 | Le Bras, Loic Y., Bolhar, Robert, Bybee, Grant M., Nex, Paul A. M., Guy, Bradley M., Moyana, Thabitha, Lourens, Paulien (2021) Platinum-group and trace elements in Cu-sulfides from the Loolekop pipe, Phalaborwa: implications for ore-forming processes. Mineralium Deposita, 56 (1). 161-177 doi:10.1007/s00126-020-01005-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elements in Cu-sulfides from the Loolekop pipe, Phalaborwa: implications for ore-forming processes Loic...mineralization within the Loolekop pipe of the Phalaborwa Igneous Complex has been extensively studied...dispersed bornite with chalcopyrite exsolution and local traces of chalcocite and covellite related to fluid...Carbonatite-phoscorite series . Cu-sulfides . LA-ICP-MS . PGE . Phalaborwa Introduction Editorial handling: W. D. Maier...Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa 2 Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phoscoriteācarbonatite association at Phalaborwa, South Africa Lorenzo Milani 1 & Robert Bolhar 1 &...of the phoscoriteācarbonatite 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 |  | Bolhar, Robert, Whitehouse, Martin J., Milani, Lorenzo, MagalhĆ£es, Nivea, Golding, Suzanne D., Bybee, Grant, LeBras, Loic, Bekker, Andrey (2020) Atmospheric S and lithospheric Pb in sulphides from the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa phoscorite-carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 530. 115939 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115939 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulphides from the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa phoscorite-carbonatite Complex, South Africa Robert Bolhar a,ā , Martin...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm...Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa d Department of Geology, University of Maryland...Oxidation Event sulphur isotopes lead isotopes Phalaborwa Complex sub-continental lithospheric mantle magmatic...and carbonatites of the ca. 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex in South Africa. Additionally, sulphide mineral separates |  | DecrĆ©e, Sophie, Cawthorn, Grant, Deloule, Etienne, Mercadier, Julien, Frimmel, Hartwig, Baele, Jean-Marc (2020) Unravelling the processes controlling apatite formation in the Phalaborwa Complex (South Africa) based on combined cathodoluminescence, LA-ICPMS and in-situ O and Sr isotope analyses. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 175 (4) doi:10.1007/s00410-020-1671-6 | 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@univālorraine...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 Ā± 2 Ma (Reischmann |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinopyroxenesfrom the Guide Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, South Africa SuseuC. EmrssoNr Department of Geology...Johannesburg,South Africa Abstract The feldspathic pyroxenite of the Guide Copper Mine, Phalaborwa, South Africa... The clinopyroxenes range in composition from diopside to aegirine-augitewithin a single crystal. Superimposedon...and Mg. This oscillatory zoning of acmite versus diopside components is unique among reported cases of oscillatory...(1937)suggestedthat finer-scaleoscillations result from local disequilibrium and coarser ones from more extensivechemicalor |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Porgera, Cripple Creek, Ladolam, Olympic Dam and Phalaborwa examples, are judged to diverge appreciably from...Canyon, New Mexico Foley Ridge and Annie Creek, South Dakota AuāCu Monzodiorite-quartz monzonite porphyry...trachyte porphyry intrusions in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States, may also be assigned to the...Dam, all containing >20 million oz Au, and the Phalaborwa copper deposit are prime examples (Table 2)....epithermal category, or Olympic Dam and perhaps even Phalaborwa (Groves and Vielreicher 2001) to the iron oxide-copper-gold |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PalaboraIgneousComplex' A Brief Review PALABORA ā¢{INING COMPANY LIMITED AND MINERALOGICAL MINE GEOLOGICAL STAFF Abstract...varying proportions,i.e., an olivine-phlogopite-diopside rock and a diopsidephlogopite-apatite rock. In...innumerable primitiveworkingson Loolekop, 177 178 PALABORA MINING COMPANY 15' LIMITED P..5' 35' ,...ā¢...,..ā¢" ā¢ ā¢ "..-.. PALABORA I,GNEOUS"---ā¢._ ,.-.ā¢ s o ur ā¢ L,. AFRICA ! ..'