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The Witwatersrand Gold-Uranium Deposits — South Africa

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These remarkable deposits take the form of a number of quartz-pebble conglomerate horizons that are found around the edge of what is probably the oldest major sedimentary basin. Although the subject of great controversy, they are probably some kind of sedimentary deposit.

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  • Haughton, S. H., ed. (1964), The Geology of some Ore Deposits in Southern Africa. Johannesburg. The Geological Society of South Africa. 625 pp. [The reader needs go no further than this volume for a comprehensive set of papers on almost all aspects of these deposits.]

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© 1979 Colin J. Dixon

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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Witwatersrand Gold-Uranium Deposits — South Africa. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_9

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