| Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t...originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed was originally...originally named Messina but was renamed Musina after the 1994 political dispensation in South Africa. The registered...registered mine name remains Messina.) Since the early 1950s, the Messina mine has produced spectacular...original type-locality specimens from the New Cornelia mine, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States have |
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Perchuk, L. L., van Reenen, D. D., Smit, C. A., Boshoff, R., Belyanin, G. A., Yapaskurt, V. O. (2008) Role of granite intrusions for the formation of ring structures in granulite complexes: Examples from the Limpopo belt, South Africa. Petrology, 16 (7) 652-678 doi:10.1134/s0869591108070023 |
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| Granulite Complexes: Examples from the Limpopo Belt, South Africa L. L. Perchuka, b, c, D. D. van Reenenb...PO Box 524, 2006 Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: dirkvr@uj.ac.za c Institute of Experimental...four such structures from the Central Zone of the Limpopo complex, which were formed during granulite exhumation...within the whole area of the Central Zone of the Limpopo complex. This implies that the rocks were metamorphosed...Neoarchean stage of the development of the Limpopo granulite complex. Local mineral equilibria and fluid inclusions |
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Rajesh, H.M., Safonov, O.G., Basupi, T.O., Belyanin, G.A., Tsunogae, T. (2018) Complexity of characterizing granitoids in high-grade terranes: An example from the Neoarchean Verbaard granitoid, Limpopo Complex, Southern Africa. Lithos, 318. 399-418 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.08.019 |
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| the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo complex, Southern Africa Rajesh Hariharan, Oleg Safonov, Thembiso...the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo complex, Southern Africa. Lithos (2018), doi:10.1016/j.lithos...the Neoarchean Verbaard grantioid, Limpopo Complex, Southern Africa 3 Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa US 4 Graduate School of Life and Environmental...highlights this issue from the Limpopo Complex high-grade terrane in CR southern Africa. The Beit Bridge Complex |
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Rajesh, H.M., Belyanin, G.A., Safonov, O.G., Vorster, C., Van Reenen, D.D. (2018) Garnet-bearing low-Sr and high-Sr Singelele leucogranite: A record of Neoarchean episodic melting in collisional setting and Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bridge complex, southern Africa. Lithos, 322. 67-86 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.10.004 |
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| Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride complex, southern Africa H.M. Rajesh, G.A. Belyanin, O.G. Safonov, C. Vorster...Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride complex, southern Africa. Lithos (2018), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.10.004...Paleoproterozoic overprint in the Beit Bride Complex, southern Africa PT H.M. Rajesh1,* rajesh.hm@biust.ac.bw, G.A...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy...Bridge Complex terrane PT of the Limpopo Complex, southern Africa. The Singelele leucogranite is magnesian |
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(1991) May - June 1991. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 22 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| 0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy |
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(2016) Berezovsk, Russia!. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 47 (4) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia .....................quartz in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa .........................know, we supplied a DVD on the famous Pederneira mine with the May-June issue. This DVD is a supplement...staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington on October 1, 1957, as Assistant Scientific... and he was in constant demand as a speaker at local clubs and societies. Three of his most popular talks--delivered |
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Perchuk, L.L., van Reenen, D.D., Varlamov, D.A., van Kal, S.M., Tabatabaeimanesh, , Boshoff, R. (2008) P–T record of two high-grade metamorphic events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa. Lithos, 103 (1) 70-105 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.011 |
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| metamorphic events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa L.L. Perchuk a,b,c , D.D. van Reenen...Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 142432, Russia Department of Geology, University...Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 11 September 2006; accepted 3 September...different D/M events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo high-grade (HG) terrain, which previously had been...data with the following conclusion: the CZ of the Limpopo Complex was subjected to three superimposed tectono-metamorphic |
