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Sperrylite from
Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Lobe
Classification
Species:Sperrylite
Formula:PtAs2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sperrylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterfall gorge, Insizwa, Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:250667
Long-form Identifier:1:3:250667:8
GUID (UUID V4):fc879efb-426d-4eac-820e-3e105d64db73
References
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Report (issue)
37.83 Total 99.3 99.66 100.00 (1) Insizwa deposit, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding... insizwaite, cubanite, pyrrhotite (Insizwa deposit, South Africa); stannopalladinite, hessite, platinum...millerite, galena, stibnite, argentian gold, sperrylite, iridosmine, platinum, merenskyite, kotulskite...Distribution: From the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, Eastern Cape, South Africa [TL]. At Monchegorsk
Report (issue)
corresponds to Ni3.18 Bi2.12 S2.00 . (3) Insizwa, South Africa; by electron microprobe; corresponds to...tetradymite, hessite, cubanite, maucherite, nickeline, sperrylite, gold, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite...Distribution: In South Africa, from the Insizwa Cu–Ni deposit, Waterfall Gorge, Eastern Cape, South Africa [TL],...deposit, northwest Vietnam. At Kambalda, 56 km south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Name: After Professor
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)
extremities of one of the ore-bodies in the Sudbury district, Ontario. Obtained in crystalline masses by fusing...Although the original description of parkerite from South Africa (Scholtz, 1936) is too indefinite to permit...a new nickel sulphide from the nickel oresof South Africa. A closercomparison of the properties of the...tetradymite, hessite, cubanite, maucherite, niccolite, sperrylite, and gold, together with the prevailing chalcopyrite...concentrate, still showing grains of gold and sperrylite, was finally cleaned by hand, Pnvsrcar- Pnopenrrns
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eSz attributed to the original parkerite from Insizwa should be verified, it would be proper to use the...artificial system, and to distinguish the Canadian and South African examples as bismuthian and plumbian varieties...on scanty material from Waterfall Gorge, fnsizwa, East Griqualand, South Africa, and the description of...roentgenographicstudies which have been made in South Africa, and by the discovery by Ramdohr (1950) of a...mineral, shandite, at Trial Harbour, Tasmania. As the South African publications are not generally available
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
went through the Norwegian fjords and took a North Cape trip, of which he had many pictures showing the...Griqualand and Pondoland. Trans. Geol. Sac. So. Africa, vol. 39, pp. 186 189, 1937. Neun: In honor of...oxidized ore frorn dumps at Waterfall Gorge, fnsizwa, associated with sperrylite, chalcopyrite, cubanite
Book (edition)
brown and orange Plumbopalladinite isotropic Sperrylite pronounced blue, orange-brown, and red 48 ...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür);...grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1986), O'Toole, Brazil (Marehetto, 1990), Waterfall Gorge, Pondoland (Tischler et al., 1981), Ivrea-Verbano...Thompson Nickel Belt, at the Pipe mine, where sperrylite, michenerite, froodite, and irarsite occur in...striking northeast and plunging steeply to the south. Mine workings include the T-1 and T-3 underground...whereas the T-3 mine and the open pit are on the eastern limb (Fig. 2). The locus of the Ni sulphide ore...of about 5 kin, with local concentrations along the southern portion of the eastern limb of the fold, around
Book
Bushveld chromite–platinum group metals (PGMs), South Africa, Sudbury nickel–copper, Canada, and a few new...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including Australia)...Minerals of Platinum Group of Metals 9 1.3.1.1 Sperrylite 1.3.1.2 Braggite 1.3.1.3 Cooperite 1.3.1...Earth’s element family. The working deposits in South Africa and Russia are by far the largest for the PGM...significant in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa, Brazil, New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia
Book
1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism in the eastern Pyrenees 6.3.3. Anorogenic metamorphism and intraplate...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic
Book (edition)
Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Artrocitc, Ivigtul cryolitc deposit. Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK...2iOH)~. Lric.,3 km south of thc mouth of Akatorc Crcek, castcm Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the price of Pt...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FIG. 1. Production of Ni metal from the Sudbury district, together with the companies responsible for the...attention, that of the former Transvaal State in South Africa. Platinum was first recorded in chromitite layers...(1908). Wagner (1924) reported the presence of sperrylite in the Ni–Cu sulfide ores of the Vlakfontein...following October, to that at Onverwacht farther south. It should be emphasized that these pipes, despite...He had been working on the Vredefort dome in South Africa, and came to Sudbury to look for shatter cones
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...Isotope Studies on the Platreef SHEBA’S RIDGE, EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX EAST BULL LAKE INTRUSIVE SUITE...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
Report (issue)
........................................... 46 South Kalimantan .......................................platinum-group element prospect, Riam Pinang area, South Kalimantan........................................from the Riam Pinang area, Tanah Laut subprovince, South Kalimantan APPENDIX G: Detailed description of rock...paleochannels, South Kalimantan. Figure 15. Photograph of diamonds from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan....flattened gold and PGM particles from near Cempaka, South Kalimantan. Figure 17. Chromitite occurrences in
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
Book
contents, say of lead or bismuth or uranium ? Is it a local, continuous, comparatively superficial cycle, t...independent platinum minerals like stibiopalladinite, sperrylite, and cooperite; occasionally they cause contact...differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also found...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...parallel texture seen in the photograph is only a very local feature 13 14 T H E ORE MINERALS 4. Deposits
Journal (volume)
The Keivitsa intrusion (age 2057 Ma) is located south of the Koitelainen intrusion. Isotopic (Sm-Nd, S-isotopes...east of Koitelainen hill. Photo by TM. A2: View south of Lakijänkä towards Koitelainen fell 5 6 Geological...forests of the southern part of Satovaara hill (eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara complex) was stripclear-cut...only by accident, as in the periglacial landslide gorge at Bonanza. Unfortunately, such rocks include chromitites...Koitelainen intrusion, on the eastern slope of Koitelainen hill and through the eastern part of the Keivitsa-Satovaara
Book (edition)
(lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E., Ingram...Colorado at the Pelican Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota,
Book
Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Hendrik van Prehn, who brought the mineral from the Cape of Good Hope. This was the first mineral named after...néche, Sadne-et-Loire, France, or annite, after Cape anionic radical. Thus oxides, sulfides, carbonates...Consolidated Mines. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Aheylite (Fe2*,Zn) Alg(PO,)4(OH)3®4H,0, tric...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
Report (issue)
4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C. Composition close...11; Z = 4 521 (Cu/Ni)—Germanson Landing, Omineca district, B.C. (about 80 per cent silver). Pattern similar...On°-Fm3m; a = 3.872; 1333 (Cu/Ni)—Sheep Creek, district, Yukon (ferrian platinum) Z = 4 Kluane Cell...trict, Yukon; East fork of Nansen Creek, Carmacks district, Yukon; and Red Cloud Boulder d(calc.) Soil...Clear Creek, McQuesten district, Yukon (placer); Highet Creek, Mayo district, Yukon (placer); Windpass
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...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg...Chemical and Suspended Metallurgical Society of South Africa. Journal: vol. 1, 1894-date. October, 1899-May
Book
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...tried to retain local names for subdivisions within a given country. For some local names the anglicized...given name is included in parentheses although most local names lack this designation. For example we use...colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(.= 2.646, VIIIA 10....Vitreous orange-brown. Alcatore Creek, Eastern Otago, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. H= 6, Djj4= 3.48
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CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University...colourless, monoclinic crystals from Kimberley, South Africa. Named after Mr. Alpheus Fuller Williams, of...group. Named from the locality, Aldan region, eastern Siberia (18th List). [M.A., 12, 460.] 20th List...Occurs as thin veins in kimberlite from the ‘Lucky Eastern’ pipe, presumably in Yakutia, and has the composition...United States, for 1913, 1914, part ii, p. 652.) Local trade-name, used by Mr. Joseph Ward, of Barstow
 
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