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Basic principles of alluvial diamond exploration

The principles are illustrated, where possible, by reference to a case history of exploration for alluvial diamonds in the south-western Transvaal, South Africa. ... Primary deposits are those that have remained within their original source rock and require mechanized exploitation techniques, while alluvial deposits are those which have been ...

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Illegal gold mining on Colombia's rivers on the rise: UN

In total, more than 100,000 hectares -- 69 percent of which is illegal -- of one of the most biodiverse countries in the world show "evidence" of alluvial gold exploitation, the UN report said.

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Historical Reading List: Alluvial Diamonds from Namibia

The Alluvial Diamondiferous Deposits of South and Southwest Africa, F.C. Cornell, ... Beach Mining at the Consolidated Diamond Mines of South-West Africa, Limited: Exploitation of the Area between the High- and Low-Water Marks, ... The California Gold Rush. Dr. James Shigley May 29, 2017

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2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINING AND MINERALS …

In the first millennium AD gold was principally obtained from alluvial beds, but also by open-pit mining and from quartz outcrops. The earliest known instance of gold smelting in ... South Africa. The first exploitation of coal on a substantial scale was near Molteno in the Eastern Cape in 1870 (de Jager, 1976 in RT6 Granville).

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The Barberton Gold Rush

Gold mining in South Africa first began in Barberton when in 1874 alluvial gold was discovered by an acclaimed South African prospector, Tom MaLachlan. After MaLachlan's golden find, more individuals were …

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Alluvial gold in the Bétaré Oya drainage system, east Cameroon …

The morphology and elemental composition of alluvial gold grains from the Bétaré Oya gold district were investigated as part of a district exploration strategy. The morphology and general chemistry of the grains, determined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM)—energy dispersive spectroscopy and electron probe microanalyzer …

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The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the …

The dewatering and rewatering of the karstic aquifer overlying and adjacent to the Witwatersrand Supergroup and the pollution caused by Acid Mine Drainage …

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Alluvial and Placer Mineral Deposits | Geology for Investors

Gold, particularly, has often not moved far, so a minor alluvial gold deposit can result in a major underground gold mine as in Australia's Kalgoorlie or Bendigo gold rushes. In other places, most of the gold was in the alluvial deposits as in the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush and the California gold rushes of the 19th century. Gold …

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Mining history of Brazil: a summary | Mineral Economics

Mining is an activity that has had a considerable impact on the history of Brazil, whether from an economic, political, social, geographic, or demographic, artistic, and religious point of view. Its history is stamped by several phases starting in 1693 with gold discoveries in Minas Gerais, and diamond findings in 1729. This lasted almost 150 years …

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A global rise in alluvial mining increases sediment load in …

Increasing gold and mineral mining activity in rivers across the global tropics has degraded ecosystems and threatened human health1,2. Such river mineral mining involves intensive excavation and ...

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(PDF) A review of the alluvial diamond industry …

A review of the alluvial diamond industry and the gravels of the North West Province, South Africa September 2006 South African Journal of Geology 109(3):301-314

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Historical Reading List: The Diamond Fields of …

This book reviews the history of the development of the De Beers company and its economic and other activities in Southern Africa. Alluvial Diamonds in South Africa, W.E. Sinclair, Mining Magazine, …

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A global rise in alluvial mining increases sediment load in …

Increasing gold and mineral mining activity in rivers across the global tropics has degraded ecosystems and threatened human health1,2.

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UNODC, Colombia launch report on alluvial gold …

UNODC and the Ministry for Mines and Energy of Colombia recently launched a study on alluvial gold exploitation in the South American country and the relationship of this activity with organized crime. …

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Modular and moveable processing unlocks …

South Africa's Middle Orange region in the Northern Cape remains largely untapped because the remaining alluvial diamond deposits are considered marginal or uneconomical. However, Consulmet Group …

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UN study charts extent of unregulated gold mining in …

An estimated 60 per cent of Colombia's alluvial gold exploitation – through mining streams or riverbeds, often dredged with heavy machinery – is not established within existing normative frameworks and in many cases finances and strengthens organized criminal groups, according to a joint United Nations and Colombian Government study.

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South Africa

South Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand. As the predominantly agrarian …

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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining …

Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for …

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Ancient mining : 1. Ancient gold-mining sites in the …

Ancient gold-mining sites in the Transvaal. Pre-European gold mining and working in South Africa is a tanta-lizing field for conjecture. Well over a thousand sites have been identi …

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The Mobilong alluvial diamond field of southeast …

Geological and economical investigations of these alluvial fields, at an exploration level, were undertaken from 1948 to 1987, with a greater focus in the Mobilong alluvial field (MAF) where intense artisanal mining was active (Gamnje, 1977; Fonji, 1983; Vanhoutte et al., 1986; Simo et al., 1989, Table 1).

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Gold Mining in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and …

South Africa's gold mines, once the apex of global gold production, now grapple with deep-seated challenges – aging infrastructure and depths that test the limits of modern mining. Meanwhile ...

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Gold

For many years, South Africa was the world's primary gold producer. The glory days of the gold sector started waning in the early 21 st century as mines went deeper to find the rich reef patches. At the same time, the gold price had dropped significantly from the previous highs, and the global economy hit headwinds, culminating in the global ...

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Alluvial gold mining and trade in Nineteenth-Century South …

For over nine hundred years the African inhabitants of South Central Africa engaged in the production and trading of gold. The attention of archaeologists and historians, however, has focused mainly on gold reef mining.

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Resource Estimation and Valuation of Alluvial Diamond Deposits …

Some alluvial deposits have grades measured in carats per cubic metre/tonne and marine deposits along the South African/Namibian West Coast are often measured in carats per square metre (ct/m 2). Typical alluvial diamond deposits have average grades that can be some two orders of magnitude lower than a low grade gold …

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Minerals and Mining in South Africa | SpringerLink

The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities including gold, platinum and diamonds. This chapter provides a historical perspective on minerals and mining mainly in South Africa, although it does occasionally stray across the borders …

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Lithological and alteration mineral mapping for alluvial gold

In this study, Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) satellite imagery was used for lithological and alteration mapping in the south-eastern part (inaccessible …

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Alluvial Terraces of the Lower Vaal River, South Africa: …

Box 316, Kimberley, South Africa; and Smithsonian Radiation Biology Laboratory, Rockville, Maryland ABSTRACT The alluvial terraces of the Lower Vaal River, South Africa, are well known for their unique strati-graphic record of the Pleistocene period and as the focus of an apparent Acheulian sequence. Recent field

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An underexploited invisible gold resource in the Archean …

The tailings dumps originating from gold mining in South Africa's Witwatersrand still contain notable gold endowments.

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Historical Reading List: The Diamond Fields of South Africa: …

Diamond Digging in South Africa, J. Andrew, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1887, pp. 98-106, (1888). The importance of diamond mining to the economic development of the country is discussed by the author. "Diamonds and Gold of South Africa", H. Mitchell, F.C. Mathieson & Son, London, 131 pp., (1888). …

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