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Sericite from
Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Comments:A common coating on quartz and epidote crystals (Cairncross 1991). Also present as an inclusion in quartz (Cairncross et al 1995).
Colour:White, pale green
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:841704
Long-form Identifier:1:3:841704:6
GUID (UUID V4):c2c9d1e1-6e1f-4a2a-9ac5-391d5e0955e4
Localities for Sericite in this Region
Messina Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t...quartz originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed...Messina but was renamed Musina after the 1994 political dispensation in South Africa. The registered mine...a fine example of material originating from the South African locality. Ajoite (pronounced ah-ho-ite)...Schaller and Vlisidis (1958) and named after the Ajo district where it was found. They characterized the species
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the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo complex, Southern Africa Rajesh Hariharan, Oleg Safonov, Thembiso...the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo complex, Southern Africa. Lithos (2018), doi:10.1016/j.lithos...the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo Complex, Southern Africa 3 Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa US 4 Graduate School of Life and Environmental...highlights this issue from the Limpopo Complex high-grade terrane in CR southern Africa. The Beit Bridge Complex
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Biotite^Hornblende Gneiss, Central Zone, Limpopo Complex, South Africa H. M. RAJESH1*, G. A. BELYANIN1, O....JOHANNESBURG, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG 2006, SOUTH AFRICA 2 INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY RAA...PUBLICATION SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 A clear case study of local-scale, fluid-induced dehydration of the Paleoarchean...biotite^hornblende gneiss from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex is presented here. Field and petrographic...adjacent zonesçdarker Sand River orthogneiss with local occurrence of orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, a
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Granulite Complexes: Examples from the Limpopo Belt, South Africa L. L. Perchuka, b, c, D. D. van Reenenb...PO Box 524, 2006 Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: dirkvr@uj.ac.za c Institute of Experimental...four such structures from the Central Zone of the Limpopo complex, which were formed during granulite exhumation...within the whole area of the Central Zone of the Limpopo complex. This implies that the rocks were metamorphosed...Neoarchean stage of the development of the Limpopo granulite complex. Local mineral equilibria and fluid inclusions
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214 222 228 233 Proterozoic orogens of Southern Africa 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 v Mahanadi shear zone Nagavali-Vamsadhara...Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 South Delhi Terrane 2.5.3 Sandmata Terrane 2.5.4 Sirohi...References Introduction The Limpopo Belt The Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt The Mahalapye Complex 4...Proterozoic orogens of India, Sri Lanka, Botswana, South Africa, East Antarctica, and Western Australia. All...Antarctica, Western Australia and some parts of the Limpopo Belt. We thank profusely the Geological Survey
Journal (issue)
Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .....................................by pack animal and then by truck to one of the local smelters. Working these small, silver-bearing deposits...reviewing our 772-minute quadrangle map and the local geology, we concluded that Kelsey Canyon was not...since our research said the Outlaw mine was 1 km south of the Red Bird Toquima. After taking several pictures...Mumme (1981) based on materia from the AW mine, New South Wales. Benjaminite from this locality contains no
Journal (issue)
net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia .....................in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa .......................... 461...staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington on October 1, 1957, as Assistant Scientific... and he was in constant demand as a speaker at local clubs and societies. Three of his most popular talks--delivered...to his poor health. Bob was involved in numerous local organizations, and also served as a member of the
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 für 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
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Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean opening”...Ortelius was the first to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ‘if comparisons are made between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is clear that different areas in...Kontinente und Ozeane, Alfred Wegener considered South America, Africa, India and Australia as the main parts of
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talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl)
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Papers and Discussions Volume I , I JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY 1961... 01", ~TALLUf>iYY. © Copyright 1961 by The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Ext'racts...I (1v DEC 196f Printed in t!te Republic of South Africa by Hortors Limited, Johannesburg V r. 1 The...and n1anagement of the gold mining industry in South Africa -C. B. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . page r J ... ( 2. The economy of the Union of South Africa-W. J. BusSCI-IAU 9 3. An introduction to the physical
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infrared absorption which give information on the local environment of atoms (see Part 2 for details). Nuclear...nature of the intergrowth and the high degree of local order, there would be little driving force for segregation...whose general properties are monoclinic but whose local atomic environment partly resembles that of microcline...consistent with a center of symmetry, but that local deviations from a center of symmetry (as in domain...principally by the local Si, Al ordering and that only if there is a unique correlation between local and distant
 
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