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SiteReference: 

9/2/236/0006
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9/2/236/0006 - [node:field-recordingdate:value:shortdateonly]

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sahrisprojectmanager

Post date: 

07/08/2012

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Yes

Directions: 

From the road junction on the Stoffberg-Steelpoort road, at Kennedy's Vale magnetite mine, take the minor road south towards Lydenburg and Tweefontein. After about 11 km turn right (west) at the T-junction. Travel 500 m and just before the bridge over the Dwars River turn left (west) onto a dirt road. Follow this road for 300 m and turn right through a gate into the national monument site (another 100 m).

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History: An American geologist, Edward Sampson, who visited South Africa in 1929 to attend the International Geological Congress, was the first person to call attention to the importance of the outcrop. It has now become world- famous among geologists who frequent the place. It is an impressive sight and it has’ a singular attraction even for the layman.
Visual Description: About 58 km from Lydenburg on the road to Magneethoogte, the road crosses the Dwars River. To the north of the bridge there are beautiful and fresh outcrops of chromitite bands and anorthosite. This phenomenon is clearly visible and the relation between chromitite and anorthosite (which has never yet been satisfactorily explained by geologists) can now be studied in every detail.
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