Mine detail: Hotazel

Previously called 'Hotazel Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: -27.21332, 22.95152

Resource(M)

Primary: Manganese
Other material: Bixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite, Pyrolusite

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1959

Geology

References

MRDSISM0171
MAS7910050003
DEP10304911
Reference{Deposit:: THE MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE UNION OF SO. AFRICA, 1960, HAN}{Deposit:: #2: SO. AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P. 1-157.}{Deposit:: BOARDMAN, L.G., 1964, FURTHER GEOLOGICAL DATA ON THE POSTMAS}{Deposit:: AND KURUMAN MANGANESE ORE DEPOSITS, NORTHERN CAPE PROVI}{Deposit:: THE GEOL. OF SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, V.II}{Deposit:: SOC. S.AFR., P-415-440}{Deposit:: PELLETIER, R.A., 1964, MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AF}{Deposit:: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON, 277P.}{Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1974, P. 349.}
ReporterCoffman, Joe