyses were performed on native gold from Barberton, on two other lode gold deposits and two carbon...sulfide-rich ores. Different gold samples from Barberton yield Δ109Ag values (differences in 109Ag/107Ag
Journal (issue)
RELATING TO THE BARBERTON MOUNTAIN LAND AND SURROUNDING GRANITIC TERRANE, SOUTH AFRICA 2002-2019 Compiled...Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa) ECONOMIC GEOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INFORMATION...RELATING TO THE BARBERTON MOUNTAIN LAND AND SURROUNDING GRANITIC TERRANE, SOUTH AFRICA 2002-2019 This...variety of aspects relating to the geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt and surrounding granite-gneiss...granite-gneiss terrane in the eastern part of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa and the adjacent Kingdom of eSwatini
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of gold mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa M.A.H. Altigani, R.K.W. Merkle...Pretoria, Private Bag X20, HatïŹeld, Pretoria 0028,South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...2015 Available online 18 December 2015 Keywords: Barberton Gold Hydrothermal Halogen Mineralisation a b...associated sulphides at Sheba, Fairview, and New Consort gold mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) identify...ïŹrst type occurs associated with sulphides (mainly pyrite), either as inclusions (10–30 ÎŒm) or as sub-microscopic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN THE SHEBA-FAIRVIEW MINE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA P.H.G.M. DIRKS School of...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa Current Address: School of Earth and Environmental...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa e-mail: guy.charlesworth@wits.ac.za; mphoyanga...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Gold mineralisation in the world-class Sheba-Fairview mining district in the...the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, occurs along a fracture network that is arranged in overlapping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mineraliza‐ tion at Sheba Mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Lucas Pintos Cerda, Caitlin...gold mineralization at Sheba Mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Ore Geology Reviews (2020)...mineralization at Sheba Mine, 4 Barberton Greenstone Belt, South 5 Africa. 6 Lucas Pintos Cerda1*...Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 10 11 *Corresponding author: E-mail address:...data from Sheba gold mine in the 17 Barberton Greenstone Belt of South Africa indicate that gold mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The New Consort Gold Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: orogenic gold mineralization...Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one of the...Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa mineralization can be distinguished. Loellingite...This early mineralization may correlate with the local D1 deformation. The second and main stage of gold...metamorphic grade, ranging from arsenopyrite + pyrite + pyrrhotite in the structurally highest to arsenopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minimumscaleof ‱60 x 10 km andfor phaseseparation on a local(mine)scale.Evidencefor phaseseparation is notedby...SouthAfrica. 0361-0128/92/1316/366-3753.00 366 BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT GOLD DEPOSITS 367 b34Ssulfides...comprisingbasalmetavolcanicrocks of the kg), Consort(61,171 kg), Fairview(37,493 kg), and OnverwachtGroup, overlainby fine...leastasyoungas3164 _ 12 Ma (Arm- Abbotts,Fortuna, Fairview, and Three Sisters,are in thisarc(Fig. 1). The...locatedslightlyto the south, therefore,hasa geologichistorythat spansca. 300 and the Three Sisters mine to the northeast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 3 Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and...Precambrian terranes, the Capricorn Orogen, the Barberton Greenstone Belt and the Ashanti Belt, all of which...Australia, the Barberton Greenstone Belt in southern Africa, and the Ashanti Belt in western Africa. All areas...Nathans (Capricorn Orogen), Sheba and Fairview mines (Barberton Greenstone Belt), and Obuasi (Ashanti...chlorite, biotite, carbonate, fluorite, tourmaline, pyrite (Pirajno et al., 2000; Thornett, 1995). The deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andTraceElementsfromSulfides of Archcan Greenstone Belts in South Africa A Contribution to the Knowledgeof theOlde...found in the vein-typedepositof the Old Star Gold Mine in the Murchison:Range. The variableisotopicratios...edin pyrites from gold-sulfidedepositsin the Barberton Mountain Land supportthemetallogenetic concepts... over a distance of more than 2 and 3). The Barberton Mountain Land forms a rugged, wedge-shapedmountain...1 and 2). In Trace elementinvestigations of the pyrite associ- the Mountain Land the Swaziland Sequencehas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LOWER PART OF THE ARCHAEAN FIG TREE GROUP (SOUTH AFRICA) THOMAS O. REIMER Dyckerhoff Engineering GmbH... lower part of the Archaean Fig Tree Group (South Africa). Precambrian Res., 20: 375--390. The Ulundi...lowermost Fig Tree Group in the type area in the Barberton Mountain Land consists of a sequence of quartz--sericite...the Swaziland Supergroup in the Barberton Mountain Land of South Africa (Fig. 1) is related to the number...Publishers B.V. 376 Daylight Mine, and by Pflug (1966) from the Sheba Mine. These microfossils usually
