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Specularite from
Buffalo Fluorspar Mine, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite var: Specularite
Formula:Fe2O3
Comments:The SEM work is done by Maria Atanasova at Council for Geoscience in Pretoria (Stephen J Gomersall, pers. comm to Debbie Woolf).
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Specularite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buffalo Fluorspar Mine, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:839275
Long-form Identifier:1:3:839275:6
GUID (UUID V4):5cd5243c-5f8d-4b3b-88fd-93183fe0439b
Nearest other occurrences of Specularite
81.0km (50.4 miles) Jan Trichardt Pass, Modimolle, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
91.8km (57.0 miles) Houtenbeck, Groblersdal, Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Fl.~o~.iSP:~.,~r of'Atrica Fluorspar Resources of Africa By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE and PAUL G. SCHRUBEN...resources of Africa. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1487) Bibliography: p. 1. Fluorspar-Africa. I. Schruben...environments and types of fluorspar deposits ---------------------Fluorspar production and exports---...exports--------------------------------------Fluorspar reserves --------------------------------------------------Outlook...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Map of Africa showing the location of fluorspar and carbonatite deposits, rifts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa Current address: Department of Geology, Rand...Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa e-mail: glgy13@na.rau.ac.za L.J. Robb EGRI-HAL...2050, South Africa e-mail: robblj@geosciences.wits.ac.za © 2004 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT... Located in the central northeast region of South Africa, north of Pretoria (Figure 1), the Complex is...deposits, such as the now-defunct Zaaiplaats Tin Mine near Potgietersrus in the northern limb of the Complex
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Book
Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot
Book
Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) 1953/000441/07 Reg. No. The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot
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Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of Geosciences...which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific...Felsic Phase of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.6 The Sn-W Deposits.... . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
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pairs of dacitic rocks. Metamorphism will cause local redistribution of REE if new minerals are formed...Scotia, Canada, despite the development of some local metasomatic zones, and the movement of other elements...Found in a cleavelandite pegmatite at H^ydalen, South Norway, as an irregular l u m p altering o n the...Wyoming; in an altered alkaline rock in the Zeerust District, Transvaal; from the Vuorijarvi pluton, U.S.S...originally found coating cerite 2 33 2 at the Bastnas mine, Vastmanland, Sweden (Lindstrom, 1 9 1 0 ) ; now
 
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