ā¢ ā¢ ā¢ .", i J -"...1. Location map of the Palabora Igneous Complex in the Republic of South Africa. from which the Bantu |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Orbicular rhythmic layering in the Palabora carbonatite, South Africa ALAN C.MOORE BHP Exploration, 20...earliest stage of magmatic activity within the Palabora carbonatite was marked by the intrusion of phosphate-bearing...dark layers (phlogopiterich) and light layers (diopside- plus apatite-rich) which, in hand specimen, are...phosphate concentrations. The resemblance of the Palabora orbicules to Liesegang rings has led to the development...relatively non-turbulent conditions prevailed, and diopside, phlogopite and apatite crystallized essentially |  | Wu, Fu-Yuan, Yang, Yue-Heng, Li, Qiu-Li, Mitchell, Roger H., Dawson, J. Barry, Brandl, GĆ¼nther, Yuhara, Masaki (2011) In situ determination of UāPb ages and SrāNdāHf isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Lithos, 127 (1) 309-322 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | constraints on the petrogenesis of the Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, South Africa Fu-Yuan Wu a,ā, Yue-Heng Yang...Council for Geoscience, Limpopo Unit, P.O. Box 620, Polokwane 0700, South Africa e Department of Earth...SrāNdāHf 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Kyanite show intersecting textures. Diamantina District, Minas Gerais, Brasil. 84A6(a) 5 x 5 cm 5.00 Highly...grade 84A3(c) 15.00 7.50 White Kyanite Clover, South Carolina. Quartzite (6 x 9 cm) with pyrite grains...over the fore-section amethyst crystals. The Irai District, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. combination is a delight...hydroxyl-apatite with large niobian perovFaraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine), crystal specimens, these two were worthy...light-amber to pale-straw matrix (5.6 x 5.5 cm) is diopside-calcite pericline of varying sizes. The specimen |  | Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Pakhomovsky, Yakov A., Panikorovskii, Taras L., Mikhailova, Julia A., Kalashnikov, Andrei O., Bazai, Ayya V., Yakovenchuk, Victor N., Konopleva, Nataly G., Goryainov, Pavel M. (2018) Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: II. Sulfides. Minerals, 8 (7) 292 doi:10.3390/min8070292 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | e complexes of the Kovdor (Russia) and Palabora (South Africa) alkaline-ultrabasic massifs have comparable...and Loolekop phoscorite-carbonatite pipes in the Palabora massif have similar sequences of sulfide formation...formation, and the copper specialization of the Palabora massif can be caused by higher water content in...phoscorite-carbonatite pipe in the Palabora (Phalaborwa) massif, South Africa (RSA) is a typical example of...Kovdor massif is one of the richest. Like the Palabora massif, the Kovdor massif predominantly concentrates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vegetation include Nb, rare earth elements (REEs), P, Ba, Sr, F, U, and Th, and in water, F, Th, and U are...Country Mine production 2014 (Mt) 2015 (Mt) Reserves (Mt) Igneous phosphorites Brazil Russia South Africa...Although the Paleoproterozoic Phalabora Complex in South Africa only produced 2.20 Mt (10%) in 2015, the country...(2013). there is a dominant element (Ca, Pb, Sr, Ba, or Mn) at two of the cation sites, and P, V, or...Carbonatites are commonly enriched in (L)REE, Nb, P, Sr, Ba, HFSE, U, Th, and F (Jones et al., 2013). This enrichment |  | Korobeinikov, A. N., Mitrofanov, F. P., Gehor, S., Laajoki, K., Pavlov, V. P., Mamontov, V. P. (1998) Geology and Copper Sulphide Mineralization of the Salmagorskii Ring Igneous Complex, Kola Peninsula, NW Russia. Journal of Petrology, 39 (11) 2033-2041 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.11-12.2033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | example, the carbonatite body of the Phalaborwa complex in South Africa contains one of the worldās largest...sub-economic copper sulphide ores (except for Phalaborwa) are rather uncommon in alkaline rocks and carbonatites...varying amounts of melilite, clinopyroxene (augite, diopside and aegirineāaugite) and phlogopite. Monticellite...composed of calcite with lesser amounts of ankerite, diopside and aegirineāaugite, phlogopite, apatite, magnetite...the proportions of normative larnite, olivine, diopside and nepheline, which correlate with modal variations |  | | 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 todayās terminology, the...apatite, and one of the silicates, forsterite, diopside, or phlogopiteā. According to Krasnova et al....country rock by fenitisation-type metasomatism are Ba, Nb, Sr, Sc, Rb, Zn, V (Le Bas 2008) and in some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | carbonatites and phoscorites from Sokli, SiilinjaĢrvi, Phalaborwa, Jacupiranga and Fen, which contain Mg-rich calcites...Russel et al., 1954; Zaitsev & Bell, 1995) from Phalaborwa (PA3) and Sokli (SO2), and a glimmerite from...during emplacement (Zhabin, 