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


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:613624
Long-form Identifier:1:3:613624:6
GUID (UUID V4):9471de3e-bd4e-409c-b92d-38770844f013
Localities for Plagioclase 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
Townlands, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Turfspruit farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Flatreef deposit, Turfspruit farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Zaaiplaats tin field, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
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the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa c Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy...rocks with sills of finegrained norite and plagioclase orthopyroxenite of the Marginal Zone. The magmatic...evolved rocks, including both the PGEbearing plagioclase pyroxenite from reefs and barren norite from...fonte Zoet Northern limb N 4 Eastern limb 5 Mokopane 24°15′ S 6 8 t neamen ison Li h c r u imbiM...Schematic geological map of Bushveld Complex. (1) Waterberg Group; (2) alkaline intrusion; (3) Lebowa Granite;
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Hill, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Paul A. M. Nex Tweefontein Hill is situated...deformation events which have resulted in a major south-west plunging fold at Tweefontein Hill. This fold...remobilised platinum group elements into north-south and north-north-east trending faults. mineralised...northern limb. Tweefontein Hill is situated 6¡5 km south of the Sandsloot Mine at the southern end of farm...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (E-mail: nexp@geosciences.wits.ac.za). GEOLOGICAL
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Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa F.M. Huthmann a,⇑, M.A. Yudovskaya...Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Department...Earth Sciences, University of the Western Cape, South Africa c IGEM, Moscow, Russia b a r t i c l e i n...succession (the Waterberg Project) located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt north of the...mineralized reefs as well as on detrital zircons of the Waterberg Group unconformably overlying the mafics. This
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada...is defined as the top of the uppermost thick plagioclase-poor harzburgite, as has been suggested for the...activities, particularly since the opening of Mogalakwena mine in 1990, it became clear that the Platreef...UCZ, but it excludes the Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization south of the Planknek–Ysterberg Fault (termed the GNPA...applicable anymore, and, therefore, the GNPA member south of the Planknek Fault should be accepted as a southern
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Pyroxenite–Anorthosite (GNPA) member, south of Mokopane, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa J. W. Smith*1, D. A....northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, south of the town of Mokopane. On the farm Rooipoort it forms the...Transvaal Supergroup sediments, whereas further south on the farm Grasvally it overlies Lower Zone rocks...Introduction The 2?06 Ga Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the world’s largest layered igneous intrusion...bodies, (i) the Platreef, north of the town of Mokopane (previously known as Potgietersrus); (ii) within
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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
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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
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the lower mineralized Zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa T ⁎ Florian M. Huthmanna, , Marina...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy...mineralization The Waterberg deposit is located north of the Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa...differentiated assemblages of cumulus olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene. Normalized trace element data...succession. The Waterberg Project is located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. This position
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Clinopyroxenite from the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa Reiner Klemd 1 , Andreas Beinlich 2, * , Matti...Engineering, University of Cape Town; Rondebosch 7103, South Africa; robertschouwstra5@gmail.com Department of Geology...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa Correspondence: andreas.beinlich@uib.no Received:...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, hosts platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization...whereas magmatic δ34 S values suggest the absence of local crustal contamination during emplacement. This is
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Economic Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367–1394 The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization...Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Judith A Kinnaird,1,2,† Marina Yudovskaya,1...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 2 Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 3 Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...osite sequence, and an Upper zone. Overlying Waterberg red beds were deposited between ~2.05 and ~1.93
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sulphides from the Platreef, Mogalakwena Platinum Mine, Bushveld Complex, South Africa R. Klemd and T. Herderich... Johannesburg, PO Box 106 Crown Mines, 2025 South Africa e-mail: robertschouwstra5@gmail.com J. Roberts...2025 South Africa e-mail: jacques.r@telkomsa.net © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...the Overysel and Sandsloot localities of the Mogalakwena Platinum Mine. These localities access the Platreef...the mass balance calculations for Pt and by the SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2016 • VOLUME 119.4 PAGE
