Commodities
PrimaryChromium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
WorkingsSurface, Underground
Materials
Other materialsChromite, Magnetite, Mica, Olivine, Pyroxene
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1919
Identification
Deposit ID10231963
Alternate namesImpinge Eluvial Operation, Great Dyke, Mtorashangu
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-16.86709, 30.80133
References
KIMBLE PR. ENG. "MINING PRACTICE AT AFRICAN CHROME MINES,LTD., RHODESIA." THE AFRICAN CHROME MINES, LTD. QUE QUERHODESIA. PP.A94-A100.RHODESIAN MINING REVIEW. "CHROME MINING AT MTOROSHANGA INTHE UMYUKWES." JULY 1954. PP.27-33.WORST, B.G. D. SC. "THE GREAT DYKE OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA."SOUTHERN RHODESIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO.47.PP.32-36, 82-92, 189-203.TEMBER 1980.PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS- JOHANNESBURG.PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS - ZIMBABWE.QUARTERLY STATEMENTS - WESTERN PLATINUM HOLDING.STAGMAN, J.G. "ANOUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF RHODESIA"GOVERNMENT PRINTER, SALISBURY, BULLETIN NO. 80 OFRHODESIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1978.STAGMAN, J.G. "ECONOMIC MINERAL POTENTIAL OF THE GREAT DYKEOF RHODESIA", GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF RHODESIA, JANUARY1977.WORST, B.G. "THE GREAT DYKE OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA" GOVERN-MENT PRINTER, SALISVURY. BULLETIN NO. 47 OF SOUTHERNRHODESIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1960.