Witwatersrand Basin

Dolomite
(pink) and clear quartz crystals, 1
Gold crystals
(skeletal, octahedral), 2
Quartz
on doubly terminated calcite and coated with pyrite, 3
Quartz,
pyrrhotite (dark grey) and kerogen (shiny black), 4


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1 Kloof Gold Mine (7 cm), specimen: Paul Botha, photo: Bruce Cairncross in: Cairncross, B./ Dixon, R.: Minerals of South Africa, Singapore 1995, p. 203.

2 Van Dyk Mine (1,7 cm crystal), specimen: Bleloch Museum at Wits, photo: Mark Hudson in: Cairncross, B./ Dixon, R.: Minerals of South Africa, Singapore 1995, p. 40.

3 Kloof Mine (3,2 cm), specimen and photo: Bruce Cairncross in: Cairncross, B./ Dixon, R.: Minerals of South Africa, Singapore 1995, p. 41.

4 East Rand Premier Mine (20 cm), specimen and photo: Bruce Cairncross in: Cairncross, B./ Dixon, R.: Minerals of South Africa, Singapore 1995, p. 234.