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⇱ Marcasite from Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


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Marcasite from
Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa

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Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1715474
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1715474:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
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GEMSTONES of Southern Africa Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, southern Mozambique and...Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Crescent, Century City, 7441 South Africa PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visitwww.penguinrandomhouse...published edition, 2022: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...with blue ajoite, 6.2 cm - Messina No. 5 shaft, South Africa - Bruce Cairncross specimen and photo; (bottom)
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Twenty-three, Number Three ® Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................and this must have introduced him to many other local mineral collectors and possibilities for further...of this typically natrolite covered material for local dealers as well as himself. He used much of this...lent a distinction to his stock of minerals that local dealers found hard to match. During his time with...later years he just purchased from the miners and local dealers. He did not like to be hurried, and drove
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, ,, ,, ,, ,, Victoria ,, ,, Beresovsk ,P Pilgrim's Rest, Transvaal Victoria Mexico The above list...one special district, and no doubt owe their existence in the auriferous veins to purely local causes, the...whilst cubical iron pyrites is thus very abundant, marcasite never seems to occur in a gold reef. The author...conditions bisulphide of iron crystallises as marcasite, rather than as cubical pyrites, but whatever...of gold, or else that the solutions from which marcasite crystallises are incapable of dissolving gold
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-einto south the P Salt down looking View ast an VP UNION DEPARTMENT OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES... View looking down into the Salt -Pan from the south -east .... (Frontispiece ) . PLATE II (Figs . 1...within rim ..... 20 PLATE VIII . The PLATE south - eastern wall of the as seen .. IX . Volcanic...deposits , however , was only begun in 1913 by the South African Alkali , Ltd. , a Johannesburg concern ...hollow measured from rim to rim along a north and south line is 3,460 feet and along an east and west line
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UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA !' DEPAJHMENT .OF. MINE~ .GEOLOGICAL·s~RVEY ., • #~ •• ,. ~ -~ .., ...51249'2-1958•9-S,000. ✓ • .- .. r UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA DEPARTMENT OF MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The...The Mineral Resources of the Union of South Africa ERRATA Page 77, line 29.-For "purpose" read " purposes...long oxes of local tenses of" read "The ore-body trends parallel to the long axes of local lenses of."...edition of The Nlineral Resources of the Union of South Africa as a Special Publication in 1940 could not have
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' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,...known as 'rucken' in the Mansfeld copper district also contain occasional nickelite, together with...best known examples of this type is the cobalt district of Schneeberg, in Saxony, a mountainous region...of Besides quartz-cobalt veins the Schneeberg district contains quite a 3 variety of vein types, which... 344 cally important deposits of the entire district. At Schneeberg, the veins are so crowded together
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1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic...ofthe Damara and Irumide orogens, Soutbwestern Africa, and the Mid Continent Rift System, USA 9.3.1.
