 | | Field Trip Notes | | the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia II I -· --· ...... ----·----, Editor: M. Niall...the Geological Society & Geological Survey of Namibia -- - -- .. --- ----• • ·- •• -1 · ~. ,. :...DAMARA OROGEN G.LC. Schneider Geological Survey or Namibia, P O Box 2168, Windhoek 1.0 Day 1 - Monday, 22...Windhoek - Otjihase Mine 1.2 08:00 - 12:00 Otjihase Mine 1.3 12:00 - 12:30 Otjihase Mine - Windhoek 1.4 12:30-...16:00 Windhoek-Karibib 1.6 16:00 - 17:00 Capra Hill Marble Quarry 1.8 Overnight: Karibib 3 4 7 7 7 8 9 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA...Zone or Khomas trough of the Damara Orogen in Namibia. It comprises a sheeted-vein complex (3500 x 1800m)...pyrite-magnetite-chalcopyrite-apatite-molybdenite-native gold ore mineralogy. Adjacent alteration comprises proximal...Lufilian Orogen in Zambia, specifically with the Navachab Au and Kansanshi Cu deposits. The Onganja deposit...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara |  | Wulff, K., Dziggel, A., Kolb, J., Vennemann, T., Bottcher, M. E., Meyer, F. M. (2010) Origin of Mineralizing Fluids of the Sediment-Hosted Navachab Gold Mine, Namibia: Constraints from Stable (O, H, C, S) Isotopes. Economic Geology, 105 (2) 285-302 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.2.285 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralizing Fluids of the Sediment-Hosted Navachab Gold Mine, Namibia: Constraints from Stable (O, H, C, S)...Germany Abstract The Navachab gold mine in the Damara belt of central Namibia is characterized by a...sphalerite, arsenopyrite, bismuth, gold, bismuthinite, and bismuth tellurides. Gold is hosted by quartz sulfide...physicochemical conditions during fluid-rock interaction. Gold is interpreted to have precipitated in equilibrium...gradients (ca. 80°C/km−1) in the mine area. Introduction THE NAVACHAB gold deposit is situated in the southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | during gold mineralization in carbonate-bearing metasediments: the Navachab gold deposit, Namibia A. Dziggel...Springer-Verlag 2009 Abstract The Navachab gold deposit in the Damara belt of central Namibia is hosted by a near-vertical...chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite, native bismuth, gold, bismuthinite, and bismuth tellurides. Mass balance...Keywords Navachab gold deposit . Fluid–rock interaction . Rare earth element mobility . Orogenic gold mineralization...Introduction The Navachab gold deposit is situated in the Damara belt in central Namibia (Fig. 1). The mine was discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 283–303 Thrust-related dome structures in the Karibib district and the origin of orthogonal fabric domains...south Central Zone of the Pan-African Damara belt, Namibia Alexander F.M. Kisters a,∗ , L. Smith Jordaan a...internal parts of the Pan-African Damara belt in Namibia. The structural pattern of the south Central Zone...Detailed structural mapping of the Karibib and Usakos domes in the Karibib district indicates an origin of...shortening of sufficiently strong crust in the Karibib district resulted in vertical thickening and orogen-normal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals Review Case Histories of Orogenic Gold Deposits Franz Michael Meyer Institute of Applied Mineralogy...review compares genetic parameters of 12 orogenic gold deposits. The set of examples is considered to represent...represent largely the variability of orogenic gold deposit (OGD) characteristics. The data are presented...formation and proposed origin of ore fluids aa well as gold reserves, production, and grades. This allows comparison...discussed before the background of the orogenic gold system and the crustal metamorphic models that provide |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sandamap Noord Gold Prospect, Central Namibia: Discovery of a New Style of Turbidite-Hosted Gold Mineralization...Sandamap Noord Gold Prospect, Central Namibia: Discovery of a New Style of Turbidite-Hosted Gold Mineralization...Sandamap Noord Gold Prospect, Central Namibia: Discovery of a New Style of Turbidite-Hosted Gold Mineralization1...Pan-African Damara Orogen. A 2500-m-long zone of gold mineralization is hosted by altered Kuiseb Formation...the farm Sandamap Noord, west of Usakos, central Namibia. Au/As fluids either mobilized from the metasediments |  | | Book | | REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | migration of collisional tectonics in the Damara Belt, Namibia: U-Pb zircon ages for the syntectonic Salem-type... South Africa Present address: Martha Mine, Newmont Waihi Gold Ltd., PO Box 190, Waihi, New Zealand e-mail:...Ma (Allsopp et al., 1983) from Goas, south of Karibib, in the southern Central Zone and 589 ± 40 Ma and...DAMARA BELT, NAMIBIA Figure 1. Schematic geological map of the Damara belt in central Namibia, emphasizing...ubiquitous U/Pb titanite ages of ~500 Ma from the Navachab Mine and surroundings in the sCZ record the