This research study focused on the previously unknown uranium mineralisation hosted in garnet and magnetite bearing sheeted leucogranites (SLG's) I alaskites at Namibplaas. The various SLG's were distinguished and characterised ...

The Owambo Basin is one of Namibia’s two main onshore basins and is a significant target area for hydrocarbon exploration. Although exploration activities in the Owambo Basin commenced in the 1950s spanning more than 58 ...

Namibia has been known as water scarce, attributing mostly to its geographic location and primarily because of the limited surface water as well as the high potential evaporation rates beyond 2000 mm/year. Groundwater ...

The Walvis Basin is situated in the eastern Atlantic margin south of the Walvis Ridge offshore Namibia. The Basin is underexplored with only 8 exploration wells drilled in the basin to date. The basin and the entire offshore ...

The Orange Basin is located on the South-west African continental margin adjacent to the boundary between South Africa and Namibia. The interpretation of the existing 2D seismic and well data using Petrel software provided ...

This research project was aimed at characterizing quartz from selected potential High Purity Quartz (HPQ) deposits in terms of trace element associations, associated trace element concentrations, and growth zones. Six ...

The Langer Heinrich and Klein Trekkopje U deposits are located within the Namib Desert in Central Namibia. Both deposits are hosted by calcretes developed within palaeo-channel systems of Tertiary age. The sources of both ...

Copper is the oldest industrial metal known to man and has contributed to the development of many civilizations in the world, including pre-colonial African communities in southern and central Africa, where copper metal ...

The Gross Spitzkoppe Igneous Complex of western central Namibia represents an anorogenic magmatic event related to the opening of the South Atlantic ocean during the late Mesozoic period. The magmatic event (Tristan mantle ...