 | Moshupya, , Abiye, , Mouri, , Levin, , Strauss, , Strydom, (2019) Assessment of Radon Concentration and Impact on Human Health in a Region Dominated by Abandoned Gold Mine Tailings Dams: A Case from the West Rand Region, South Africa. Geosciences, 9 (11) 466 doi:10.3390/geosciences9110466 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mine Tailings Dams: A Case from the West Rand Region, South Africa Paballo Moshupya 1, * , Tamiru Abiye...Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa; Tamiru.Abiye@wits.ac.za Department of Geology...University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa; hmouri@uj.ac.za Private Consultant, 60 Kambro...0157, South Africa; mlevin@mweb.co.za Parc RGM, Private Bag X54598, Nina Park, Pretoria 0156, South Africa;...radon gas in the West Rand region, located west of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and to investigate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | succession of the Archean Sodium Group, Ventersdorp Supergroup, South Africa: Volcanology, sedimentology and...Geology, University of Pretoria, 0002 Pretoria, South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Available online 25 February 2012 Keywords: Ventersdorp Supergroup Large Igneous Province Archean volcano-sedimentary...volcano-sedimentary succession of the Sodium Group, in the south-western corner of the Kaapvaal craton, rests unconformably...granites and is usually correlated with the middle Ventersdorp Supergroup. This Neoarchean (âŒ2700 Ma) large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | eskers in the Lichtenburg/Ventersdorp area of the North West Province, South Africa Mike C.J. de Wit University...7195, South Africa e-mail: dewit@icon.co.za © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...Lichtenburg-Ventersdorp area of the North West Province are associated with north-south orientated sinuous...(Transvaal Supergroup) at some 1,500 m elevation. East to west, this dolomite plain measures 150 km, and northsouth...Diamond-bearing gravels of the Lichtenburg â Ventersdorp area occur mainly as sinuous ridges or 'runs' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nooitgedacht (66), Kimberley South Africa M.C.J. de Wit De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Africa Exploration. P.O...0046, South Africa E-mail: mike.dewit@debeersgroup.com © 2004 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...of the biggest alluvial diamond ever found in South Africa, the Venter diamond (511.25cts). The farm can...surface and surface outcrop of late Archaean Ventersdorp lava with typical corestone development. Between...mainly of resistant material derived from the Ventersdorp volcanics, and isolated well-rounded and extrabasinal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Resources, University of Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein (South Africa) (Received April 6, 1982; revision accepted...southern Africa. Precambrian Res., 21: 39--54. The Prieska area of the Cape Province of South Africa lies...Proterozoic low-angle shear/thrust zones. The first zone marks the margin to the Kheis mobile belt and carried...oceanic suture. INTRODUCTION The western part of South Africa is b o u n d e d by the crystalline basement...by y o u n g e r cover in the south and by the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The eastern margin, however |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | M.C.J. DE WIT 53 Canteen Koppie at Barkly West: South Africaâs first diamond mine M.C.J. de Wit Department...Department of Geology, Pretoria University, South Africa Present address: BRC Diamond Corporation, 14 Avenue...mdewit@brcdiamond.com © 2008 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Canteen Koppie, a national monument...of historical value, occurs next to Barkly West on the north bank of the Vaal River. Diamonds were discovered...became the first alluvial diamond diggings in South Africa. The digging continued, albeit on and off in |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | BETWEEN BARKLY WEST AND THE VAAL-HARTS CONFLUENCE IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA By FABRICE...deposits along the Vaal River, alluvial Barkly West and the Vaal-Harts confluence, have been worked...Younger Gravels. These rest on a basement of Ventersdorp Supergroup andesites and Karoo Sequence sediments... system in the area as well as the presence of local of the drainage trap sites in the river profile...criticisms during the course of this investigation. Dr. N. Hiller for his helpful comments and time spent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FORMER THICKNESS OF KAROO STRATA NEAR KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRICA S. MASTER Economic Geology Research Institute...Johannesburg, South Africa e-mal: sharad.master@wits.ac.za © 2012 December Geological Society of South Africa...substrate of basic lavas of the Pniel Group, Ventersdorp Supergroup, are very well known as both geological...of the smooth glacially striated substrate of Ventersdorp lava, with, in many cases, radial fractures emanating...loading of an elastic medium by an indenter. Large quartz porphyry erratic boulders found in the Dwyka tillites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DIAMOND DEPOSITS OF THE VENTERSDORP DISTRICT, NORTHWEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA T.R. MARSHALL Explorations...1412, South Africa e-mail: rnarshall.tania@gmail.com G.A. NORTON Rockwell Diamonds Inc. South Africa...glenn@rockwelldiamonds.coin @ 2009 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT NiiniLTous models have been presented...alluvial deposits on the dolomite plain in the Ventersdorp district. These have, typically, highliglitet] the...sequence of the alluvial gravel deposits of the Ventersdorp di.strict is shown to comprise an economic lower |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology of the Far East Rand and the Heidelberg District, Southern Transvaal.