Regional and local controls of hydrothermal fluid flow and gold

Ore-shoot formation in the Main Reef Complex of the Fairview Mine—multiphase gold mineralization during regional folding, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Miner. Deposita, 54 ( 8 ) ( 2019 ), pp. 1157 - …Web

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The New Consort Gold Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South …

The New Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one of the oldest recognized orogenic gold deposits on Earth. The gold mineralization is hosted by discrete mylonitic units that occur at, or close to, the contact between the mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the c. 3,280 Ma …Web

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Mesoarchaean Gold Mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone …

The Barberton Greenstone Belt hosts abundant structurally controlled gold mineralisation of Mesoarchaean age. More than 300 gold occurrences have been …Web

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Geochemical identification of episodes of gold mineralisation in …

The gold mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt was the result of a pervasive hydrothermal event that post-dated main tectonic and metamorphic events. …Web

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Final webinar closes out Overberg Geoscientists Group's series …

The Barberton area is characterised by high-grade gold-bearing reefs that have seen sustained mining for more than a century. The Barberton Greenstone Belt has produced about 11-million ounces of ...Web

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Ore-shoot formation in the Main Reef Complex of the Fairview …

Gold production in Fairview Mine in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, is focused on high-grade, steeply plunging ore shoots contained within a gently undulating system of spaced, low-displacement, broadly bedding-parallel faults, and shear zones, collectively referred to as the Main Reef Complex. This shear zone system is …Web

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Major Mines & Projects | BTRP Mine

The BTRP section retreats previously processed gold ore in the form of slime material. The slimes emanate from historical mining activities on the same orebodies that are currently being mined underground from the existing Barberton Mines underground operations. ... In the coming years, production at the BTRP is expected to be supplemented with ...Web

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New Consort Gold Mine Unearths High-Grade Ore

This is significant because on average, native gold ore grades vary between 8 and 10g/t at Barberton, and much lower on average anywhere else in the world. The PAR discovery is an exceptionally high-grade orebody. This makes the discovery more impressive at a time where the gold price now is consistently in excess of a million rand …Web

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Location map of the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB), South …

Gold deposits in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) have formed along a common network of brittle–ductile shear zones that developed during extension and emplacement of felsic porphyry dykes at ...Web

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Mineralogical controls on the bacterial oxidation of refractory

Mineralogy and chemical bchaviour of some refractory gold ores from Barberton Mountain Land; R. Claassen The effect of mineralogy on the bacterial oxidation of refractory gold-bearing sulphides from a Barberton deposit; G.J. Neuerburg A procedure, using hydrofluoric acid, for quantitative mineral separations from silicate rocksWeb

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Witwatersrand Gold Deposits

The Witwatersrand deposits have produced almost 40% of all the gold produced on earth since beginning of time over 1.5 billion with a B ounces that's the equivalent of 305 million ounce deposits if there's one area of agreement on the Witwatersrand gold deposits is that they are truly world class solid gold elephants.Web

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PorterGeo Database

Descriptions of major ore deposits world wide. The gold deposits of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, which include the Sheba Group, New Consort, Fairview and Agnes are located in Barberton Mountain Land in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, approximately 350 km east of Johannesburg (#Location: Sheba - 25° 42' 53"S, 31° 8' …Web

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An underexploited invisible gold resource in the Archean

Remnant vestiges of Archean greenstone belts located on the Kaapvaal craton commonly show elevated gold endowments (e.g. Barberton Greenstone belt = 376 t gold; Amalia-Kraaipan Greenstone belt ...Web

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Biooxidation of sulfidic refractory gold ores

This study evaluated the ability of two IOB sourced from a commercial culture collection, Roseovarius (R.) tolerans DSM 11457T and R. mucosus DSM 17069T, to bioleach gold from electronic waste (e-waste) (1030 ppm gold) and sulfidic gold ore concentrate (45 ppm gold) using one-step, two-step and spent medium leaching at 1% pulp density over 10 days.Web

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(PDF) Regional and local controls of hydrothermal fluid flow and gold

Regional and local controls of hydrothermal fluid flow and gold mineralization in the Sheba and Fairview mines, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa March 2022 Ore Geology Reviews 144(1-2):104805Web

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Top 10: Gold Mines in South Africa by Proven Mineral Reserves

The Barberton Mines have produced approximately 11 Moz of gold since operations began in the late 19th century. Doornkop Gold Mine – 896 koz With a gold ore reserve base of 896 thousand ounces (koz) and an annual production rate of 80,763oz, the Doornkop gold mine in South Africa's Gauteng Province has an operational lifespan …Web

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An atmospheric source of S in Mesoarchaean structurally-controlled gold

The Barberton Greenstone Belt of southern Africa hosts several Mesoarchaean gold deposits. The ores were mostly formed in greenschist facies conditions, and occur as hydrothermal alteration zones around extensional faults that truncate and post-date the main compressional structures of the greenstone belt.Web

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Top 10: Gold mines in South Africa by proven mineral reserves

BLYVOOR GOLD MINE – 5.32 MOZ. Established in 1937, the Blyvoor gold mine was the first in the West Wits line and, due to its widespread reserve base, is expected to retain its lifespan until 2030. Blyvoor contains an estimated 5.32 Moz of proven ore reserves and is operated by DRDGOLD SA. The underground mine is located 70km …Web

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TREATMENT OF A DOUBLE REFRACTORY ORE FROM …

The type of gold ore from which gold extraction is low because of the presence of sulphide minerals which lock up gold particles, as well as ... material, is known as a double refractory ore. According to a report by Applied Geology Services cc, the gold grades in the Barberton Greenstone deposit can be as high as 15 g/t (Applied Geology ...Web

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Golconda Gold: Galaxy

Galaxy. Golconda Gold acquired Galaxy Gold in November 2015. Galaxy gold is situated 8 km west of the town of Barberton and 45 km west of the provincial capital of Nelspruit in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The property covers 58.6 km2 is part of the prolific Barberton Greenstone Belt.

