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Pyrrhotite from
Sandsloot mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sandsloot mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:899482
Long-form Identifier:1:3:899482:0
GUID (UUID V4):16ed0354-863d-43a7-9c55-b1fa6411fac0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
7.9km (4.9 miles) ā“˜Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
9.3km (5.8 miles) ā“˜Akanani prospects, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
23.5km (14.6 miles) ā“˜Townlands, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
27.7km (17.2 miles) ā“˜Moorddrift farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
28.2km (17.5 miles) ā“˜Oorlogsfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
38.5km (23.9 miles) ā“˜Pienaar's Mine, Eersteling goldfield, Pietersburg greenstone belt, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
55.1km (34.2 miles) ā“˜Nonnenwerth 421 LR farm, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
61.4km (38.1 miles) ā“˜Aurora project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
69.0km (42.9 miles) ā“˜T-Zone, Waterberg project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
69.7km (43.3 miles) ā“˜De Loskop Fe deposit, Pietersburg greenstone belt, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas OberthĆ¼r 1 & Dennis...oxidized and pristine Platreef ore from the Mogalakwena mine were studied. Further, sulfides and platinum-group...Nonnenwerth were compared to those of the Mogalakwena mine (Overysel, Sandsloot). In the pristine ore, PGE generally...of Pd in pentlandite (up to 185 ppm), whereas pyrrhotite contains up to 15 ppm of Os, Ir, and Ru, and...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut fĆ¼r Geologie und PalƤontologie
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sulphides from the Platreef, Mogalakwena Platinum Mine, Bushveld Complex, South Africa R. Klemd and T. Herderich... Johannesburg, PO Box 106 Crown Mines, 2025 South Africa e-mail: robertschouwstra5@gmail.com J. Roberts...2025 South Africa e-mail: jacques.r@telkomsa.net Ā© 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...samples from the Overysel and Sandsloot localities of the Mogalakwena Platinum Mine. These localities access...trends in the BMS are similar in the Overysel and Sandsloot samples, although the overall PGE concentrations
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Clinopyroxenite from the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa Reiner Klemd 1 , Andreas Beinlich 2, * , Matti...Engineering, University of Cape Town; Rondebosch 7103, South Africa; robertschouwstra5@gmail.com Department of Geology...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa Correspondence: andreas.beinlich@uib.no Received:...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, hosts platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization...some samples, which display differentiation into pyrrhotite and pentlandite in the lower, and chalcopyrite
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Hill, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Paul A. M. Nex Tweefontein Hill is situated...deformation events which have resulted in a major south-west plunging fold at Tweefontein Hill. This fold...remobilised platinum group elements into north-south and north-north-east trending faults. mineralised...Tweefontein Hill is situated 6Ā·5 km south of the Sandsloot Mine at the southern end of farm Tweefontein...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (E-mail: nexp@geosciences.wits.ac.za). GEOLOGICAL
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Platinum-group minerals of the F and T zones, Waterberg Project, Far Northern Bushveld Complex: implication...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 2. CIMERA the NRF/DST Centre of Excellence...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa * E-mail: marina.yudovskaya@wits.ac.za ABSTRACT...mineralogical data on PGE mineralisation of the Waterberg project, in a previously unknown segment of the...Complex located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. The lower ultramafic F zone is dominated
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Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Aurora is a platinum-group element (PGE) prospect...in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is one of only three deposits discovered...Rustenberg Layered Suite (Aurora, Moorddrift and Waterberg T Zone deposits), rather than in predominantly...1. These veins contain up to 50% interstitial pyrrhotite-pentlandite-chalcopyriteļ€ ļ‚±pyrite. Unit 2 contains... assemblages, and 1ā€“5% chalcopyrite ļ‚± pyrite/pyrrhotite associated with hydrothermal alteration. The
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the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa c Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy...fonte Zoet Northern limb N 4 Eastern limb 5 Mokopane 24Ā°15ā€² S 6 8 t neamen ison Li h c r u imbiM...Schematic geological map of Bushveld Complex. (1) Waterberg Group; (2) alkaline intrusion; (3) Lebowa Granite;...distinct correlation between PGE and sulfides, and the local ization of reefs at the bases of cyclic units,...increases in the opposite direction, toward the south and the west (Fig. 1). One of the thickest sections
