| Giebel, R. Johannes, Gauert, Christoph D.K., Marks, Michael A.W., Costin, Gelu, Markl, Gregor (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa. American Mineralogist, 102 (6) 1218-1233 doi:10.2138/am-2017-6004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebel1,2,*, Christoph...250 Nelson-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 3 Department of Applied Geology and Geohazards...PO Box 94, Artillery Road, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa 5 Department of Earth Science, Rice University... Abstract The 2060 Ma old Palabora Carbonatite Complex (PCC), South Africa, comprises diverse REE mineral...the PCC as well as in a carbonatite complex in South Africa. The variable REE mineral assemblages reflect | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | P ARAGENETICAL ORE MINERALOGY OF THE LOOLEKOP-PHALABORWA CARBONATITE COMPLEX, EASTERN TRANSVAAL By I...ABSTRACT The paragenesis of the ore minerals of the Phalaborwa Complex is described. The properties of two unknown...noted : 1. Magnetite in contact with "uranoan thorianite" exhibits a marginal colour ('hange and innumerable...radioactive blasting. 3. Inclusions of "uranoan thorianite" in baddeleyite have given rise to radioactive...isotropism in the latter mineral. 4. Large " uranoan thorianite " crystals show distinct zonal growth dependent | | Milani, Lorenzo, Bolhar, Robert, Frei, Dirk, Harlov, Daniel E., Samuel, Vinod O. (2017) Light rare earth element systematics as a tool for investigating the petrogenesis of phoscorite-carbonatite associations, as exemplified by the Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (8) 1105-1125 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0708-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | associations, as exemplified by the Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa Lorenzo Milani 1 & Robert Bolhar...and carbonatite rocks of the Palaeoproterozoic Phalaborwa Complex. Textural and compositional characterization...Witwatersrand, PVT Bag 3, Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 2 Department of Earth Sciences, University...the Western Cape, PVT Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa 3 Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch...Stellenbosch University, PVT Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa 4 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Telegrafenberg | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebel, Michael...of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite complex, South Africa. Lithos (2018), https://doi.org/10...of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebela, b,* , Michael...-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfont ein 9300, SC a PT Markla South Africa Department of Applied Geology and Geohazards...fenites) of the Loolekop deposit, Palabora Carbonatite Complex (South Africa). Mica in pyroxenites and fenites | | Wu, Fu-Yuan, Yang, Yue-Heng, Li, Qiu-Li, Mitchell, Roger H., Dawson, J. Barry, Brandl, Günther, Yuhara, Masaki (2011) In situ determination of U–Pb ages and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Lithos, 127 (1) 309-322 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa Fu-Yuan Wu a,⁎, Yue-Heng Yang...Council for Geoscience, Limpopo Unit, P.O. Box 620, Polokwane 0700, South Africa e Department of Earth...Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes Carbonatite Phalaborwa a b s t r a c t The Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, situated...situated in the northeastern part of South Africa, is characterized by copper and zirconium mineralization,...emplaced. In contrast to other carbonatites, the Phalaborwa Complex is characterized by high initial Sr and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | FROM PHALABORWA, BADDELEYITE EASTERN TRANSVAAL1 S. A. HrBusrnd,, Geolog'icalSuraey, Pretoria, Soulh AJrica...quantities of diopside and phlogopite. Zircon, uranoan thorianite and baddeleyite were minor constituents. In the...of phlogopite, chalcocite,4 chalcopyrite and thorianite. Baddeleyite is a minor constituent. Pnnvrous...This is the spelling of Palabora, recently adopted in the Union of South Africa. 3 That these calcite-rich...available to the author. Hasrr The baddeleyite from Phalaborwa occurs typically in the form of short black prismatic | | | Report (issue) | pod et Map of fenitized rocks at the Vermiculite mine, showing sample localities and radioactivity anomaly..._____________________________________ 17 17. Thorianite crystals.---_--_-_____-___________________--...site of limited mining sin°.e the 1880's. The Gem mine, which consists of a group of shallow workings at...old vermiculite mine in the central part of the complex (called the Vermiculite mine in this report)...report) and the Niles mine at the west edge of the complex produced a combined total of somewhat less than 3 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineralogical studies of the deposit, firstly in the mine between 1963 and 1973, and later she documented...phlogopite lode, 250 100 m in size at the +174 m mine level, has the shape of an ellipsoid. According...mapping and interpretation of photographs of the mine walls, show that mineralogical zoning only occurs...radioactive owing to the presence of accessory thorianite. Monomineralic olivine rocks, so-called “forsteritites”...phlogopite and diopside. Adapted from a photograph of the mine walls, as were Figures 4 and 5; 1,2,..,7: scale | | | Journal (issue) | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 | | | Book (edition) | Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal | | | 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...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; | | | Book (edition) | Sphalerite Wurtzite Groutite Wolframite Thorianite Purpurite Reflection Colour & Ø Reflectance... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (Brandberg and Erongo) related to the opening of the South Atlantic and the Paraná–Etendeka large igneous province...exceptionally well-preserved Kruidfontein and Goudini in South Africa, Mount Weld and Gifford Creek ferrocarbonatite...many of the non-carbonatitic complexes of southern Africa (Woolley, 2001; Woolley and Kjarsgaard, 2008)....carbonatites from Namibia (Brandberg, Erongo), South Africa (Kruidfontein, Goudini), Western Australia (Mount...B, F), REE and LILE incompatible elements (P, Zr, Ba, Nb, U, Th, Sn, Ta and W) (Bailey et al., 1974; Bailey | | | Book | ......................................... 