Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa - by Edited by Anhaeusser and Maske (Hardcover)

Copyright 1986. Published 1986. Approximate size 30.7cm x 22.5cm. Two volumes (complete). Unnumbered copies of a limited edition of 3500 copies. Mineral Deposits is a double volume illustrating the importance of ore deposits in South Africa. It is a collectors set and discusses every detail of Mineral deposits.

Volume 1 includes 79 papers, describing Achaean gold, nickel, antimony, and chrysotile asbestos deposits the auriferous quartz-pebble conglomerate deposits of the Witwatersrand goldfields, and the iron, manganese, asbestos, fluorspar, and zinc-lead deposits of the early Proterozoic Transvaal Sequence.

Volume II contains 100 papers, including descriptions of platinum, chrome, vanadium, tin, and fluorspar deposits associated with the Bushveld Complex and a variety of papers describing the base metal deposits associated with metamorphic mobile belts, including the Limpopo and Damara orogens and the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex.

The final 40 papers in the volume deal with Phanerozoic to Recent deposits associated with carbonatites and kimberlites.

Published by The Geological Society of Southern Africa

Pages - Vol 1: 1020, Vol 2: 2335 

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