| | 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 | | Frei, R., Nägler, Th.F., Schönberg, R., Kramers, J.D. (1998) Re-Os, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and stepwise lead leaching isotope systematics in shear-zone hosted gold mineralization: genetic tracing and age constraints of crustal hydrothermal activity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62 (11) 1925-1936 doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(98)00111-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Kimberley) in the Harare-Shamva greenstone belt (Zimbabwe) constrain the timing of the mineralizing events...systematics in molybdenite and wolframite from the RAN mine, initial Archean Re-Os ages are still preserved...the Proterozoic mineralization in the Kimberley mine point to a recent gain of Re, most pronouncedly...geological map with gold-tungsten occurrences in the Bindura area of the Harare-Shamva greenstone belt. The...of RAN and Kimberley mines are indicated. The Bindura granodiorite pluton (2.65 Ga) forms the host rock | | Oberthür, T., Blenkinsop, T. G., Hein, U. F., Höppner, M., Höhndorf, A., Weiser, T. W. (2000) Gold mineralization in the Mazowe area, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: II. Genetic relationships deduced from mineralogical, fluid inclusion and stable isotope studies, and the Sm-Nd isotopic composition of scheelites. Mineralium Deposita, 35 (2) 138-156 doi:10.1007/s001260050012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineralization in the Mazowe area, Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: II. Genetic relationships deduced...In the Mazowe area some 40 km NW of Harare in Zimbabwe, gold mineralization is hosted in a variety of...the mainly granodiorite-hosted workings at Mazowe mine are on pyrite-rich reefs, mines of the Bernheim...arsenopyrite-rich ores, and Stori's Golden Shaft and Alice mine, both in metabasalts, work sul®de-poor quartz veins...Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe U.F. Hein Institut fuÈr | | | Journal (issue) | Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter June, 2011 Geological Society of Zimbabwe 1960 -2010 G S Z...Newsletter June 2011 Tectonic evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton in the early Palaeoproterozoic. (a) Following...Following Söderlund et al. (2010), the Zimbabwe craton is positioned along the eastern margin of the Superior...basin initiated. (c) Assembly of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons, and unknown terrane, Terra Incognita...Incognita at ca. 2.0 Ga led to tectonic escape of the Zimbabwe Craton and dextral shearing in the Limpopo Belt | | | 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)...calcite; cd, cordierite; chl, chlorite; cpy, chalcopyrite; cpx, diopside; Cr, chromiumrich; dol, dolomite;...veins have the ore assemblage of mainly pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena, with lesser arsenopyrite, tellurides | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2007 Abstract The Wangfeng–Tianger–Saridala ore district consists of over 20 orebodies with total proven...proven gold reserves exceeding 15 tonnes. The district is located on the EW-striking Tianger (Bingdaban)...amalgamated, partly around the Precambrian Yili Block (central Tianshan terrane), during a complex series of Devonian...Precambrian nucleus commonly termed the Yili Block or Central Tianshan Orovince (He et al., 2005). The three...zone, about 100 m in width, is located in the central part of the Tianger shear zone. This fault zone | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | terrane accretion, the earliest assembly of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Permian collision of...gold ores in northern Mongolia (e.g. Boroo) and central to eastern Transbaikal (e.g. Darasun, Tokur). Arc...with inclusions of pyrrhotite, native gold, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and folded sedimentary matrix; (5)...granular pyrite in association with quartz, rutile, chalcopyrite and rare arsenopyrite; (4) syntectonic euhedral...subhedral pyrite with inclusions of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; (5) subhedral, corroded and/or euhedral py5 | | Brown, T. J., Bide, T., Hannis, S. D., Idoine, N. E., Hetherington, L. E., Shaw, R. A., Walters, A. S., Lusty, P. A. J., Kendall, R. (2010) 2004-08. World Mineral Production. British Geological Survey | Report (issue) | of2008 from previously high levels. For example, the mine production of nickel in 2008 foll by four per cent...2007; the first time it has dropped since 1999. Mine production ofti11 fell by ten per cent in 2008;...annual output for the seventh consecutive year. Mine production of uranium increased by six per cent...groupings as follows: ·· Europe Africa North and Central Ame1ica, including the Caribbean South America...nomenclature follows the London Diplomatic List ,v!etals Mine production of numy n1etals is expressed in tenns | | | Book | Bornite – Cu5FeS4 Galena – PbS Sphalerite – ZnS Chalcopyrite – CuFeS2 Pyrrhotite – Fe1–xS Pentlandite – (Fe...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 |
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