23 • South America ................................................................................... 35 • Africa .................................................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...< Australia Kazakhstan United States Canada South Africa Namibia Russian Federation Niger Brazil Uzbekistan | | | Report (issue) | SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN...CARIBBEAN ISLANDS .................................. 36 SOUTH AMERICA ..........................................Summary for South America ................................................................ 49 AFRICA......................................... 55 6.5.19. South Africa ..................................................................... 60 6.5.24. Summary for Africa .............................................. | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ridge, Carbon Hill, Taylor Ridge, and Taylor Ridge South (Fig. 1). The total measured and indicated resource...Carbon Hill (C), Taylor Ridge (T), and Taylor Ridge South (TS). Dashed gray box shows the region detailed...area in 1972 with the objective of exploring for Palabora-type, carbonatite-hosted Cu mineralization (c...Molycorp (then the operator of the Mountain Pass Mine in California) as a joint venture (JV) partner....Limited Newmont acquired a small land package in the district and drilled 10 reverse circulation (RC) holes | | | Report (volume) | __ _ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ South America _________________________________________...dredging operations in South Carolina and in Florida. The dredging operations in South Carolina were abandoned...at Steenkampskraal, in the Van Rhynsdorp district, South Africa, provided most of the free world's monazite;...yielded 16,230.7 tons during 1953-56 (Pike, 1958). The mine closed in March 1959 but reportedly was reopened...-------------1 40 (3) 767 1, 497 2, 229 1. 232 1, 971 1, 219 South America: Argentina_________________________________ | | | Journal (issue) | EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH... MINERAL NOTES SIEGENITE FROM ERGLODD MINE, TALYBONT, DYFED, WALES RGLODD Mine is located 200 metres east of...sphalerite (Livingstone l'I al., 1976); in the South Wales Coalfield it is found in clay-ironstone nodules...(1985) Siegenite in clayironstone nodules from the South Wales Coalfield. Joumal of the Russell Society 1 | | | Report (issue) | for foreign countries, if a given name refers to a mine or deposit, a nearby location or administrative...names may be used to refer to a single deposit or mine. For large deposits or mineralized areas, a 3 single...Deposit/Site_Name, is meant to identify the area, deposit, district, mine, or occurrence to which the geologic, economic...duplicates, for some areas we report information for a district or area, as well as for specific deposits or mines...149-158. Birch, G., 1990, Phosphorite deposits on the South African continental margin and coastal terrace, | | Grainger, Christian J., Groves, David I., Tallarico, Fernando H.B., Fletcher, Ian R. (2008) Metallogenesis of the Carajás Mineral Province, Southern Amazon Craton, Brazil: Varying styles of Archean through Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic base- and precious-metal mineralisation. Ore Geology Reviews, 33 (3) 451-489 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.10.010 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | alkaline bodies as shown at Palabora, South Africa, and implied at Olympic Dam, South Australia. The smaller...Basin (Pinheiro and Holdsworth, 1997), and to the south, it is in contact with the Rio Maria granitoid–greenstone...Grunerite, magnetite Uraninite, uranofano, thorite, thorianite Fluorite, scapolite, ferropirosmalite Allanite...minor enrichment in Pb and Bi and depletion of Sr, Ba and W, compared to the least-altered alkali–feldspar...and small size of Neoproterozoic stocks in the district. Given that the Formiga Granite stock hosts Au–(Cu) | | | Report (issue) | .............................................. South America................................................... 158 Africa.................................................. 175 South Africa, Republic of............................. 175 Namibia (South West Africa)........................ ZaTre, Republic of...Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic of South Africa (average grade 0.025 percent U308), where uranium...uranium ores of the United States included Ag, As, B, Ba, Be, Cd, Cs, Co, Cr, Cu, Dy, Er, Ga, Gd, Ge , Li | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | including the most significant in Siberia, India, and Africa. They began to erupt prior to true rifting, but...is the Palabora massif in South Africa (1900 Ma), carrying copper, magnetite, uranium-thorianite, and baddeleyite...the base ment structures of the platforms. In South Africa, the west-northwest-striking belt, more than...ranges from Precambrian (the Premier pipe in South Africa) to Oligocene (California). The largest fields...Macarthur River aulacogen, which extends north-south for 600 km and is 60 km wide, with an infilling | | | Book | and at the same ti1ne reserves in the Union of South Africa \1/ere estimated a~ over 1 billion tons. Other... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black Ilills Area, South D akota and Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . .. . .. . .. . ......... .. ...... . . . South Carolina .......... . ....... . ........ . ........................... . ............... . North Africa . . . . . . . . ... .. ... . ....... ... ..... | | | Report (issue) | engineered. Once an ore deposit is discovered, a mine is developed and U extracted by a variety of mining...expensive task, as is getting acceptance by the local community. Some of these higher costs for nuclear... Langer Heinrich (Namibia) Witswatersrand (S. Africa), Blind River/ Elliot Lake (Canada) Streltsovsk...Rössing (Namibia), Ilimaussaq (Greenland), Palabora (S. Africa) Olympic Dam (Australia) Pervomayskoye...Niger, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Karoo of South Africa. (3) Vein deposits occur as veins in metamorphic |
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