3 Afrimat s aggregate operations are located in Friersburg and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province Sedibeng iron ore mine dates back to the 1960s Mining operations are situated about 20kms from Postmasburg After being idle for a while production resumed at Sedibeng in 2011 Sedibeng is a junior miner operated by a joint venture
Kolomela Mine formerly known as the Sishen South Project is located approximately 9 km from Postmasburg in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa Iron ore is primarily concentrated near the top of the Asbesheuwels or Asbestos Hills Subgroup within the Kuruman Formation
The general geology mineralogy and genesis of these very high grade major deposits are presented New information on ore morphology and new evidence on multiple epigenetic enrichment of BIF protore are presented and discussed The modern and specialised ore mining processing and blending techniques at Sishen are explained
Bishek iron ore mine It is located in the southern part of the Maremane Dome High grade hematite ores were formed as a result of the slumping of BIF blocks of the Kuruman Formation into karst structures and the leaching of silica owing to the circulation of Ca‒Mg hydrocarbonate waters Grobbelaar and Beukes 1986; Gutzmer and Beukes
The Black Rock to Rooinekke area has been influenced by the Kheis and Namaqua orogenies Thrusting associated with the Kheis orogeny is well documented throughout the mining area Thrusting at Rooinekke resulted in the Griqualand West Sequence rocks overlying parts of the Olifantshoek Sequence At Black Rock lithologies of the Voëlwater Subgroup have been
Volcanic ash beds below the Kuruman iron formation yield U Pb dates of 2521 ± 3 Ma Sumner and Bowring 1996 consistent with a maximum depositional age of 2460 ± 5 Ma for the Kuruman Formation
Combined Fe C and O isotope measurements of Ga banded iron formation BIF carbonates from the Kuruman Iron Formation and underlying BIF and platform Ca Mg carbonates of the Gamohaan Formation South Africa constrain the biologic and abiologic formation pathways in these extensive BIF intervals of up to 100 m were
Iron formations are better developed and more abundant in the Griqualand West area than in the Transvaal area Seven iron formation units with formation status and more than ten beds or members are present in the Griqualand West sequence from near the base of the chemical sedimentary Ghaap Group to near the top of the Postmasburg Group
Field exposures of the billion year old Kuruman Banded Iron Formation reveal a well defined hierarchical cycle pattern in the weathering profile that is laterally continuous over at least 250 km
Field exposures of the billion year old Kuruman Banded Iron Formation reveal a well defined hierarchical cycle pattern in weathering profile that is laterally continuous over at least 250 kilometres The isotopic ages constrain the sedimentation rate at 10 m/Myr and link the observed cycles to known eccentricity oscillations with periods
The Kuruman Iron Formation deposited at the peak time of BIF Klein 2005 The Abitibi BIF is embedded in the uppermost section of the Hunter Mine Group of bimodal volcanic complex in the Abitibi greenstone belt with an age of
The mineralisation process is related to regional scale supergene iron enrichment of Kuruman banded iron formations along the unconformity During regional tectonism associated with the Kheis orogeny 2400 1700 Ma the Maremane dome was uplifted and the basal dolomite units thus exposed to erosion and karstification
Field exposures of the billion year old Kuruman Banded Iron Formation reveal a well defined hierarchical cycle pattern in the weathering profile that is laterally continuous over at least 250 km
2 17 Supplementary Text S1 18 The Kuruman Iron Formation crops out along the entire N S stretch of the Griqualand West 19 Basin over a distance of some 500 km It is part of the lower Ghaap Group of the Transvaal 20 Supergroup deposited on the Kaapvaal craton in Southern Africa between ca Ga 21 Supplementary Fig S1 The iron formations of the
the sequence of the Transvaal Supergroup Outcrops of the two main iron and manganese bearing rocks are exposed to the east of the mine but below the Kalahari sands are layers of banded iron formation BIF that is in primary context in the Kuruman Formation and reworked in the overlying Danielskuil Formation Beukes et al 2016
The modern and specialised ore mining processing and blending techniques at Sishen are explained Recommended articles References 87 Ages of the tuffaceous horizons in the Kuruman Iron Formation are comparable to those from the Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Province
Mesobanded lithotypes band rhythmites of banded iron formation BIF from the Griquatown and Kuruman Iron Formations of the Asbestos Hills Subgroup Transvaal Supergroup South Africa have been sampled 142 major and trace element analyses from diamond drill cores an underground mine and an open pit mine were carried out Out of these 19 open pit mine
A subsequent transgression resulted in the deposition of open shelf iron formation on top of the Campbellrand carbonate platform Progradational sedimentation coupled with shoaling followed and an iron formation sequence represented by the
Regular 5 m scale alternations in the ca Ga Kuruman Iron Formation IF in South Africa and the time equivalent Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman IF in Western Australia were recently linked to the 405 ky orbital eccentricity cycle through high precision U Pb geochronology and statistical analysis
Iron ore is primarily concentrated near the top of the Asbesheuwels or Asbestos Hills Subgroup within the Kuruman Formation High grade hematite rich iron ore deposits in South Africa have been addressed in the literature although much of this work focusses on their geochemical or isotopic signatures and the role of paleosinkholes in ore
On a regional scale these karst hosted iron ore deposits are located immediately below an angular unconformity where the Asbesheuwels BIF mainly the Kuruman Member is directly overlain by red
Kuruman in the Northern Cape is located among some of the biggest iron ore and manganese deposits in the world FUCHS LUBRICANTS SOUTH AFRICA has a branch with a 600 m2 warehouse including offices in this important mining hub Both iron ore and manganese are vital ingredients in steel manufacturing South Africa is one of
1000 m thick welldeveloped basal Kuruman and top Griquatown iron formation units that extend over 500 km north south below the siliciclastic rocks of the Koegas Subgroup and conformably cover