1978). SoĢvites from Phalaborwa and SiilinjaĢrvi contained irregular exsolutions... Apatite soĢvite SoĢve Mine, Fen, Norway FE5 Apatite soĢvite SoĢve Mine, Fen, Norway AL1 Pegmatitic...Loolekop, Phalaborwa, South Africa PA2 PA3 SoĢvite with Cu-sulphide Loolekop, Phalaborwa, mineralization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consist of giant crystals (up to 2 m across) of diopside, whereas near the center are zones of forsteriteāphlogopite...rock-forming minerals (forsterite, phlogopite, diopside) is characterized by lower contents of Ti and...contiennent des cristaux gĆ©ants (jusquāĆ 2 m) de diopside, tandis que prĆØs du centre, on trouve des roches...Les principaux minĆ©raux (forstĆ©rite, phlogopite, diopside) contiennent moins de Ti et de Fe que les mĆŖmes...mineralogical studies of the deposit, firstly in the mine between 1963 and 1973, and later she documented |  | Barbosa, Elisa Soares Rocha, Brod, JosĆ© Affonso, Cordeiro, Pedro Filipe Oliveira, Junqueira-Brod, Tereza Cristina, Santos, Roberto Ventura, Dantas, Elton Luiz (2020) Phoscorites of the Salitre I complex: Origin and petrogenetic implications. Chemical Geology, 535. 119463 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119463 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | recent advances in various examples from Brazil, South Africa and Russia (Krasnova et al., 2004a; Lee et al...complexes of the APIP include CatalĆ£o I and II in the south of GoiĆ”s, and Serra Negra, Salitre I, II and III...recently proposed to the genesis of phoscorites from Phalaborwa (Giebel et al., 2019). Their mode of emplacement...bebedourites lack any feldspathoid and are dominated by diopside, perovskite, apatite, magnetite, phlogopite, Ti-garnet...activities of FosfĆ©rtil SA, and forms a small plug south of Salitre I. The topographical expression of Salitre |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal....................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Europe and South America, $7.50/$8.00; by airmail to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, $8.50/$9 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distinct igneous rock type in the South African Palabora (Phalaborwa) ijolite-carbonatite complex [22]...carbonates known to be secondary (a mistake which the South African geologists did not make). Therefore it seems...(oxide-phosphate) rock. Diopside analogs of phoscorite (pegmatoid diopsidites, ore diopsidites, diopside nelsonites)...relationships between phoscoritic rocks of the olivine and diopside series remain unclear. In the Maymecha-Kotuy province...rocks. Nelsonite and apatitite rich in aegirine-diopside and phlogopite, in the form of steeply dipping |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FROM PHALABORWA, BADDELEYITE EASTERN TRANSVAAL1 S. A. HrBusrnd,, Geolog'icalSuraey, Pretoria, Soulh AJrica...notable amounts of apatite and small quantities of diopside and phlogopite. Zircon, uranoan thorianite and...This is the spelling of Palabora, recently adopted in the Union of South Africa. 3 That these calcite-rich...available to the author. Hasrr The baddeleyite from Phalaborwa occurs typically in the form of short black prismatic...108 (lg4). Manuscript ruedaeil April 20, 1954. BA DDELEYITE FROM EASTERN T RA NSVAA L Tnern 2. CoupenrsoNol |  | Cabral, A. R., Lehmann, B., Kwitko, R., Costa, C. H. C. (2002) The Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajas mineral province, northern Brazil: reconnaissance mineralogy and chemistry of very high grade palladian gold mineralization. Economic Geology, 97 (5) 1127-1138 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.5.1127 | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Angola and South-West Africa, i.a. Carbonatites are now the major sources...Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa India APPENDICES REFERENCES LOCALITY INDEX SUBJECT...Society of South Africa and C. A. Strauss and F. C. Truter (1950A) : Geological Society of South Africa and...Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson (1961) 6-12: Geological Society of South Africa and R. L. Johnson... Figure Figure 10-1: Geological Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...ā 5.6 cm tall, Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Private collection...pegmatites Australia Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales. Occurs in two lithologies, carbonate...Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria Aberfoyle mine, Rossarden district, Tasmania Complex metamorphosed sedimentary...Norte and ParaĆba: e.g., Sapo mine, Ferruginha; Golconda district, Governador Valadares; LinĆ³polis |
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