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Sperrylite from
Phoenix Mine, Francistown District, North-East District, Botswana


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sperrylite
Formula:PtAs2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sperrylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Phoenix Mine, Francistown District, North-East District, Botswana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:544926
Long-form Identifier:1:3:544926:2
GUID (UUID V4):a80e6ae2-61f7-4c98-9624-fa19c89557ac
Nearest other occurrences of Sperrylite
26.6km (16.5 miles) ā“˜Tekwane nickel-copper-(PGE) deposit, Francistown District, North-East District, Botswana
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Tati and Selebi-Phikwe belts of eastern Botswana W. D. Maier & S.-J. Barnes & G. Chinyepi & J....sulfide deposits in two distinct belts in eastern Botswana. The Tati belt contains several relatively small...to 4.5 Mt of ore at 2.05% Ni and 0.85% Cu) at Phoenix, Selkirk and Tekwane. The deposits are hosted by...Platinum-group elements . Phoenix . Selkirk . Selebi-Phikwe . Tekwane . Dikoloti . Botswana 38 Miner Deposita...Introduction The area to the east and south of Francistown, eastern Botswana hosts a number of intrusive
Book
born hills appear parallel to Mahagiri range due to mine-waste dumping. Unpaved roads serve the movement...The sky is gloomy throughout the day due to the mine and road dust. Social evils, crime, alcoholism,...education, counseling, and training. Making stringent mine-safety rules is not the solutionā€”it has to be implemented...occurrences/deposits/mines of six continents: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania (including...Ore Group Orissa Mining Corporation Limited Run of Mine Reconnaissance Permit tonnes tonnes per annum/day
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Iceland (fsland) Bondolfur, East Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone...oligoclase, 587 Sellatur, East Iceland: pitchs~one, anor- thoclase, 587 Skruthur, East Iceland: pitchstonc...pitchstonc, anorthoclase, 587 Thingmuli, East Iceland: andesine, 587 F a r o e s (F~eroerne) Erionite, chabazite...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- beudantite, carminite, mimetite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concentrations in the sulfide minerals from the McCreedy East deposit, Sudbury, Canada, and the origin of PGE...rocks. In comparison, the North Range deposits of Sudbury, such as the McCreedy East deposit, have As-poor...that in the pyrrhotite-rich ores of the McCreedy East deposit Os, Ir, Ru, Rh (IPGE), and Re are concentrated...were not important in concentrating PGE in the North Range of Sudbury. Palladium is present in pentlandite... the PGE sulfarsenides (IrAsS and RhAsS) and sperrylite (PtAs2) host most of these elements with only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Ferro-axinite on calcite, Dodo mine, Puiva Mountain, KhantyMansi Avt. Okrug, Tyumenā€™...MarcNApril: Pyromorphite on quartz, Manhan River mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Marvin...shaft, South Hecla branch of the Calumet and Hecla mine, Houghton County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral...JulyIAugust: Vanadinite and wulfenite, Old Yuma mine, Pima County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff...November/December: Rhodochrosite, area 28, level 20, Eagle mine, Gilman County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PGE-Ni-rich cobaltite (CoAsS), and subordinate sperrylite (PtAs2), all of which are hosted predominantly...containing more arsenic, for example, than those in the North Range (Ames and Forrow 2007). This resulted in sulfarsenide...composed of Archaen Levack granite gneiss in the North Range and Palaeoproterzoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary...veins in the footwall (e.g., Strathcona, McCreedy East 153 zone, and McCreedy West deposits). Sulfide mineralization...and Plum, and one footwall-style orebody (Deep 400 East) which is located at the very end of the 402 Trough
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dominated by PGE sulfarsenides (86%) with subordinate sperrylite (PtAs2: 9%), michenerite (PdBiTe: 5%), and electrum... We propose that zoned PGE sulfarsenides and sperrylite crystallized from a sulfide melt at high temperatures...deposit on the South Range of the Sudbury mining district. Geologic Context The Sudbury Igneous Complex... and the ~ 2.4 Ga East Bull Lake Suite. In contrast, the target rock of the North Range was the Archean...an th R 350 km Nor Granophyre Norite McCreedy East McCreedy West Sublayer Norite SRSZ Diorite ā€˜offset
Report (issue)
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR.......... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f...f ... . . 1 2 3 5 THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5...Actinolite. 0 , f # Minerals of the Hamme-Tungsten District . Amethyst Kyanite 0 \ \ . .."..... . Beryl
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June 7, 1969-3rd Annual Show to be held at the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas. Sponsored by a...Exhibitors are invited. Show will be known as the North Star Rock and Mineral Show. Chmn.: Fred Matke, 2119...5:00 p.m. at the home of Mr. & Mrs. John Scholl in North Gorham. Maine. [Continnedon page 394) ROCKS AND...The ores of Platinum are native platinum and sperrylite. The former is commonly found in placer deposits...peridotite, or in serpentine derived from it. The sperrylite never occurs in large quantities in the Appalachian
Report (issue)
___________________________________ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________... Chuck mine ___________________ _ Placers-------------------------------Goodnews Bay district _____________
Report (issue)
