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Pyrite from
Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Farm
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcopyrite27 photos of Pyrite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Pyrrhotite26 photos of Pyrite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Bismuthinite18 photos of Pyrite associated with Bismuthinite at this locality.
Arsenopyrite16 photos of Pyrite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Magnetite16 photos of Pyrite associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Chlorite Group15 photos of Pyrite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Sphalerite8 photos of Pyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Galena5 photos of Pyrite associated with Galena at this locality.
Mica Group3 photos of Pyrite associated with Mica Group at this locality.
Ilmenite2 photos of Pyrite associated with Ilmenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:886029
Long-form Identifier:1:3:886029:3
GUID (UUID V4):92da31d1-b41f-4710-a47d-758e5710d4cb
Localities for Pyrite in this Region
Black Mountain (Swartberg mine), Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Broken Hill Mine, Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Gamsberg zinc mine, Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
5.8km (3.6 miles) Broken Hill Mine, Aggeneys, Khâi-Ma Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
53.2km (33.0 miles) Gaidip Farm 146, Karasburg West, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
59.1km (36.7 miles) Tantalite Valley Complex, Tantalite Valley, Karasburg East, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
96.2km (59.8 miles) Uranoop (Oemoep) Pegmatite, Steinkopf, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
99.8km (62.0 miles) Kliphoog Mine, Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphide partial melting at Broken Hill, Aggeneys, South Africa I: Petrography R.H. Bailie Department pf...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa, Present address: Paleoproterozoic...Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa, e-mail: glgy13@na.rau.ac.za or geo_russ@hotmail...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700, Cape Town, South Africa e-mail: dlr@geology...dlr@geology.uct.ac.za © 2005 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Broken Hill-type Ph-Zn-Cu-Ag massive
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spinel associated with the Aggeneys Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Namaqualand, South Africa P. G. Spry Department...pegmatites associated with the Aggeneys base metal deposits, Namaqualand, South Africa. Zincian spinel in, sulphidebearing...Zn-rich spinels represent guides to ore in the Aggeneys area and elsewhere in the Namaqualand Metamorphic...Fe-rich spinels occur within metres of sulphides at Aggeneys. Zincian spinel, or gahnite, [(Zn, Fe,Mg)A1204]...gahnite-bearing sulphide-free assemblages. On the local scale, Bernier et al. (1984) utilized the Z n O
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sulfides in the Areachap Group, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Russell Bailie & Jens Gutzmer &...schists of the Areachap Group, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Areachap Group represents...Bailie (*) University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa e-mail: rbailie@uwc.ac.za J. Gutzmer...McClung University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa from that of associated sulfides. At one of...isotopes . Zn–Cu deposits . Areachap Group . South Africa . Sulfides . Barite Introduction The Areachap
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Swartberg Base Metal Deposit, Aggeneys-Gamsberg Ore District, South Africa Tarryn Kim Cawood†,* and Abraham...Private Bag X01, Matieland 7600, Republic of South Africa Abstract The polymetamorphosed Swartberg Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag...deposit in the Namaqua Metamorphic Province of South Africa is a major metal producer in the region, yet...comprises sulfidic, pelitic lenses with fine-grained pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and lesser pyrrhotite, hosted...quartz and almandine garnet and mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. Geochemical discriminant plots
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of the Mesoproterozoic Aggeneys-Gamsberg Broken Hill-type district, South Africa Craig R. McClung & Jens...AggeneysGamsberg Pb–Zn–Cu ± Ag–Ba district in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Barite samples were collected...collected and studied from four localities in the district. Although metamorphic water–rock interaction processes...Gamsberg deposit compared with the occurrences in the Aggeneys area, i.e. Swartberg-Tank Hill and Big Syncline...Bapoor nature of the sulfide mineralization of the Aggeneys deposits vs the Cu-poor, Ba-rich character of
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Bushmanland Group supracrustal succession, Aggeneys, Bushmanland, South Africa: Provenance, age of deposition and...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa Present address: Paleoproterozoic...O. Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006. South Atrica e-mail: russellb®postgrad.uj.ac.za Richard...Sciences, University of Cape Town. Private Bag. Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa e-mail: dlr@geology.uct...uct.ac.z;i e 2007 March Geolt^cal Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The cenini] portion of the structurally