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Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 PO Box...(Oxbow Crescent), Century City, 7441 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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been largely the result of the observation of local geologists, for it rarely happens that a sojourn...of the Department of Mines and Agriculture, New South Wales. Sydney. Ann. Rep. Dep. Mines, Queensl. Annual...Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South London. Materialien zur Geologie Russlands. lichen...N.S. W. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Sydney. Mem. Geol. Surv. Victoria. Memoirs...Stuttgart. N.S.W. Dep. Mines, Min. Besources. New South Wales Department of Mines. Mineral Natal Bep. Mining
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Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000Hl/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, Unh·ersity of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Prh·ate Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa !'.ote: The authors and the publishers cannot
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Carlin-type gold deposits in the Jerritt Canyon district, Nevada, USA AH.Hofstra, W.E.Daly,D.lBirak & T...linear subbasin-controlied gold deposit belt in South China* Yang Shutong & Hu Lunchi 179 Ore mineralogy...S.K.Bilwas 187 Gold in metamorphicrocksof the South Carpatians, Romania* G.Udubasa, P.Hartopanu, I.Hartopanu...vein deposits in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Structural style, fluid properties and light...alteration in the Zwartkoppie shoot, Sheba gold mine, South Africa* R.P.Sclwuwstra & J.Mark~raaff 375 Platinum-group
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t a t e d Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (exclusive of t h e U S S R ) a n d Australasia...him. I have tried to include all ore districts in Africa, Asia (exclusive of the U.S.S.R.)> and Australasia...incluir todos los distritos mineros conocido en Africa, Asia (con exclusion de la Union Soviética), y...Greenland. This volume covers mineral deposits in Africa, Asia exclusive of the U.S.S.R., and Australasia...Philippines, and Japan are included with Asia. In South Africa, the deposits are arranged by prov­ inces, in
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Deposits of North America Marc[uette Iron Ore District in the State of Michigan 7. African Iron Ore Deposits...Silver-Lead Deposits The Ore Deposits of Broken Hill, New South Wales IV. Copper Deposits and Iron Pyrite Deposits...Deposits of the Appalachian States 2. The Homestake, South Dakota, Gold Deposits 3. Other Examples of this...Gold-bearing Conglomerates of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 509 Genesis of the Gold-bearing Conglomerates...The Conglomerates of the Tarkwa Goldfield in West Africa 519 519 (/) Antimony Deposits 1. Antimony Deposits
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deposits and where they would develop, depend on many local factors, but the broad environmental control on...mesothermal lodes, such as those of Pilgrim's Rest in South Africa, can develop. Again, researches undertaken...Surv. Ind. Spec;,,1 Publication 72 3 North and South America, but where the arc system has undergone...dominated by Cu, Fe and precious metal depOSits, with local development of minor W and Mo mineralisation. The...volcanism has been well established. In Hokuroko district of Japan, there is strong evidence of a period
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••• ••• Rhodesia •• • ••• ••• ••• Union of South .Africa ••• ••• British Guiana ••• ••• ••• Canada ••...... Belgian Congo ••• ••• • •• ••• French West Africa •• • ••• ••• Madagascar ... •• • ••• ••• ••• Mexico...Oregon and California, and the west coast of the South Island of New Ze.a land. 1 ' r 7 • • The...(c.o nglomerate.s) of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa; · the quart.z veins o,f the Kolar goldfield...the principal mines of the Witwatersrand, Sol1th Africa, has. confirmed the results obtained elsewhere
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THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA All rights reserved THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA BY ALEX. L. nu TOIT...in the Kaokoveld. In so far as the Union of South Africa is concerned the following acknowledgment is...Directors of the South African Museum, the British South Africa Company, and the South African Railways...text for this third edition of Tlze Geology of South Africa and he left among his papers a series of notes...have been promulgated by geologists working in South Africa. \Vhere these latter have differed materially
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Concordant and Discordant Gold Veins, Dome Mine, South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada .......................Examples from the Archean Terranes of Southern Africa and Western Australia ...........................Isotopic- Dat~ from .the Willow Creek Gold Mining District, Miles L. Silberman, and Stanley E. Church 'soµth~rn...Precious Metal System in the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota: A Magmatic Origin for the Ore-Forming Fluids...and the vast Witwatersrand basin deposits in South Africa were laid down (Woodall, 1988). The second is
