| Deposit ID | 10255905 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 7910200055 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Randfontein Estates |
| Point of reference | Ore Body |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | 27.71815, -26.16331 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1000 |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
South Africa(country)
Africa(continent)
Land(continent)
| Country |
|---|
| South Africa |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Uranium | Secondary |
| Ore Body (1) | 27.71815, -26.16331 |
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| Thickness | 75M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Width | 1.5M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 600M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | Yes |
| Discovery year | 1887 |
| Year of first production | 1889 |
| Milling method | Hydrometallurgy Unspecified |
| District name | Witwatersrand |
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| Type of mineral rights | State Lease |
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| Ownership category | Private |
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| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Co., Witwatersrand, Ltd. |
| Interest | 100 |
| Home office | South Africa |
| Year | 1982 |
| Year | 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 114000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 408000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 837000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 944000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 1131000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 1850000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 3921000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 4084000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Feed Grade In G/Mt, 7.9 Au, .79 Ag, 83 U 4525000 Mtpy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall depth | 1025M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall depth | 1175M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall depth | 1175M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall depth | 1175M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall depth | 1175M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 7910200055 |
ANHAEUSSER, C.R., 1976, THE NATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF
ARCHEAN GOLD MINERALIZATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, MINERALS
SCI. ENGNG., V. 8, NO. 1, PP 46-84.
BOYLE, R.W., 1979, THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF GOLD AND ITS DEPOSITS
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, BULLETIN 280, 584 PP.
HAUGHTON, S.H. ED., 1964A, THE GEOLOGY OF SOME ORE DEPOSITS
IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, V. I, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE WITWATER-
SRAND BASIN, GEOL. SOC. S. AFR., JOHANNESBURG, 625 PP.
LIEBENBERG, W.R., 1972, MINERALOGICAL FEATURES OF GOLD ORES
IN SOUTH AFRICA, IN GOLD METALLURGY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
EDITED BY R.J. ADAMSON, CHAMBER OF MINES OF S.A.
PRETORIUS, D.A., 1975, THE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE
WITWATERSTRAND GOLDFIELDS: A CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW OF
SPECULATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS, MINERAL SCI. ENGNG., V. 7,
NO. 1, PP 18-47.
SMITH, N.D., AND MINTER, W.E.L., 1980, SEDIMENTALOGICAL
CONTROLS OF GOLD AND URANIUM IN TWO WITWATERSTRAND PALEO-
PLACERS, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V.75, PP 1-14.
MINING JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT. NOV.3,1978.
MOHIDE, T.P., 1981, GOLD, MINERAL POLICY BACKGROUND PAPER
NUMBER 12, ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, PP
84-112.
STORRAR, C.D., 1981, SOUTH AFRICAN MINE VALUATION CHAMBER
OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 470 PP.
ADAMSON, R.J. ED., 1972, GOLD METALLURGY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 452 PP.
FINANCIAL TIMES, 1981, MINING INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK
(SELECTED EXCERPTS).
KING, A., 1949, GOLD METALLURGY ON THE WITWATERSTRAND,
TRANSVAAL CHAMBER OF MINES, 458 PP.
MCQUISTON, F.W., AND SHOEMAKER, R.S., 1975, GOLD AND SILVER
CYANIDATION PLANT PRACTICE, SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS.
TOOMBS, R.B., A SURVEY OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH
AFRICA, MINERAL INFORMATION BULLETIN MR 58, MINERAL
RESOURCES DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF MINES, OTTAWA, 1962.
WORLD MINING, WITWATERSRAND GOLD, MAY 1977, P. 50-53.
WORLD MINING REGISTER 76-77, MILLER FREEMAN PUBLICATIONS,
INC., 1977.
MINTER, W.E.L., DETRITAL GOLD, URANIUM, AND PYRITE CON-
CENTRATIONS RELATED TO SEDIMENT GEOLOGY IN THE PRECAMBRI-
AN VAAL REEF PLACER, WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA, ECONO-
MIC GEOLOGY, V. 71, NO. 1, 1977, P. 157-176.
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF
MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS, MC GRAW HILL,
NEW YORK, 1976.
SOUTH AFRICA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 18,
1972.
MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, MINING JOURNAL, LONDON, 1977, P. 431-
443.
COETZEE, C.B., MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH AFRICA, GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY PUBLICATION, HANDBOOK 7, FIFTH EDITION, 1976,
P. 39-74, 233-240.
MINING JOURNAL, QUARTERENDING, JUNE 1977.
THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, GEOLOGI-
CAL SURVEY PUBLICATION, 1959, FOURTH EDITION.
WATERMEYER, G.A. AND HOFFENBERG, S.N., WITWATERSRAND MINING
PRACTICE, THE TRANSVAAL CHAMBER OF MINES, GOLD PRODUCERS
COMMITTEE, 1932.
THE RANDFONTEIN ESTATES GOLD MINING CO., WITWATERSRAND,
LTD., ANNUAL REPORTS, 1974, 1975, 1976.
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, EIGHTY THIRD ANNUAL RE-
PORT, 1972, P. 54, 60-61.
MINING MAGAZINE, APRIL 1976, P. 261-267.
MINING MAGAZINE, JUNE 1976, P. 545, 564.
COAL, GOLD AND BASE MINERALS OF SOUTH AFRICA, JUNE 1977,
P. 47.
COAL, GOLD AND BASE MINERALS OF SOUTH AFRICA, APRIL 1977,
P. 31-35.
SOUTH AFRICA MINING & ENGINEERING JOURNAL, FEB. 1975, P. 85-
87.
SOUTH AFRICA MINING & ENGINEERING JOURNAL, OCT. 1975, P. 74-
75.
MINING MAGAZINE, FEB. 1976, P. 75.
MINING MAGAZINE, AUG. 1976, P. 103-105.
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1981, RAND REFINERY,
P.R.D. SERIES NO. 255, 20 PP.
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1980?, GOLD IN SOUTH
AFRICA, P.R.D. SERIES NO. 241, 28 PP.
CHAMBER OF MINES, 1980, OVERVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING
INDUSTRY.
ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1981, GOLD MINES OF THE WORLD, PUBLISHED
BY MINOBRAS, PP 78-86.
POTTS, D., 1981, THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINING INDUSTRY IN
GOLD, 1981, PUBLISHED BY CONSOLIDATED GOLD FIELDS LTD.,
PP 71-85.
GOLD INSTITUTE, 1981, GOLD REGULATIONS AND TAXES FOR MINING,
REFINING, MANUFACTURING AND TRADE IN THIRTEEN COUNTRIES,
PP 74-79.
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1982, ANALYSIS OF WORKING
RESULTS, OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1981, 8 PP.
CHAMBER OF MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1981, 91ST ANNUAL REPORT
AND STATISTICAL TABLES, 116 PP.
MINING JOURNAL RESEARCH SERVICES, 1982, PRODUCTION AND
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES,
1966-1981.
MINING JOURNAL RESEARCH SERVICES, 1982, SUMMARY REPORT ON
PRODUCTION AND RECOVERY FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES,
INFORMATION OF THE URANIUM INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
VARIOUS ARTICLES CONCERNING RANDFONTEIN ESTATES.
INFORMATION BROCHURE ON RANDFONTEIN ESTATES, AUGUST 1982.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE DATA CONTAINED IN THIS FILE WAS COLLECTED BY DAVY MCKEE UNDER U.S. BUREAU OF MINES CONTRACT #JO215039 IN 1982. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 28-SEP-1992 | Boyle, Ed | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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