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RAJESH, H. M., SAFONOV, O. G., BELYANIN, G. A., KRAMERS, J. D. (2014) MONAZITE-FLUORAPATITE CHARACTERISTICS AS EVIDENCE FOR INTERPLAY BETWEEN 2.04 GA FLUID-INDUCED DEHYDRATION AND MELTING OF THE SAND RIVER GNEISS, LIMPOPO COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA. South African Journal of Geology, 117 (2) 237-254 doi:10.2113/gssajg.117.2.237 |
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| AND MELTING OF THE SAND RIVER GNEISS, LIMPOPO COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA H.M. RAJESH Department of Earth and...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2001, South Africa e-mail: oleg@iem.ac.ru G.A. BELYANIN AND J...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2001, South Africa e-mail: gbelyanin@gmail.com; jkramers@uj.ac...ac.za © 2014 December Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT A tonalitic vein from a representative...and Rajesh et al. (2013) from the Limpopo Complex in South Africa. The present study follows these two |
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Francis, Carl A., Scovil, Jeffrey A. (2018) Crystal Growth Phenomena. Rocks & Minerals, 93 (1) 22-35 doi:10.1080/00357529.2018.1383828 |
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| in marl (6.7 cm) from the Ampliación a Victoria mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain. Chris and Agatha Galas...characteristic of hopper crystals from the Zapata mine, Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolivar, Venezuela. Keith...cavernous basal faces (3.4 cm) from the North Geronimo mine, Trigo Montains, LaPaz County, Arizona. Dick Morris...Dendritic gold crystal (3 cm) from the Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada. Keith and Mauna Proctor specimen...islands on cube faces from the Belshazzar mine, Quartzburg district, Boise County, Idaho. Carl Francis specimen |
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Pohwat, Paul W. (2014) Connoisseur's Choice: Bornite, Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan. Rocks & Minerals, 89 (6) 530-537 doi:10.1080/00357529.2014.949171 |
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| Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...micromounters, Weed (1912) noted that in the Parrot mine the bornite ore has small cavities, 1/16 to ¼ inch...enargite than a true pseudomorph. The Bristol copper mine, located near the town of Bristol in Hartford County...bornite, 7 cm across, from the Pennance Consold mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England. Specimens of this quality...crystallized, have been afforded by the Bristol, Conn. _mine_” (Shepard 1852, p. 306). The Bristol deposit is |
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Chetty, T. R. K., Kehelpannala, Wilbert (2021) Atlas of deformed and metamorphosed rocks from proterozoic orogens. Elsevier. |
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| 214 222 228 233 Proterozoic orogens of Southern Africa 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 v Mahanadi shear zone Nagavali-Vamsadhara...Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 South Delhi Terrane 2.5.3 Sandmata Terrane 2.5.4 Sirohi...References Introduction The Limpopo Belt The Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt The Mahalapye Complex 4...Proterozoic orogens of India, Sri Lanka, Botswana, South Africa, East Antarctica, and Western Australia. All...Antarctica, Western Australia and some parts of the Limpopo Belt. We thank profusely the Geological Survey |
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Rajesh, H.M., Belyanin, G.A., Van Reenen, D.D. (2018) Three tier transition of Neoarchean TTG-sanukitoid magmatism in the Beit Bridge Complex, Southern Africa. Lithos, 296. 431-451 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.11.018 |
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| magmatism in the Beit Bridge Complex, southern Africa H.M. Rajesh, G.A. Belyanin, D.D. Van Reenen PII:...magmatism in the Beit Bridge Complex, southern Africa. The address for the corresponding author was captured...magmatism in the Beit Bridge Complex, southern Africa H.M. Rajesh1*, G.A. Belyanin2, D.D. Van Reenen2...Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa T 1 CR IP *Corresponding author. Telephone:...Bridge AN Complex terrane of the Limpopo Complex in southern Africa. These include the smaller ~2.65- |
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Saggerson, E.P, Turner, L.M (1976) A review of the distribution of metamorphism in the ancient Rhodesian craton. Precambrian Research, 3 (1) 1-53 doi:10.1016/0301-9268(76)90002-4 |
