Steenkampskraal Project
Steenkampskraal
Country South Africa 
Province Western cape
Close to Vanrhynsdorp
Status PAST PRODUCER 
Surface 47 km² / 11,713 acres
Latitude / Longitude 30 S 58 / 18 E 37
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Risk and valuation analysis of the Steenkampskraal Project
Status Risk : Past producer
Country Risk : Important
Title(s) of the Steenkampskraal Project
Great Western Minerals Group Ltd.
Owner: 20.8%
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GWMG holds an indirect interest in the project through its 20.8% shareholding of Rare Earth Extraction Co. Ltd. ("Rareco").
Location of the Steenkampskraal Project
The mine is located approximately 70 km north of the town of Vanrhynsdorp, population 4,000, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is approximately 350 km north and west of Cape Town.
 
History of the Steenkampskraal Project
The Steenkampskraal mine originally operated through a subsidiary company of Anglo American Corporation from 1952 to 1963, making a monazite concentrate that was sold mostly for its thorium content rather than its rare earth content, and was the larg more...
 
Geology of the Steenkampskraal Project
The Steenkampskraal monazite deposit occurs in a sequence of highly metamorphosed crystalline gneisses of the Roodewal Suite: charnokites, leuco-tonalites, tonalites and enderbites. These rocks are a pale-coloured, competent host rock in which the gr more...
 
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Data last updated on : 10/9/2009
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