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Laurite from
Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Laurite
Formula:RuS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Laurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1468696
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1468696:8
GUID (UUID V4):743a4827-fcae-4960-b8a6-62c985d705a1
Localities for Laurite in this Region
Akanani prospects, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Overysel deposit, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Sandsloot mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Zwartfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas OberthĂŒr 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...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut fĂŒr Geologie und PalĂ€ontologie...Ma old (Zeh et al. 2015) Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest mafic–ultramafic layered intrusion
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University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore deposits, Petrography...Exploration & Geology, Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd, Mokopane, South Africa * Corresponding author email: marina...superimposed processes at the reef formation. We analyzed laurite (RuS2), hollingworthite (RhAsS), sperrylite (PtAs2)...The measured 187 Os/188Os value for Platreef laurite is 0.1751 ±0.0004 whereas the ratios for sperrylite...Pt-Fe symplectites in base metal sulfides (BMS), laurite inclusions in chromite and sperrylite rims around
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minerals Article PGE Production in Southern Africa, Part I: Production and Market Trends Lisa Thormann... Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa; cmbohwa@uj.ac.za Correspondence: benedikt.buchspies@tuhh...share of global PGE supply is extracted from the South African Bushveld Complex and from the Zimbabwean...group elements (PGE); mineral resources; Southern Africa; Bushveld Complex; Great Dyke 1. Introduction...deposits are located in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, in the Noril’sk–Talnakh field in Russia, in
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Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe & Fanus Viljoen & Mike Knoper...<1 area% of total PGM) merenskyite (PdBiTe2), laurite (RuS2), rustenburgite (Pt0.4Pd0.4Sn0.2), froodite...2006, South Africa e-mail: fanusv@uj.ac.za Introduction The 2055–2060 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...Zwartfontein, and Sandsloot; collectively the Mogalakwena mine complex) are located towards the east of
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Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltd’s Platreef project is located...irarsite IrAsS, osarsite (Os,Ru)AsS, ruarsite RuAsS, laurite RuS2, cuproiridsite CuIr2S4, cuprorhodsite CuRh2S4...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 Reef’s Lesego Platinum Project...macrodykes, and the interaction of these bodies with local basinal sediments appears to determine their prospecitivity
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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
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of the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is currently one of the most extensively explored...ultramafic Lower Zone is developed south of the town of Mokopane, and as satellite bodies within the...Lower Zone extends for a limited distance north of Mokopane, with a series of serpentinised peridotites and...Magnetite Layer on the basis of V2O5 content.20,21 From south to north, the Platreef rests upon a succession of...its hangingwall footwall units are, north from Mokopane: quartzites and shales of the Timeball Hill Formation;
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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 world’s largest repository of platinum-group...et al. 2005; McDonald and Holwell 2011). To the south of Ysterberg–Planknek Fault, a distinct layered
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Flotation of Platinum Group Minerals (PGMs) in South Africa and Russia Cyril O’Connor 1, * and Tatiana Alexandrova...Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Department of Minerals Processing, St Petersburg...cyril.oconnor@uct.ac.za Abstract: Russia and South Africa are the world’s leading producers of platinum...ulphide oxide formations. Keywords: Russia; South Africa; PGMs; geology; mineralogy; flotation Alexandrova...Flotation of Platinum Group Minerals (PGMs) in South Africa and Russia. Minerals 2021, 11, 54. https://doi
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THE CENTRAL PLATREEF OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Marina YUDOVSKAYA§ 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...relationships show that an early succession of laurite ± PGE sulfarsenides ± sperrylite crystallized at
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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 World’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...and published maps of the Geological Survey of South Africa (Council for Geoscience 1995 ) 123 Contrib
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of the northern lobe of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: implications for Bushveld stratigraphy and...out along the base of the lobe to the north of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus) and is amenable to large-scale... Kent, ME4 4TB, UK The Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest repository of platinum-group...problem, the platinum deposits of the Potgietersrust district must be viewed in their entirety. In other words...Merensky Horizon as developed to the north and south of them and in the Rustenburg and Lydenburg districts
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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...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
