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Sericite from
Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1696939
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1696939:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
94.2km (58.5 miles) ⓘNkomati Mine, Uitkomst Complex, Waterval, Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
97.6km (60.7 miles) ⓘFairview Mine, Bickenhall Farm, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Swiegers, JU (1948) The gold deposits of the Pilgrims Rest gold mining district, Transvaal. South African Journal of Geology, 51 (1). 81-132
Mutele, Litshedzani, Carranza, Emmanuel John M. (2025) Assessment of gold endowment and exploration maturity in selected South African goldfields using Zipf’s law, deposit density regression, and the USGS three-part quantitative mineral resource assessment: Toward sustaining gold production. Ore Geology Reviews, 179. 106513 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106513
 
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