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Pyrrhotite from
Areachap, Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Areachap, Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:897753
Long-form Identifier:1:3:897753:3
GUID (UUID V4):e9d76618-93a9-4fdc-bc0d-2599c313b70d
References
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massive 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...sample from five massive sulfide occurrences in the Areachap Group. Although sulfides from each site have distinct...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
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sulphide mineralisation at Boksputs, Northern Cape, South Africa H. C. Humphreys Department of Geology...Geology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville,RSA Abstract. A small stratiform F e - C u - Z n mineralisation...examined from Boksputs within the metavolcanic Areachap Group (1.5 Ga), along the eastern boundary of...new growth and redistribution of sulphides and by local replacement ofpyrrhotite by pyrite. Group. This...occurs on the farm Boksputs in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa along strike from the much larger
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the Copperton Zn-Cu VMS deposit, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Russell Bailie a,āŽ, Jens Gutzmer...Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa Department of Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg...online 24 February 2011 Keywords: Copperton deposit Areachap Group Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit...(Copperton) deposit, located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, exploited from 1972 to 1994 a...the intensely deformed and highly metamorphosed Areachap Group. The latter represents a 1.3-1.24 Ga continental
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Lithostratigraphy of the Copperton Formation, Areachap Group D.H. Cornell Department of Earth Sciences...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa e-mail: cornell@gvc.gu.se; david.cornell@cantab...cornell@cantab.net Ā© 2019 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. Abstract The type area of the...104, Somuspan 105 and Dooniespan 108 in Prieska District. Outcrop is poor and the type material is preserved...southernmost unit of the Areachap Group which is exposed between Prieska Copper Mines and Areachap Mine north of
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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...of the metamorphic Namaqua Province, South Africa, at Areachap, Kantienpan and the defunct Prieska Cuā€“Zn...Mid-Proterozoic volcano sedimentary succession known as the Areachap Group. These deposits were affected by a complex
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the Friersdale Charnockite (Keimoes Suite), South Africa C.W. Lambert, P.H. Macey and S. Doggart Council...for Geoscience, PO Box 572, Bellville, 7535, South Africa e-mail: clambert@geoscience.org.za; pmacey@geoscience...and R.H. Bailie University of the Western Cape, South Africa e-mail: shane.sedzani@gmail.com; rbailie@uwc...ac.za Ā© 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract The Friersdale Charnockite is a late-Mesoproterozoic...in the KeimoesUpington region of the Northern Cape, South Africa. The weakly to undeformed, northwest-southeast
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Proterozoic front arc setting at Boksputs, Northwest Cape, South Africaa possible Besshi-type deposit G. J. Geringer...Northwest Cape, South Africa. It occurs in the Proterozoic amphibolite belt, the Areachap Group, along...of the Areachap Group along the eastern margin of the Namaqua mobile belt in the Northwest Cape, South...South Africa (Fig. 1). The metavolcanic belt, dated at 1200-1300 Ma (Barton and Burger 1983) separates the...at Jacomynspan, and the Cu-Zn pyrite deposit at Areachap, which also was once mined. Aim of study and
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Box62379, Marshall- Areachap Group of the Korannaland Sequence (SACS, town 2107, South Africa. Introduction...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...processduringphase3. FIG. 5. A crosscuttingveinlet of white pyrrhotite and gray calcite in magnetite, containing an
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Pilbara Craton, Western Australia [19], and the VMS district of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina [20]. deposits...Pilbara Craton, Western Australia [19], and the VMS district of Tierra del Fuego, Sources of sulfur in the...the Archean Superior Craton during a period of south-directed subduction (Figure 2). Minerals 2018, 8...Somevolcaniclastic workers [26] favored a model of south-directed subduction but recognized that northward...Terrane extends for a strike length of 275 km across northern Wisconsin into the upper peninsula of Michigan
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elements data suggest that Stage II pyrite and pyrrhotite have higher contents of Cu, Zn, Ag, Sb and Pb...of four tectonic units, including from north to south (Chen et al., 2012): (1) Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous...resources, and are dominated by pyrite (~35%), pyrrhotite (~30%), sphalerite (~20%), and galena (~10%)...Banded ores mainly comprise of pyrite (~45%), pyrrhotite (~25%), galena (~15%) and sphalerite (~10%) with... Disseminated ores consist of pyrite (~40%), pyrrhotite (~25%), sphalerite (~15%), galena (~10%) and
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sulļ¬de horizon from the Salt River VMS deposit (South Africa) Cora C. Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser āŽ, Fanus Viljoen...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...online 3 August 2013 Keywords: VMS Salt River South Africa Sulļ¬de Metamorphism LA-ICP-MS a b s t r a c...upper sulļ¬de zone of the Salt River VMS deposit (South Africa) were analyzed for PGE (platinum group elements)...massive sulļ¬de (VMS) deposit located in the Northern Cape Province within the Mesoproterozoic Namaqualand
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bodies of which the 1806 Zone, 1807 Zone, Ming South Up Plunge and Down Plunge and the Lower Footwall...semimassive to massive sulphides and (b) chalcopyriteā€“pyrrhotiteā€“pyrite stringers distally from semi-massive to...125 Science Bldg., Lubbock, TX 79049-1053, USA pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite and galena were analysed by in...isotopic signatures of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite fall within a limited range...has higher Ī“34S (5.8ā€“ 19.6ā€°), especially for pyrrhotite (mean, 17.2Ā±2.2ā€°, n=8). The sulphur isotope composition
