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Sperrylite from
Zwartfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Classification
Species:Sperrylite
Formula:PtAs2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sperrylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zwartfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1028213
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1028213:5
GUID (UUID V4):16920665-98be-4bca-9132-f45102b25984
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hill, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Paul A. M. Nex Tweefontein Hill is situated...deformation events which have resulted in a major south-west plunging fold at Tweefontein Hill. This fold...remobilised platinum group elements into north-south and north-north-east trending faults. mineralised...northern limb. Tweefontein Hill is situated 6Ā·5 km south of the Sandsloot Mine at the southern end of farm...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (E-mail: nexp@geosciences.wits.ac.za). GEOLOGICAL
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the Platreef at Zwartfontein, Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe...(Pd(BiTe), 17 %), isoferroplatinum (Pt3Fe, 15 %), sperrylite (PtAs2, 11 %), cooperite (PtS, 5 %), moncheite...2006, South Africa e-mail: fanusv@uj.ac.za Introduction The 2055ā€“2060 Ma Bushveld Complex in South Africa...approximately 25 km north-west of the town of Mokopane (Fig. 1; Van der Merwe 1976; White 1994; Eales...adjoining farms 26 (Moordkopje 813LR and Zwartfontein 814LR), with a combined area of 4,095 ha (Fig
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variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas OberthĆ¼r 1 & Dennis...oxidized and pristine Platreef ore from the Mogalakwena mine were studied. Further, sulfides and platinum-group...and Nonnenwerth were compared to those of the Mogalakwena mine (Overysel, Sandsloot). In the pristine ore...Pd)-bismuthotellurides, cooperite-braggite, and sperrylite. Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and laser...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut fĆ¼r Geologie und PalƤontologie
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Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltdā€™s Platreef project is located...inclusions in other PGM. The most common PGM are sperrylite PtAs2, isoferroplatinum Pt3Fe, cooperite PtS...Suite 201, Private Bag X30500, Houghton, 2041, South Africa (rmontjoie@ umbono.co.za) 2 MSA Group Services...Services, PO Box 81356, Parkhurst, 2120, South Africa Introduction: Village Main Reefā€™s Lesego Platinum Project...macrodykes, and the interaction of these bodies with local basinal sediments appears to determine their prospecitivity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platinum-group minerals of the F and T zones, Waterberg Project, Far Northern Bushveld Complex: implication...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 2. CIMERA the NRF/DST Centre of Excellence...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa * E-mail: marina.yudovskaya@wits.ac.za ABSTRACT...mineralogical data on PGE mineralisation of the Waterberg project, in a previously unknown segment of the...Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. The lower ultramafic F zone is dominated by sperrylite (up to 82 area %)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphides from the Platreef, Mogalakwena Platinum Mine, Bushveld Complex, South Africa R. Klemd and T. Herderich... Johannesburg, PO Box 106 Crown Mines, 2025 South Africa e-mail: robertschouwstra5@gmail.com J. Roberts...2025 South Africa e-mail: jacques.r@telkomsa.net Ā© 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...the Overysel and Sandsloot localities of the Mogalakwena Platinum Mine. These localities access the Platreef...the mass balance calculations for Pt and by the SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2016 ā€¢ VOLUME 119.4 PAGE
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Clinopyroxenite from the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa Reiner Klemd 1 , Andreas Beinlich 2, * , Matti...Engineering, University of Cape Town; Rondebosch 7103, South Africa; robertschouwstra5@gmail.com Department of Geology...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa Correspondence: andreas.beinlich@uib.no Received:...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, hosts platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization...whereas magmatic Ī“34 S values suggest the absence of local crustal contamination during emplacement. This is
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Abstract The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa contains a number of occurrences of platinum-group...magmatic deposits, with Pt and Pd tellurides and sperrylite, are present in the ā€˜reefstyleā€™ package, whereas...Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK local country rock sediments of the Transvaal Supergroup...occurrences in the Main Zone at the Aurora and Waterberg projects, although the stratigraphic position... Introduction The 2.06-Ga Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Fig. 1) is the worldā€™s largest layered intrusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the lower mineralized Zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa T āŽ Florian M. Huthmanna, , Marina...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy...mineralization The Waterberg deposit is located north of the Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa...succession. The Waterberg Project is located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. This position...that the maļ¬c to ultramaļ¬c succession of the Waterberg Project does not represent a simple marginal extension
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Thomas OberthĆ¼r Bundesanstalt...weathering cycle in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa and the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe. Samples were...and Rh are hosted in pentlandite. Ptā€“Fe alloys, sperrylite, and most PGE-sulfides survive the weathering...REVIEW 2 of 27 further modification, whereas sperrylite largely remains a stable phase, and grains of...PGM and Archean age (e.g., Bushveld Complex, South Africa; the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; the Stillwater grains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE CENTRAL PLATREEF OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Marina YUDOVSKAYAĀ§ School of Geosciences, University...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa, and IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow 119017...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa Andrey V. MOKHOV IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Abstract The lateral variation in platinum-group...early succession of laurite Ā± PGE sulfarsenides Ā± sperrylite crystallized at a high temperature from a hot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. A. HOLWELL1, I. MCDONALD1 AND P. E. B. ARMITAGE2...mineralization. K EY WORDS : PGM, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Pt, Pd, base-metal...sulphides. Introduction THE Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest layered igneous intrusion in...the Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South pits ~30 km northwest of the town of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus;...located at the base of the igneous package north of Mokopane, in direct contact with metamorphosed sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef: northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Received: 17 June 2004 / Accepted: 9 August...Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The Platreef, the putative local analogue of the Merensky Reef, forms the ļ¬‚oor to... University of the Witwatersrand, Wits2050, South Africa E-mail: kinnairdj@geosciences.wits.ac.za L....Nickel and Platinum Ltd, 2 First Avenue, Mokopane 0600, South Africa are typically quartzites and hornfelsed...from <50 m in the north to 400 m locally in the south. The outcrop generally strikes NNW and dips 40ā€“45
