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Moncheite from
Driekop mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Moncheite
Formula:Pt(Te,Bi)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Moncheite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Driekop mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:847698
Long-form Identifier:1:3:847698:2
GUID (UUID V4):51fc5e7f-11b3-4c8f-973c-8d1bee2bfda3
Nearest other occurrences of Moncheite
6.2km (3.8 miles) ⓘMaandagshoek farm, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
24.0km (14.9 miles) ⓘOnverwacht Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
38.4km (23.9 miles) ⓘAtok Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
38.5km (23.9 miles) ⓘLebowa Mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
45.3km (28.1 miles) ⓘLesego project, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RIVERS DRAINING THE EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA THOMAS OBERTHÜR§, FRANK MELCHER, LOTHAR GAST...placer, Maandagshoek, eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. SOMMAIRE Lors de nos campagnes de terrain...Merensky Reef, on the farm Maandagshoek, close to Burgersfort in the Eastern Bushveld (Figs. 1, 2). Some of...between 2 and 3 km wide and runs approximately north–south, subparallel to the layering of the Mafic Phase...underlain by the Critical Zone. Between the Atok mine and Steelpoort (Fig. 2), the layered sequence dips
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platinum-group minerals of concentrates from the Driekop platinum pipe, Eastern Bushveld Complex – Tribute...concentrates originating from the Driekop platinum mine, South Africa, collected and first described by...by E. F. Stumpfl (1961), were investigated. Driekop is one of several zoned dunite pipes crosscutting...in the Bushveld Complex. The concentrates from Driekop contain single and polyphase grains, 5 to 500 ”m...– Pt – Ru sulpharsenides, stibiopalladinite, moncheite, ruthenium, osmium, and laurite. “Exotic” minerals
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)
Most of the analyses from the Merensky Reef, Driekop (Tarkian and Stumpfl 1975), Stillwater (Volborth...V:SE Borneo ($tumpfl 8, Torkian 1973) lII : Driekop Mine, Bushveld (TorkianÂą$tumpf11975 I l,]I; $orashigawo...measured on Pt--Fe alloys in dunite pipes from Driekop and in the placers from Borneo and Japan show a...hollingworthite, was discovered as a new mineral in the Driekop Mine, Transvaal by Stumpfl and Clark (1965). Genkin...HOLLINGWORTHITE-~ / ~ ~ v ,, ,, v * v v v ,}RuAsS Driekop. Bushveld (Stumpf11972,Tarkian & Stumpf11975)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FANUS VILJOEN§, NTSHEBO RAMAKOLOI, AND DEREK...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...Te/Bi and form a trend of solid solution from moncheite (PtTe2) towards maslovite (PtTeBi). A few analyses...resulted in the observed compositional ranges of moncheite–maslovite and kotulskite–sobolevskite. Keywords:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Thomas OberthĂŒr 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)
platinum able information on the ores from the Union mine platinumdeposits.When onebf us (EFS) pubby Kingston(1966)...oƓBrynard et al. (1976), cent sperrylite. At Union mine, laurite and ferroVermaakandI-Iendriks(1976), andGasparriniand...Platinum-Group Minerals in the Merensky Reef and in the Driekop Pipe Atok, Mineral Platinum-iron alloy (Pt, Fe)...platinum* Transvaal** and the silicates are common." Driekop*** 6.4 2 50 50.3 2 30 -- Hollingworthite...15 -- Kotulskite (Pd, Pt) (Te, Bi) 8.3‱ Moncheite Pt (Te, Bi)‱ Braggire (Pt, Pd, Ni)S 10.3 RuS‱
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an anion replacing S. Solid solution between moncheite PtTe2 and merenskyite PdTe2 is more limited than...most common natural Pt and Pd tellurides are moncheite PtTe2, merenskyite PdTe2, melonite (Ni,Pd)Te2...and Mitchell 1991; Helmy and Mogessie 2001), moncheite and merenskyite occur as inclusions in, or in...example, based on Bi and Pd concentrations in moncheite from the Upper Section of the Keivitsansarvi Ni–Cu–PGE...merenskyite and moncheite (Cabri and Laflamme 1976), and between melonite and moncheite (Hudson 1986).