recrystallization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | address: Anglo American, Kumba Iron Ore, Kolomela Mine, Postmasburg 8240, South Africa e-mail: martin....Central Zone of the Pan-African Damara belt in Namibia indicate a timing of emplacement of the composite...history of the PanAfrican Damara belt in central Namibia (Figure 1) largely relies on the emplacement ages...tectonostratigraphic zones of the Damara belt in Namibia (after Miller, 1983; 2008). Insert shows the position...northeastern parts of the sCZ around the towns of Karibib and Usakos, some 150 km further inland. Most regional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sheeted leucogranites within the Damara Orogen, Namibia J. A. Kinnaird* and P. A. M. Nex Uranium mineralisation...southern Central Zone of the Damara Orogen in Namibia; at Rössing, Valencia, the Ida Dome and Goanikontes...Formation boundary. Keywords: Granite, Mineralisation, Namibia, Uranium Since 2004, the development of new nuclear...exploration and particularly in southern Africa. Namibia constitutes a uraniferous province with known uranium...described in detail7,8,91 before the development of a mine at Rössing. However, several other primary sheeted-granite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | southwestern Central Zone of the Damara Belt, Namibia and implications for tectonic setting L. Longridge...southwestern Central Zone of the Damara Belt, Namibia and implications for tectonic setting, LITHOS (2017)...SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL ZONE OF THE DAMARA BELT, NAMIBIA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC SETTING IP T Longridge...with the SC R Gariep Belt found in southern Namibia and the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...stricto, which extends northeastwards through Namibia and MA Botswana into Zambia (where it continues |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Damaraorogen, Namibia.Tourmalinites in biotite_+muscovite schists areusually conformable withthemostprominent...poorexposure andthe complicated tectonichistoryof the region,the ageof the mica-defined fabriccan rarelybe determined...moreof tourmaline; BatesandJackson, 1987)andzonesof Namibia (Stevenet al., 1994) hasled to the identificationof...morphology of TOURMALINITE MINERALIZATION, KUISEBFM.,NAMIBIA 120 _ • 140 160 1099 180 200 q. -t. ANGOLA...Fig.4) TOURMALINITEMINERALIZATION, KUISEBFM., NAMIBIA 15øE I km 16OE 50 I NORTHERN + 1101 ZONE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatites of the cape cross-uis pegmatite belt, namibia Warrick C. Fuchsloch, Paul A.M. Nex, Judith A...pegmatites of the cape crossuis pegmatite belt, namibia. The address for the corresponding author was captured...PEGMATITES OF THE CAPE CROSS-UIS PEGMATITE BELT, NAMIBIA Warrick C. Fuchslocha*, Paul A.M. Nexb, Judith...Granitic pegmatite, Pegmatite classification, Namibia, Damara Orogen, Pegmatite geochemistry, Anatexis...Abstract The Pan African aged Damara Orogen in Namibia is host to the Cape Cross-Uis pegmatite SC belt |  | | Report (chapter) | | geochemical and structural controls on gold distribution in the Nalunaq gold deposit, South Greenland using three-dimensional...controls on gold mineralization at the Nalunaq orogenic gold deposit in South Greenland. Gold occurs in...contained within a single gold–quartz vein, named the Main Vein. Within this vein, gold is concentrated into...Nalunaq gold mine. Gold anomalies in drillcores are identified updip and downdip from the current mine workings...of gold. Flexures in the Main Vein correspond to changes in the host rock lithology and the gold grade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in high-grade gneisses from the Damara Belt in Namibia describe a size-based hierarchy and spatial distribution...interconnected dilational sites near the anatectic region (Collins and Sawyer, 1996). Focused flow describes...Weinberg, 1999), or by porous flow in the anatectic region (e.g. Collins and Sawyer, 1996). stabilization...of the Pan-African (550–500 Ma) Damara Belt in Namibia. The study aims to provide a field-based data set...Geological setting The Damara Belt in central Namibia forms the suture between the Kalahari and the Congo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatites of the Cape Cross–Uis pegmatite belt, Namibia WARRICK C. FUCHSLOCH*, PAUL A.M. NEX AND JUDITH...Cross-Uis pegmatite belt, Damara Orogen, north-central Namibia hosts multiple Ta-Nb- and Sn-oxide-bearing pegmatites...cassiterite, granitic pegmatite, Damara Orogen, Namibia. Introduction The internal evolution processes...In the Cape Cross-Uis pegmatite belt (CUPB) of Namibia, numerous granitic pegmatite bodies intrude the...overview Several rare-element pegmatite belts in Namibia occur within the Damara Belt which is the northeast-trending |  | | Report (chapter) | | invoked as a source for various deposits, especially gold deposits. Metamorphic fluid compositions reflect...reactions owing to pressure drop. Some orogenic lode