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Electrum from
Townlands, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Gold var: Electrum
Formula:(Au,Ag)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Electrum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Townlands, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1298562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1298562:5
GUID (UUID V4):8eb310c6-95fc-4f82-b758-72cb1b1b717b
Nearest other occurrences of Electrum
23.5km (14.6 miles) ⓘSandsloot mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
31.9km (19.8 miles) ⓘAkanani prospects, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
83.3km (51.8 miles) ⓘAurora project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
90.7km (56.3 miles) ⓘT-Zone, Waterberg project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
96.3km (59.9 miles) ⓘF-Zone, Waterberg project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Pd-Te-Bi minerals, with 6% Pd-Te minerals, 4% electrum and 3% Ag-Te minerals, along with minor Pd-Bi...Platreef, GNPA member deposits and the F zone of the Waterberg deposit, all of which contain a greater diversity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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...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...eastern limb (Wilson, 2015) and subzones within the Waterberg project (Kinnaird et al., 2017). The stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367–1394 The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization...Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Judith A Kinnaird,1,2,† 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa contains a number of occurrences of platinum-group...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 world’s largest layered intrusion...limb of the Bushveld Complex, around the town of Mokopane, is host to the world’s third largest PGE deposit:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...for the Ni–Cu–PGE mineralisation in Platreef, South Africa 1 Map showing the location of the drill cores...variations in dip and dip-direction controlled by the local footwall geometry. On Macalacaskop, Turfspruit and...Zone dips from 20° to almost 60° close to surface. Local changes in dip-direction are most noticeable at...pyroxenitic intrusives are recognised on Townlands, just to the north of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e (GNPA) member, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: implications for a multistage emplacement J...of mafic cumulates developed to the south of the town of Mokopane, at a similar stratigraphic position...intrusion of the Main Zone and that there was no local footwall control over the development of sulfide...Deposita Introduction The Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is the world’s largest repository of platinum-group...et al. 2005; McDonald and Holwell 2011). To the south of Ysterberg–Planknek Fault, a distinct layered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in origin, with contamination by assimilation of local floor rocks considered an ore-modifying process...country-rock sulfides upgraded the S content on a strictly local scale, and hydrothermal leaching introduced S from...sulfates into later stage sulfides, again on a local scale. South of Zwartfontein, it is proposed that the...complex, located in the northeastern part of South Africa (Fig. 1). The Complex holds around 75 percent...northern limb of the Complex, north of the town of Mokopane, where the Lower 1091 1092 HOLWELL ET AL.
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...only Anglo Platinum’s Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South open pits are producing ore, while Overysel, Anglo...the northern Bushveld Complex from the town of Mokopane northwards for Miner Deposita (2008) 43:695–711...extends across the Plankneck– Ysterberg Fault south of Mokopane. Kinnaird and McDonald (2005) have recently
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)...by Transvaal contact-metamorphosed rocks to the south of Sandsloot, or by granofels, which are products
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;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differentiatingthe oresin the vicinity (north and south) of the PilansbergAlkaline Complexfrom thoseof the...Rh-bearingsulfides(excludingpentlandite);laurite; electrum;sperrylite;isoferroplatinum and its intergrowthswith... Pd-Sb Pd-TI Pd-Cu ? ? 2.0 Pt-Pd-Sn Pd-Pb Electrum AuAg Cooperitc Braggitc Pt(Pd, Ni)S Laurite...Ni)S 0.1 5.6 PtPdNiS Stibiopalladinite? ? Electrum Cooperitc Braggitc Vysotskite ? Malanite? ...‱50 trace trace X Geversite PtSbe Iridosmine Electrum (Os, It) AuAg trace Cooperitc Pt-S trace
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scheelite, beryl, fluorite, and minor native gold, electrum, native bismuth, fahlore, pyrrhotite, mackinawite...for 15 km in a NNE-SSW direction between the townlands of Mazaricos and Zas in the Province of La Corufia... galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, native gold, electrum, native bismuth, fahlore Trace components: mackinawite...minor sulphides and sulphosalts, nat. Au and Bi, electrum (see Table 1) Fousas de Vila (**) 2 V Mylonitic...Sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, native gold/electrum, petzite (?) Albores (*) 6 V, B Protomylonitic
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(CAOB). Permian collision of the North (NCC) and South China (SCC) cratonic blocks, and amalgamation of...Qinling), the eastern SCC (e.g. Jiagnan) to the south, and eastern, southern Siberia to the north. These...sediments. The deposit is associated with a north-south trending splay off a regional fault of similar orientation... The predominant gold and silver minerals are electrum, native gold, silver-rich tetrahedrite (freibergite)...Uzbekistan), which are both located within the South Tien Shan orogenic belt (Khamrabaev et al., 1971)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FANUS VILJOEN§, NTSHEBO RAMAKOLOI, AND DEREK...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa CHRISTIAN REINKE Spectrum Analytical Facility...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa ABSTRACT The (Pt,Pd)-bismuthotelluride minerals...BACKGROUND The Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the world’s largest repository of platinum-group...the interaction of the Platreef magma with the local country rocks. Lonmin’s Akanani Project is located
Book (edition)
England South West England - Cornwall South West England - Devon South West England - Somerset South East...East England - Essex South East England - Kent South East England - Bedfordshire South East England - Suffolk...Isle of Man Wales South Wales - South Glamorgan South Wales - Carmarthenshire South Wales - Pembrokeshire...Scotland South West Scotland - Dumfries & Galloway South West Scotland - Lanarkshire South West Scotland...- Ayrshire South West Scotland - Renfrewshire South East Scotland - Scottish Borders South East Scotland
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...SYSTEMS Distribution of Au in Cu-minerals, Gold and Electrum Pd–Pt-Minerals Tetrahedrite-tennantite Galena-Clausthalite...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit
Book
Mortillet (1894), Dechelette (1910) and Eogan (1983). Local studies: the analysis of a hoard or group of hoards...‘scientiïŹc cultures’ normally adopt the perspective of local cultures, by overlooking the importance of travel...and interpretative framework is the regional or local unit, which in their opinion has led to dangerous...at Salcombe Bay (Devon, UK) (Picture courtesy of South West Maritime Archaeological Group, www.swmag.org;...the phenomenon of contingency at a regional and local level. Given the participation of Spanish, Portuguese
Book
vol. 8vo, 18s. NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA , Performed in the years 1850-51 , under the orders...Post 8vo, 98. RAMBLES AND OBSERVATIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. By Joseph Phipps TowNSEND. Post 8vo, 9s...science, and as guardian of our chief mineral district, has done much for the benefit of mining interests... 201 CHAPTER XIII . GOLD IN RUSSIA , ASIA AND AFRICA 214 CHAPTER XIV. GOLD REGIONS OF AMERICA 221...distance in the interior, having penetrated from South Australia northward as far as 29Âș. This, however
Report (volume)
Unknown Known to native Americans - A de Ulloa (South America) S Tennant (England) S Tennant (England)...............................................40 Local PGM saturation during chromite growth.............quench to a glass, so HSE metal may also form by local saturation due to a build-up in concentration in...silicate melt, accounting for the low value for DPt. Local PGM saturation during chromite growth Both empirical...involves the development of a redox gradient, owing to local reduction within the mineral–melt interfacial region
 
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