Native gold and silver with other minerals from the Old West mine, Penhalonga, Southern Rhodesia (With Plate III.)

Abstract

Large specimens of native gold showing crystalline form are not at all common in Southern Rhodesia, but the recently discovered gold with adherent silver from the Old West mine, Penhalonga, would be outstanding wherever it had been found. About the middle of December 1940, Mr. D. V. Burnett, Director and Consulting Engineer to the Rezende Mines Limited, the owners of the property, lent two specimens to the Geological Survey for examination. The following week Mr. B. Lightfoot, Director of the Southern Rhodesia Geological Survey, visited the mine and examined the cavity where the specimens had been found. He made notes and collected specimens of the associated minerals, and borrowed a few other specimens which had been retained at the mine.