âA Retrospect. By F. H. HATCH...due south-east of Johannesburg at the foot of the Zuikerboschrand, a range of hills running south-west...River and made up of the volcanic beds of the Ventersdorp System and of the Elsburg series at the top of...of the Witwatersrand System. Travelling south-east from the Zuikerboschrand, the whole of the Witwatersrand...traversed in descending order. The district, which extends south-west of Heidelberg toGoedverwachting, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Transvaal carbonate platform, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Dawn Y. Sumner Department of Geology, University...Park, 2000 South Africa e-mail: njb@na.rau.ac.za © 2006 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...~2.67 to ~2.46 Ga lower Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, consists of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate...Kaapvaal Craton during extrusion of the ~2.7 Ga Ventersdorp lavas. Although depositional patterns are consistent...explain subsidence. Heating and thinning during Ventersdorp time can produce the observed thermal subsidence |  | Reimold, W. U., Kïżœber, C., Fletcher, P., Killick, A. M., Wilson, J. D. (1999) Pseudotachylitic breccias from fault zones in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: evidence of autometasomatism and post-brecciation alteration processes. Mineralogy and Petrology, 66 (1) 25-53 doi:10.1007/bf01161721 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from fault zones in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: evidence of autometasomatism and post-brecciation...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Institute of Geochemistry, University of Vienna...Austria 3 Fochville, South Africa 4 The Mineral Corporation, Cramerview, South Africa 5 CORSTOR Pry. Ltd...Ltd, Fourways, South Africa With 12 Figures Received July 14, 1998; revised version accepted February 9...gold- and uranium-rich Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa. They are particularly abundant in a zone tangential |  | | 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)...descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in |  | ANHAEUSSER, C. R., STETTLER, E., GIBSON, R. L., COOPER, G. R. J. (2010) A POSSIBLE MESOARCHAEAN IMPACT STRUCTURE AT SETLAGOLE, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: AEROMAGNETIC AND FIELD EVIDENCE. South African Journal of Geology, 113 (4) 413-436 doi:10.2113/gssajg.113.4.413 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MESOARCHAEAN IMPACT STRUCTURE AT SETLAGOLE, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: AEROMAGNETIC AND FIELD EVIDENCE C...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa e-mail: carl.anhaeusser@wits.ac.za E. STETTLER...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa, and Department of Geology, University of Pretoria...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa e-mail: roger.gibson@wits.ac.za G.R.J. COOPER...2050, South Africa e-mail: gordon.cooperÂźwits.ac.za C> 2010 December Geological Society of South Africa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | area north of Lake Huron (SE Canada) and several deposits within the Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa)...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa H. BrĂ€tz Lithosphere Dynamics Section, Geo-Center...auriferous conglomerates of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, from which a series of different pyrite generations...abundance of rounded pyrite grains in otherwise quartz-dominated, in places auriferous, conglomerates...levels of the Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp Supergroups in South Africa. All of these conglomerates have |  | Guy, B. M., Ono, S., Gutzmer, J., Lin, Y., Beukes, N. J. (2014) Sulfur sources of sedimentary âbuckshotâ pyrite in the Auriferous Conglomerates of the Mesoarchean Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp Supergroups, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 49 (6) 751-775 doi:10.1007/s00126-014-0518-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mesoarchean Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp Supergroups, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa B. M. Guy & S. Ono & J...in the Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp supergroups, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Detailed petrographic...Main, Vaal, Basal, Kalkoenkrans, Beatrix, and Ventersdorp Contact reefs were analyzed for their multiple...and lithification) from the Middelvlei and the Ventersdorp Contact reefs were measured for comparison. The...Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa e-mail: bradley.guy@sgs.com J. Gutzmer Helmholtz-Institute |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Empire Street, WITS 2050, Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received... a b s t r a c t The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa has been the focus of gold exploitation for...(Welkom), Klerksdorp, West Wits Line, West Rand, Central Rand, East Rand and South Rand goldïŹelds are summarised.