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Chalcocite from
Ghanzi Mine, Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District, Botswana


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ghanzi Mine, Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District, Botswana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:975310
Long-form Identifier:1:3:975310:5
GUID (UUID V4):7b41b84a-fbc5-45a5-9d21-ace4be437e07
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION, THE KALAHARI COPPERBELT, NORTHWESTERN BOTSWANA A. PIESTRZY ŃSKI AND M. WENDORFF AGH University...Krakow, Poland Discovery Metals Botswana; PO Box AB156, ABC, Gaborone, Botswana e-mail: maatlaletsholo@ymail...W. MACKAY Discovery Metals Botswana; PO Box AB156, ABC, Gaborone, Botswana e-mail: wallace@discoverymetals...The Neoproterozoic Ghanzi Group metasedimentary succession, of northwestern Botswana shows a potential...Introduction The Kalahari Copperbelt of Namibia and Botswana is a broad region with copper-silver deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1118-1147 The Sediment-Hosted NgwakoPanCopperDeposit,Botswana M.O. SCHWARTZ, Bundesanstalt fiir Geowissenschafien...AKANYANG, Geological Survey,P.O.Box14, Lobatse, Botswana K. TRIPPLER, Bundesanstalt fiir Geowissenschaften...NGWISANYI Geological Survey,P.O.Box14, Lobatse, Botswana Abstract The strata-bound NgwakoPan copperdepositis...250-km-long Neoproterozoic GhanziRidgein northwestern Botswana. Thesulfidemineralization occurs in thelowermost...1989;Sweeney and Binda,1989). tralNamibiato northwestern Botswana (Fig.1).TheNgwako Thesetwocopperbeltshavesimilarities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Damara Orogenic Belt in South West Africa and Botswana By P. D. T O E N S , Pretoria *) With 5 figures...Zentral-Sfidwestafrika und die Kgwebe-Grnppe in Botswana. Diese Serien bilden die Unterlage, auf welcher...haben. Sie bestehen aus den Klein Aub-, Witvlei-, Ghanzi- und Tsumis-Formationen, die als das Xquivalent...Aub- und Witvlei-Formationen sowie in den Unter-Ghanzi-Formationen vor. Die vererzten Schichten sind denen...central South West Africa, and the Kgwebe Group in Botswana. These rocks form the base on which the strata
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 139-156 Gold, BaseMetals, and Diamondsin Botswana j. w. BALDOCK, J. V. HEPWORTH, ANDB. S. MARENGWA...delineated in the Damaran mobile belt of northwestern Botswana. The geological environment of the latter is similar...other isolatedpipes have been detectedin southern Botswana. The metallogenicevolution of the various mineral...Introduction Geological Framework of Botswana MINERAL exploration in Botswana hascontinued to S.uperficialdepositsof...mineral mantle some80 percentof the surfaceof Botswana. resourceswas written some10 years ago (Boocock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Congo, along with its broad time equivalents in Botswana and Namibia (the Kalahari Copperbelt), is the...metamorphosed and deformed in some deposits in Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia. In conjunction, these observations...broadly contemporaneous copper-silver prospects of Botswana and Namibia (the Kalahari Copperbelt; Borg and...Congo as well as in the Kalahari Copperbelt of Botswana and Namibia. The observations that underpin this...Mufulira Frontier ZIMBABWE 20Âş NAMIBIA Kalumbila BOTSWANA KALAHARI CRATON Lumwana Kansanshi Kabula South
Book
REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Water Affairs Geological Survey Department ...Geology of Botswana to 1966 PRICE Rl.OOc PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER GABERONES BOTSWANA ISRIC LIBRRRY...Annotated Bibliography and Index of the Geology of Botswana to 1966 Compiled by C.A. Laughton, Geologist...This is the first Bibliography of the geology of Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) and it includes both published...the main source of information on the geology of Botswana i s to be found in the files of unpublished reports
Journal (issue)