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Associates Pty Ltd, PO Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia A R T I C L E I N F O...deposits. In addition, the Menninnie PbZn deposit, South Australia, is not a BHT deposit since mineralization...(Broken Hill (Australia), Zinkgruvan, Menninnie Dam (South Australia; Beeson, 1990b), Balmat (New York), and...(Dammberget (Sweden), Boquira (Brazil), Aggeneys (South Africa), and Gamsberg). Although not being assigned...massive sulfides de­ posits in the Arunta Complex (Northern Territory, Australia) and the Georgetown Block
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Hill-type Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, Namaqua Province, South Africa M. Stalder Department of Geology, University...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa email: mstalder@freesurf.ch A. Rozendaal Department...7602, South Africa Corresponding author: ar@sun.ac.za © 2005 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...amphibolite-facies metamorphosed Bushmanland sequence of South Africa. In the Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, barite has been...concentrations of Ba within the wall rocks of the Aggeneys-Gamsberg deposits indicate that hydrothermal discharge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks from the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex (South Africa)" Geochemical evidence for an exhalation-related...2Department of Geology, University of Cape Town, 7700 Rondebosch (South Africa) (Received October 5, 1988; accepted...rocks from the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex (South Africa): Geochemical evidence for an exhalation-related...rocks and sillimanite-corundum rocks in the northern Cape Province (Fig. 1 ). They occur as scattered...Sequence in the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex (1600 Ma; Reid et al., 1987). The supracrustal Bushmanland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hill-type Gamsberg Zn–Pb deposit, Namaqua Province, South Africa Received: 24 January 2003 / Accepted: 29 September...the Gamsberg deposit in central Bushmanland, South Africa. Their shape, zonal features, and geochemistry...occurring at the transition of siliciclastic-hosted pyrite–sphalerite– graphite mineralization to calc-silicate-hosted...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, 7602 Matieland, South Africa E-mail: ar@sun.ac.za Tel.: +27-21-8083122 Fax:...are located in the central Namaqua Province of South Africa (Fig. 1). Three similar deposits are Fig. 1
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level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum;...Chapman photo. • 1.4 cm, Chapman’s Gully, South Australia. South Australian Museum collection; Jeff Scovil...Jeff Scovil photo. • 4.2 cm, Mongalata goldfield, South Australia. Geoscience Australia collection; Jeff...Nigel Richardson Barry Schubert Robert Sielecki South Australian Museum Malcolm & Angela Southwood Lee...these is the Australian Museum, established in New South Wales in 1829. The Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits in a high-grade metamorphic terrain, South Africa, a lithogeochemical exploration application...SRK Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) (Ltd), PO Box 55291, Northlands 2116, South Africa Mining, Oil, and...Johannesburg, South Africa d Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, South Africa b a r t i c...eastern part of the metamorphic Namaqua Province, South Africa, at Areachap, Kantienpan and the defunct Prieska...Ishikawa et al. (1976) with a chlorite–carbonate–pyrite index (CCPI), defined as: (100(MgO + FeOtotal )/(MgO
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of which are vent-proximal, are distributed in district clusters roughly surrounding a volcanic center...Canada For purposes of this discussion, a SEDEX district is taken to comprise three or more deposits. Stand-alone...stand-alone deposits do not form a vent-distal district. Districts form when the volume of a collector...(Large et al. 1998), has a zinc ratio of 13 on the northern perimeter of the deposit (basin) increasing to...center (Fig. 1; Ireland et al. 2004) along a north-south flow path leading into the HYC collector basin.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Aggeneys base metal sulphide mineral deposit sites in the Lower Orange River region, South Africa...Metropolitan University, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth, South Africa e-mail: ttmuedi@gmail.com A. Papenfuss and N...Free State, Geology Department, Bloemfontein, South Africa, e-mail: gauertcdk@ufs.ac.za U. Altenberger...Elizabeth, South Africa e-mail: Maarten.deWit@nmmu.ac.za © 2016 March Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...Program. The Aggeneys Cu-Pb-Zn deposit, situated in the arid north western part of South Africa, represents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mid-Proterozoic Volcano-Sedimentary sequence in the Aggeneys Hills Duplex, Namaqua Metamorphic Complex W. P...colliswp@sci.uovs.ac.za © 2003 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The western part of the Mid-Proterozoic...tectonostratigraphic terranes, including the Aggeneys terrane. In the centre of the Aggeneys terrane occurs a duplex of...of five fold nappes, represented by the Aggeneys Hills. One of these, the Quarry fold nappe, contains sections...Broken Hill type deposits in other parts of the Aggeneys terrane. The exposed portion of the Koeris Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-Pb-Zn-Cu sulphides and baryte at Aggeneys and Gamsberg, South Africa K. VON GEHLEN Institut fiir Geochemie...Company (Pty) Ltd., Private Bag XOl, Aggeneys, CP 8893, Rep. of South Africa AND A. ROZENDAAL O'okiep Copper...Ltd., PO Box 17, Nababeep, CP 8265, Rep. of South Africa ABSTRACT. Sulphur isotope ratios in sulphides...extreme for Precambrian sulphur. Black Mountain, Aggeneys,in the west gave an average for the sulphides...barytes of +20.6+4.3%0 (3 samples). Broken Hill, Aggeneys, in the centre gave an average for the sulphides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOUTHERN KAROO BASIN AND BEATTIE MAGNETIC ANOMALY, SOUTH AFRICA: AN INTEGRATED INTERPRETATION WITH TECTONIC... Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany Africa Earth Observatory Network and Faculty of Science...Elizabeth, South Africa Council for Geoscience, Western Cape, P.O. Box 572, 7535 Bellville, Cape Town, South...South Africa e-mail: ansalique@gmail.com M.J. DE WIT Africa Earth Observatory Network and Faculty of...Metropolitan University, 6031 Port Elizabeth, South Africa e-mail: maarten.dewit@nmmu.ac.za T. RYBERG
