 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | investigation of the Waterberg hydrothermal platinum deposit, Mookgophong, Limpopo Province, South Africa P. Armitage*1...around the unusual quartz-vein hosted Waterberg platinum deposit was mapped using aerial photographs at...located in the Mookgophong (Naboomspruit) District of the Limpopo Province in South Africa and is dominated...merge with the PlanknekāYsterberg Fault system, south of Mokopane (Potgietersrus). The Welgevonden Fault...rocks supplied the platinum-group elements in the deposit and the source for these metals must lie elsewhere |  | van den Kerkhof, Alfons M., Sosa, Graciela M., OberthĆ¼r, Thomas, Melcher, Frank, Fusswinkel, Tobias, Kronz, Andreas, Simon, Klaus, Dunkl, IstvĆ”n (2018) The hydrothermal Waterberg platinum deposit, Mookgophong (Naboomspruit), South Africa. Part II: Quartz chemistry, fluid inclusions and geochronology. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (3) 751-778 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.80 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Hydrothermal Waterberg Platinum Deposit, Mookgophong (Naboomspruit), South Africa ā Part II ā Quartz...historic Waterberg Platinum deposit, ca. 15 km WNW of Mookgophong (formerly Naboomspruit), Limpopo Province...Province, South Africa, is a rare fault-bound hydrothermal vein-type quartz-hematite-platinum-group mineralization...and moderate acidity. 2 KEYWORDS: Waterberg Platinum Deposit, quartz-hematite-PGE mineralization,... Introduction The Waterberg quartz-hematite-PGE deposit, ca. 15 km WNW of Mookgophong (former Naboomspruit) |  | OberthĆ¼r, Thomas, Melcher, Frank, Fusswinkel, Tobias, van den Kerkhof, Alfons M., Sosa, Graciela M. (2018) The hydrothermal Waterberg platinum deposit, Mookgophong (Naboomspruit), South Africa. Part 1: Geochemistry and ore mineralogy. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (3) 725-749 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.073 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Hydrothermal Waterberg Platinum Deposit, Mookgophong (Naboomspruit), South Africa ā Part 1 ā Geochemistry...mut.oberthuer@yahoo.de Abstract The Waterberg Platinum deposit is an extraordinary example of a vein-type...opaque mineral and the lack of sulfides. The āWaterberg typeā mineralization is characterized by unique...still active. 2 Keywords: Hydrothermal Waterberg Platinum Deposit, Bushveld Complex, platinum-group elements...Introduction The historic Waterberg Platinum deposit ā not related to the current "Waterberg Project" exploration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to study āOā and then āAā level geology at the local boysā school. Many of her peers at the technical...teaching Tony Robinson about the origins of Walesā gold deposits on the Channel 4 TV series āBirth of Britainā...of these (McCreesh et al., 2018) concerns the āWaterberg Projectā, currently under exploration by Platinum...northern limb of the ~2.05 Ga Bushveld Complex (South Africa). The second is a detailed study of placer PGM...petrological study of a submarine hydrothermal sulfide deposit (Apliki) from Troodos (Cyprus), focusing on the |  | Holwell, David A., Adeyemi, Zeinab, Ward, Laura A., Smith, Daniel J., Graham, Shaun D., McDonald, Iain, Smith, Jennifer W. (2017) Low temperature alteration of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfides as a source for hydrothermal Ni and PGE ores: A quantitative approach using automated mineralogy. Ore Geology Reviews, 91. 718-740 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.08.025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | speciļ¬cally a source for the nearby Waterberg hydrothermal Pt deposit. Furthermore, this study has implications...Avebury Ni deposit, Tasmania, Australia (Keays and Jowitt, 2013), the Enterprise Ni deposit in Zambiaās...(Capistrant et al., 2015), the Waterberg hydrothermal Pt deposit in northern South Africa (McDonald et al., 1995)...hydrothermally remobilised Pt-CuAu New Rambler deposit, Wyoming (Nyman et al., 1990), and epigenetic Pt-Au...occurrences in the northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Smith et al., 2011, 2014), the Lac Des Iles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The history of the Waterberg deposit: why South Africaās first platinum mine failed Iain McDonald and...of the South African platinum industry can be traced to the discovery of the Waterberg deposit in mid-1923...was floated to exploit the deposit, Transvaal Platinum Limited, built South Africaās first platinum mine...platinum for only a few months in 1926. The Waterberg deposit and its mining history have been largely forgotten...manner in which it developed and mined the Waterberg deposit in order to explore the factors ultimately |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | devoted to the interaction of aqueous solutions of gold and silver with sulfides (see, e.g., [38ā40] and...originated from the Sukhoi Log deposit, and the Sanzheevskoe deposit, respectively. Specimens of valleriite...