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Mamatwan Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa


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Locality Data:Click here to view Mamatwan Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1447559
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Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; theresa.coetsee@up.ac.za  ...Introduction The Kalahari Manganese Field (KMF) in South Africa is the largest land-based metallurgical grade...The main South African manganese ores fall into two groups, carbonate-containing ore (Mamatwan-type), such...such as Mamatwan or Gloria ore mined at different mines, but from the same ore body, and high manganese...with increased ore iron in Wessels [7]. Comparison South ore reduction rates in terms 5of iron content7C
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Resources, Pretoria, South Africa University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa 3 Carnegie Mellon University...between areas within the same ore particle for Mamatwan ore. Reduced manganese ore particles therefore...reduction. For example, for Wessels ore reacted with graphite under hydrogen at 1200uC (isothermally), a small...(1992) during the reduction of Mamatwan ore of 2300 mm with graphite of 243 mm at 1250–1350uC, and only...of 30–60% at 1300uC and 30–70% at 1350uC, for Mamatwan ore reduction In the third stage, the final reduction
Journal (issue)
85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne...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...d e r n M in e r a l C o l l e c t io n CURATION John Sampson White Department of Mineral Sciences Smithsonian
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Afrikaans Universi& RO.Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa. Klein Spitzkoppe topaz was first described...collector market and gem trade have been excavated by local Damara diggers. A granite quarry used to encounter...2006, South Africa. The Kalahari manganese field is located in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It...low-grade primary sedimentary ore, the Mamatwan-type, named after the mine where it is exploited. This contains...manganese adventure-The South African manganese fields. Johannesburg, South Africa: Associated Ore & Metal
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3080 Tervuren, Belgium Royal Museum for Central Africa, Geodynamics and Mineral Resources, Leuvensesteenweg...have been recognized for 18 various parts of Africa. It is a relatively small deposit with total estimated...in various parts 36 of Africa and in geologically related parts of South America (cf. Roy, 2006; Kuleshov...a recent review paper on manganese deposits of Africa, it has been 46 described as a 2.0-2.2 Ga deposit...with contemporaneous Mn ore deposits in Africa 62 and South America. The presence of base metals in
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silicate from the N'chwaning mine, Kalahari manganesefield, South Africa D.lNrtr, Nwnr.nnoTHonmsAnrvrnnusrrn...Geological Survey, PB Xl 12, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa Vr,lnrurn BnnueNnc Department of Mineralogy...N'chwaning mine, located in the Kalahari manganesefield, northern Cape Province, South Africa. The aggregatesconsist...0.05 mm in size. Nchwaningite is named after the mine N'chwaning II, where it was found first. Nchwaningiteis...deposit on the Earth, located in the northern Cape Province, South Africa. Three Mn layers are interbedded
Report (issue)
Prospects for Future Supply Edited by Klaus J. Schulz, John H. DeYoung, Jr., Robert R. Seal II, and Dwight C...prospects for future supply / edited by Klaus J. Schulz, John H. DeYoung, Jr., Robert R. Seal II, and Dwight C...niobium in Brazil; and platinum-group elements in South Africa and Russia), thus increasing the risk for supply...fluorspar (fluorine, F), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge), graphite (carbon, C), hafnium (Hf), indium (In), lithium...For a number of these commodities–for example, graphite, manganese, niobium, and tantalum—the United States
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mineral from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa Xiangping Gu*1 , Hexiong Yang2...School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China; 2Department...and 4Plot 968, Alheit, Kakamas 8870, Northern Cape, South Africa Abstract A new phyllosilicate mineral...N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. It occurs...Kalahari Manganese Fields in the North Cape Province of South Africa hosts the largest manganese resource
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;
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famous Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Supergroup in South Africa that contains Earth’s largest gold-uranium deposits...post-depositional processes in uranium ores at the Stanleigh mine, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada.....................glacier-associated sediments of the Neoproterozoic of south China: Oceanic anoxia or sulfate limitation? .....botryoids at a 350 Ma fossil warm spring at the Tynagh mine, Ireland: (A) The top surface (field of view measures...seepage mound favored—depending on solutes and local pH—development of siderite, ferrous hydroxide, and/or
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Naomi E. Levin, Timothy D. Raub, Nicolas Dauphas, John M. Eiler PII: DOI: Reference: S0016-7037(14)00292-0...E. Levin1*, Timothy D. Raub2, Nicolas Dauphas3, John M. Eiler4 1 Department of Earth and Planetary...Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, USA Division of...Proterozoic oxides and oxide-bearing silicates from South Africa and Australia (Table 1). These samples are a...both are part of the Transvaal Supergroup in South Africa (Erikkson, 1973; Gutzmer and Beukes, 1996).
