monazite

What follows is a brief description of the early mining history of the Mesoproterozoic-age Steenkampskraal monazite ore body located in southern Namaqualand, about 340 km north of Cape Town in South Africa. Steenkampskraal is a massive-lode ore body, thought to have originated by igneous processes that led to a phosphate-sulphide-oxide ore type. The ore occurs as…