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| Department of Geology, University of Natal, Durban (South Africa) (Received August 15, 1973, revision accepted...margin particularly within the Zambezi and the Limpopo belts. The distribution of the associated early...development were due to thermal highs centred on the Limpopo mobile belt and possibly the Zambezi belt. INTRODUCTION...of the international metamorphic map of southern Africa b a s e d o n t h e c o n c e p t o f m e t a m...post-Shamvaian. (4) The granites and granitic gneisses. (5) Limpopo Group metasediments. ANCIENT BASEMENT RELICS -- |
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Jacobsen, J. B. E., McCarthy, T. S., Laing, G. J. (1976) The copper-bearing breccia pipes of the Messina district South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 11 (1) 33-45 doi:10.1007/bf00203093 |
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| Copper-Bearing Breccia Pipes of the Messina District South Africa J. B. E. Jacobsen and T. S. McCarthy...Johannesburg, South Africa G. J. Laing The Messina (Tvl.) Development Company (Pry.) Limited, Messina, South...South Africa The Messina Copper Mines comprise a group of breccia pipes, disseminated replacement andfissure...emplaced within high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Limpopo mobile belt. Breccia pipes as well as associated...of quartz and sulphides, and grades downwards to albite + sulphides in the West Lode pipe. Sulphide mineral |
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Jacobsen, J. B. E., McCarthy, T. S. (1976) An unusual hydrothermal copper deposit at Messina, South Africa. Economic Geology, 71 (1) 117-130 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.71.1.117 |
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| An UnusualHydrothermal CopperDepositat Messina, South Africa J. B. E. JACOBSEN' ANDT. S. •{CCARTHY Abstract...ne passingthrough the Artonvilla mine. The orebodiesin the district include breccia pipes, fissure deposits...the latter being best developedin the Artonvilla mine, where four separatelodesare developed. The EmeryLodeis...sequenceof complexly foldedmetasediments of the Limpopo Group. Table 1 showsa broad outline of the regional...regional stratigraphic sequence and lithologyaround Messina. Rocks in the immediatevicinityof the minesrevealgranulite |
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Barton, J.M. (2003) The geology of the area surrounding the Venetia kimberlite pipes, Limpopo Belt, South Africa: A complex interplay of nappe tectonics and granitoid magmatism. South African Journal of Geology, 106 (2) 109-128 doi:10.2113/106.2-3.109 |
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| surrounding the Venetia kimberlite pipes, Limpopo Belt, South Africa: A complex interplay of nappe tectonics...Auckland Park 2006, South Africa e-mail: jmb@na.rau.ac.za W.P. Barnett Premier Mine, P.O. Box X1015, Cullinan...Cullinan 1000, South Africa e-mail: wayne.barnett@debeersgroup.com E.S. Barton DeBeers Geoscience Center...Center, P.O. Box 82232, Southdale 2135, South Africa e-mail: erika.barton@debeersgroup.com M. Barnett1...2006, South Africa Present address: Gemcom Africa (Pty) Ltd, P.O. Box 411689, Craighall 2024, South Africa |
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(2020) Montreal Mine!. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...photo. Zektzerite crystal, 1.6 cm, on matrix, with albite and arfvedsonite, from Willow Creek Basin, Okanogan |
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Hor, A.K., Hutt, D.K., Smith, J.V., Wakefield, J., Windley, B.F. (1975) Petrochemistry and mineralogy of early Precambrian anorthositic rocks of the Limpopo belt, southern Africa. Lithos, 8 (4) 297-310 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(75)90013-4 |
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| Precambrlan anorthositic rocks of the Limpopo belt, southem Africa. Lithoa ~8, ~97-310. T w o sections...l~e anorthosite ,complex' were examined at Messina. South Afdca and at Pikwe, Botswana. Thirty XRF whole-rock...in stratigraphic order show that alkalies a t Messina increase upwards from leuco-gabbros to anorthosites...decrease and increase, respectively, with height at Messina, but 22 analyses from Pikwe show no such trends...Fe-rich. also like the Fiskenaesset ones. The Limpopo anorthositic rocks belong to a layered igneous |
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Sawkins, F. J., Rye, R. O. (1979) Additional geochemical data on the Messina copper deposits, Transvaal, South Africa. Economic Geology, 74 (3) 684-689 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.3.684 |
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| Chamberlin, R. M., 1974, Geology of the Council Rock district, Socorro Country, New Mexico: M.S. thesis, Nexv...Geology and ore deposits of the Magdalena mining district, New Mexico: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 200...thehighlydeformed, granulitegrade metamorphic rocks of the Limpopo Mobile The Messinacopperdepositshavebeenthe subject...deposits, villa mineat the easternextremityof the district,all of the samples.Basedlargelyon investigations...variationof 3•sOn2oof the hymassivequartz associated with albite (an early-stage gangueand alterationmineral) and |
