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Platinum from
Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Farm
Classification
Species:Platinum
Formula:Pt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Platinum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:842848
Long-form Identifier:1:3:842848:6
GUID (UUID V4):19cb9f11-9cbc-42e6-8751-f5fc81150084
Nearest other occurrences of Platinum
4.0km (2.5 miles) Akanani prospects, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
8.6km (5.3 miles) Mogalakwena mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
56.4km (35.0 miles) Waterberg deposit, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Tweefontein farm (no. 1033), about 10 roues I~I~W. of Potgietersrust, Waterberg district, Transvaal...previously known for this A i An account of the platinum occurrence at this locality has been given (previous...sperrylite) by P. A. Wagner, Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa, 1926, vol. 28 (for 1925), p. 110, [Min. Abstr...the Vermilion mine, Denison township, Sudbury district, Ontario (H. L. Wells, 1889); also in chalcopyrite...Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa on February 20, 1926,1 and by Dr. P. A. Wagner
Report (issue)
P62c. a Z = 12 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tweefontein Farm, South Africa. 2.236 (100), 2.194 (100),1.279 (50)...31.40 100.9 100.00 Total 100.5 (1) Tweefontein Farm, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding...PdsSb2. Occurrence: An uncommon constituent of platinum average of deposits. Association: Braggite...Alaska. In Transvaal, South Africa, from Tweefontein Farm, Potgietersrust district, and from the Elephant...edition), 413-416. (4) Cabri, L.J., Ed. (1981) Platinum group elements: mineralogy, geology, recovery
Report (issue)
= 28.112(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Tweefontein Farm, South Africa. 2.236 (100), 2.194 (100), 1.279 (50)...(3) 31.40 100.5 100.9 100.00 (1) Tweefontein Farm, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding...Distribution: In Transvaal, South Africa, from Tweefontein Farm, Potgietersrus district [TL], and from the Elephant...of Chocó, Cauca, Colombia. At Kambalda, 56 km south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. From the Santo...edition), 413–416. (6) Cabri, L.J., Ed. (1981) Platinum group elements: mineralogy, geology, recovery
Report (issue)
Pd8.26 (Sb2.46 As0.54 )Σ=3.00 . (2) Tweefontein Farm, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding...Ni–Cu–PGE deposit, Yukon Territory, Canada. From Tweefontein Farm, 26 km from Potgietersrus, and at the Onverwacht...Merensky Reef, Bushveld complex, Transvaal, South Africa. From the Oktyabr mine, Noril’sk area, western...deposit, Moorkaie Hill, northeast of Broken Hill, New South Wales. From the Baula conplex, Orissa, India. There...Rowland, and T.Z. Chen (1975) New data on some platinum arsenides and antimonides. Can. Mineral., 13,
Report (issue)
Occurrence: Pyrite group. The most widespread platinum mineral, occurring in every type of deposit. ...stibnite, argentian gold, niggliite, iridosmine, platinum, merenskyite, kotulskite (Shiaonanshan, China);...Vermilion [TL], Victoria, and Frood mines, Algoma district, near Sudbury, Ontario. In the USA, at the New...the Key West mine, east of Moapa, Bunkerville district, Clark Co., Nevada; and from the Stillwater complex...Merensky reef, Transvaal, South Africa, fine crystals from the Tweefontein Farm, near Potgietersrus; also
Show/Event (guide)
Tucson, AZ 85705 in the center of the Mineral District. The mineralogy section of the mim today hosts...Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. 14.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm...Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 14.5 x 3 x 2 cm,...Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan,...downstream of Ritchie, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 3 x 3 x 3 cm, mim specimen #2199: Perfect octahedral
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..................... 50 4.2 Unidentified Non-Platinum-Group Phases .......................................................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ...........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum building in Bloomsbury to the new museum at South Kensington had been completed in 1881, there was...Williams in 1893. Specimens from Broken Hill, New South Wales, offered for purchase by J. R. Gregory in...later in 1923 when he made a fresh visit to the district and discovered the new minerals chloroxiphite...described also crednerite and wulfenite, new for that district. In June 1902 as a result of [Sir] Lazarus Fletcher's...widespread public interest in the larger diamonds of South Africa. A glass model of the Cullinan was presented
