Vishakhapatnam
Vishakhapatnam or Visakhapatnam , city (1991 pop. 1,057,118), Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, a port on the Bay of Bengal. Established by the British in the 17th cent., Vishakhapatnam was famous for cloth and for local handicrafts, especially ornamental objects of ivory, horn, and silver. Today it is a district administrative center and a health resort and has a naval base, an airport, a shipyard, and an oil refinery. Andhra Univ. is on the outskirts of the city.
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AfriOre Limited: Witwatersrand Type Quartzites Intersected At The FSC Gold Project, South Africa
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 4/5/2005; 700+ words
; ...it has made its first intersection of Witwatersrand type quartzites in drill hole BH 48...determine their position within the Witwatersrand stratigraphy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Geology Department. Subsequent to...
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AfriOre Limited: Witwatersrand Type Quartzites Intersected At The FSC Gold Project, South Africa.
Business Wire; 4/5/2005; 700+ words
; ...it has made its first intersection of Witwatersrand type quartzites in drill hole BH 48...determine their position within the Witwatersrand stratigraphy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Geology Department. Subsequent to...
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Archaean oil migration in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Abstract: The Late Archaean Witwatersrand Supergroup of South Africa hosts...time after, development of the Witwatersrand Basin, consistent with progressive...prior to 2.9 Ga. Oil in the Witwatersrand Supergroup was most likely derived...
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AfriOre and Wits Basin Propose Further Drilling in the Newly Discovered Extension to the Witwatersrand Basin at the FSC Gold Project, South Africa.
Business Wire; 8/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...that have been positively identified as Witwatersrand Supergroup strata and this is the first time that rocks of the Witwatersrand Supergroup have been encountered this far south of the known Witwatersrand Basin, which historically has been South...
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AfriOre is Granted Prospecting Permission and Drilling Resumes on the FSC Witwatersrand-Type Gold Project.
Business Wire; 10/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...the newly acquired area of the FSC Witwatersrand-type gold project, in which AfriOre...area, interpreted to be underlain by Witwatersrand rocks. This target is one of the two...stratigraphies, similar to those in the Witwatersrand basin, thereby confirming the initial...
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Wits Basin Announces Discovery of Witwatersrand Type Quartzites; Discovery Creates Great Hope for Mineralized Conglomerates.
Business Wire; 4/5/2005; 700+ words
; ...have made the first intersection of Witwatersrand type quartzites in drill hole BH48...these identical rocks overlay the Witwatersrand quartzites and mineralized conglomerates in the main Witwatersrand Basin. The subsequent intersection...
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Nature and origin of 'carbon' in the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...gold-bearing reefs of the Archaean Witwatersrand basin of South Africa has long been...radiation and hydrothermal fluid flow marks Witwatersrand Basin pyrobitumens out as being different...are identified in the intra-basinal Witwatersrand shale units. Lithological control...
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New Witwatersrand model. (Exploration).(oxygen-rich atmosphere 3 billion years ago)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Mining Journal; 1/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...gold deposits like South Africa's Witwatersrand ... Or we may have actually found...7-2.8 billion years old in the Witwatersrand. The scientists believe that the nodules...that the conditions under which the Witwatersrand was formed were different to those...
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Witwatersrand historic borehole database. (database of the gold exploration activities in South Africa's Witwatersrand Basin)
Magazine article from: Mining Magazine; 8/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; Witwatersrand Historic Borehole Database It is estimated that all of the world...40% has been extracted from the banket reefs of South Africa's Witwatersrand ("Wits") Basin. The Wits basin is also calculated to contain...
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Research from University of Witwatersrand provide new insights into colorectal.
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 4/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...NHLS) and the University of the Witwatersrand (1 732 patients from 1990 to 2003...Cronje and colleagues, University of Witwatersrand. The researchers concluded: "It...contacting L. Cronje, University of Witwatersrand, Division Anatomy Pathology, School...
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Witwatersrand
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Witwatersrand ( Rand ) Series of parallel mountain ranges more than 1500m (5000ft...Gold was first discovered in 1884 and mining began two years later. Witwatersrand still produces c. 30% of the world's total output of gold. Silver...
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Gold Fields Ltd
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...they had acquired on the Transvaal's Witwatersrand gold fields. The first of the financial...the Anglo American Corporation. West Witwatersrand Areas Ltd. was formed in 1932 to work...1886, when gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, Cecil Rhodes was skeptical because...
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Johannesburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Africa, on the southern slopes of the Witwatersrand at an altitude of 5,750 ft (1...in 1886, when gold was found on the Witwatersrand; by 1900 the city had a population...Univ. (1966), the Univ. of the Witwatersrand (1922), and Witwatersrand College...
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Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...acquired on the Transvaal ’ s Witwatersrand gold fields. The first of the financial...the Anglo American Corporation. West Witwatersrand Areas Ltd. was formed in 1932 to work...1886, when gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, Cecil Rhodes was sceptical because...
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Neppe, Vernon M
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...research. He attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where...the school. In 1982 he was named the Witwatersrand University Overseas Traveling Fellow...Johannesburg, South Africa: University of Witwatersrand, Med Psych thesis, 1979. —...
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