 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of southern Africa: A review Matthew Field a,⁎, Johann Stiefenhofer...Southdale, 2135, South Africa c De Beers Group Services, PO Box 47, Kimberley, South Africa d De Beers Canada...deposits in central South Africa in the mid nineteenth century, it was at Kimberley where the volcanic...industrial development of southern Africa. Following the discoveries at Kimberley, even more valuable deposits...deposits were discovered in South Africa and Botswana in particular, but also in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe |  | | Book (volume) | | rise and development of the diamond mines of South Africa, from an historical, economic and technical...days on the diamond fields when the mines in the Kimberley and Jagersfontein areas were the only diamond...information of a mining nature, which included, besides the data on under ground and surface mining operations...crystals with the object, if possible, of deter mining the conditions under which the diamond crystal...collect during my many visits to all parts of South Africa where kimberlite deposits occurred and the filing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magma evolution of the De Beers dyke (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys 1 & Andrea Giuliani 1,2...intrusion bordering the De Beers pipe (Kimberley, South Africa). Petrographic features and mineral compositions...and baddeleyite) and the mesostasis (calcite, dolomite, and serpentine) on emplacement in the upper crust...intrusions of the main Kimberley pipes (i.e., Wesselton, De Beers, Bultfontein). However, the composition...distinct from those in ‘evolved’ intrusions of the Kimberley cluster (e.g., Benfontein, Wesselton water tunnel |  | | Book | | Phase 5. Sample Treatment D) World Production E) South African Diamond Occurrences 1. Large Kimberlite...Finsch 1.4 Kimberley 1.5 Koffiefontein 2. Smaller mineralised kimberlites in South Africa 2.1 The Oaks... their relative production contributions in South Africa were, primary (kimberlite) 8.63 million carats...suggest approximately 40% for the Kimberley mines and 55% for Premier mine. The proportion of gems in the...deposits is over 98%. The MIBA mine in the Congo and the Argyle mine in Australia have an average gem |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Soltys, Ashton, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Goemann, Karsten, Woodhead, Jon D., Drysdale, Russell N., Griffin, William L. (2017) The final stages of kimberlite petrogenesis: Petrography, mineral chemistry, melt inclusions and Sr-C-O isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Chemical Geology, 455. 342-356 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani, Ashton Soltys...isotope geochemistry of the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), Chemical Geology (2016),...geochemistry of the SC RI PT Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Andrea Giuliani1,2,3*, Ashton...hypabyssal sample (BK) from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South MA Africa). Sample BK consists of...ilmenite in a matrix of calcite, PT serpentine and dolomite. As in kimberlites worldwide, BK olivine grains |  | | Book | | not attempted to describe diamond prospecting and mining and, although I have attempted to give some of...with whose research groups at the universities of Cape Town and Chicago I have had long and fruitful collaboration...collaboration. Much of my fieldwork in southern Africa has been carried out with the cooperation and assistance...7.3 2.8 2.9 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . .... . . . . Central Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Africa. . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phlogopite Zoning Magma ascent Mantle xenoliths Kimberley a b s t r a c t Kimberlite magmas are of economic...data for phlogopite from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa; i.e. the kimberlite type-locality)...microcrysts (between ~0.1 and 0.3 mm) in the Bultfontein kimberlite display concentric compositional zoning...and groundmass grains in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa (Fig. 1); i.e. the kimberlite...xenoliths entrained by the Kimberley kimberlites. Phlogopite grains in the Bultfontein kimberlite exhibit multiple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys, Andrea Giuliani...case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). The address for the corresponding...case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) a SC RI PT Ashton Soltysa*...kimberlite (sample BK-1) from the MA Bultfontein mine (Kimberley, South Africa). The accuracy of this whole-rock...evolution. The primitive melt parental to the Bultfontein kimberlite is estimated to contain 17.4- AC |  | | Book (volume) | | DIAMOND-BEARING ALLUVIAL GRAVELS OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA DIAMOND-BEARING GRAVELS DRAINAGE WEATHERING...SYSTEMS THE ORIGIN OF THE ALLUVIAL DIAMONDS THE SOUTH-WEST AFRICA DIAMOND DEPOSITS THE VAAL RIVER ALLUVIAL GRAVELS...Plate No. 96. THIN SECTION (359, X 12) FONTEIN MINE BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM JAGERS facing page 368...FROM BuLTFONTEIN - following plate MINE THIN SECTION (8, x 12) BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM BuLTFONTEIN 98...98. MINE ,, ,, 99. THIN SECTION MINE - (3, X 12) BRONZITE PERIDOTITE FROM BOLTFONTEIN 102. THIN SECTION |  | Soltys, Ashton, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Maas, Roland, Woodhead, Jon, Rodemann, Thomas (2016) In-situ assimilation of mantle minerals by kimberlitic magmas — Direct evidence from a garnet wehrlite xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Lithos, 256. 