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differentiatingthe oresin the vicinity (north and south) of the PilansbergAlkaline Complexfrom thoseof the...UG-2 layer. The region around the dunite pipe at Driekop (Peyerl,in press)is in effect a microcosmof riched...within thesetwo mineralizedlayersis in fact one of Driekop will be discussedbelow in relation to the the majorfeaturesof...Pt(Pd, Ni)S Laurite Ru(Os, Ir)Sa 0.7 2.3 1.7 Moncheite Michenerite 0.3 22.2 25.0 17.9 52.0 5.4...E. D. KINLOCH TABI.E9. UG-2 Chromitite Layer, Driekop, Hackney, Thorncliffe (EasternTransvaal) Volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO THE MINING AREAS OF SOUTH AFRICA by Aberra Mogessie, Christoph Hauzenberger...Department of Geology, University of the Free State, South Africa 1. Preface Almost a year ago Aberra Mogessie...(where we had organized past excursions) and South Africa. Having discussed the matter with Christoph...areas of South Africa. We contacted Christoph Gauert from the University of Free State, South Africa to help...help us with the local organization especially to get permission from the different mining companies to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Platreef at the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. A. HOLWELL1, I. MCDONALD1...K EY WORDS : PGM, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Pt, Pd, base-metal sulphides...sulphides. Introduction THE Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest layered igneous intrusion in...Anglo Platinum, at the Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South pits ~30 km northwest of the town of Mokopane (formerly...the RLS. The geology of the Platreef at Sandsloot Mine has been described by Harris and Chaumba (2001)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 17:41 09 June 2016 TaEnaleh, Noril’sk District, Siberia, Russia U ntil a few years ago, the...fact, this find and a historical locality in South Africa for which specimens are not available represented...layered intrusive bodies such as the Bushveld (South Africa) and Stillwater (Montana) Complexes. In addition...Great Eastern mine, Clark County, Nevada. It is an ore mineral in the active Pt-Pd mine and related occurrences...collected at the Vermilion mine in what is now the famous Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada. He named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
beendescribedfrom depositsin the Soviet Union, South Africa and Canada. These discoveries have been of more... Platinum concentratesfrom the Driekop mine, Transvaal, South Africa, have already yielded nine new platinum...so far been detectedin the concentratesfrom the Driekop pipe. Electron probe microanalysisshows that they...N. N. Znr-n.qvr_rv aNo E. M. SurnNova (1963) Moncheite and kotulskite-neu. minerals and the composition
Report (issue)
Michenerite Pd(Bi,Sb)Te Ruarsite (Ru,Os)AsS Moncheite (Pt, Pd )(Te, Bi )2 Sulphides Antimonides ...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 -~ ~ . , ...‱ ‱ Munn ~ Munn\ A i.11Ti A ~ Kam bald a District r t S'al Rad o. .. D~~e) ~--· eld Complex...worked out Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa; Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; J-M Reef, Stillwater
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe & Fanus Viljoen & Mike Knoper...sperrylite (PtAs2, 11 %), cooperite (PtS, 5 %), moncheite (PtTe2; 5 %), electrum (AuAg; 5 %), michenerite...2006, South Africa e-mail: fanusv@uj.ac.za Introduction The 2055–2060 Ma Bushveld Complex in South Africa...Zwartfontein, and Sandsloot; collectively the Mogalakwena mine complex) are located towards the east of the Akanani...based on an assumed, ‘typical’ PGM suite for a new mine may result in poor, or highly variable, recovery
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oosterboschite/telluropalladinite/paolovite g) moncheite/kotulskite h) arsenopalladinite/ptumbopall adinite...braggite/ruarsite q) polarite/sobolevskite 589? 0 froodite/moncheite s) iso fe rroplatinum/zviagintsevite t) patla...Fe (64.3-66.7) 503-572 a cubic maslovite moncheite PtBiTe PtTe2 56.2 53.0-59.1 (55.2-63.0) 262-388...F., 1975: Platinum mineralogy of the Driekop Mine, South Africa. iVlin. Deposita 10, 71-85. V/alsov,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusive rocks elsewherein the region. mining district ,of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeastern...Wyoming, showing the location of the New Rambler mine with respectto the Mullen CreekNash Fork shear zone...activeintermittently through Laramide time. Shear zone rocks the mine is a mylonitic biotite-epidote-plagioclase comprisea...mafic plutoniccomplexesand ortho- prevalentin the mine vicinity. Most abundantare metadioriteand metagabamphibolites...duction from Precambrian ores. pyroxenitein the mine workingsconsistschieflyof uralitizedort.hopyroxeneand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is close to the platiniferous dunite pipes of Driekop, Mooihoek and Onverwacht. In this study, the chemical...contributions of PGM from the Mooihoek, Onverwacht and Driekop pipes, with abundant Pt–Fe alloys. For example...UG–2 are much smaller, commonly <10–30 mm. In the Driekop pipe, Pt–Fe alloy grains make up 50 vol.