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2. South Rand goldïŹeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4. West Rand goldïŹeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | Reimold, W.U., Meshik, A.P., Smits, G., Pravdivtseva, O.V., Shukolyukov, Yu.A. (1995) Fission xenon dating of Witwatersrand uraninites: Implications for geological activity in the Central Kaapvaal Craton about 1 Ga ago. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59 (24) 5177-5190 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(95)00354-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the East Rand, West Rand, and Welkom Goldfields of the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa. These samples...Nigel Gold Mine, and 1.300 _+ 0.058 Ga for the Ventersdorp Contact Reef sample from Kloof Gold Mine. No...in the central part of the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa is well-known for its exceptional gold mineralization...of the Witwatersrand basin (hatched) in southern Africa. fence, the uraninite remained unaffected and...effects were the result of deposition of the Ventersdorp extrusives on top of the Witwatersrand Supergroup |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alteration of the Allanridge Formation of the Ventersdorp Supergroup near Douglas, Northern Cape Province...the Free State, Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Corresponding author: e-mail = dBruynH@sci.uovs...the Free State, Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa H. T. Whitelaw Department of Geology, University...the Free State, Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Present address: 2/1 12 Ruskin Terrace, Glasgow...Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa ABSTRACT The Allanridge Formation of the Ventersdorp Supergroup in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relationships of epigenetic Pb-Zn mineralisation in the Ventersdorp Supergroup near Douglas, Northern Cape Province...the Free State, Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Present address: 2/1 12 Ruskin Terrace, Glasgow...the Free State, Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa e-mail: dbruiynh.sci@mail.uovs.ac.za F.J. Kruger...2050 South Africa. e-mail: krugerj@geosciences.wits.ac.za © 2005 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...altered and mineralised lavas of the ~2.7 Ga Ventersdorp Supergroup were sampled at two localities near |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A T A N D ARENACEOUS BOTHAVILLE FORMATIONS, VENTERSDORP SUPERGROUP (LATE ARCHAEAN--EARLY PROTEROZOIC)...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300 (South Africa) (Received September 5, 1984; revision accepted...Bothaville Formations, Ventersdorp Supergroup (late Archaean-~early Proterozoic), in South Africa. Precambrian... The volcanic-sedimentary succession of the Ventersdorp Supergroup which is virtually undisturbed tectonically...Tholeiitic lava - basaltic to andesitic Dominant quartz areni[e with conglomerate facies; minor argillite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interaction in the Makwassie Formation, Ventersdorp Supergroup, South Africa W.A. van der Westhuizen *, H. de...Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa Abstract The Late Archaean Ventersdorp Supergroup in South Africa constitutes...sediment; Makwassie Formation; Ventersdorp Supergroup 1. Introduction The Ventersdorp Supergroup represents a...for about 750 km along a north-east axis from Sodium in the Britstown District of the Northern Cape Province...Winter and Van der Westhuizen suggests that the Ventersdorp basin was much greater than the present outline |  | | Report (issue) | | Genesis of Uraniun1- and Gold-Bearing Precan1brian Quartz-Pebble Congloinerates Proceedings of a Workshop...GOLD-BEARING PRECAMBRIAN QUARTZ-PEBBLE CONGLOMERATES to w Polished specimens of quartz-pebble conglomerate...Photograph, artificial light. Note distribution of quartz pebbles; fine-grained pyritiferous matrix concentrated...courtesy of D. K. Hallbauer, Chamber of Mines of South Africa ; radioluxograph by David M. Watson, Geological...gold in it and along its upper mar gin. Compare quartz pebble size with Al. Note concentration of pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | H.E., Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom2520, South Africa Received: 26 April 1994/Accepted: 9 December...southwestern parts of the Transvaal province of South Africa was undertaken with the primary aim of examining...the basin in which the Transvaal Sequence of South Africa was deposited. The thin, silicielastic Black...the basement complex and the Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp Supergroups, and is overlain by a thick succession...southern parts of the study area and towards the north in the northern regions. Most of the palaeocurrent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The carbonates of the Transvaal and Griqualand West Sequences of the Kaapvaal craton, with special reference...Lime Limited, Private Bag, 8410 Lime Acres, South Africa Received: 8 July 1994/Accepted: 9 December 1994...southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal craton, in Griqualand West, mainly tidal flat carbonates and shallow marine...transgression. North of the Griquatown Fault, where the center of the Griqualand West sub-basin developed...m). There, the largest limestone deposits of South Africa are located. The deposit at Lime Acres and mining |
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