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Barberton Mountains, New Consort, Sheba, Fairview, Agnes
Mpumalanga, South Africa
Main commodities: Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1997.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Sheba

New Consort

Fairview

Agnes

    Selected References
Anhaeusser C R  1986 - Archaean gold mineralisation in the Barberton Mountain Land: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (eds),  Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa Geol. Soc. of South Africa, Johannesburg   v1 pp 113-154
Argapadmi, W., Toth, E.R., Fehr, M.A., Schonbachler, M. and Heinrich, C.A.,  2018 - Silver Isotopes as a Source and Transport Tracer for Gold: A Reconnaissance Study at the Sheba and New Consort Gold Mines in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: in    Econ. Geol.   v.113, pp. 1553-1570.
de Beer J H, Stettler E H, du Plessis J G and Blume J,  1988 - The deep structure of the Barberton greenstone belt; a geophysical study : in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v91 pp 198-206
De Ronde C E J, Spooner E T C, De Witt M J, Bray C J  1992 - Shear zone-related, Au Quartz vein deposits in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: field and petrographic characteristics, fluid properties, and light stable isotope geochemistry: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 366-402
Gloyn-Jones, J. and Kisters, A.,  2019 - Ore-shoot formation in the Main Reef Complex of the Fairview Mine - multiphase gold mineralization during regional folding, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 1157-1178
Groves, D.I., Santosh, M., Goldfarb, R.J. and Zhang, L.,  2018 - Structural geometry of orogenic gold deposits: Implications for exploration of world-class and giant deposits: in    Geoscience Frontiers   v.9, pp. 1163-1177.
Heubeck C, Wendt J I, Toulkeridis T, Kroener A and Lowe D R,  1993 - Timing of deformation of the Archaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa; constraints from zircon dating of the Salisbury Kop Pluton : in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v96 pp 1-8
Otto A, Dziggel A, Kisters A F M and Meyer F M,  2007 - The New Consort Gold Mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: orogenic gold mineralization in a condensed metamorphic profile : in    Mineralium Deposita   v42 pp 715-735
Schouwstra R P,  1995 - Wall-rock alteration as a guide to gold-bearing fracture zones in the Zwartkoppie Section, Sheba gold mine, South Africa : in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v98 pp 399-414
Voges F D,  1986 - The New Consort gold mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (Eds.), 1986 Mineral Deposits of South Africa Geol. Soc. South Africa, Johannesburg   v1 pp 163-168
Wagener J H F  1986 - The Agnes gold mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (Eds.), 1986 Mineral Deposits of South Africa Geol. Soc. South Africa, Johannesburg   v1 pp 181-185
Wagener J H F, Wiegand J  1986 - The Sheba gold mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (Eds.), 1986 Mineral Deposits of South Africa Geol. Soc. South Africa, Johannesburg   v1 pp 155-161
Ward J H W,  1987 - Genesis of Barberton gold; the exhalite source-bed concept : in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v90 pp 326-331
Wiggett B S A, Brink W C J, Vorster M A  1986 - The Fairview Gold mine, Barberton Greenstone Belt: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (Eds.), 1986 Mineral Deposits of South Africa Geol. Soc. South Africa, Johannesburg   v1 pp 169-179
Williams P J  1997 - A metamorphosed, stratabound-epigenetic origin for a gruneritic Archean gold deposit, Barberton, South Africa : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 135-151


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