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Cooperite from
Maandagshoek farm, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Farm
Classification
Species:Cooperite
Formula:PtS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cooperite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maandagshoek farm, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618739
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618739:2
GUID (UUID V4):0ffb7ce9-5824-45bb-9a6e-17f77d5ba3e3
Nearest other occurrences of Cooperite
6.2km (3.8 miles) ⓘDriekop mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
20.9km (13.0 miles) ⓘOnverwacht Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
38.8km (24.1 miles) ⓘAtok Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
43.8km (27.2 miles) ⓘLesego project, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
44.8km (27.8 miles) ⓘHelena Chrome Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
55.3km (34.4 miles) ⓘBooysendal North Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
bluish greys distinct, brownish to bluish 30 Cooperite lamellar Hessite Reflection Colour & Ø Reflectance...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĂŒrst 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
common in the sediments, followed by sperrylite, cooperite, braggite, laurite, rare Pd-Sb-As compounds, and...redistribution of the ore elements. Sperrylite, cooperite/braggite, and laurite appear to be direct descendants...(very stable) → (2) sperrylite (stable) → (3) cooperite/braggite (variably stable/”metastable”) → (4)...sediments, Pt-Fe alloy, Os-Ir-Ru alloy, sperrylite, cooperite/braggite, Pd-bearing PGM, gold, awaruite, origin...deposits of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa, the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in Russia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in Russia...the Llorente River. Maandagshoek farm, in the then eastern Transvaal, South Africa, led to the discovery...layered intrusions such as the Bushveld Complex in South Africa or the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe have not been...several composite, panned samples were bought from local artisanal miners. The high-grade concentrates consisted...inclusions of cuproiridsite, kashinite–bowieite, cooperite, and erlichmanite (Fig. 6E, F) as well as clinopyroxene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated minerals include sperrylite, Pt–Fe alloy, cooperite, braggite, native Os–Ir–Ru alloy, irarsite, laurite...Lui sont associĂ©s sperrylite, alliage Pt–Fe, cooperite, braggite, alliage Os–Ir–Ru, irarsite, laurite...of mertieite or isomertieite, three grains of cooperite, one grain of atokite, two grains of Os–Ir–Ru...mertieite or isomertieite, and five grains of cooperite or braggite. The lighter oxides and sulfides still...OberthĂŒr et al. (2004) were collected from the Maandagshoek farm, Eastern Bushveld, from sediments of the Moopetsi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Miguel County, Slick Rock District, Colorado, U.S.A. The Slick Rock mining district was the location of the...the Morrison Formation. Within the Slick Rock district, uranium and vanadium minerals occur in ore deposits...the placer include gold, platinum, sperrylite, cooperite, braggite, irarsite, laurite, isomertieite, mertieite...near Maandagshoek farm, Eastern Bushveld, South Africa (OberthĂŒr et al. 2004), and from the South Sopcha...rivers draining the Eastern Bushveld complex, South Africa. Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 563–582. Törnroos
Report (issue)
Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or...platinum-group minerals (PGM) beginning with a South African publication (Cabri, 1972) and culminating...of PGE deposits, ranging from the very important South African deposits to less well-developed PGE mineralization...of South Africa Lyndon, Washington College Park, Maryland Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa Kansas
 
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