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Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa

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Eudialyte

Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Fluorite

Moepe Mine, Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Fluorite, etc.

Moepe Mine, Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Eudialyte

Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Fluorite

Moepe Mine, Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Fluorite, etc.

Moepe Mine, Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Eudialyte

Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Fluorite

Moepe Mine, Pilanesberg Mtn, Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 25° 14' 25'' South , 27° 4' 33'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): -25.24028,27.07583
GeoHash:G#: kee22jhh8
Other regions containing this locality:Transvaal, South Africa
Locality type:Mountain
Köppen climate type:BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate


Trachytic volcanic and pyroclastic eruptives which overlie ring dykes of various miaskitic syenites and agpaitic nepheline syenites. Amongst the nepheline syenites are sheets of eudialyte-bearing "lujavrite" very similar to that from the Lovozero, Kola.
This is an almost circular igneous complex of 530 square kilometer in size and lies at the junction of the acid phase and basic phases of the Bushveld Complex north of Rustenburg.


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Mesoproterozoic
1000 - 1600 Ma



ID: 2228681
Pilanesberg Complex

Age: Mesoproterozoic (1000 - 1600 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Pilanesberg Complex

Description: Foyaite

Reference: Council for Geoscience. Geologic map of South Africa, 1:1M. National Science Councils of South Africa. [41]

Mesoproterozoic
1000 - 1600 Ma



ID: 3310662

Age: Mesoproterozoic (1000 - 1600 Ma)

Lithology: Plutonic and metamorphic

Reference: Thiéblemont, D. (ed.). New edition of the 1:10,000,000 geological map of Africa. CGMW-BRGM. [190]

Siderian
2300 - 2500 Ma



ID: 3184975
Paleoproterozoic intrusive rocks

Age: Siderian (2300 - 2500 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Bushveld Igneous Complex

Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks

Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

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References

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Humphrey, W.A., (1912). The geology of the Pilanesberg. Report of the Geological Survey of South Africa, 1911(3), 75 pp.
Retief, E.A., (1963). Petrological and mineralogical studies in the southern part of the Pilanesberg alkaline complex, Transvaal. Ph.D. thesis (unpublished). Oxford University, 260 pp.
Ferguson, J., (1973). The Pilanesberg Alkaline Province, Southern Africa. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, 76, 249-270.
Lurie, J., (1973). The Pilanesberg: geology, rare element geochemistry and economic potential. Ph.D thesis (unpublished). Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 308 pp.
Lurie, J., (1986). Mineralization of the Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex. In: Anhaeusser, C.R. and Maske, S., (Eds.). Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa, Vols I & II, Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, 2215-2228.
Cairncross, B. and Dixon, R., (1995) Minerals of South Africa. The Geological Society of South Africa.
Cairncross, B. (2004) Field Guide To Rocks & Minerals Of Southern Africa.

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