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Inc. In the meantime the applied mineralogists in South Afiica, including Drs. S.A. Heimstra, S.A. De Waal...the Lorraine basin in France and the Peace River district in Alberta, Canada (Petruk et al., 1977). The...interest has a much higher specific gravity than the rest of the material, • for unliberated grains in particles...measured (e.g. the mineral of interest, and the rest of the particle). The particle grade can also be...have the same composition, such as pyrite and marcasite, cannot be differentiated with a SEM, but are
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Journal (issue)
and Terminal Wire Rope Tramway, Connected by a Local Railway st sm In the most beautiful part of the...the mountains, viz., two wirerope railways and a local railway connecting the two. While not great, the...The station forms the center of operation for the local and wire-rope railways and with its extensive plants...where the transfer is effected into the cars of the local railway. The ore is then transported in trains by...gradually descends, penetrating into the vineyard district of Amélie (Fig. 7) and, terminating at the railway
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Copper Refiniug (ni.d.) Africa, Central, Development of African Taxation, South Alaska Treadwell Disaster...Anglo-Continental Mines Dividend 2'78 Antimony in New South Wales 190 Antimony in Queensland (7ii,d.) 317 Antimony...Proprietary's Steel Works, Expansion at"!.!! Broken Hill South Silver Report Broomassie Mines Liquidated Boswell...Fertilizer Problems 135, *158 Flin-Flon Copper District 274 Flotation, Bibliography of, Lyon, Ralston...Swaziland Alluvial Tin (m.d.) Gas, Natural, in Nev7 South Wales Geduld Deep Geduld Proprietary Mines 152
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Contact Reef and the Black Reef / 404 Geol. Soc. South Africa Trans. 58:218-222 (1955) 14-6 PRETORIUS, D....from Precambrian Rocks of the Witwatersrand, South Africa / 439 Precambrian Res. 1:199-212 (1974) Other...Pretorius, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and N. A. Shilo, N. V. Petrovskaya, I. S. Rozhkov...influenced the exploration and settlement of most. In Africa, Europe, and Asia ancient gold mines are known...it would appear that the aborigines of North and South America placed little emphasis on gold beyond its
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in Rhodesia Asbestos in Rhodesia Asbestos in South Africa Asbestos in Tasmania Ashanti Mine, Falls of...Barbadoes, Oil Prospects in 43 (m.ii.) Barberton District, Geology of 377 Barnes, W., Iron Ore in the Midiands"...Proprietary Shares •» W. E. Walnwrlflit Broken Hill South Mine ... Brown, R. Oilman, What are Ore RaMnres...and Iron in Manchuria Coal in Queensland Coal in South Australia Coal Resources of the Empire Coalfield...) Diamond, Formation of Diamonds, Output in South Africa Dolcoath Dolcoath, Conditions at Dolcoath Meeting
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RT CLE 11-IE 11.i:TERAL INDUSTRY OF THE UNION OF SOUTH , -.-RICA . • • • • • • • • • 536 OTE...renders them suitable for the c ion o pottery for local domestic use. If str,o nger or durable are should...extensive territories of the pr sent nion of ou Africa ,,·ere, until about fif-ty .. irear ago occupi...--- THE ,r , , R. L I DUSTRY OF UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA , 537 ollo,,1ed by the discovery in 1886...the la t fe\,, years it has been shown tl1at i11 South h e are considerable resources of iron ore. h in1portance
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serious-minded citizen of Nevada, of Arizona, of South Africa, or of Chile is vitally concerned in the well-being...character. While geologic reasoning had been applied to local mining problems at a very much earlier date, the...restricted meaning the pyrite deposits of the Rio Tinto district of Spain. Their value has been determined primarily...the ordinary grade of pyrite pro- duced in the district frequently contains sufficient copper to warrant...monopoly of the reserves The products of a given district must be produced under such conditions as will
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Current I-iterature 175 69 Afrira, Quid* to South and Ea$t Bast Rand Proprietary .... J. S. Haldane.... . . . Prospectus Alluvial Tin Fields of Africa Aluminlum-Zinc-Copper Alloy (pX) Amalgamated...384 British Broken Hill Report. .. 231 British South Africa Co Brodrick, C. T 431 Gold with Copper Oree...Report. ... Broken HII! Block 14 77 Broken Hill South Report. .. 307 Brooks, C. J .. *im Cupellatlon of...Diamond Co Kyshtim Ores, Gold in I^aboiir In South Africa, Native Lactic .4cid for Moore Filters Ijake
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