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


Classification
Species:Altaite
Formula:PbTe
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Altaite 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:1028214
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1028214:4
GUID (UUID V4):dc2f0528-530a-4a7f-9830-20eb465b0be3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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)
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...hollingworthite, chromitite, Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Ā§ E-mail address: maiya@igem.ru 1350 the
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...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...extends across the Plankneckā€“ Ysterberg Fault south of Mokopane. Kinnaird and McDonald (2005) have recently
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)
THE PLATREEF AT ZWARTFONTEIN, AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FANUS VILJOENĀ§...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa CHRISTIAN REINKE Spectrum Analytical Facility...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa ABSTRACT The (Pt,Pd)-bismuthotelluride minerals...associated with Pt-bismuthotelluride minerals, altaite, hollingworthite, plumbopalladinite, PdSbSn alloy...samples collected from two drill cores on the farm Zwartfontein 814LR (van der Merwe et al. 2012). GEOLOGICAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calc-silicate footwall at Sandsloot, Potgietersrus District, South Africa Downloaded by [Florida International University]...of the 2050-m.y. Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa (BIC, see Fig. 1) has a north-striking, slightly...The research is based on data from the central, south and southwest parts of the pit (Fig. 2), where new...comparable grade located along strike to the north and south.10 It is worth noting that the term ā€˜Platreefā€™ has...platiniferous igneous body. Regional overview From south to north the mafic rocks of the northern Bushveld
Book (edition)
greenish tinted greys distinct fine red specs Altaite yes Tetradymite yes Godlevskite polysynthetic...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĆ¼rst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...metamorphic deposits, ā€¢ pegmatites, ā€¢ placers not known Altaite, Ankerite, Argentite, Arsenopyrite, Calaverite...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)
Book (edition)
15-30 Galena II/C.15-40 Clausthalite II/C.15-50 Altaite II/C.15-60 Miargyrite II/C.16-10 Aramayoite II/C...(light cream); West Driefontein, Johannesburg, South Africa [c]; Nic. // Irregular gold grain (yellow) between...between stibnite (light grey); Murchison Range, South Africa [g]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum (yellowish white)...silicates (dark grey); Keeps Mine, Wyangle, Tumut, New South Wales, Australia [j]; Nic. // 26 Awaruite A ...isoferroplatinum (light cream); Maandagshoek, South Africa [d]; Nic. // B Osmium (darker brown), laurite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magma emplacement owing to interaction with the local Transvaal sediments. As a result, mechanical separation...The 206 Ga magmatic event recorded in southern Africa led to the formation of several layered intrusions...Nkomati deposit, located c. 50 km to the east of the South Eastern Bethal Limb (De Waal et al., 2001; Li et...Since its discovery the Bushveld Complex in South Africa has attracted unprecedented interest owing to...geochemistry of a core from Turfspruit, immediately south of Tweefontein, has been documented by Hutchinson
Book
contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits...extents 3* 18 T H E ORE MINERALS according to the local conditions. The solutions, up to now fluid (supercritical)...even though there are occasionally very strong local alterations. The delimitation of the various groups...celestite. Hematite veins and replacements retain only local significance, but became recently important through
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...structure. Alabandite, MnS, and oldhamite, CaS, altaite, PbTe, and clausthalite, PbSe. are less closely...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit...ELEMENTS 0.6 3.0 GPa solidus Melt fraction local depression basal section of dike entry point or
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or...platinum-group minerals (PGM) beginning with a South African publication (Cabri, 1972) and culminating...of PGE deposits, ranging from the very important South African deposits to less well-developed PGE mineralization...of South Africa Lyndon, Washington College Park, Maryland Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa Kansas
Journal (volume)
(Hungary) (Croatia) (Hungary) (Slovakia) (Serbia) (South Africa) (Austria) (France) (Hungary) (Hungary) (Hungary).....................285 EG55 Mineral deposits of Africa.................................................. Seismic tomography of cratons at regional and local scales shows ā€œknobsā€ of high-Vs material that can...produced and dispersed to the east and later to the south covering the neighbouring area with a few cm thick...number; (3) fourth- and sixth-order moments define local connectivity of coordination polyhedra; energy differences
Report (volume)
Unknown Known to native Americans - A de Ulloa (South America) S Tennant (England) S Tennant (England)...............................................40 Local PGM saturation during chromite growth.............quench to a glass, so HSE metal may also form by local saturation due to a build-up in concentration in...silicate melt, accounting for the low value for DPt. Local PGM saturation during chromite growth Both empirical...involves the development of a redox gradient, owing to local reduction within the mineralā€“melt interfacial region
 
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