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Pyroxeniteā€“Anorthosite (GNPA) member, south of Mokopane, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa J. W. Smith*1, D. A....northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, south of the town of Mokopane. On the farm Rooipoort it forms the...Transvaal Supergroup sediments, whereas further south on the farm Grasvally it overlies Lower Zone rocks...GNPA member is underlain by Lower Zone rocks, a pyrrhotiteā€“ chalcopyriteā€“pentlandite sulphide assemblage...two secondary pyriteā€“chalcopyriteā€“pentlanditeĀ”pyrrhotite Ā”millerite and pyriteā€“pentlanditeĀ”millerite sulphide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe & Fanus Viljoen & Mike Knoper...2006, South Africa e-mail: fanusv@uj.ac.za Introduction The 2055ā€“2060 Ma Bushveld Complex in South Africa...approximately 25 km north-west of the town of Mokopane (Fig. 1; Van der Merwe 1976; White 1994; Eales...(Overysel, Zwartfontein, and Sandsloot; collectively the Mogalakwena mine complex) are located towards...Platreef concentrated on samples derived from the Sandsloot and Zwartfontein open pits operated by Anglo Platinum
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Economic Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367ā€“1394 The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization...Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Judith A Kinnaird,1,2,ā€  Marina Yudovskaya,1...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 2 Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa 3 Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...osite sequence, and an Upper zone. Overlying Waterberg red beds were deposited between ~2.05 and ~1.93
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University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore deposits, Petrography...Exploration & Geology, Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd, Mokopane, South Africa * Corresponding author email: marina...(PtAsS-RhAsS-IrAsS), Pt alloys and Os solid solution in pyrrhotite. Interpretation of their origin is not straightforward...occurrence of Pt alloys and other PGMs in the Waterberg quartz-hematite veins in the Bushveld aureole...Recent extensive exploration on Turfspruit and Waterberg brought the most significant discoveries in the
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Chromite in the Platreef (Bushveld Complex, South Africa): occurrence and evolution of its chemical composition...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, South Africa e-mail: marina.yudovskaya@wits.ac.za J. A. Kinnaird...Platreef . Bushveld Complex . South Africa Introduction South Africa is the worldā€™s leading producer...Gruenewaldt (1985) for the Grasvally area south of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). Other chromitite...northern limb that are found in the Platreef north of Mokopane have not been described previously in detail (White
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. (Email: J.Harmer@ru.ac.za) CE P 3. Department...University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits 2050, South Africa (Email: hannah.hughes@wits.ac.za) AC 5. Scottish...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Since 1992 mining in the northern limb has...appear to be present in TE the T Zone of the Waterberg PGE deposit, located under younger cover rocks...The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa is one of the most significant mineral provinces
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of chalcopyrite-dominated mineralisation and pyrrhotite-pentlandite mineralisation in both the massive...Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltdā€™s Platreef project is located...Suite 201, Private Bag X30500, Houghton, 2041, South Africa (rmontjoie@ umbono.co.za) 2 MSA Group Services...Services, PO Box 81356, Parkhurst, 2120, South Africa Introduction: Village Main Reefā€™s Lesego Platinum Project...blebs and rounded globules of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite with some Feā€“Ti oxides and platinum group minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy, Petrography...Exploration & Geology, Ivanplats (Pty.) Ltd., Mokopane, South Africa 4 Department 5 Sciences of Earth Science...the Paleoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup from south to north, eventually resting upon Archean granite-gneisses...of the studied UMT314 borehole is indicated. Waterberg sequence is shown after Huthmann et al. (2016)...Transvaal contact-metamorphosed rocks to the south of Sandsloot, or by granofels, which are products of partial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef: northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Received: 17 June 2004 / Accepted: 9 August...Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The Platreef, the putative local analogue of the Merensky Reef, forms the ļ¬‚oor to... University of the Witwatersrand, Wits2050, South Africa E-mail: kinnairdj@geosciences.wits.ac.za L....Nickel and Platinum Ltd, 2 First Avenue, Mokopane 0600, South Africa are typically quartzites and hornfelsed...in some intersections. These are dominated by pyrrhotite, with lesser pentlandite and chalcopyrite, minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the lower mineralized Zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa T āŽ Florian M. Huthmanna, , Marina...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy...mineralization The Waterberg deposit is located north of the Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa...succession. The Waterberg Project is located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. This position...that the maļ¬c to ultramaļ¬c succession of the Waterberg Project does not represent a simple marginal extension