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Base Metal Deposit, Aggeneys-Gamsberg Ore District, South Africa Tarryn Kim Cawoodā€ ,* and Abraham Rozendaal...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...fine-grained pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and lesser pyrrhotite, hosted by sulfide-poor but magnetite- and barite-bearing...formation in the F2 hinge, rich in coarse galena, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite, to sulfide-poor, magnetite-bearing
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sulfide deposits in the Murchison greenstone belt, South Africa Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera & Hennie Terblanche...Murchison greenstone belt, Limpopo Province, South Africa, represents a rifted epicontinental arc sequence...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VMS) district in Southern Africa. The so-called Cuā€“ Zn line is host to...schwarz-schampera@bgr.de H. Terblanche METOREX Ltd., Rosebank, South Africa higher temperature upflow, reflected by proportions...Murchison greenstone belt . Kaapvaal craton . South Africa Introduction Volcanic-hosted massive sulfide
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Prieska CopperMines Ltd. copper-zincorebodyin South Africa in 1968 focusedthe attention of economicgeologistson...Annex sulfide occurrence lie on the flanks of a south- CoppertonVolcanic Pile which extendsfrom 10 km...coversall the above-mentioned sequences in the south fieldmappingover a periodof 5 1/2 years. which extends...homogeneous quartz-biotite-amphibole gneiss occursat Areachap,at the northernextremityof the with "quiet" electrical...gneisses of the orebodyto 100 metersin width at the south- comprises gneisses in western end (Fig. 14). This
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Natal, King GeorgeV Avenue,Durban 4000, samples, South Africa. the sulfiderocksamples are givenin Tables3...phlogopite,plag -- plagioclase, py -- pyrite, pyrrh = pyrrhotite,qz = quartz,silic = silicate,sill = sillimanite...in U-mineralized metased- 15.70 imentsfrom northern Australiawasattributed to COā€¢ 19.00 complexingby...n the Prieska-Coppertonregion, Cape Province:Geol. Soc. South Africa Trans., v. 89, p. 17-28. Cullers...andthe structure Unpub. Ph.D. thesis,Stellenbosch,South Africa, Univ. Stelof hydrothermal systems at mid-ocean
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types differ in mineral composition, with pyrite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite Ā± sphalerite mineralization in the...as well as middle Paleozoic clastic rocks occur south of the Baidaulet-Akbastau terrane. In the Altai-Sayan...Silurian to Early Devonian clastic rocks. To the south are the Terekty (Shcherba et al., 1998) and Chulyshman...Salair Range Salair Range Salair Range Mining district Kuroko Kuroko Kuroko Urals Urals Urals Kuroko...Ordovician granitoids (Rudnev, 2010), whereas to the south they are intruded by granitoids not older than the
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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
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the most famous finds of this type were made in Africa, www.jgeosci.org Fernando Colombo, RaĆŗl Lira...Las PeƱas 33Ā° S Pampean Ranges of CĆ³rdoba 64Ā° W District with copper mineralization in marble La Estanzue...central Argentina, are composed of several northā€“south trending blocks that were lifted and tilted during... The marble lens is cut by faults on both the northern (where it is in contact with a garnet gneiss)...sulfides are an exception, but they could have a local origin and be unrelated to chrysocolla associated
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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 ā€˜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;
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Koperberg Suite and granitic plutons in Namaqualand, South Africa: A crustal source in Namaquan (Grenville) times... UniversiteĢ de LieĢ€ge, Sart Tilman, Belgium b Africa Museum, Section de GeĢologie Isotopique, Tervuren...Johannesburg, South Africa d School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa...Orogeny (late Mesoproterozoic) in the Oā€™okiep District is characterized by two tectono-magmatic episodes:...The Oā€™okiep intrusive rocks of Namaqualand, South Africa, include the Koperberg Suite and a number of
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ore field is an important Pbāˆ’Zn polymetallic ore district located in northeastern China, where more than...proposed to explain the Pbāˆ’Zn mineralization in this district: the sedimentary-exhalative model and the superimposed...origin for the Pbāˆ’Zn deposits in the Qingchengzi district, but suggest that they represent a distal hydrothermal...ore field is an important Pbāˆ’Zn polymetallic ore district that is located in eastern Liaoning, to the northeast...dynasty (400 years ago), when silver was mined by local people. The massive exploration of Pb and Zn began
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Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Port Elizabeth, South Africa FranƧois M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic during the south Atlantic Ocean openingā€...Ortelius was the ļ¬rst to recognize the match of the South American and African Atlantic margins (Ortelius...translated to ā€˜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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ā€¢ SILK COCOONS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES ā€¢ 20 HEERIA BERRIES OF SOUTH AFRICA AS A SOURCE OF OIL . . ....BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 140 GEMSBOK BEANS FROM SOUTH AFRICA ā€¢ CHARACTERS AND USES OF CUICA RESIN ā€¢ COTTON...UGANDA . 295 THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES IN EA ST AFRICA 297 COTTON GROWING IN MOZAMBIQUE 447 NEW AFRICAN...POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF COTTON GROWING IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF NIGERIA. By P. H. LAMB GENERAL ARTICLES...Illustrations) PAGE 189 UTILISATION OF DUMP COAL IN SOUTH AFRICA . 200 CINNAMON: SOURCES, PRODUCTION AND TRADE
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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-Pilgrimā€™s Rest, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Capricorn
 
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