182-196 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) Ashton Soltys, Andrea Giuliani...xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa), LITHOS (2016), doi: 10.1016/j...xenolith entrained in SC RI the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). Ashton Soltys1,*, Andrea...kbar (~140-145 km)] from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). This vein assemblage is dominated...from the Bultfontein kimberlite, as well as perovskite from the other kimberlites in the Kimberley area. |  | | Book | | DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS RALPH S. G. STOKES Latk Mining Editor, Rand Daily Mait, Johannesburg, S.A. WITH... TO THE PIONEERS TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL OF THE MINING INDUSTRY WHOSE ENERGIES HAVE CONSTITUTED THE CHIEF...to rank as factors of considerable moment in the mining world. So vast is the subject as a whole that in...classified by natural than national distinc tions, mining fields are closely linked by the bonds of mutual...established abundantly throughout the colonial mining world. The bulk of this volume is based upon observations |  | | Book (edition) | | 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 ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic Geology...of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry; |  | | Book | | liMITED 70 Bond Street Toronto z MACMILLAN SOUTH AFRICA (PUBLISHERS) PTY LIMITED P.O. Box z3134 Joubert...NY 10010 By the same author THE VALLEY OF GOLD SOUTH AFRICA'S HALL OF FAME THB GOLD MINERS THB DYNAMITE...Goldenjubilee Move to the Country The First New Mine Aftermath ofWar The Master Plan The Big Bid 175...The young diamond diggers facing page 38 The Kimberley coach 39 Lobengula, paramount chief of the Matabele...original prospectus issued by The Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. in 1887 45 Charles Dune11 Rudd 54 The first |  | Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Kendrick, M.A., Phillips, D., Wyatt, B.A., Maas, R. (2013) Oxide, sulphide and carbonate minerals in a mantle polymict breccia: Metasomatism by proto-kimberlite magmas, and relationship to the kimberlite megacrystic suite. Chemical Geology, 353. 4-18 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polymict breccia (DU-1) from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). Xenolith DU-1 contains heterogeneous...isotope values (initial εHf =2.1–3.0) in the range of South African Group I kimberlites and associated megacrysts...Carbonate-rich inclusions host abundant magnesite and dolomite, with subordinate kalsilite, phlogopite, alkali-carbonates...xenolith (DU-1) collected from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). Textural relationships, mineral...1) collected from the Bultfontein Dumps (Kimberley, South Africa). The Bultfontein Dumps comprise waste |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and coherent kimberlites from localities in South Africa ( We s s e l to n , D e B e e r s , B u l t...Although most groundmass carbonate is calcite, dolomite has also been identified (Fig. 1b). Large (>500...response (e.g., dark orange in the Wesselton, or Bultfontein kimberlites, Fig. 1d vs dark brown in the Benfontein...colour (e.g., Jagersfontein kimberlite). Groundmass dolomite replacing earlier groundmass carbonate shows bright...Laths of calcite occur in the De Beers dyke (South Africa; Soltys et al., this volume). These prismatic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Isotopic Composition of Strontium in Some South At)ican Kimberlites ROGE~I-I. MITCNELL D e p a r...work a number of fresh whole rock samples from South African pipes and fissures have been analysed in...Premier Premier Premier Monastry Dutoitspan Bultfontein Doornkloof Kirkland Lake 208 93 136 265 20 63...Wesselton kimberlite pipe, one of the important Kimberley group of pipes. I t is emplaced in a thick series...presents data for the Monastry, Dutoitspan und Bultfontein kimberlites and Doornkloof and Kirkland Lake |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inclusions from De Beers Pool diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa D. Phillips a,*, J.W. Harris b, K.S. Viljoen...Mines Ltd., P.O. Box 82232, Southdale, 2135, South Africa b Received 27 June 2003; accepted 14 December...important De Beers Pool kimberlites in Kimberley, South Africa, are characterised by harzburgitic compositions...Beers Pool kimberlites in Kimberley, South Africa (28j46VS, 24j48VE). The Kimberley region is significant...the site of the first diamond discoveries in South Africa, the type locality for Group I (basaltic) kimberlites |  | | Book (edition) | | The Indian Mines - Current Mining - Mining in Brazil — Diamonds in Africa — The First Diamond — First...First Authenticated Diamond — Mining Rights — The First Big Find — First Diggings — Hope Town — The Diggers’...The ‘Big Hole’ of Kimberley — Present Small Diggings — The Diggers’ Press THE BIG MINING COMPANIES Cecil...Rhodes at Kimberley — Barney Barnato — De Beers Consolidated Mines — The Town of Kimberley — The Wesselton...Oranjemund Founded — Other Discoveries in Africa — Mining in Botswana — Pipes in Lesotho — Diamonds up |  | Howarth, Geoffrey H., Moore, Andy E., Harris, Chris, van der Meer, Quinten H.A., le Roux, Petrus (2019) Crustal versus mantle origin of carbonate xenoliths from Kimberley region kimberlites using C-O-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes and trace element abundances. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 266. 258-273 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.026 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | versus mantle origin of carbonate xenoliths from Kimberley region kimberlites using C-O-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes...versus mantle origin of carbonate xenoliths from Kimberley region kimberlites using C-O-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes... Howarth et al. – Origin of carbonate xenoliths in Kimberley region kimberlites Crustal versus mantle origin...origin of carbonate xenoliths from Kimberley region kimberlites using C-O-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes and trace element...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 2 Geology Department, Rhodes |  | Abersteiner, Adam, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Goemann, Karsten, Giuliani, Andrea, Howarth, Geoffrey H., Castillo-Oliver, Montgarri, Thompson, Jay, Kamenetsky, Maya, Cherry, Alexander (2019) Composition and emplacement of the Benfontein kimberlite sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion constraints. Lithos, 324. 297-314 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.11.017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...the Benfontein Kimberlite Sill Complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion...Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 6 Department of Geology, University...emplacement coeval with other kimberlites of the Kimberley SC RI cluster. The Benfontein sills are characterised |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109, New South Wales, Australia 3 Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...to Eocene archetypal kimberlites from southern Africa, Lac de Gras (Canada) and Alto Paranaiba (Brazil)...occur in the source of kimberlites from southern Africa, Lac de Gras and Alto Paranaiba, or that the recycled...kimberlites and related megacrysts from southern Africa revealed elevated 206 Pb/204Pb ratios (Smith...groundmass of two Cretaceous kimberlites from southern Africa (Wesselton and Orapa) has 18O values consistent |  | | Book (edition) | | Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...Ltd.) Struik House Oswald Pirow Street Foreshore, Cape Town 8001 First edition 1976 Second edition 1983...©E.K. Macintosh Cover design by Neville Poulter, Cape Town Lithographic reproduction by Tien Wah Press...Ltd, Singapore Photoset by McManus Bros (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town Printed and bound by Interpak, Pietermaritzburg |  | Lim, Emilie, Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Goemann, Karsten (2018) Origin of complex zoning in olivine from diverse, diamondiferous kimberlites and tectonic settings: Ekati (Canada), Alto Paranaiba (Brazil) and Kaalvallei (South Africa) Mineralogy and Petrology, 112. 539-554 doi:10.1007/s00710-018-0607-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Canada), Alto Paranaiba (Brazil) and Kaalvallei (South Africa) Emilie Lim 1 & Andrea Giuliani 1,2 & David... Tres Ranchos-04), and the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa (Kaalvallei: Samada, New Robinson). Olivine...Samada and New Robinson (Kaalvallei cluster), South Africa (Fig. 1). This is the first detailed study of...cluster, which intruded into the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa. The Samada sample (173/44/ K8/7) is from the...Gurney Upper Mantle Room Collection, University of Cape Town. Origin of complex zoning in olivine from |  | Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Phillips, D., Kendrick, M.A., Wyatt, B.A., Goemann, K. (2012) Nature of alkali-carbonate fluids in the sub-continental lithospheric mantle. Geology, 40 (11) 967-970 doi:10.1130/g33221.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). The inclusions host abundant...abundant carbonates (magnesite, dolomite, and K-Na-Ca carbonates), kalsilite, phlogopite, K-Na titanates...polymict mantle xenolith from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa). In this paper we show that...xenolith (DU-1) from the Bultfontein dumps, Kimberley (South Africa). The Bultfontein dumps comprise waste...(including abundant mantle xenoliths) from the Bultfontein mine, which is one of four major diamond-producing |  | Giuliani, Andrea, Phillips, David, Kamenetsky, Vadim S., Fiorentini, Marco L., Farquhar, James, Kendrick, Mark A. (2014) Stable isotope (C, O, S) compositions of volatile-rich minerals in kimberlites: A review. Chemical Geology, 374. 61-83 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.03.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partial overprinting by secondary processes at the local scale. Carbonates in southern African Group I (or...stable isotope compositions of carbonates from the Kimberley, Lac de Gras and Udachnaya-East kimberlites reveals.... . . . . . . 2.2.3. Local variations of C–O isotopes: Kimberley (South Africa), Lac de Gras (Canada)...hypabyssal kimberlite samples from: (a) the Diavik mine (Lac de Gras, Canada), and (b) the Gollapalle pipe...invariably the most abundant carbonate mineral, whereas dolomite is a subordinate component in most kimberlites |
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