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Windley, B F, Bishop, F C, Smith, J V (1981) Metamorphosed Layered Igneous Complexes in Archean Granulite-Gneiss Belts. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9. 175-196 doi:10.1146/annurev.ea.09.050181.001135 |
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| belt of northwest Scotland and the Limpopo belt of southern Africa (Table 1) are in different sub-belts...Malagasy Sakeny Boulanger 1959 Limpopo, southern Africa Messina layered intrusion Hor et al1975,...1974, J. D. Sills et ai, in preparation Limpopo, southern Africa Neshuro complex and Chingwa-Ma-Karorro...1973), Labrador (Bridgwater et al 1975), and the Limpopo belt (Barton et al 1977b). Metamorphic ages are:...West Greenland 3.6 to 3.8 Ga B.P., Labrador 3.6, Limpopo 3.86 ± 0.12; younger gneisses, West Green land |
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Kröner, A (1999) Single zircon ages for granitoid gneisses in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa and geodynamic significance. Precambrian Research, 93 (4) 299-337 doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(98)00102-8 |
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| gneisses in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa and geodynamic significance A. Kröner...Geoscience, P.O. Box 620, Pietersburg 0700, South Africa d Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University...throughout the Central Zone (CZ) of the Limpopo mobile belt, South Africa define three broad age groups, namely...metamorphism previously dated at 2027±6 Ma in the Messina area. The second period of granitoid magmatism...the Northern and Southern Marginal Zones of the Limpopo belt. Broad contemporaneity of extensive granitoid |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Texas III. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler |
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Zeh, A., Klemd, R., Buhlmann, S., Barton, J. M. (2004) Pro- and retrograde P-T evolution of granulites of the Beit Bridge Complex (Limpopo Belt, South Africa): constraints from quantitative phase diagrams and geotectonic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22 (2) 79-95 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2004.00501.x |
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| granulites of the Beit Bridge Complex (Limpopo Belt, South Africa): constraints from quantitative phase... Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa ABSTRACT Interpretations based on quantitative...migmatitic rocks from the Beit Bridge Complex (Messina area, Limpopo Belt) formed along a clockwise P–T path...Kretz (1983). Key words: CNKMnTiFMASH; granulites; Limpopo Belt; P–T path; P–T pseudosections. INTRODUCTION...Beit Bridge Complex in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt. First, it is shown that P–T pseudosections |
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Klemd, R. (2003) P-T path constraints from calc-silicate metapelitic rocks east of the Venetia kimberlite pipes, Central Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Have these rocks seen granulite-facies conditions?. South African Journal of Geology, 106 (2) 129-148 doi:10.2113/106.2-3.129 |
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| Venetia kimberlite pipes, Central Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Have these rocks seen granulite-facies...Park 2006, South Africa. e-mail: jmb@na.rau.ac.za © 2003 Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...event (M3) in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt of southern Africa is considered to have occurred at ~2...the Central Zone. Introduction The Limpopo Belt of southern Africa is an Archaean to Paleoproterozoic...reworked rocks of the respective Cratons. The Limpopo Belt was long regarded as an orogen resulting from |
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Buick, Ian S., Hermann, Jörg, Maas, Roland, Gibson, Roger L. (2007) The timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): Constraints from titanite U–Pb geochronology and REE partitioning. Lithos, 98 (1) 97-117 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.02.002 |
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| hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): Constraints from titanite U–Pb geochronology...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa Received 9 September 2006; accepted 13 February... Abstract In the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa), Palaeoproterozoic granulite-facies...Titanite; Geochronology; Retrogression; Central Zone; Limpopo Belt 1. Introduction Titanite is a particularly...metabasite from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa) that has been hydrothermally altered |
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