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Cooperite from
Zwartfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Classification
Species:Cooperite
Formula:PtS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cooperite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zwartfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1376961
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1376961:7
GUID (UUID V4):090073cd-8f84-4d13-98a9-84327810838a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Platreef at Zwartfontein, Akanani Project, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Frits van der Merwe...isoferroplatinum (Pt3Fe, 15 %), sperrylite (PtAs2, 11 %), cooperite (PtS, 5 %), moncheite (PtTe2; 5 %), electrum (AuAg;...2006, South Africa e-mail: fanusv@uj.ac.za Introduction The 2055–2060 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...adjoining farms 26 (Moordkopje 813LR and Zwartfontein 814LR), with a combined area of 4,095 ha (Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas Oberthßr 1 & Dennis...oxidized and pristine Platreef ore from the Mogalakwena mine were studied. Further, sulfides and platinum-group...and Nonnenwerth were compared to those of the Mogalakwena mine (Overysel, Sandsloot). In the pristine ore...and mainly comprise (Pt,Pd)-bismuthotellurides, cooperite-braggite, and sperrylite. Electron probe microanalysis...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut fßr Geologie und Paläontologie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltd’s Platreef project is located...are sperrylite PtAs2, isoferroplatinum Pt3Fe, cooperite PtS and braggite (Pt,Pd)S. The less common PGM...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 Reef’s Lesego Platinum Project...macrodykes, and the interaction of these bodies with local basinal sediments appears to determine their prospecitivity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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 world’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)
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 © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract...the Overysel and Sandsloot localities of the Mogalakwena Platinum Mine. These localities access the Platreef...the mass balance calculations for Pt and by the SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2016 • VOLUME 119.4 PAGE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Thomas Oberthür Bundesanstalt...weathering cycle in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa and the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe. Samples were...PGM and Archean age (e.g., Bushveld Complex, South Africa; the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; the Stillwater grains...“neoformation” a the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, of the Sudbury district in Canada, and later Norilsk in...the farm Maandagshoek, then eastern Transvaal, South Africa, led to the discovery of the largest PGE deposits
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)
THE CENTRAL PLATREEF OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Marina YUDOVSKAYA§ School of Geosciences, University...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa, and IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow 119017...the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa Andrey V. MOKHOV IGEM RAS, Staromonetny 35...Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Abstract The lateral variation in platinum-group...sulfide. Once sulfide saturation was achieved, cooperite and eutectic mixtures of Pt3Fe, Pt sulfide and
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
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. The PGE in the Platreef were originally concentrated...ICP-MS Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the World’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...Subgroup dolomites and, north from the farm Zwartfontein, Archaean basement granites and gneisses, which
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...north of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). These are separated by shale interlayers with a local footwall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. A. HOLWELL1, I. MCDONALD1 AND P. E. B. ARMITAGE2...mineralization. K EY WORDS : PGM, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Pt, Pd, base-metal...sulphides. Introduction THE Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest layered igneous intrusion in...the Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South pits ~30 km northwest of the town of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus;...located at the base of the igneous package north of Mokopane, in direct contact with metamorphosed sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
enrichment in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence from homogenized magmatic sulfide...droplets of magmatic sulfide from the Platreef, South Africa, where droplets of sulfide have been trapped...intrusions (e.g. Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa); and in 123 1012 high-volume sulfide deposits...models. The Platreef The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the world’s largest layered igneous intrusion...(Kinnaird and McDonald 2005). North from the town of Mokopane, the Platreef forms the base of the Bushveld layered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PLATREEF AT ZWARTFONTEIN, AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FANUS VILJOEN§...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...g., in the case of Pt and Pd sulfides such as cooperite and braggite; Dare et al. 2011), or from a telluride...Oktyabrsky et al. 2010). Pt–Pd–(±Ni) sulfides such as cooperite and braggite are the dominant platinum-group minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eastern Chrome Mine, Eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: A descriptive study with comparison of EPMA...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Institut fßr Mineralogie, Leibniz Universität...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Dezernat fßr Angewandte Geologie und Georisiken...sachsen-anhalt.de Š 2020 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. Abstract A descriptive...Pt was found in discrete minerals (braggite, cooperite) throughout the sequence, and Ru, Ir and Os were
Book
revised edition) 2 2 . N. DEKUN MINERAL ECONOMICS OF AFRICA 2 3 . B.L GULSON LEAD ISOTOPES IN MINERAL EXPLORATION...never be spoken. " P. A. WAGNER, The platinum South Africa deposits so be alluring prophesied and mines...converters to be fitted to new cars. At present, South Africa and the USSR are the sources of most of the...world's newly mined PGE, with virtually all the South African production derived from the Bushveld Complex...magmatic sulphides as potent collectors of PGE. The South African producers are relatively well placed t o
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS FROM THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA T. OBERTHÜR Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften...ac.at © 2014 December Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The present work provides an initial...Pt-Fe alloys (together 54%), sperrylite (33%), cooperite/braggite (11%), and stibiopalladinite (2%). This...platinum deposits of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. The initial major discovery of platinum in...positive results of this undertaking prompted an SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 2014, VOLUME 117.2 PAGE
Report (edition)
bookseller 1936 Price 3s. Net IMPERIAL INSTITU1··E SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 7 Ts E~ Imperial Institute was...Protecto1·ate .. Southe1n Rhodesia • • • • Union of South Africa • • • • Canada .. •• • • • • Newfoundland •...Empire, especially in Canada and the Union of South Africa. During 1913, Russia was responsible for over...the list of producers of the platinum metals. South Africa has large reserves of platinum ore, and is the...as in the alluvial gold workings of the Choco district, it was usually thrown away as worthless, although
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); Himmelsfßrst 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
Book
into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Reprinted from: Minerals...Occurrence and description of PGM from China, Russia, South Africa, USA, and Zimbabwe are reported. In his contribution...assemblages indicate the presence of an oxygenated local environment leading to Fe-bearing Ru–Os oxide and...into placers: Case studies bushveld complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe. Minerals 2018, 8...Cuprorhodsite CuRh2 S4 , Malanite CuPt2 S4 , Cooperite (PtPdNi)S, Braggite (PtPdNi)S, Vysotskite (PtPtNi)S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differentiatingthe oresin the vicinity (north and south) of the PilansbergAlkaline Complexfrom thoseof the...basemetal immediatevicinity.The Platreefon the Zwartfontein sulfides/chromite,and platinum-groupmineral...Isoferroplatinum Isoferroplatinum + intergrowths Cooperite Braggite Vysotskite Laurite Irarsite (electronprobe)...pentlanditegrain from the PtFe alloy-richPlatreefat Zwartfontein,Potgietersrus, wasnotedby microprobeanalysis...P. A., 1929, The platinum depositsand mines of South Africa:Edinburgh,Oliver and Boyd,826 p.
Report (issue)
___________________________________ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...provinces ___________________________ _ Republic of South Africa ___ ------------- __ -----Transvaal and Orange...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________
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...Uzbekistan), which are both located within the South Tien Shan orogenic belt (Khamrabaev et al., 1971)...of the Uralides, the Rudny Altai, the Khandiza district of Uzbekistan as well as the Kyzyl Tashtyg deposit
 
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