discontinuously for 800 km from central Namibia lo northern Botswana (Figure I; Borg, 1988; Borg and Moiden, 1989)...Subsequent research al the (presently inactive) Klein Aub Mine and elsewherc in the Namibian part of the belt showed...discontinuously for 800 km from central Namibia to northern Botswana (Borg and Maiden, 1989). Copper occurrences have...underground mine operated between 1966 and 1987, producing around 5.5 million tonnes of chalcocite-dominated...extension of the belt into western and northern Botswana. During recent years, spurred by the increase
Report (chapter)
Margin of the Kalahari Craton in Swa/Namibia and Botswana G. Borg and K. J. Maiden Geological Society, London...margin of the Kalahari Craton in SWA[Namibia and Botswana G. Borg & K. J. Maiden S U M M A R Y: Metavolcanic...part of the K ' G w e b e F o r m a t i o n in Botswana (Thomas 1973) (Fig. 2). In this paper they are...upper part of the K'Gwebe Formation in central Botswana (Thomas 1973). Basic volcanic rocks occur in the...metabasalt crops out in an anticline east of Klein Aub Mine, geophysical data indicate a larger volume of basic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Fig. 3). It includes the Kgwebe Formation of Botswana and the Sinclair and Nauzerus groups of Namibia...in the Rehoboth area of central Namibia, and in Botswana, parallel to the north-western margin of the Proto-Kalahari...lateMesoproterozoic rifting along the northwest Botswana rift (Key and Mapeo, 1999). The belt has been...1. The north-western margin (Tsumis, Nosib and Ghanzi groups in Namibia) Major uplift occurred along...(Klein Aub Formation). In Botswana, a similar succession, up to 13,500 m thick (Ghanzi Group), was deposited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extends from the Mesoproterozoic Ngamiland belt in Botswana (Kampunzu, 1999; 2000; Ramokate, 2000) to the...types have been reported from as far as western Botswana (A. B. Kampunzu, personal communication, 2002)...Regionally, it correlates with the Ngamiland belt of Botswana, the Sinclair Group of southern Namibia and the...metabasalts. Locally, pre-tectonic epidote-chlorite-chalcocite forms veins at a dm-scale and SOUTH AFRICAN...from the Koras basin of South Africa to western Botswana. The minimum width of the belt is 100 km, however
Report (chapter)
the Magondi Belt to continue SW into northern Botswana beneath extensive cover in the Kalahari region...extend north along the Kaapvaal Craton margin into Botswana toward the Okwa Inlier (Hutchins & Reeves 1980;...continue beneath Kalahari cover into northern Botswana (e.g. Hutchins & Reeves 1980; Meixner & Peart...Province Isolated outcrops in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana expose volcanic and sedimentary rocks (Kgwebe...Damara Belt. Magmatic rocks within the rift in Botswana and Namibia have yielded U-Pb zircon ages of 1108
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the northern margin of Dartmoor (the Red-a-Ven mine), the greisen vein systems at Redmoor and Cligga...(St Just district); Dolcoath, Wheal Concord and Nangiles (Camborne-Redruth-St Day district), Wheal Charlotte...commonly spatially associated with bornite and chalcocite. Whereas the mineralogical distribution of indium...Brooks, M. I. Haldane Barrick Exploration, Lumwana Mine, Mwinilunga Rd, Solwezi, NW Province, Zambia The... sulphide deposits. poured in 2014. The Kibali mine camp consists of the main Karagba–Chauffeur–Durba
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden .......................................A. Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation ................ The JÜrn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and emplacement...for VHMS deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden .....................................
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.4 The Sinclair-Ghanzi-Chobe Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 23.3 The Kalahari Copper Belt in Namibia and Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.4 The West...Skorpion, Gergarub Pb-Zn District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.8.1 Rosh Pinah Mine . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . 23.9 The O’okiep Copper District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.10.1 The Aggeneys District (Gamsberg, Black Mountain, Broken Hill) . . .
