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Exploration history of Rosh Pinah and Aggeneys

The discovery of Rosh Pinah

18 Derry Road, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa

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The writer was assigned the onerous task of mapping the Witputs - Sendelingsdrif area in Namibia in 1963. This coincided with the start of the Precambrian Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Field work commenced in May, and in August of that year a move north was made away from the geology along the Orange River, leap frogging across the wide open valley of Namuskluft, to the mountainous area at Gergarub 25kms to the north. A temporary overnight campsite was established on the talus scree of a minor tributary valley cutting its way down the mountain slope. A quick traverse in the late afternoon resulted in the collection of a few pieces of scree - one was struck by the weight of sample that on closer examination turned out to be barite. Traversing upslope of the tributary on the side of the huge anticline, ones attention was drawn by the occasional green copper oxide staining. Closer examination revealed sulphides of lead and zinc. The containing rock was a quartzite-grit sequence.

The writer returned to Gergarub during the university year end vacation in December 1964 to sample and map the outcropping mineralisation that resembled a kind of dolomite rock weathering to a light to dark brown . . . [Full Text of this Article]