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Monazite from
Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:'Monazite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:REE(PO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Monazite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:899184
Long-form Identifier:1:3:899184:3
GUID (UUID V4):826e73cd-f97d-42e9-ad9f-e26aba15d588
Nearest other occurrences of Monazite
52.6km (32.7 miles) ⓘGravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebel1,2,*, Christoph...250 Nelson-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 3 Department of Applied Geology and Geohazards...PO Box 94, Artillery Road, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa 5 Department of Earth Science, Rice University... Abstract The 2060 Ma old Palabora Carbonatite Complex (PCC), South Africa, comprises diverse REE mineral...overprint. The 10 rare earth element minerals monazite, REE-Fcarbonates (bastnÀsite, parisite, synchysite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associations, as exemplified by the Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa Lorenzo Milani 1 & Robert Bolhar...and carbonatite rocks of the Palaeoproterozoic Phalaborwa Complex. Textural and compositional characterization...Witwatersrand, PVT Bag 3, Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 2 Department of Earth Sciences, University...the Western Cape, PVT Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa 3 Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch...Stellenbosch University, PVT Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa 4 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Telegrafenberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Modelling of Major Mineralizing Structures at the Phalaborwa Copper Deposit Ian Basson, Paulien Lourens, Hans-Dieter...Modelling of Major Mineralizing Structures at the Phalaborwa Copper Deposit, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi:...Modelling of Major Mineralizing Structures at the Phalaborwa Copper Deposit Ian Basson 1, 3*, Paulien Lourens...Paardevlei, 7130, South Africa 2 Palabora Mining Company Limited, 1 Copper Road, 1390, South Africa 3 Department...Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa Abstract The c. 2060 Ma Phalaborwa Igneous Complex forms an elongate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebel, Michael...of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite complex, South Africa. Lithos (2018), https://doi.org/10...of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa R. Johannes Giebela, b,* , Michael...-Mandela-Drive, Bloemfont ein 9300, SC a PT Markla South Africa Department of Applied Geology and Geohazards...fenites) of the Loolekop deposit, Palabora Carbonatite Complex (South Africa). Mica in pyroxenites and fenites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phoscorite–carbonatite association at Phalaborwa, South Africa Lorenzo Milani 1 & Robert Bolhar 1 &...of the phoscorite–carbonatite association at Phalaborwa. We trace the behavior of the compatible elements...Witwatersrand, PVT Bag 3, Wits,, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch...Stellenbosch University, PVT Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University...the Western Cape, PVT Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa revealing an evolutionary trend of decreasing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australia 2 Vergenoeg Mine, Farm Kromdraai, Rust De Winter, SA, Pienaar’s River, South Africa Received February...Paleoproterozoic Vergenoeg fluorite deposit in South Africa is hosted in a breccia pipe comprising units...similarities to alkaline rocks, in particular the Phalaborwa carbonatite of similar age, including: i) size...hydrothermal overprinting. Similarities with Phalaborwa and also with Bayan Obo, Mongolia, indicate that...Bushveld Complex in the northeastern part of South Africa (RSA). Modified after Crocker (1985) The giant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controlling apatite formation in the Phalaborwa Complex (South Africa) based on combined cathodoluminescence...Nature 2020 Abstract The Phalaborwa world-class phosphate deposit (South Africa) is hosted by a Paleoproterozoic...the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa 3 Etienne Deloule etienne.deloule@univ‑lorraine...phosphate deposit of Phalaborwa, located in the Archean Kaapvaal Craton of South Africa (Eriksson 1989).... The Phalaborwa deposit is related to an alkaline and carbonatitic complex dated at 2060 ± 2 Ma (Reischmann
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 05:17 17 August 2017 of PALABORA Limpopo Province South Africa MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...Gauteng Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za A Figure 1. The abandoned Palabora open pit, photographed...bottom of the pit 300 meters below sea level. The Palabora* Igneous Complex (PIC) is located some 450 kilometers...kilometers northeast of Johannesburg in Limpopo Province, South Africa, just below the Tropic of Capricorn...and vermiculite from the complex. In 1956 the Palabora Mining Company was set up to develop the large