Book (edition)
Hexaferrum polysynthetic yes Bismuth, native Platinum, native isotropic Niningerite weak to moderate...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...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)...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
Book
Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA ¥e MAX WIEBEL, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA }€ KAREL TUCEK, Director of Minerals, National...Greenland; and Sydney Pieters, Windhoek, South-West Africa. For the modern collector, the source of rare...material. There was a time when dealers employed local buyers stationed in the country where the material...again be found. Nearly all of the giant gold and platinum specimens displayed in the world’s museums are
Book
townsend, Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, south Africa ^ max wiebel, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, south-west Africa ^ karel tucek, Director of Minerals, National...Greenland; and Sydney Pieters, Windhoek, South-West Africa. For the modern collector, the source of rare...material. There was a time when dealers employed local buyers stationed in the country where the material...again be found. Nearly all of the giant gold and platinum specimens displayed in the world’s museums are
Journal (volume)
in Rhodesia Asbestos in Rhodesia Asbestos in South Africa Asbestos in Tasmania Ashanti Mine, Falls of...Association Australia, Labour Conditions in Australia, Platinum Occurrences in Avino Mines of Mexico Report ...Barbadoes, Oil Prospects in 43 (m.ii.) Barberton District, Geology of 377 Barnes, W., Iron Ore in the Midiands"...and Iron in Manchuria Coal in Queensland Coal in South Australia Coal Resources of the Empire Coalfield...Proprietary Shares •» W. E. Walnwrlflit Broken Hill South Mine ... Brown, R. Oilman, What are Ore RaMnres
Journal (volume)
Copper Refiniug (ni.d.) Africa, Central, Development of African Taxation, South Alaska Treadwell Disaster...Anglo-Continental Mines Dividend Antimony in New South Wales Antimony in Queensland (7ii,d.) Antimony Ores...Proprietary's Steel Works, Expansion at"!.!! Broken Hill South Silver Report Broomassie Mines Liquidated PAGE...Ferreira Deep Fertilizer Problems Flin-Flon Copper District Flotation, Bibliography of, Lyon, Ralston, and...Swaziland Alluvial Tin (m.d.) Gas, Natural, in Nev7 South Wales Geduld Deep Geduld Proprietary Mines 152
Book
talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...was a site on what was known in 1887 as the Yale Farm, about two miles northeast of the town of Litchfield...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite
Journal (volume)
Andes Copper Co., Financing the Anthracite Mines in South Russia Aramayo Francke Mines Arizona Copper Armstrong...Arsenic-Silver Metallurgy (m.d.) A$besto$ in South Africa A. L. Hall Asbestos in the Transvaal (m.d.)...British Science Guild Exhibition 137 British West Africa Corporation Report 126 Broken Hill Block 10 Report...Steel Works -.(m.South 2OO Broken Hill South 3.V..V..V.. Report 61 Broken Hill Strike...Developments ..'..'....' Canadian Output 1918 Canadian Platinum and Manganese (m.ii.)..! Cape Copper Report Cape
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some...Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co ...Germany, with xanthiosite as a furnace product at the South Terras mine, St.Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England
Book
show these traces when they appear on altars, in local museums or public buildings, and in people’s houses...mineral collecting ranges from field collecting and local mineral clubs, to roadside rock shops and prefabricated...have made a similar point in more concrete and local terms. For instance, in his essay “How to Get from...“global,” whereas Teotitlán del Valle stands as the “local.” Rather, the restaurant and many other places participate...Doreen Massey has called “a global sense of the local, a global sense of place” (1991:29) through the
 
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