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Aurora is a platinum-group element (PGE) prospect...in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is one of only three deposits discovered...Rustenberg Layered Suite (Aurora, Moorddrift and Waterberg T Zone deposits), rather than in predominantly...Platreef, GNPA member deposits and the F zone of the Waterberg deposit, all of which contain a greater diversity...mineralisation most similar to Aurora is the T Zone of the Waterberg deposit, located to the north of Aurora, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
94 Sperrylite crystals from the Transvaal. By L. J. SsE~cs~, }I.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Assistant-Keeper in... 1926.] V E R Y fine and unusual crystal of sperrylite, recently presented by Mr. G. H. Beatty of Johannesburg...about 10 roues I~I~W. of Potgietersrust, Waterberg district, Transvaal. I t had been found embedded in...1"294 grams. I t is thus far larger than any sperrylite crystal fi'om the few localities ~ previously...to the finding of the sperrylite) by P. A. Wagner, Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa, 1926, vol. 28 (for 1925)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson & I. McDonald Received: 12 February...Witwatersrand, Private Bag, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa I. McDonald School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary...sulphides. Additional Pt-bearing minerals, including sperrylite and geversite, and a number of Pd(ā€“Teā€“Biā€“Sb)...however, only Anglo Platinumā€™s Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South open pits are producing ore, while Overysel...the northern Bushveld Complex from the town of Mokopane northwards for Miner Deposita (2008) 43:695ā€“711
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is considered to be richer in sulphides...contributed to the sulphur budget of the Platreef. Local variations in sulphur isotopes, as well as a decrease...Platreef further away from the footwall, also indicate local rather than regional contamination processes. Platreef...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa; C. Harris (E-mail: charris@ geology.uct.ac...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa; and U. E. Horstmann (E-mail: horstmann@src
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6140. 4 Camborne School of Mines, College...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, South Africa, ED 5 Corresponding author: Dominique Tanner...opportunity for PGE mineralisation higher up in the local magmatic stratigraphy, AC or in later magma emplacement...Rustenburg Layered Suite has been described at the Waterberg project (Huthmann et al., 2018; Kinnaird et al...eastern limb (Wilson, 2015) and subzones within the Waterberg project (Kinnaird et al., 2017). The stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy, Petrography...Exploration & Geology, Ivanplats (Pty.) Ltd., Mokopane, South Africa 4 Department 5 Sciences of Earth Science...the Paleoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup from south to north, eventually resting upon Archean granite-gneisses...of the studied UMT314 borehole is indicated. Waterberg sequence is shown after Huthmann et al. (2016)...by Transvaal contact-metamorphosed rocks to the south of Sandsloot, or by granofels, which are products
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e (GNPA) member, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: implications for a multistage emplacement J...of mafic cumulates developed to the south of the town of Mokopane, at a similar stratigraphic position...intrusion of the Main Zone and that there was no local footwall control over the development of sulfide...Deposita Introduction The Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is the worldā€™s largest repository of platinum-group...et al. 2005; McDonald and Holwell 2011). To the south of Ysterbergā€“Planknek Fault, a distinct layered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Received: 16 March 2006 / Accepted: 29 June...feature is not observed at Sandsloot and Zwartfontein, to the south of Overysel, where the footwall rocks...conduit. Keywords Platreef . Bushveld complex . South Africa . Platinum-group elements . Base metal sulphides...in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is one of the worldā€™s largest deposits of...of the Complex (e.g. van der Merwe 1976). From south to north, the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...for the Niā€“Cuā€“PGE mineralisation in Platreef, South Africa 1 Map showing the location of the drill cores...variations in dip and dip-direction controlled by the local footwall geometry. On Macalacaskop, Turfspruit and...Zone dips from 20Ā° to almost 60Ā° close to surface. Local changes in dip-direction are most noticeable at...north of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). These are separated by shale interlayers with a local footwall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. The PGE in the Platreef were originally concentrated...ICP-MS Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the Worldā€™s largest layered igneous intrusion...(Kinnaird and McDonald 2005). North from the town of Mokopane, the Platreef forms the base of the Bushveld layered...Supergroup, and Archaean basement. Northwards from Mokopane, these footwall units are comprized of: quartzites...Subgroup dolomites and, north from the farm Zwartfontein, Archaean basement granites and gneisses, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
enrichment in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence from homogenized magmatic sulfide...droplets of magmatic sulfide from the Platreef, South Africa, where droplets of sulfide have been trapped...intrusions (e.g. Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa); and in 123 1012 high-volume sulfide deposits...models. The Platreef The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the worldā€™s largest layered igneous intrusion...(Kinnaird and McDonald 2005). North from the town of Mokopane, the Platreef forms the base of the Bushveld layered
 
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