Journal (issue)
BechuanalandProtectorate Plate I Plate II Ootse Manganese Mine • • • 1. Loading manganese ore for beneficiation... Part of beneficiation plant Kgwakgwe Manganese Mine • 1. Manganese-ore stockpile 2. Crushing and screening...• • facing p. 390 • • • Moshaneng Asbestos Mine • • 1. No. 3 incline shaft 2. General view of mill...deposit • • • 2. Abandoned copper workings, Bushman Mine . Provisional Mineral Map of the Bechuanaland Protectorate...Concession and limited development at the Bushman Mine copper occurrence, however, little or no mining
Book
Countries and Territories 31 Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canary Islands (Spain)...west. These sag basins are known in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo...Algeriaʟs iron ore output was extracted from the Ouenza Mine in the east of the country, where the hematite ore...mining operations are still artisanal. The El Abed Mine near the AlgerianMoroccan border has yielded a production...mac-ultramac complexes. Iron was produced at the Cassinga mine near surface, from high-grade ore (50-60% Fe) of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
molybdenite, in growth sequence with bornite and chalcocite, yields an age of 1043 ± 6 Ma. Hence, the fluid...mesothermal lead–zinc–silver veins of the Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho, deposits of the Idaho cobalt belt (e....descriptions. Abbreviations: bo: bornite; cc: chalcocite; cpy: chalcopyrite; ga: galena; mo: molybdenite;...al., 2011). Chalcopyrite–bornite and bornite–chalcocite assemblages are widespread and occur as fine-grained...bornite and chalcopyrite, some with additional chalcocite (both hypogene and supergene), along with malachite
Book
8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic ore deposits in igneous complexes... References Borg, G. (1988) The Koras-Sinclair-Ghanzi rift in southern Africa. Volcanism, Sedimentation...connect with the Namaqua Province, across northem Botswana to the northem margin of the Zimbabwe craton (Chapter...Aub and Witvlei stratabound deposits. In northem Botswana, a similar style of mineralisation is present...which extend over a wide area, from southeast Botswana through to the northern part of the Cape Province
Book
in 1-m-thick grey shale layers at the Klein Aub Mine (2% copper, 50 ppm silver, up to I ppm gold and...copper-silver deposit of the now abandoned Oamites mine {HohewarteMetamorphic Complex) (Lee and Glenister...Tutura), mid fluorite (Miiller's Mine) midvolcanogeniccopper(Ubib Mine)occur in the Abbabis Metamorphic...with very minor beryl and li1hium(Tantalite Valley Mine). Rose quartz occurs on the farms Mikberg 262 and...SandamapErongo, Nainais-Kohero and Cape Cross-Uis (Uis Mine - 60 million t, 0.13% tin). A belt of post-tectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the evaluation of a deposit and planning of a mine or quarry, completely separate from the exploration...The area is the site of Greenland’s only producing mine, due to close end 2013 (http://angelmining.com/)...is thought to be part of a larger regional gold district, as indicated from stream sediment samples and...of the Kiziltepe Au–Ag deposit in the Sindirgi district, Balikesir, Western Turkey. Kiziltepe is a low-sulphidation...characteristics of Au mineralisation in the Pb–Zn–Ag Balya mine, NW Turkey: a separate mineralisation system? M
Corporate Document
METALS GROUP LANE XANG MINERALS LTD VILABOULY DISTRICT SAVANNAKHET PROVINCE LAO PDR SRK ES Project Number:...(Azerbaijan), Boleslaw (within the Krakow-Silesian mining district, Poland) deposits are found to lie in the TMB...and epithermal deposit potential. Panagyrishte District, Bulgaria – porphyry Cu and epithermal potential...extensions of the Krakow-Silesian Pb-Zn mining district and Mo-Cu porphyries along strike of the Myszkow...mineralisation and the results of more intensive near-mine exploration. The subduction processes involved in
Book (volume)
by coal accumulation epochs in the Darrah-i-Suf District. Table 8 Quality of coals From Darrah-I-Suf...Pule-Khumri coal district. Table 10 Quality of coal from the Pule Khumri coal district. Table 11 Coal...Narin-Chal-Namakab coal district. Table 12 Quality of coal from Narin-Chal-Namakab district. Table 13 Water...fields of rare-metal pegmatites. The Paron ore district, with an estimated 3 million tonnes of lithium... galena, arsenopyrite, pyrite, covellite and chalcocite. The skarn-type mineral deposits are irregular
Book
............... . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico .............................Massive Sulfide Deposits of the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic...Deposits ................ . 4.5.2 The Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota .. 4.5.3 Pre-Metamorphic Stratiform...Post-Metamorphic Quartz-Rich Vein Ores: The Sigma Mine, Quebec ................ . 4.5.5 Discussion and...Kennecott Mine, Alaska ................................. 9.8.2 The Copper Orebodies of the Mt. Isa Mine, Queensland
Book
Contents 4.6.5 Candelaria, Punta Del Cobre District, Chilean Coastal Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . ...deposit, ore deposit, mineral occurrence, prospect, mine, reserves and resources are familiar, but more rigorous...(South Australia), the Fe deposits of the Kiruna district (Sweden), Fe-REE deposits of Box Bixby and Pea...of Canada – A synthesis of major deposit types, district metallogeny, the evolutionof geologicalprovinces...spatial distribution of Th in a region or mining district may give an indication of temperature gradients
Journal (issue)
deposits. Mapping of mineralised areas in the Mumbwa District and north-west of Mumbwa contint1ed. Geological...geologically on the scale of 1 : 50,000 in Cuyuni District, the Puruni River basin, between the Berbice and...zone of manganiferous rocks in the North Western District previously discovered by the Geological Survey...the columbite-tantalite deposits in the Mazaruni District which were originally described in the Geological...deposits of the Iron Mountain area, Berbice River District, have been pitted and sampled. In Jamaica the
 
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