Latitude: 25°15'S
Longitude: 27°5'E
The lujavrite outcrop is located on hillside on South-Central segment of the Pilansberg Complex, 50 km NNW of Rustenburg. Lujavrite is associated with foyaite and tinguaite.
Pilansberg is one of largest alkaline complexes in South Africa with an area of approx. 530 km². It is a ring complex with agpaitic sodic eudialyte-nepheline syenite plugs intruded in phonolitic to trachytic pyroclastites and lava flows sequence, along a contact between granite and norite of the Bushveld complex. The age of the complex is estimated 1250-1350 Ma.
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References
Cairncross & Dixon (1995)Minerals of South Africa. Geol. Soc. of S. Africa Johannesburg. 290 p.
Canadian Mineralogist (2004): 42: 1169-1178.
Wooley, A.R. (2001) Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of the world Part 3: Africa. Geol. Soc. London, 269-270.
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