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Eastern Chrome Mine, Eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: A descriptive study with comparison of EPMA...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Institut fĂŒr Mineralogie, Leibniz UniversitĂ€t...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Dezernat fĂŒr Angewandte Geologie und Georisiken...sachsen-anhalt.de © 2020 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. Abstract A descriptive...Os were found as early-stage minerals such as laurite, associated with chromite rather than sulphide
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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 world’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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Sandsloot–Mogolakwena mine, Bushveld complex, South Africa Laurie Reisberg a,⁎, Marian Tredoux b, Chris...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Department of Geological Sciences, University...University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa d BRGM, Service Environnement Industriel et ProcĂ©dĂ©s Innovants...Bushveld complex (South Africa), known collectively as the Rustenburg Layered Suite (RLS; South African Committee...location in Fig. 1), near Mokopane in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. As will be shown below, the
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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...only Anglo Platinum’s Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South open pits are producing ore, while Overysel, Anglo...the northern Bushveld Complex from the town of Mokopane northwards for Miner Deposita (2008) 43:695–711...extends across the Plankneck– Ysterberg Fault south of Mokopane. Kinnaird and McDonald (2005) have recently
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FROM THE KAREE MINE, WESTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Malte Junge,† Thomas OberthĂŒr, and Frank Melcher*...The UG-2 chromitite of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa contains the world’s largest resources of platinum...associated PGM grains are mainly Pt-Fe alloy, laurite, and cooperite-braggite. The PGEs are bimodally...PGMs. Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa (Fig. 1) is the largest layered mafic-ultramafic...Archaean Basement Pre-Transvaal Formations PGE-reefs Mokopane f Burgersfort Nietverdiend Stoffberg Rustenburg
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Town, P Bag X3, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa; belinda.mcfadzean@uct.ac.za (B.J.M.); cyril...Minerals Expertise Tech Pty Ltd., Germiston 2007, South Africa; natalieshackleton0@gmail.com Correspondence:...of the more significant PGM ores processed in South Africa and the various technologies used in comminution...concentrated within the Bushveld InSouth SouthAfrica, Africa,platinum platinum group elements (PGEs) concentrated...(PtAs 2), and PGE alloys. While min2 minerals such laurite (RuS ) can alsobebeabundant. abundant.Typical TypicalPGE
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1007/s00126-012-0436-1 ARTICLE The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: formation of platinum– palladium, chrome- and...were delayed until the Geological Survey of South Africa collared a series of boreholes (NG1– NG3) at...Walraven et al. 1992) alkaline complexes in South Africa that may represent the early alkaline phase...Armstrong 2000) appears to have been a relatively local event. Miner Deposita (2013) 48:1–56 Tectonic...east at a relatively up-dip disposition (view from south). Red line shows the present land surface and the
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Isotope Compositions of the Uitkomst Complex, South Africa Jakub Trubač,1,2,† LukĂĄĆĄ Ackerman,1,3 Christoph...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa of Applied Geology and Geohazards, Geological...composite mafic-ultramafic intrusion situated in South Africa. The platinum-group elements (PGEs), Re and...assimilation at crustal levels or deep crustal or local contamination at emplacement causing sulfide immiscibility...solid-phase transformation. IPGEs also tend to form laurite inclusions in chromite or at borders between chromite
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Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Received: 16 March 2006 / Accepted: 29 June...observed at Sandsloot and Zwartfontein, to the south of Overysel, where the footwall rocks are carbonates...are rich in the IPGE and Rh, and evidence from laurite inclusions indicates they must have crystallised...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 world’s largest deposits of
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element mineralization of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa J.A. Coggon a,⁎, G.M. Nowell a, D.G. Pearson...Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Federal Institute for Geosciences...constrained Bushveld Complex, S. Africa. Mixed PGM (laurite, cooperite, laurite–platarsite, sperrylite and...separation methods. Grains of laurite (RuS2, n = 23), cooperite (PtS, n = 10), laurite–platarsite (n= 1), sperrylite...limb TWEEFONTEIN HILL 170-223 Upper Zone 24°S Mokopane ONVERWACHT 174-164 Steelpoort Bela Bela Western
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38.73 medium to light grey; 38.62 isotropic Laurite minimal light grey; 38.58 slight light grey;...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĂŒrst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
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USA, and the Bushveld Complex, Republic of South Africa, contain the richest sulfide-hosted deposits...Bushveld Complex The 2.0-Ga Bushveld Complex of South Africa is widely accepted to be analogous to the Stillwater...higher in the system by upward-moving fluids causing local sulfide saturation and the precipitation of a sulfur-rich...that the relative enrichment in the IPGE, Rh, and laurite in the PZ rocks is due to the loss of the more...vapor migration within the crystal pile can lead to local and ephemeral sulfide saturation as the vapor front
 
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