[(CuFeS2 )Ā·1.5[(Mg,Al)(OH)2 ]] from the Nadezhda deposit (Norilāsk provenance) contained about 50% of the...other S species carrying similar local negative carrying similar local negative charges. In its turn, Pt...investigation of interaction aqueous solutions of gold, platinum and palladium sulfide nano- and mesoscale |  | McCreesh, Matthew J. G., Yudovskaya, Marina A., Kinnaird, Judith A., Reinke, Christian (2018) Platinum-group minerals of the F and T zones, Waterberg Project, far northern Bushveld Complex: implication for the formation of the PGE mineralization. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (3) 539-575 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.83 | 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 |  | McFall, Katie, McDonald, Iain, Tanner, Dominique, Harmer, R.E. (Jock) (2019) The mineralogy and mineral associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex. Ore Geology Reviews, 106. 403-422 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.02.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex Katie McFall,...and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex, Ore Geology Reviews...and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex Katie McFall1...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | remaining relatively PGE poor. The formation of this deposit and its Ni-rich nature has been attributed to the...the underlying basal PGE anomaly. Regional and Local Geology Regional geology The Fazenda Mirabela intrusion...showing context and location of (A) within the major South American tectonic units. AC = Amazonian craton;...the igneous stratigraphy from the north to the south of the intrusion. The ore zone occurs as a single...proven and probable reserves of the Santa Rita deposit as of 31 December 2010 stood at 159 million metric |  | Kinnaird, Judith A, Yudovskaya, Marina, McCreesh, Matthew, Huthmann, Florian, Botha, Thys J. (2017) The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization in Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Economic Geology, 112 (6) 1367-1394 doi:10.5382/econgeo.2017.4513 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367ā1394 The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization in Mafic-Ultramafic...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found on the surface of a gold nugget from Gongo Soco, an iron ore deposit in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The...on the pre-existing gold nugget. Keywords: rosettes, oxygen-bearing palladium, gold nugget, Gongo Soco...virtually Fe-free native platinum in the Waterberg district of South Africa (Wagner 1929, McDonald et al. 1999a)...when Wollaston (1809) investigated samples from gold mines in Brazil, possibly from Minas Gerais [vide...MINERALOGIST palladium in residual concentrates from the gold washing at Itabira, later identified by electron-microprobe |  | | Journal (issue) | | June 2020 www.miningreview.com HOT PROJECTS IN AFRICA NO SLOWING DOWN AMID COVID-19 P16 P4 IN THE...efficiently, Gavin Dyer, regional MD at Weir Minerals Africa SPECIAL REPORT P45 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE...HOT PROJECTS IN AFRICA NO SLOWING DOWN AMID COVID-19 P16 P4 MINING REVIEW AFRICA | JUNE 2020 16...wheels turning efficiently, SPECIAL REPORT their local economies P45 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE...Dyer, regional MD at Weir Minerals Africa HOT PROJECTS IN AFRICA FRONT COVER As mines come to terms |  | Cabral, A. R., Lehmann, B., Kwitko, R., Jones, R. D. (2002) Palladian gold and palladium arsenideāantimonide minerals from Gongo Soco iron ore mine, QuadrilĆ”tero FerrĆfero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Applied Earth Science, 111 (1) 74-80 doi:10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.74 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Palladian gold and palladium arsenideāantimonide minerals from Gongo Soco iron ore mine, QuadrilĆ”tero...present-day Gongo Soco iron ore deposit was one of the most famous gold mines in Brazil in the nineteenth...Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation. The coarse-grained gold particles are characteristically palladium-bearing...variable Sb : As ratio. The palladium content in gold appears to be correlated with the platinum content...goethite-like phase in a mertieite -II-bearing palladian gold nugget is recorded and is interpreted to be of low-temperature |  | Cabral, A. R., Lehmann, B., Kwitko-Ribeiro, R., Costa, C. H. C. (2002) Palladium and platinum minerals from the Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajas mineral province, northern Brazil. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40 (5) 1451-1463 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.40.5.1451 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PLATINUM MINERALS FROM THE SERRA PELADA AuāPdāPt DEPOSIT, CARAJĆS MINERAL PROVINCE, NORTHERN BRAZIL ALEXANDRE...(1980ā1984) was the site of the most spectacular gold rush in recent history, but the mineralogy of the...coarse-grained gold aggregates for this study. The centimeter-long aggregates of gold occur in powdery...goethite. Four compositional types of gold are recognized: palladian gold with an atomic ratio Au:Pd of 7:1...palladian gold (AuāPdāHg), Pd-bearing gold with up to 3 wt.% Pd (Pd-poor gold) and pure gold. A number |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spectroscopy; solubility; stability constant; PGE ore deposit. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Revised version...(e.g., Chudnoe deposits in Russia, Waterberg deposits in South Africa, Jacutinga-type deposits in Brazil)...including Norilsk in Russia and Bushveld in South Africa, were formed through multiple-stage magmatic-hydrothermal...sulfur-bearing fluids, typical of hydrothermal ore-deposit formation. The elevated stability of Pd-HS complexes...Pd deposits such as the Waterberg epithermal AuPt-Pd deposit in South Africa (McDonald et al., 1995; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Epigenetic goldāplatinum-group element deposits: examples from Brazil and Australia A. K. Sener, C. J...111:65-73. ā Synopsis Recent research into anomalous goldāplatinum-group element (PGE) occurrences (Ā± uranium)...identified an unusual class of epigenetic AuāPGE deposit, previously poorly understood and little documented...associations resemble those of the Feāoxide CuāAu deposit group. Hydrothermal mineral deposits containing...AuāPd and Waterberg PtāPd23,24 deposits, have been described from Brazil and South Africa, respectively |  | Cabral, A. R., Beaudoin, G., Kwitko-Ribeiro, R., Lehmann, B., Polonia, J. C., Choquette, M. (2006) PLATINUM PALLADIUM NUGGETS AND MERCURY-RICH PALLADIFEROUS PLATINUM FROM SERRO, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL. The Canadian Mineralogist, 44 (2) 385-397 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.44.2.385 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | internal vermiform lamellae enriched in mercury and gold. The mercury-rich palladiferous platinum has 10ā20...weathered. Anatase, with or without intergrowth of gold, and NaāKāCl-bearing aggregates postdate the PtāPd...Brazilian PdāPt-bearing deposits associated with gold or hematite (or both) have a distinctive seleniferous...natural goldāpalladium alloy (Gehlen 1811). The characteristically lighter color of palladiferous gold was...was noticed by local miners at the dawn of the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais (~1695ā1785), when ouro branco |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | et al. 1995, 1999), for the Waterberg deposit, Naboomspruit, South Africa. Even earlier, in the nineteenth...nineteenth century, intermetallic compounds of gold, palladium, and platinum were identiļ¬ed in quartz-hematite...solid solution comes from alluvial gold grains recovered from south Devon, England (Leake et al. 1991)...Platinum-rich rims envelop some grains of palladiferous gold. One of these rims comprises 64.7 at.