% of the...reported, the authors included Pd11As2Te2 from the South Sopcha pluton. Unfortunately, no analytical data...mertieite II, stibiopalladinite, kotulskite, moncheite, michenerite, merenskyite, telluropalladinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ultramafic intrusive bodies clustered near the central-south margin of the craton, one of which (Sukinda) is...time between the Eastern Ghats Mountains to the south and the Archean Singhbhum nucleus to the north....established because of the lack of exposure. To the south, the Baula Complex is cut by the coarse-grained...two basal layers of chromitite disappear. In the south, in the Bangur sector, the chromitite layers are... such as amphiboles and micas, and also by the local transformation of chromite into ferrian chromite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Roossenekal,by the AngloAmericanCorporationof South Africa throughthe sequencefrom magnetitelayer 5 to...Pageet al., four split samples of Z-2 michenerite,moncheite,merenskyite,and froodite. yieldedsimilarconcentrations...in the eastern Anglo American Corporation of South Africa for BushveldComplex:ECON.GEOL.,v. 80, p. 1007-1015...Merenskyreef at the Western Platinum mine near Marikana, South Africa: ECON. GEOL., v. Loucks,R. R., and...om the upper zoneof the easternBushveldComplex,South matic modifications:Univ. Pretoria, Inst. Geol.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Applied Geology, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa With 4 Figures Received February 2, 1996; accepted...sperrylite and testibiopalladite merenskyite and moncheite hollingworthite, irarsite, platarsite and tolovkite...e 7. malanite-cuproiridsite-cuprorhodsite 8. moncheite-merenskyite-melonite 9. platinum-iridium 10. osmium-ruthenium...these include melonite-merenskyite and melonite-moncheite. The presence of up to 7.2 wt% Rh in cobaltite...of platinum-group Ir Os Michenerite - - Moncheite 0.2 2.32 Niggliite - - Omeiite 1.1 Osarsite
Book (edition)
dark grey to brownish grey Tellurobismuthite Moncheite Palarstanide Domeykite vivid blue and orange... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia;...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4000, South Africa AND ROGER N. SCOON Postnet Suite 291, Private Bag X31, Knysna 6570, South Africa...of the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Fig. 1). The original discovery of the Merensky...contributions from this area to date deal with the Atok mine, for many years the only platinum producer in this...Merensky reef from the Driekop, Maandagshoek, and Winnaarshoek properties, south 971 972 MITCHELL AND...to in the text also shown are: 1 = Atok platinum mine, 2 = Maandagshoek, 3 = Thorncliffe, 4 = Brits, 5
Journal (issue)
conglomerate as a transgressive lag that eroded local basement lithologies and incorporated these more...Eastern Bushveld Igneous Complex at Onverwacht, Driekop and Mooihoek, but no mineralization analogous to...lineament orientations. The results (from Gutu District) indicate that the 360Âș and 060Âș lineaments sub-parallel...are used in the development of mineral resources, mine designs and scheduling, thus making the resource...the fact that unique geologic environments and local conditions must result in a variety of interpretations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE CENTRAL PLATREEF OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Marina YUDOVSKAYA§ School of Geosciences, University...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa, and IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow 119017...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa Andrey V. MOKHOV IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Abstract The lateral variation in platinum-group...hollingworthite, chromitite, Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. § E-mail address: maiya@igem.ru 1350 the
 
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