Mine detail: Athens

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Location: Zimbabwe, Africa
Lat / long: -19.29274, 30.52075
dep_id: 10158904
mas_id: 7960300025
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Copper, Silver
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Galena, Hauynite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Tremolite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Boyle, Ed
Year first produced: 1910
disc_yr: 1900
References:
  • Deposit:: BLISS, N.W., THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND UMVUMA AND
  • Deposit:: FELIXBURG, RHOD. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 64, 240 PP, 1962.
  • Deposit:: TAYLOR, G.H., THE GEOLOGY OF THE ATHENS GOLD-COPPER MINE,
  • Deposit:: UMVUMA I.M.R. 8TH ANNUAL REPORT, PP 41-45, 1977.
  • Deposit:: FOSTER, R.P., MANN, A.G., STOWE C.W., AND WILSON, F.J.F.,
  • Deposit:: ARCHEAN GOLD MINERALIZATION IN ZIMBABWE, PREPRINT OF A
  • Deposit:: PAPER FOR PUBLICATION IN ORE DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
  • Deposit:: TO BE PUBLISHED BY GEOL. SOC. OF S.A., 1981.
  • Deposit:: FOSTER, R.P., GOLD AND SILVER IN ZIMBABWE, INT. OF MIN. RES.
  • Deposit:: REPT., NO. 38, 1980.
  • Deposit:: MONTHLY DIGEST OF STATISTICS, SALISBURY, ZIMBABWE, NOVEMBER
  • Deposit:: BOWEN, D.J., GOLD MINES IN RHODESIA 1890-1980, PP 44-47,
  • Deposit:: THE ATHENS MINE: CHAMBER OF MINES JOURNAL, SALISBURY,
  • Deposit:: DECEMBER, 1979.
  • Deposit:: BACKGROUND TO ATHENS AND FALCON...COMPLEX OREBODIES AND
  • Deposit:: DIFFICULT GROUND, CHAMBER OF MINES JOURNAL, SALISBURY,
  • Deposit:: JANUARY, 1976.
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