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


Classification
Species:Merenskyite
Formula:PdTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Merenskyite 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:263710
Long-form Identifier:1:3:263710:5
GUID (UUID V4):0e5c3453-c9e5-4d7d-a90b-38876217cf69
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Platreef at Zwartfontein, Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe...as well as minor (all <1 area% of total PGM) merenskyite (PdBiTe2), laurite (RuS2), rustenburgite (Pt0...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...adjoining farms 26 (Moordkopje 813LR and Zwartfontein 814LR), with a combined area of 4,095 ha (Fig
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)
variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas Oberthür 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 für Geologie und Paläontologie...Ma old (Zeh et al. 2015) Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest mafic–ultramafic layered intrusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltd’s Platreef project is located...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...rocks at Moorddrift, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa A. Jones, D. A. Holwell Department of Geology
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...Complex located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. The lower ultramafic F zone is dominated
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)
Abstract The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa contains a number of occurrences of platinum-group...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 world’s largest layered intrusion...limb of the Bushveld Complex, around the town of Mokopane, is host to the world’s third largest PGE deposit:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...for the Ni–Cu–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 20° to almost 60° 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 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)
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Thomas Oberthür Bundesanstalt...weathering cycle in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa and the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe. Samples were...PGM and Archean age (e.g., Bushveld Complex, South Africa; the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; the Stillwater grains...“neoformation” a the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, of the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in...the farm Maandagshoek, then eastern Transvaal, South Africa, led to the discovery of the largest PGE deposits
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 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...Subgroup dolomites and, north from the farm Zwartfontein, Archaean basement granites and gneisses, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PLATREEF AT ZWARTFONTEIN, AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FANUS VILJOEN§...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...kotulskite (PdTe)–sobolevskite (PdBi), without merenskyite (PdTe2). There is very limited solid solution...moncheite, insizwaite, maslovite, kotulskite, merenskyite, sobolevskite, froodite, and michenerite. Extensive
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 world’s largest repository of platinum-group...et al. 2005; McDonald and Holwell 2011). To the south of Ysterberg–Planknek Fault, a distinct layered
Book
revised edition) 2 2 . N. DEKUN MINERAL ECONOMICS OF AFRICA 2 3 . B.L GULSON LEAD ISOTOPES IN MINERAL EXPLORATION...never be spoken. " P. A. WAGNER, The platinum South Africa deposits so be alluring prophesied and mines...converters to be fitted to new cars. At present, South Africa and the USSR are the sources of most of the...world's newly mined PGE, with virtually all the South African production derived from the Bushveld Complex...magmatic sulphides as potent collectors of PGE. The South African producers are relatively well placed t o
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differentiatingthe oresin the vicinity (north and south) of the PilansbergAlkaline Complexfrom thoseof the...basemetal immediatevicinity.The Platreefon the Zwartfontein sulfides/chromite,and platinum-groupmineral... Pt-Pd-As (Pt, Pd)(Te, Bi)• 15.3 PdTeBi Merenskyite (Pd, Pt)(Te, Bi)• Kotulskite PdTe Mode of...pentlanditegrain from the PtFe alloy-richPlatreefat Zwartfontein,Potgietersrus, wasnotedby microprobeanalysis...Palladoarsenite? Moncheite Michenerite Michenerite Merenskyite Kotulskite DC17 DC-8 Thorncliffe gravity
Book (edition)
Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĂĽrst 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...placers Kaietur Falls, Potaro River, Kangaruma District, Potaro-Siparuni Region, Guyana Chalcopyrite,
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 (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...carbonate, chalcopyrite and PGM of moncheite and merenskyite were observed cutting quartz and orthopyroxene
Book
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Reprinted from: Minerals...Occurrence and description of PGM from China, Russia, South Africa, USA, and Zimbabwe are reported. In his contribution...assemblages indicate the presence of an oxygenated local environment leading to Fe-bearing Ru–Os oxide and...into placers: Case studies bushveld complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe. Minerals 2018, 8...Ru–Ir–Os–Fe–Ni Ru-Awaruite NiFeRu, Garutiite NiFeIr Merenskyite PdTe2 , Tolvkite IrSbS, Geversite PtSb2 , Stibiopalladinite
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
regional scale 3D-model of the Skellefte mining district, northern Sweden ..............................VHMS-type deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden . . ....................................modelling for VMS exploration in the Pyhäsalmi district, Central Finland ..............................structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . ..................................... ...Co-Ni-Cu-Au- mineralization in the Siegerland district, Rhenish Massif, NW Germany .................
Book (edition)
(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...isoferroplatinum (brownish grey); Maandagshoek, South Africa [d]; Nic. + 44 Osmium A 7ÎĽ B 7ÎĽ 45 Ruthenium
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 mineral–melt interfacial region
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
 
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