% Pt, 29.8...in some alluvial grains of gold is similar to that of palladiferous gold from hematite-bearing carbonate |  | Cabral, Alexandre R., SkĆ”la, Roman, VymazalovĆ”, Anna, Maixner, Jaroslav, Stanley, Chris J., Lehmann, Bernd, Jedwab, Jacques (2019) Orthocuproplatinum, Pt3Cu, a new mineral from the Lubero region, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mineralogy and Petrology, 113 (4) 527-532 doi:10.1007/s00710-019-00663-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typically contain hematite at the Waterberg deposit, Naboomspruit, South Africa, where native platinum and Ptā...Kwitko-Ribeiro R (2017) Platiniferous goldātourmaline aggregates in the goldāpalladium belt of Minas Gerais... Nemerov VR, Kolpakova NA (1998) Nontraditional goldāplatinum deposits in East Siberia. Geol Geofiz 39:432ā444...KrstiÄ S, Tarkian M (1997) Platinum-group minerals in gold-bearing placers associated with the VeluÄe ophiolite...itabirite-hosted AuāPdāPt mineralization (jacutinga), Itabira district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Can Mineral 40:711ā723 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | formation at low temperatures: evidence from a palladian gold nugget (Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Minas Gerais,...other hand, gold may contain significant amounts of alloyed palladium. A nugget of palladian gold, obtained...brecciated and consists of fragments of palladian gold [Au0.79Pd0.09Cu0.07Ag0.04Hg0.01] with inclusions...[Pd11Sb2As2], cemented by kaolinite-hematite-palladian gold infill. The isomertieite inclusions are preferentially...fractionation of palladium and gold. K EY WORDS : native palladium, palladian gold, isomertieite alteration |  | Cabral, Alexandre Raphael, TupinambĆ”, Miguel, Zeh, Armin, Lehmann, Bernd, Wiedenbeck, Michael, Brauns, Michael, Kwitko-Ribeiro, Rogerio (2017) Platiniferous goldātourmaline aggregates in the goldāpalladium belt of Minas Gerais, Brazil: implications for regional boron metasomatism. Mineralogy and Petrology, 111 (6) 807-819 doi:10.1007/s00710-017-0496-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SHORT COMMUNICATION Platiniferous goldātourmaline aggregates in the goldāpalladium belt of Minas Gerais...Springer-Verlag Wien 2017 Abstract The platiniferous goldāpalladium belt of Minas Gerais, Brazil, forms an...an approximately 240-km-long, roughly northāsouth-trending domain that includes numerous auriferous lodes...Here, we report the occurrence of coarse-grained goldātourmaline aggregates and integrate recently obtained...stoichiometric PdPt, in which gold content varies from 2.5 to 33.5 at.%. The goldā Editorial handling: A. |  | | Report (issue) | | significantly denser than gold. Platinum and palladium are elements {PGE) compared with gold (Au). highly resistant...in catalysts and electronic applications. one deposit and that there may be considerable variation Osmium...proportions of individual PGE within a deposit or a district. processes are also known but these are...extreme enrichment in this sulphide liquid. An ore deposit may subsequently form if this PGE-enriched sulphide...sufficient quantities at a pa rticular location. Major deposit classes Enrichment of PGEoccurs in a wide variety |  | Distler, Vadim V., Yudovskaya, Marina A., Mitrofanov, Gennady L., Prokof'ev, Vsevolod Yu., Lishnevskii, Erick N. (2004) Geology, composition, and genesis of the Sukhoi Log noble metals deposit, Russia. Ore Geology Reviews, 24 (1) 7-44 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2003.08.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | composition, and genesis of the Sukhoi Log noble metals deposit, Russia Vadim V. Distler a,*, Marina A. Yudovskaya...shale-hosted Sukhoi Log noble metals deposit is the largest concentration of gold in Russia. The Au mineralization...element (PGE) mineralization of the Sukhoi Log deposit is controlled by a tectonic zone along the axis...infiltration metasomatism whereas disseminated and veinlet gold deposits accompanied by a quartz, carbonate, and...sulfosalts, phosphates, tungstates, and oxides. Native gold is the main one mineral, but calaverite, hessite |  | McDonald, Iain, Harmer, R.E. (Jock), Holwell, David A., Hughes, Hannah S.R., Boyce, Adrian J. (2017) Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone. Ore Geology Reviews, 80. 1135-1159 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.016 | 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...magmatic sulphide deposit in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Since 1992 mining...northern limb has focussed on the Platreef T deposit, located along the margin of the complex. Aurora...to be present in TE the T Zone of the Waterberg PGE deposit, located under younger cover rocks to the |
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