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960-1004 Precambrian Iron-Formations of Southern Africa N.J. BEUKES Abstract From existing information...1966) and Ierru#inous SOUTHERN Africa is definedas that part of Africa sedimentary rockslessthan 15 percentiron...percentiron. In this southof approximately16ø south-latitude and in- paper,the 15 percentboundaryis not...contentbecauseof a generallack of chemicalanalyses. South West Africa, and Mozambique. This rela(2) Iron-formationis...commonlithologic detailedstudyon iron-formation in southern Africa variety of iron-formationand consistsof chert mesoare
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(6) 100 where 0?85 atm (1 atm5101?3 kPa) is the local atmospheric pressure at Salt Lake City. Since the...National Institute of Metallurgy, Randburg, South Africa. Eric, R. H. and Burucu, E. 1992. The mechanism...and kinetics of the carbothermic reduction of Mamatwan ore fines, Miner. Eng., 5, (7), 795–815. Hansen...1995. Reduction of siliceous manganese ore by graphite, ISIJ Int., 35, (11), 1331–1339. Sohn, H. Y. 1978
Report (issue)
l◄:s AFRICA *Algiers Tunis • NISIA Tripoli Cairo* ALGERIA ,\-El Aaiun WESTERN SAHARA CAPE VERDE...Windhoek* Gaborone * Pretoria * Mbabane REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRIC1' \ Maputo * LESOTHO MAURITIUS (J Port... MINERALS YEARBOOK MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF r, AFRICA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF MINES...industry of each of the 50 States, Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas, Island Possessions, and Trust Territory...reports and one world overview: Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries of Asia and the Pacific, Mineral
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Prospects for Future Supply Edited by Klaus J. Schulz, John H. DeYoung, Jr., Robert R. Seal II, and Dwight C...prospects for future supply / edited by Klaus J. Schulz, John H. DeYoung, Jr., Robert R. Seal II, and Dwight C...niobium in Brazil; and platinum-group elements in South Africa and Russia), thus increasing the risk for supply...fluorspar (fluorine, F), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge), graphite (carbon, C), hafnium (Hf), indium (In), lithium...For a number of these commodities–for example, graphite, manganese, niobium, and tantalum—the United States
Report (issue)
Columbium Copper ... Fluorspar . Gralla se sre Graphite. . Iron ore .. iLeeevsl ewavel Gata, a SE, ...holdings. Prior to 1978, the development of complete mine property cost evaluations was impeded by still evolving...tool. Systems design work also continued on the mine simulation (MINSIM) program, an economic evaluation...Barite Beryllium Chromium Cobalt Fluorspar Gold Graphite Iron Lead Lithium Magnesium Columbium Copper...operations and are influenced by factors as diverse as local tax policy and mineral deposit type. For example
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron formations in Australia, South Africa, Asia, and North and South America. The source of some of...et al., 1999) in the Transvaal Supergroup of South Africa (Beukes, 1978, 1983; Beukes and Klein, 1990)...Witwatersrand basin in South Africa and the uranium ores of the Elliot Lake district in Canada is still being...has been more usefully applied to exploration and mine development in the Witwaterstrand basin than the...studies of the socalled Schagen “paleosol” in South Africa (Martini, 1994, Watanabe et al., 2000). A restudy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....mineralogy of graphite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2. Magmatic deposits of graphite . . . . . . ....Structure-bound graphite deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.4. Sedimentary graphite deposits . ...50.5. Metamorphic graphite deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.6. Graphite supply and use ...Goethite Gold native Goldeldite Gorceixite Goyazite Graphite Gratonite Greenalite Greenockite Gregoryite Greigite
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use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....mineralogy of graphite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2. Magmatic deposits of graphite . . . . . . ....Structure-bound graphite deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.4. Sedimentary graphite deposits . ...50.5. Metamorphic graphite deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.6. Graphite supply and use ...Goethite Gold native Goldeldite Gorceixite Goyazite Graphite Gratonite Greenalite Greenockite Gregoryite Greigite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reflect environments where atmosphericand phosed Mamatwan-type ores of the Hotazel Formation, crustal processesinteract...Braunite is the most common Kalahari Basin, South Africa (Nel et al., 1986; Miyano ofthese ll phases...four component system,MnSi-O-C; in the absenceof graphite, we need only consider the compositionaldomain...Hotazel formation, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Economic Geology, 82, 706-7 18. Momoi, H. (1974)...Beukes,N.J., and de Villiers, J.P.R. (1986) The Mamatwan manganesemine of the Kalahari manganesefield.
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Associate Edi10r MELANIE LOVA1T Asslslalll Editor JOHN BURGER Wa1lungton Editor KAREN McBETH Editorial...assets such as its interest in the Boddington gold mine in Australia. *A quality team at Alcoa's Rockdale...consumption in North America dropped by 200,000 mt. If South America is added to the picture, the production...Fax: 081 -947 2966 Fullerton Road, Rotherham , South Yorkshire S60 1DL, England. Tel: 0709 828500 Telex:...consumer-oriented products like area south of Archangelsk. There are plans to develop a mine packaging, building, and
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of Canada, and of the Transvaal Supergroup of South Africa, are syntheses considerably superior t o any...University, Auckland Park, PO 524, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa. J.A. BUNTING Exploration Department, BHP...Australia. E.C. PERRY, J R . Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115,...DEPOSITIONAL BASIN O F THE TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP. SOUTH AFRICA N.J. Beukes Introduction . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Cape Smith-Wakeham Bay basin . . . . . . . . . . . .
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talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's
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447 467 491 Company Index 503 Tables: World Mine Production of Gold, Silver and Base Metals 5A2...Mining OFFICES: 5011 Meadowood Way Paradise Peak Mine Suite 300 (100% FMC Gold) * Sales Reno, Nevada...Elko, Nevada (303) 292-7500 Royal Mountain King Mine (100% FMC Gold) Copperopolis, California Beartrack... Gold's price fell to levels at which half the South African gold mines, probably half those in Australia...have been widespread, especially in the highcost South African mines. Some say a structural change is taking
 
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