Report (issue)
Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of...Sector (MPS) (retired); Sebastiaan J. Van Graan, South African Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs... Of these resources, some 71 percent are in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. The principal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa Fu-Yuan Wu a,⁎, Yue-Heng Yang...Council for Geoscience, Limpopo Unit, P.O. Box 620, Polokwane 0700, South Africa e Department of Earth...Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes Carbonatite Phalaborwa a b s t r a c t The Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, situated...situated in the northeastern part of South Africa, is characterized by copper and zirconium mineralization,...emplaced. In contrast to other carbonatites, the Phalaborwa Complex is characterized by high initial Sr and
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Journal Pre-proof Thorium-poor monazite and columbite-(Fe) mineralization in the Gleibat Lafhouda carbonatite...iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco Rachid Benaouda, Dennis Kraemer, Maria...D. Kraemer, M. Sitnikova, et al., Thoriumpoor monazite and columbite-(Fe) mineralization in the Gleibat...iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco, Gondwana Research(2019), https://doi.org/10...by Elsevier. Journal Pre-proof Thorium-poor monazite and columbite-(Fe) mineralization in the Gleibat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Guli, Russia (Kogarko et al. 1991); and Palabora, South Africa (Sharygin et al. 2011), suggests that calcite-...well documented carbonatite provinces: (a) East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and one occurrence in...common in typical magmatic carbonatites, and local enrichment in Ba suggests that by today’s terminology, the...country rock by fenitisation-type metasomatism are Ba, Nb, Sr, Sc, Rb, Zn, V (Le Bas 2008) and in some...barite, rutile, magnetite, titanite, pyrochlore, monazite-(Ce), bastnaesite-(Ce), parisite-(Ce), and goyazite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORES FROM O’OKIEP AND KLIPRAND, NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS FROM CHALCOPHILE METAL CONTENTS...maier@oulu.fi M.A.G. ANDREOLI South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, South Africa; School of Geosciences...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa e-mail: marco.andreoli@necsa.co.za D.I. GROVES...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The petrogenesis of sulphide ores in the O’okiep district has remained...additional IOCG deposits elsewhere in southern Africa. The model also predicts an enhanced potential
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wt RE2O3) and 1 Mt Nb (0.13% Nb). The Bayan Obo Mine produced 55,300 tons of RE2O3 in 2005, accounting...present in the West Orebody. REE occur dominantly as monazite and bastnasite, but more than 20 REE or REE-containing...association with high concentrations of Fe, Mg, F, P, Nb, Ba, Sr, and Th. Such mineral and chemical signatures...associated fenitic alteration in the Bayan Obo ore district (Le Bas et al., 1992; Yang et al., 2000) suggests...rock-associated REE deposits, such as Maoniuping LREE-Ba, China (Wu et al., 1995; Yuan et al., 1996), Huanglongpu
Report (issue)
the giant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag-REE deposit in South Australia in 1975, a conception developed of an...essential resources of PGE, Ni, Se, Te, Zr, As, B, Ba, Cl, Co, Mo, Mn and W. The IOCG classes are generally...ore. The giant and famous Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia is the world’s fourth largest Cu deposit...Billiton. The Phalaborwa deposit in South Africa is the world’s second largest Cu mine and largest vermiculite...vermiculite mine and has by-products of Au, Ag, PGE, magnetite, P, U, Zr, Se, Te and Bi, according to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
straightforward, with the notable exceptions of monazite-(Ce), bastnÀsite(Ce), parisite-(Ce,) and synchysite-(Ce)...successfully delimited high Nd occurrences in a monazite-mineralized outcrop of the Fen complex in Norway...Goethite Phlogopite 3 20 37 BastnÀsite-(Ce) Monazite-(Ce) Magnetite 9 5 500 1000 1500 2000 Wavelength...(2014). Note the complexity of bastnÀsite-(Ce), monazite-(Ce), and fluorapatite spectra that result from...Germany, Mount Weld in Australia, and Phalaborwa in South Africa. Carbonatites from Tororo and Sukulu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonatites and phoscorites from Sokli, Siilinjärvi, Phalaborwa, Jacupiranga and Fen, which contain Mg-rich calcites...minerals such as ancylite, bastnäsite, britholite, monazite, parisite, etc. are either rare and volumetrically...REE minerals such as strontianite, bastnäsite, monazite, etc., were therefore not included in this study...Russel et al., 1954; Zaitsev & Bell, 1995) from Phalaborwa (PA3) and Sokli (SO2), and a glimmerite from...during emplacement (Zhabin, 1978). Sövites from Phalaborwa and Siilinjärvi contained irregular exsolutions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
