South Africa Trip

1997

Underground visit to West Driefontein mine, Carletonville, North West. FROM LEFT: BACK ROW: Rachel Beane, Scott Young, Kathy DeGraaff, Britt Argow, Simon Kattenhorn, Jeff Lee, unknown, unknown. MIDDLE ROW: Mary Leech, Jane Oglesby, Kaye Savage. FRONT ROW: Cindy Martinez, Betsy Mason, Danny Stockli, Wendy Bohrson, Chris Kim, David Strang (guide).

Underground at West Driefontein Mine. Kaye Savage and Rachel Beane.

Inspecting Witwatersrand Basin core at the Avgold Target Project, Allanridge, Free State.

Sunset at the edge of the escarpment, Kaapsche Hoop, Mpumalanga.

Inspecting Onverwacht Group gneisses, southern Barberton Mountain Land, Mpumalanga.

Underground visit to the Sheba Mine, Barberton, Mpumalanga. FROM LEFT: Rachel Beane, Prof. Elizabeth Miller, Chris Kim, Kathy DeGraaf, Kaye Savage, Jane Oglesby, Britt Argow.

Giraffe in Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga.

Inspecting local arts and crafts market, God's Window, Mpumalanga.

Bourke's Luck potholes, Mpumalanga.

"Drie Rondawels" in the Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga.

Relaxing in Rustenburg after visiting a chromium/platinum mine in the Bushveld Igneous Complex.

Pseudotachylites in the type locality of Vredefort Dome, Free State.

Transvaal Formation (~2.6 Ga) stromatolites, Boetsap, Northern Cape.

The "Big Hole": an excavated, and subsequently flooded, diamond-bearing kimberlite pipe (type locality) in Kimberley, Northern Cape.

Examining kimberlite soils at a mine tailings site, Kimberley, Northern Cape.