Professor Carl Robert Anhaeusser [Ed] & Professor S. Maske [Co-Ed] - Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa (Complete in 2 Volumes) The Definitive, Monumental Encyclopedic Survey of Southern Africa’s Subterranean Wealth

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Professor Carl Robert Anhaeusser [Ed] & Professor S. Maske [Co-Ed] - Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa (Complete in 2 Volumes)

The Definitive, Monumental Encyclopedic Survey of Southern Africa’s Subterranean Wealth

Bibliographic Specifications

Title: Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa (Volumes I & II)
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Carl Robert Anhaeusser
Co-Editor: Professor S. Maske
Publisher: The Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN-10: 0620094435
ISBN-13: 9780620094436
Edition Details: First Edition, Limited Deluxe Academic Printing
Binding: Original heavy-gauge publisher's cloth boards, gilt-stamped
Physical Format: Two monumental, oversized volumes (approx. 2,300 collective pages), richly supplemented with pull-out geologic maps, stratigraphy plates, and deposit diagrams.

Official Condition Report

The Books: Very Good (VG)

Exterior: Both volumes feature beautiful, robust original cloth covers with immaculate, brilliant gilt lettering on the spines and front boards. The bindings remain remarkably square, firm, and structurally resilient under the substantial weight of these massive texts.
Interior: The text blocks are clean, crisp, and tightly bound. Pages exhibit only very minor, standard handling-related wear along the extremities, entirely consistent with careful storage. Free of highlighting, marginalia, or heavy thumb-wear.
Supplements: All technical schematics, inline geological charts, and extensive fold-out resource maps are meticulously intact and pristine.

The Dust Jackets: Not Applicable / Not Stated

Note: This specific set is catalogued based on its beautiful exposed cloth-and-gilt boards; if dust jackets are later married to this set, they will be treated separately.

Synopsis & Geologic Significance

Published in 1986 by The Geological Society of South Africa, this massive two-volume compendium stands undisputed as the grandest, most comprehensive auditing of southern African mineralogy ever compiled.

Spanning thousands of pages of deeply technical, peer-reviewed research, Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa provides an unparalleled look into the tectonic and geological frameworks that forged the continent's extreme wealth. The text acts as a definitive masterwork on the Witwatersrand gold conglomerates, primary diamondiferous kimberlites, the vast Karoo coal basins, and the world-tier chromium, platinum, and vanadium horizons of the iconic Bushveld Complex. Packed with exhaustive site reports, lithological sections, and historical mining discoveries, it serves concurrently as an elite institutional encyclopedia, a sacred text for economic geologists, and a premium landmark addition to any library of high-end Africana.

Editor Profiles: Professors Anhaeusser & Maske

Professor Carl Robert Anhaeusser is one of South Africa’s most decorated economic geologists and a long-standing academic pillar at the Economic Geology Research Unit (EGRU) of the University of the Witwatersrand. His pioneer research on Archaean greenstone belts and cratonic nuclei revolutionized global understandings of how ancient precious metals aggregated.

Professor S. Maske, an equally distinguished scholar and professor of mining geology, collaborated heavily with the state and private extraction entities. Together, their combined academic authority ensured this two-volume set unified decades of tightly guarded corporate exploration data and academic field research into a singular, cohesive geological bible.