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elements in pentlandite from the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge & Richard Wirth & Thomas OberthĆ¼r...Heidelberg 2014 Abstract The Bushveld Complex in South Africa hosts the worldā€™s largest resources of platinum-group...mafic-ultramafic intrusions such as the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. In these ores, the PGEs are usually bimodally...grains from the UG-2 (Karee Mine, western Bushveld Complex, South Africa) with EPMA and LA-ICP-MS and...PGEs from the UG-2 (Karee Mine) and the Platreef (Mogalakwena Mine, Sandsloot pit) were investigated. Following
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is considered to be richer in sulphides...contributed to the sulphur budget of the Platreef. Local variations in sulphur isotopes, as well as a decrease...Platreef further away from the footwall, also indicate local rather than regional contamination processes. Platreef...base-metal sulphides within the Platreef are pyrrhotite, pyrite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite. In this...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa; C. Harris (E-mail: charris@ geology.uct.ac
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in origin, with contamination by assimilation of local floor rocks considered an ore-modifying process...within the Platreef pyroxenites in the area from Sandsloot to Witrivier. These values are comparable to sulfide...external S in any of the primary sulfides in the Sandsloot-Witrivier area, however, later sulfides found...found in calc-silicate floor rocks at Sandsloot and Zwartfontein and in xenoliths of calc-silicate throughout...country-rock sulfides upgraded the S content on a strictly local scale, and hydrothermal leaching introduced S from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa contains a number of occurrences of platinum-group...intersections of over 300 m. The sulphides are made up of pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite, heavily altered...Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK local country rock sediments of the Transvaal Supergroup...occurrences in the Main Zone at the Aurora and Waterberg projects, although the stratigraphic position... Introduction The 2.06-Ga Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Fig. 1) is the worldā€™s largest layered intrusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...blebs and interstitial grains of pentlandite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Where present, zones of massive...contrast between the PGM assemblage reported for Sandsloot and the PGM assemblages from Turfspruit and Macalacaskop...for the Niā€“Cuā€“PGE mineralisation in Platreef, South Africa 1 Map showing the location of the drill cores...Where the footwall is Malmani dolomite (as at Sandsloot), the Platreef typically contains > 4 g tā€“1 PGE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson & I. McDonald Received: 12 February...Witwatersrand, Private Bag, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa I. McDonald School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary...Currently, however, only Anglo Platinumā€™s Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South open pits are producing ore, while...the northern Bushveld Complex from the town of Mokopane northwards for Miner Deposita (2008) 43:695ā€“711...extends across the Plankneckā€“ Ysterberg Fault south of Mokopane. Kinnaird and McDonald (2005) have recently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. The PGE in the Platreef were originally concentrated...(mss), which on further cooling, exsolved to form pyrrhotite and pentlandite with Os, Ir and Ru remaining...ICP-MS Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the Worldā€™s largest layered igneous intrusion...(Kinnaird and McDonald 2005). North from the town of Mokopane, the Platreef forms the base of the Bushveld layered...Supergroup, and Archaean basement. Northwards from Mokopane, these footwall units are comprized of: quartzites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6140. 4 Camborne School of Mines, College...University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, South Africa, ED 5 Corresponding author: Dominique Tanner...metal sulphides reveal the highest S/Se values in pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite yet recorded in the Bushveld...opportunity for PGE mineralisation higher up in the local magmatic stratigraphy, AC or in later magma emplacement...Rustenburg Layered Suite has been described at the Waterberg project (Huthmann et al., 2018; Kinnaird et al
 
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