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Mines of South Africa, Research Organization, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa AND K. VON GEHLEN... shows three major types of pyrite: (i) detrital pyrite (rounded pyrite crystals transported into the...(ii) synsedimentary pyrite (round and rounded aggregates of fine-grained pyrite formed within the depositional...environmen0; and (iii) authigenic pyrite (newly crystallized and/or recrystallized pyrite formed after deposition)...origin by sulphidization. Recrystallized authigenic pyrite occurs in large quantities but only in horizons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MiningTechnology Laboratory, Chamber of Mines of South Africa, Johannesburg A relationship has been established...deposits, such as the rivers of the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa and the river Rhine in Germany....SAMPLING SITES The primary gold deposits in the Barberton area occur almost exclusively in the Archean greenstone...originated from the Blue Rock Reef of the Fairview Gold Mine. The frequent occurrence of platinoid minerals...were, therefore, taken from the rivers of the Barberton area can be the Kaap River and its tributaries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
71(2), pp. 123–142 Gold-bearing arsenopyrite and pyrite in refractory ores: analytical refinements and...approach has been used to study Au occurrences within pyrite and arsenopyrite in four refractory Au ores from...Typical growth patterns and As-Au diffusion zoning in pyrite and arsenopyrite may account for the very irregular...minerals. K EY WORDS : gold, arsenic, arsenopyrite, pyrite, refractory ores, growth zoning, electron microprobe...is contained within sulphide crystals, commonly pyrite (FeS2) and arsenopyrite (FeAsS). Refractory Au
Book
Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa Regional Geology Reviews Series editors Roland... Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa 123 Editors Alfred Kröner Institut fĂŒr Geowissenschaften...Geology University of Johannesburg Auckland Park, South Africa ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic)...continued interest. The Kaapvaal Craton of Southern Africa is featuring prominently in early Earth studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3.4 to 3.1 Ga pyrite at the Princeton gold mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Takeshi Kakegawa...The Princeton mine is one of several mesothermal gold deposits found in the Barberton Greenstone Belt...isotopes of pyrite were performed on four representative samples collected from the Princeton mine. The d34S...determined in situ on individual pyrite crystals or aggregates of fine-grained pyrite by the laser microprobe...analyses), and also on aggregates of separated pyrite crystals by the conventional Cu O 2 combustion
Corporate Document
Kochbulak-Kairagach ore field 9.5.1 Kochbulak deposit 10. SOUTH AFRICA 10.1 Western Deeps 10.2 Fairwiew 10.3 Renco...16 Corinthia 13.17 Edward's Find 13.18 Polaris South 14. Intermediate and felsic igneous host rocks 14...dominance of pyrrhotite and calcite instead of pyrite and dolomite in the deposits, suggest that the... epidote - pyrrhotite. Other ore minerals present are: pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena...hosts to the ore. Abundant biotite with idioblastic pyrite characterise the alteration related to gold mineralisation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
goldin bandediron-formation hosts Zimbabwe; Barberton; MorroVelho,Brazil).Thetwo earliersyngenetic mineralization...production. is that, despitetheir discordanceon the local scale, gressivefeatures; arestrata-bound ontheregionalscale(Ge5...oxide thedeposits muts and Theron, 1975), on the mine scale(Groves (or carbonate) on a mesoscopic or microscopic... theycontainsufficientironfor the formationof pyrite, whichshowsa strongspatialrelationshipto goidmineralization...depositsis available. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS 165 pyrite from the interactionof Fe-rich hostrocksand sulfurcomplexes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
may be bound to organic matter, incorporated into pyrite, or present as a distinct Hg mineral such as cinnabar...2005). The world’s largest Hg deposit, the AlmadĂ©n district of central Spain, is representative of concentrations...reworking of the mercury-hosting rocks of the AlmadĂ©n district (primary mineralization 427–380 Ma) led to at...mining district, including the New AlmadĂ©n mine in Santa Clara County and the New Idria mine in San Benito...in the literature. For example, the Hg mining district of Pike County, Arkansas, is hosted in Carboniferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nogenic Cu-ZnSulfideDeposits in the Britannia District, British Columbia J. G. PAYNE, 877 Lillooet Road...Britannia was completedby H. J. THF‱ Britannia district, 25 milesnorth of Vancouver, James(1929). His...Au. The deformedrocksare cut by dacitedikes Jane mine and the ubiquitous presence of anhydrite and severalmajor...hoods." 7OO CU-ZN SULFIDE DEPOSITS, BRITANNIA DISTRICT, B. C. 701 Subsequentto preparationof the present...advanced. R. J. Beatty (1974), in a project suggestedby mine were shearedtuffs and agglomerates and that, "movementalong
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Journal Pre-proofs Invited Review Article Pyrite trace element behavior in magmatic-hydrothermal environments:...Meffre, D. Huston, A. Fabris, V. Lisitsin, T. Wells, Pyrite trace element behavior in magmatic-hydrothermal...pertain. © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. 1 2 Pyrite trace element behavior in magmatic-hydrothermal...Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Survey of South Australia, Department for Energy and Mining, GPO...Australia 17 ABSTRACT 18 Trace elements in pyrite are increasingly being used in ore deposit exploration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in clay minerals of the Archaean Barberton Greenstone Belt(South Africa) Theofilos Toulkeridis a,b, Norbert...Moodies Group of the Archaean Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa. Clay separates of forty sedimentary...eastern edge of the Kaapvaai Craton in southern Africa (Fig. 1) and consists of deformed and variably...2. Geological setting and sample locality The Barberton Greenstone Belt being one of the best preserved...+ + + + + + + + + SWAZILAND SUPERGROUP BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT + + + Early potassic granitoid
 
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