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New Consort Gold Mine Unearths High-Grade Ore

In the last two years, Pan African Resources (PAR) has increased its efforts in active gold exploration at the New Consort Mine, near Barberton, Mpumalanga, while continuing to mine successfully, …Web

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(PDF) Development of the first commercial GEOCOAT® heap

PDF | On Jan 1, 2003, T.J. Harvey and others published Development of the first commercial GEOCOAT® heap leach for refractory gold at the Agnes Mine, Barberton South Africa | Find, read and cite ...Web

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Barberton Mines

Gold sales and production decreased by 7.5% to 95,298oz (2021: 103,065oz) ... Barberton Mines • Three underground gold mines: Fairview Mine, Sheba Mine and Consort Mine ... to be supplemented with ore from Barberton Mines' Royal Sheba orebody, where the extraction of a 10,000t bulk sample is currently ...Web

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PAR hits the high grades

March 2nd, 2021 | Mine Excursion Edited by Leon Louw In the last two years, Pan African Resources (PAR) has increased its efforts in active gold exploration at the New Consort …Web

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Studies on the Ore Mineralogy and Litho-geochemistry of the …

Studies on the Ore Mineralogy and Lith o-geochemistry of the Sheba Deposit, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa 225 Arsenopyrite of the Sheba Dep osit contains up to 0.26 wt. % Ni, 0.15 wt ...Web

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Results of Fry analysis for gold occurrences in the Barberton

Gold deposits in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) have formed along a common network of brittle–ductile shear zones that developed during extension and emplacement of felsic porphyry dykes at ...Web

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Insights on Mineralogy and Chemistry of Fairview Gold Mine, Barberton

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) techniques were used to determine the mineralogy and chemistry of dominant sulphide and associated gold deposits at the Fairview Gold Mine of the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB). The rocks and ore mineral …Web

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Mesoarchaean Gold Mineralisation 7 in the Barberton

The Barberton Greenstone Belt hosts abundant struc-turally controlled gold mineralisation of Mesoarchaean age. More than 300 gold occurrences have been reported, although most of the gold production so far (>350 tonnes Au) has come from a handful of deposits located along the northern margin of the greenstone belt. Most depositsWeb

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Major Mines & Projects | Galaxy Mine

The Galaxy Gold Mine targets gold mineralisation of the Archaean BGB, which is world-renowned for its gold content. Gold mineralisation generally occurs as shear-hosted, mesothermal deposits hosted within various lithologies of the Barberton Supergroup, with mines largely located in close proximity to major regional faults, such as the Sheba ...Web

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Ore-shoot formation in the Main Reef Complex of the Fairview …

Gold production in Fairview Mine in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, is focused on high-grade, steeply plunging ore shoots contained within a gently …Web

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Gold Ore

Gold Ore. The gold ore is defined by an Ag–Au–Te–W geochemical signature, with wall rock enrichments in CO2, K, S. B, V, Ba, As, Sb, and Rb (Bateman et al., 2001; ... Orogenic lode gold deposits range in age from Archaean (such as the Barberton district in South Africa) to Mesozoic–Tertiary (such as the Mother Lode district). There ...Web

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The New Consort Gold Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South

The New Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one of the oldest recognized orogenic gold deposits on Earth. The gold mineralization is hosted by discrete mylonitic units that occur at, or close to, the contact between the mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the c. 3,280 Ma …Web

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An atmospheric source of S in Mesoarchaean structurally-controlled gold

The Barberton Greenstone Belt of southern Africa hosts several Mesoarchaean gold deposits. The ores were mostly formed in greenschist facies conditions, and occur as hydrothermal alteration zones ...Web

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The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the rivers and …

The gold extraction process with cyanide involves the exposure of crushed gold-containing rock or sand to cyanide, treatment with active coal, heating, treatment with some more chemicals and lastly ore electrolysis (Korte and Coulston, 1998). During the "Heap Leach" treatment, a cyanide solution is percolated through large piles of low ...Web

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Pan African explores extensions of ore bodies at Barberton Mines

May 6, 2022. In recent years, Pan African has increased its exploration focus on the down-dip extension of the existing ore bodies at its Barberton Mines. During the Company's …Web

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Pan African Resources: Home

Pan African is a gold producer with a focus on Africa, operating as a mid-tier company. We have primary listings on the AIM of the LSE (ticker: PAF), we are on the chief board of the JSE (ticker: PAN), as well as the A2X Market (A2X). In the United States of America, our shares are traded on the OTCQX Best Market (OTCQX) with the first level of ...Web

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Shear zone-related, Au quartz vein deposits in the Barberton …

Data from regional and mine-scale mapping, alteration zonation, and ore mineral paragenesis studies are given for eight mafic-ultramafic, shear zone-hosted, gold-bearing quartz vein deposits within the 3.1- to 3.5-Ga Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa. Fluid properties and light stable isotope geochemistry of the ore-bearing fluid are also …Web

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Major Mines & Projects | Barberton Mine

Gold-rich orebodies are mined from near surface to approximately 1.7km below surface at the MRC 11-block orebody. Ore is transported through three decline shaft systems to 11 …Web

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