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investigation of the Waterberg hydrothermal platinum deposit, Mookgophong, Limpopo Province, South Africa P. Armitage*1...geology around the unusual quartz-vein hosted Waterberg platinum deposit was mapped using aerial photographs...Mookgophong (Naboomspruit) District of the Limpopo Province in South Africa and is dominated by a gently...with the Planknek–Ysterberg Fault system, south of Mokopane (Potgietersrus). The Welgevonden Fault is...Complex to a position at unknown depth beneath the Waterberg deposit, or provided a network of shear zones
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Chromite in the Platreef (Bushveld Complex, South Africa): occurrence and evolution of its chemical composition...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, South Africa e-mail: marina.yudovskaya@wits.ac.za J. A. Kinnaird...Platreef . Bushveld Complex . South Africa Introduction South Africa is the world’s leading producer...Gruenewaldt (1985) for the Grasvally area south of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). Other chromitite...northern limb that are found in the Platreef north of Mokopane have not been described previously in detail (White
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Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. (Email: J.Harmer@ru.ac.za) CE P 3. Department...University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits 2050, South Africa (Email: hannah.hughes@wits.ac.za) AC 5. Scottish...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Since 1992 mining in the northern limb has...appear to be present in TE the T Zone of the Waterberg PGE deposit, located under younger cover rocks...The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa is one of the most significant mineral provinces
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Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6140. 4 Camborne School of Mines, College...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, South Africa, ED 5 Corresponding author: Dominique Tanner...opportunity for PGE mineralisation higher up in the local magmatic stratigraphy, AC or in later magma emplacement...Rustenburg Layered Suite has been described at the Waterberg project (Huthmann et al., 2018; Kinnaird et al...containing <10 vol. % felsic minerals (e.g. plagioclase) and >90% mafic minerals (e.g. olivine and/or
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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:
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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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MaierW@cardiff.ac.uk 1 Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Mokopane, South Africa 2 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences...Cardiff, UK Introduction The Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the world’s largest layered intrusion and...platinum and Karee mines; 6, Crocodile River mine; 7, Limpopo platinum mine; 8, Atok platinum mine; 9, Maandagshoek...interlayered harzburgite, dunite and orthopyroxenite. Plagioclase is rarely present as a cumulate phase (Cameron...there is a significant increase in intercumulus plagioclase (from 2 to 6 %: Cameron 1978), or ~ 200 m lower
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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
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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
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to result from mafic magmas intruding north and south of the TML and being contaminated by these different...(Bethal) limb covered by younger sediments to the south of the eastern limb, a largely eroded far western...debate as to the significance of a layered series south of the Ysterberg– Plankneck Fault known as the Grasvally... followed by further open pits at Zwartfontein South in 2002 and OveryselZwartfontein North (PPRust North)...north from the town of Mokopane.1,3,9,15,19,27,32,38,42,54,57,64,65,81 South of the Plankneck–Ysterberg
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Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe & Fanus Viljoen & Mike Knoper...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...clinopyroxene (predominantly diopside), with accessory plagioclase 30 Table 1 Mineral modal abundances for the
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layered orthopyroxene–chromite–clinopyroxene–plagioclase cumulates. The Main Zone is dominated by gabbros...Thabazimbi–Murchison lineament (TML). In the area around Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus) the near-surface expressions...1). The TML is a major tectonic boundary in South Africa that formed by the collision of the Pietersberg...seminal volume of the Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa, published in 1986, contains papers on the tin22...colour map is held by the Geological Society of South Africa and it has been modified here with permission
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Platreef orthopyroxene by fine-grained cumulus plagioclase, suggesting intrusion of a hot magma over cooled...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
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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...occurrence of Pt alloys and other PGMs in the Waterberg quartz-hematite veins in the Bushveld aureole...and disappearance of marker minerals such as plagioclase, chromite and pigeonite, cryptic variations of...Recent extensive exploration on Turfspruit and Waterberg brought the most significant discoveries in the
 
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