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Biotite from
Turfspruit farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Farm
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Turfspruit farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1309485
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1309485:0
GUID (UUID V4):eada1d79-2f3f-45ed-a90e-fd77cd2026d6
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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...Platreef, GNPA member deposits and the F zone of the Waterberg deposit, all of which contain a greater diversity...mineralisation most similar to Aurora is the T Zone of the Waterberg deposit, located to the north of Aurora, which
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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...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa; C. Harris (E-mail: charris@ geology.uct.ac...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa; and U. E. Horstmann (E-mail: horstmann@src
 
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