roof, and a carbonatite from the nearby alkaline Phalaborwa Complex. The results indicate that (1) the Bushveld...Zone through 500  C by 2053 Ma. The c. 2060 Ma Phalaborwa Complex (pyroxenite, syenite, carbonatite ĂŸ ...Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex in the Kaapvaal craton of South Africa includes an immense layered intrusion characterized...granitic rocks, and a carbonatite from the nearby Phalaborwa Complex. The results, coupled with the trace...(TML) are indicated (Good & de Wit, 1997). P, Phalaborwa complex; U, Uitkomst intrusion. (b) Simplified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amphibole and magnetite. Pyrochlore (rich in UO2 ), monazite-Ce, and barite are accessory minerals. Dolomite...primary minerals. They are indicative of Na, Sr, Mg, Ba, and LREE enrichment in their parental carbonatitic...into hydropyrochlore, and Ba-enrichment. Also, it leads to formation of monazite-(Ce) and barite-II. Carbonatites...present new mineralogical data on the Sevathur Nb-Ba-REE minerals because little information on many of...carbonatites contain high concentrations of apatite, monazite, magnetite, pyrochlore and vermiculite. The pyrochlore
Book (edition)
OF OF SOUTH AFRICA MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICA...Second World War, and partly as a result of it, South Africa experienced vast industrial expansion. This...official ‘handbook on the mineral resources of South Africa, it has become necessary to revise, or rather...great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations, the Economic...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry;
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Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30...Choice, R.B. Cook: Beryl, Variety Emerald, Chivor Mine, Chivor, Colombia, 332-34; Demantoid, Val Malenco...Fluorapatite, Inna Nala, near Fighar Village, Nagar District, Pakistan, 112-14; Microcline, Variety Amazonite...Park County, Colorado, 248-50; Pyrite, Park City District, Utah, 394-96; Rhodochrosite, Alma, Park County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Olympic Dam in South Australia (Oreskes and Einaudi, 1990), Palabora in South Africa (Groves and Vielreicher...860 420 430 370 2200 3000 1200 550 410 1900 1800 Ba (ppm) 3 227 141 34 138 256 173 35 450 433 62 18...Ontario; samples no. 7 to 20 were analyzed by INAA (As, Ba, Br, Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Eu, Fe, Hf, La, Lu, Na, Nd,...qualitative EDS analysis showed subordinate peaks of P, Ba, Al, and K. Rare crystals of yttrium phosphate (xenotime...few samples were taken from several drill cores south of the open pit (Fig. 2, Table 1). This mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
within the Miaoya carbonatite complex located in the South Qinling 19 orogenic belt, with the aim to better...71 the Phalaborwa carbonatite complex on the southern margin of Kaapvaal craton (South Africa; 72 Milani...minerals (e.g., carbonate) and ore minerals (e.g., monazite, bastnÀsite, allanite) 94 during metasomatism...between the North China Block (NCB) 113 and the South China Block (SCB) in central China. The orogen is...is subdivided into North 114 Qinling and South Qinling belts by the Shangdan suture (Fig. 1a, b). This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controlled by crystal fractionation of fluorapatite, monazite and, possibly, other minerals. Enrichment in REE...distribution of large-ion lithophile elements (LILE = Sr, Ba and Pb) in rock-forming carbonates also shows trends...effects (e.g., concomitant depletion in Ba + Pb at Aley, or Sr + Ba at Kerimasi), although the phases responsible... the reported contents of such heavy elements as Ba or lanthanides were measured by electron- microprobe...(carbonatites): Na 155 ppm [4] MnO 3.55 wt.% MnO [16] SrO Y Ba Lnb Selected element ratios (range): Y/Ho (La/Yb)cn
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CSIRO Mineral Resources, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, VIC 3169, Australia Abstract Rare earth elements...hosted by carbonatite deposits, and bastnĂ€site, monazite, and xenotime are the three most significant REE...resources at Palabora, Steenkampskraal, and Mary Kathleen) and 12.4 Mt TREO + Y is hosted by monazite within...1994–2011, 1997–2015). Australian REO are based on monazite production data, assuming a minimum of 60% contained...REE-bearing minerals are bastnĂ€site ((Ce,La) (CO3)F), monazite ((Ce,La,Nd,Th)PO4), and xenotime (YPO4; Jordens
 
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