gold deposits fit well with a purely metamorphic origin...hydrothermal gold reflect the effect of salt on gas solubility, not the origin of the fluid. Gold Open Access:...deposits are also discussed with an emphasis on gold mineralization, because this is the type of mineralization...low salinity CO2-bearing fluids from the Brusson gold-bearing quartz veins by Yardley et al. (1993), and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1007/s00126-012-0416-5 ARTICLE Two stages of gold mineralization at Hutti mine, India A. J. Rogers & J. Kolb & F...2012 # Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract The Hutti gold mine is located in a high-angle, NNW–SSE-trending shear...occurred synchronous with two distinct stages of gold mineralization, both of which were associated with...central to the shear zone, containing locally visible gold at concentrations of up to 1 kg Au/t. The laminated...overall gold mineralization; however, it was the second fluid pulse, which gave the Hutti mine its status |  | Bell, Robin-Marie, Kolb, Jochen, Waight, Tod Earle, Bagas, Leon, Thomsen, Tonny B. (2017) A Palaeoproterozoic multi-stage hydrothermal alteration system at Nalunaq gold deposit, South Greenland. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (3) 383-404 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0667-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | multi-stage hydrothermal alteration system at Nalunaq gold deposit, South Greenland Robin-Marie Bell 1,2 &...Heidelberg 2016 Abstract Nalunaq is an orogenic, high gold grade deposit situated on the Nanortalik Peninsula...operating metalliferous mine until its closure in 2014, having produced 10.67 t of gold. This study uses a...metamorphism and prior to gold-quartz vein formation. The ca. 1783–1762-Ma gold-quartz veins are hosted...exceptionally high gold grades. Aplite dykes dated to ca. 1762 Ma cross-cut the gold-quartz veins, providing |  | | Book | | systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide...(Gariep Belt) cropping out in the western borders of Namibia and South Africa. They were split up in the Mesozoic...concerning the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of this region during the Precambrian. Major tectonometamorphic...tectonostratigraphic domains and structures of the region are presented, together with implications for the... They emphasize the enormous potential of this region in terms of base (Cu, Pb, Zn, Co, Ni), precious |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Structural controls of fluid flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole...Harris, Chris, Structural controls of fluid flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole...MANUSCRIPT Structural controls of fluid flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract Gold mineralization in the Biharumulo region of western Tanzania is confined...graphite-rich, in the hangingwall of the shear zone. Gold mining centers on specific structural sites along |  | Agangi, Andrea, Hofmann, Axel, Eickmann, Benjamin, Marin-Carbonne, Johanna, Reddy, Steven M. (2016) An atmospheric source of S in Mesoarchaean structurally-controlled gold mineralisation of the Barberton Greenstone Belt. Precambrian Research, 285. 10-20 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.09.004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | source of S in Mesoarchaean structurally-controlled gold mineralisation of the Barberton Greenstone Belt...Available online 16 September 2016 Keywords: Archaean Gold Barberton Greenstone Belt Multiple S isotopes a...Belt of southern Africa hosts several Mesoarchaean gold deposits. The ores were mostly formed in greenschist...porphyries, which has led to the hypothesis that gold may have been sourced from magmas. Because the transport...Belt of southern Africa hosts some of the oldest gold mineralisation known (Anhaeusser, 1976; de Ronde |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | Engineering ii ABSTRACT The Kansanshi Cu-(Au) mine exploits a structurally controlled deposit hosted...southern Africa. It is currently the largest active Cu mine in Africa, with a total endowment of nearly 12 Mt...Kansanshi antiform. The deposit occurs within the Domes region of the Central African Copperbelt, where amphibolite...Domain is separated from the overlying Kansanshi Mine domain by the Evaporitic Sequence, a >300 m thick...of vanished evaporites. The base of the Kansanshi Mine domain is represented by the Dolomitic Sequence |  | | Book | | papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi Greisen System.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 Intrusion-Related Gold, Polymetallic and Uraniferous Vein Systems and Breccia...Complexes. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold-Rare Earth Elements-Uranium Mineral Systems . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 Gold Skarns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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