| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineralization in the Freda-Rebecca gold deposit ± Bindura District, Zimbabwe Received: 4 January 1999...1999 Abstract The Freda-Rebecca Mine is currently the largest gold producer in Zimbabwe. The ore deposit...main shear systems crosscutting the Rebecca diorite and Bindura granodiorite (2.65 Ga) as well as Shamvaian...contact metamorphism. Following the intrusion of the Bindura granodiorite, intensive hydrothermal alteration...preferentially in the dioritic part of the igneous complex (Rebecca diorite). The hydrothermal alteration started with | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | In the Zimbabwe Craton, gold mineralization at the Ford (Buchholz et al., 1998), Freda-Rebecca (Klemm...other Archean terranes (e.g., Superior, Slave, Zimbabwe), represent a subgroup of the orogenic gold deposit...systems throughout the Eastern Goldfields and central Murchison provinces (Smithies and Champion, 1999)...associated with quartz– albite–molybdenite ± clinozoisite ± chalcopyrite veins and broad, silica–biotite...muscovite ± biotite ± fluorite ± clinozoisite ± chalcopyrite, clinozoisite–sulfide–quartz– biotite, actinolite | | | Book | be utilized in issues such as the control of acid mine drainage, and soil and erosion management. Mining...concentration of the ore in the first place, will be central to this entire operation. The discipline of “economic...of the nature and workings of the earth system. Central to this is an understanding of metallogeny and...the Earth. The world’s deepest mine, the Western Deep Levels gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa...continental flood basalt provinces, or the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe) or in response to intraplate hot-spot activity |
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