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high-grademetamorphic PrieskaZn-Cu depositand the Aggeneys-Gamsberg Namaquaprovince.Their size and compositionare...of the Korannaland Sequence (SACS, town 2107, South Africa. Introduction ** Presentaddress:Department...of Natal, King GeorgeV Avenue, Durban 4000, South Africa. 0361-0128/89/896/34-15$3.00 34 1980). ... theresults ofwhich PRIESKAZn-Cu DEPOSIT, SOUTH AFRICA TABLE1. 35 Cu-Pb-Zn-AgContentsof Someof the...tionsare alsowithin PRIESKAZn-Cu DEPOSIT, SOUTH AFRICA TABLE 3. Phase 37 PetrographicIndicatorsof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mid-Proterozoic Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, Namaqua Province, South Africa M. STALDER AND A. ROZENDAAL* Department of...Building, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa ABSTR ACT Granular aggregates of fine-grained...associated with the Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, South Africa. To date, these minerals were believed to have...wolfeite, iron formations, Gamsberg Zn-Pb deposit, South Africa. Introduction ALGOMA-TYPE iron formations in...product after primary iron-bearing minerals, like pyrite, magnetite, hematite, biotite or actinolite (Ashley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Black Mountain Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Aggeneys, South Africa. H6gbomite coexists with a number of minerals... gahnite, sillimanite, sphalerite, pyrrhotine, pyrite, magnetite, and ilmenite, suggesting that h6gbomite...h6gbomite, sulphidation-oxidation reactions, Aggeneys, South Africa, massive sulphides, exploration guide....Bushmanland Group, Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex, South Africa. The hornblendite sample occurs Mineralogical...Syncline Zn-Pb deposit at Aggeneys. In studies of gahnite associated with the Aggeneys base metal deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
× 3.2 × 3.1 cm, N’Chwaning II mine, Kuruman, South Africa. 72   ROCKS & MINERALS Reproduced with permission...the baryte with pyrite pictured as figure 9, I chose to catch reflections in the pyrite using distantly...a mild amount of white light directly above the pyrite. If you’re careful with the intensity of *In many...Reproduced with permission Figure 9. Baryte with pyrite, 8.7 × 5 × 4 cm, Rutyna’s Pocket, Lubin mine, Legnica...after calcite, 7.2 × 5 × 4 cm, Aggeneys, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa. Reproduced with permission
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit in the NamaqualandMetamorphic Complex, South Africa H,c.nrwrcE. Fnr*rnror.,DnNNtsHorrnu,uN, RoN...Geological Sciences,University of Cape Town, Rondebosch7700, South Africa JoHN M. Moonn Department of Geology...Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstovvn6140, South Africa AssrRAcr Micas with variable Ba content in...Hill deposit, Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex, South Africa. In those layers that contain neither potassium...bodies near Aggeneys and X-ray diffraction. The ion chromatography, analysis, in the northern CapeProvince
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River and Mount Isa in Australia, Aggeneys and Gamsberg in southern Africa, and Sullivan and Balmat-Edwards...Upper Proterozoic ~ 600 Ma) Upper Proterozoic ~ 720 Ma) Middle Proterozoic 1000-600 Ma) Zn, Zn, Zn, Zn, ...1050-1000 Ma) Proterozoic ~ l l 2 0 M a ) Proterozoic 1600-1400 Ma) Proterozoic ~ 1300 Ma) Zn, Zn, Zn...(1980) ij © > © (1450-1400 Ma) ( ~ 1650 Ma) ( ~ 1650 Ma) ( ~ 1650 Ma ) Pb, Zn, Zn, Cu, Zn, Zn, Zn...Proterozoic ( 1700-1600 Ma) Middle Proterozoic ( ~ 1700 Ma) Middle Proterozoic ( ~ 1600 Ma) Lower Proterozoic
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from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Have I ever pictured one of...from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Via Mineralia specimen and...active mining for metals had ceased in the Annaberg district—thanks to ongoing collecting by locals. I always...Bergmannisch Glück Gegentrum mine, Frohnau, Annaberg district. Fluorite, 8 cm, from the Bergsmannisch Glück...for Sulfides, Pyrite, and Mexico, there are matrix specimens of bornite-coated pyrite from the Milpillas
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1976 The Copper Deposits of the O'Okiep District, South Africa: New Data and Concepts E. F. Stumpfl Montan-Universit~t...Ltd., Springbok, 8240, South Africa The copper deposits of the O' okiep District rank amongst the top...and miea; they also replace altered Fe-Ti-oxides. Pyrite (up to i. 4 % Co) and pentlandite (up to 5% Co)...proposed. Stratabound base metal concentrations (Aggeneys, G a m s berg) in lower grade (amphibolite facies)...commenced The Copper Deposits of the O' okiep District ~/'~I Fig. I. Sketch map IT II I A l r "
 
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