proportions of individual PGE within a deposit or a district. processes are also known but these are of relative...to Iiquids not able to be mixed together. 5 www. Mine ra Is UK. corn w Platinum . Iii -~ ~ . , ...ā€¢ ā€¢ Munn ~ Munn\ A i.11Ti A ~ Kam bald a District r t S'al Rad o. .. D~~e) ~--Ā· eld Complex...Complex; Duluth Complex, USA; Lac des lies, Canada; East Bull Lake, Canada; Portimo, Finland. Onverwacht...ic19 age. Kamba lda, Western Australia; Pechenga district, Russia; Thompson Belt, Canada; Ungava Belt, Quebec
Journal (issue)
with the printers ... Gem topaz from the Sakangyi mine, Myanmar; 5.1 cm high. M. Zinn collection. INTRODUCTION...Huge quartz crystals in the big pocket in Sakangyi mine, Myanmar. New sperrylites from Canada Bradley S...Continiued on next page A spectacular find of sperrylite crystals was made in 2011 at the Broken Hammer...Sudbury region, that is currently being considered for mine development by Wallbridge Mining Company Limited...of fine sperrylite crystals certainly is important from a collectorā€™s standpoint. Sperrylite, a platinum
Report (issue)
three discoveries in South Africa, Australia, and Botswana were reported too late to be included in the ...August 1986, the development of a major new platinum mine was announced in South Africa (E.C.I. Hammerbeck...chromitite layer are to be exploited in the new mine to a depth of 2,700 meters below the surface. This...drilling 140 kilometers southwest of Gaborone, Botswana, had led to the discovery of the 9,000square-kilometer...Potentially major platinum find being explored in Botswana: Engineering and Mining Journal, v. 187, no. 9
Journal (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...(1929) is considered to be the classic for the district. Many of these works are currently out of print...and research will serve as an overview of the district and as a framework from which interested persons...location and associated geology of the mines in the district. Historical and production information is summarized
Journal (issue)
Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent... Chairman c/o St Joe American Corporation 2002 North Forbes Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85745 CALL FOR PAPERS:...to fabulous exhibits of Red Cloud mine wulfenite, Nā€™Chwaning mine rhodochrosite, French pyromorphite...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small
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Cairncross & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin...in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine developments, some of which were conducted under...,,.ā€¢ā€¢ MINE r ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ ' Ā·Ā·, . TRANSVAAL e e e \ . ...deposits in the Transvaal Province. The Eersteling mine was the first deposit to be seriously exploited
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F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany ^ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge...stood atop the "motherā€ mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket
Journal (issue)
histories: the mountains lie northwest of Anaconda, east of Philipsburg, west of Deer Lodge and south of...mountains now, but there are many old mines and mine dumps to attract the mineral collector. The range...secondary minerals of the Travonia Mine in the Boulder Creek District near Maxville (French. 2004) and...and of the secondary minerals of the Scratch Awl Mine near Philipsburg (French, 2005). Some of us who are...Creek and South Gold Creek drainage areas in the north west comer of the range. Many of the mines in this
Journal (issue)
wulfenite and other minerals from the Bwlch-Glas mine, Central Wales ....................151 by R.S.W................155 by P. Keller and P. J. Dunn Sperrylite from the type locality ........................people: telephone: COVER: ADAMITE from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, MexĀ­ ico; collected in 1981. The...component of an oxidized zinc ore from the Waryriski mine, near Bytom (Upper Silesia, Poland). These authors...Reinerit Zn3(A s03)2 ein neues Mineral der Tsumeb Mine Siidwestafrika. Neues Jahrbuch fu r Mineralogie
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HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge...stood atop the ā€œmotherā€ mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket
Journal (issue)
Cairncross & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County,Iowa ..................... 231 by...in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine deĀ­ velopments, some of which were conducted under...examples 209 MESSINA \ / *ā€¢ \ / EERSTELING MINE y ā€¢ PETERSBURG \ k PHALABORWA ii / ā–  ā€¢ r...deposits in the TransĀ­ vaal Province. The Eersteling mine was the first deposit to be seriously exploited
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M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAYā€“JUNE 2020 ā€¢ VOLUME 51 ā€¢ NUMBER 3 ā€¢ $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAYā€“JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
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. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting locality...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum
Catalog/List
JACKS1Tu\WCERRUSITE (10cm x 3cm x 2cm) Pcntir,Ā· Gla:c Mine. Pol:catl,, Corm1Ā·0/I Ex I Brrtcl! Collect/011 ...6. IIEMIMORPmn: (Scm x Scm x 1cm) Roughttn GIii Mine. Cumbria, U.K E."Cccplionlll celestite crystal...banding, Ā£55 l.240 Ā£125 Ā£A5 }.,fadogascar 7. SPERRYLITE (5cm x 4cm x 1cm) Talnacl,, Nr Norilsk, Russia...rich spec.imen ofa rare platinum mineral, with sperrylite crystals to 7mm in a sulphide matrix.This specimen...details). 8. SMOKY QUARTZ (8cm x 8cm x 2cm) Macaco Mine, Sao Geraldo Do Baixio, Minas GeraiĀ·s, Brazil A
Journal (issue)
Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor
 
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