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Set in ca. 74 km2 of rugged terrain close to the Zambezi Escarpment, the Snake’s Head Platinum Project covers the northeastern half of the Musengezi Subchamber in the northern part of the Great Dyke. Here, the linear Great Dyke straddles the boundary...

The Tongwane Formation (~2.4 Ga) conformably overlies banded iron formations (BIF; Penge Iron Formation) on the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. As such, it provides a unique window into depositional processes and environmental conditions in the aftermath...

Re-examination of the field relations and thin-section petrography of the rocks presently known as the Saldanha quartz porphyry show that the entire sequence, on the northern side of Saldanha Bay on the West Coast of South Africa, is pyroclastic in character...

The world’s oldest emerald deposit occurs in the Gravelotte-Leydsdorp area of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Emeralds have been mined from the main emerald working, the Cobra pit, since 1927, although emeralds were discovered in the area much...

Quartzitic sandstones and shales of the upper Witteberg Group (Cape Supergroup) near Grahamstown show hydraulic fracturing manifested in syntectonic quartz veins associated with tension gashes, reverse and strike-slip faults, and layer-parallel thrusts...