 | | 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 PlanknekâYsterberg Fault system, south of Mokopane (Potgietersrus). The Welgevonden Fault...and younger rocks supplied the platinum-group elements in the deposit and the source for these metals |  | van den Kerkhof, Alfons M., Sosa, Graciela M., OberthĂŒr, Thomas, Melcher, Frank, Fusswinkel, Tobias, Kronz, Andreas, Simon, Klaus, Dunkl, IstvĂĄn (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 â Part II â 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) |  | OberthĂŒr, 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 â Part 1 â Geochemistry...mut.oberthuer@yahoo.de Abstract The Waterberg Platinum deposit is an extraordinary example of a vein-type...vein-type hydrothermal quartz â hematite â platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization. This study concentrates...the geochemical character of the ores and the platinum- This is a 'preproof' accepted article for Mineralogical...opaque mineral and the lack of sulfides. The âWaterberg typeâ mineralization is characterized by unique |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distinguished career. She collected and studied platinum-group minerals from every continent, except Antarctica...Industrial Research to support her work on recycling platinum from road dust. She was UK Representative and...landmark âGeo-Platinum 87â conference volume in 1988 that did so much to expand platinum-group element...to study âOâ and then âAâ level geology at the local boysâ school. Many of her peers at the technical...Hazelâs work there revealed concentrations of platinum never before measured in ophiolites. At the time |  | 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) | | speciïŹcally a source for the nearby Waterberg hydrothermal Pt deposit. Furthermore, this study has implications...are the worldâs most important source of Ni and platinum-group elements (PGE) and signiïŹcant associated...Avebury Ni deposit, Tasmania, Australia (Keays and Jowitt, 2013), the Enterprise Ni deposit in Zambiaâs...(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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The history of the Waterberg deposit: why South Africaâs 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...to exploit the deposit, Transvaal Platinum Limited, built South Africaâs first platinum mine but the mine...closed after producing platinum for only a few months in 1926. The Waterberg deposit and its mining history...Transvaal Platinum Limited and the manner in which it developed and mined the Waterberg deposit in order |  | 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) | | associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb...associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb...associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb... P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Aurora is a platinum-group element (PGE) prospect hosted...in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It is one of only three deposits discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Partitioning of Pd into Pentlandite and Co + Platinum Group Elements into Pyrite in the Fazenda Mirabela...orthopyroxenite layer, and an underlying basal platinum group element (PGE) anomaly hosted in S-poor dunite...Bi,Te)2 minerals are accompanied by As-bearing platinum group minerals (PGM) sperrylite (PtAs2), and irarsite...sequence, and hosts appreciable concentrations of platinum group elements (PGE) with Pt + Pd typically between...remaining relatively PGE poor. The formation of this deposit and its Ni-rich nature has been attributed to the |  | 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. 1367â1394 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,â 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...35, Staromonetny, Moscow 119017, Russia 4 PTM, Platinum House, 24, Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sulfide Minerals Upon the Interaction with Aqueous Platinum (IV) Chloride Complexes Alexander Romanchenko...Abstract: The interaction of aqueous solutions bearing platinum-group elements (PGEs) with sulfides is important...sulfide minerals; platinum; deposition; valleriite; chloride complexes 1. Introduction Platinum-group elements...environmental behavior of engineered PGE species [5,6]. Platinum-group element ores are mainly associated with...aqueous solutions with sulfide minerals [7â20]. Platinum-group element deposits of hydrothermal origin |  | 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 |  | Huthmann, Florian M., Yudovskaya, Marina A., Kinnaird, Judith A., McCreesh, Matthew, McDonald, Iain (2018) Geochemistry and PGE of the lower mineralized Zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa. Ore Geology Reviews, 92. 161-185 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.10.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the lower mineralized Zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa T â 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...Africa and represents a large, high-grade, new Platinum-Group-Element (PGE) discovery. The ïŹrst comprehensive...succession. The Waterberg Project is located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt. This position |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of a gold nugget from Gongo Soco, an iron ore deposit in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The rosettes consist essentially...Gerais, BrĂ©sil. INTRODUCTION The remobilization of platinum-group elements (PGE) at low temperatures has been...of the questions refers to secondary growth of platinum-group minerals (PGM) in laterites (e.g., Bowles...pointed to a low-temperature origin for native platinum occurring as a coating on grains of sperrylite...virtually Fe-free native platinum in the Waterberg district of South Africa (Wagner 1929, McDonald et |  | | 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 arsenideâantimonide minerals from Gongo Soco iron ore mine, QuadrilĂĄtero FerrĂfero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Applied Earth Science, 111 (1) 74-80 doi:10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.74 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Synopsis The present-day Gongo Soco iron ore deposit was one of the most famous gold mines in Brazil...correlated with the platinum content in the associated palladium arsenideâantimonide. Its platinum content, up...a brief account is given here. The Gongo Soco deposit is hosted by the Itabira Iron Formation of Harder...a gentle eastward plunge. At its mid-point the deposit is about 1300 m long and 200 m wide. It is enclosed...March 2016 Fig. 1 Location of Gongo Soco iron ore deposit in relation to Itabira Iron Formation (black) of |  | 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 |  | 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) | | (2002) PALLADIUM AND PLATINUM MINERALS FROM THE SERRA PELADA AuâPdâPt DEPOSIT, CARAJĂS MINERAL PROVINCE...PdâO phase. The remarkable occurrence of native platinum associated with Pd-bearing gold, PGM (compositionally...palladian gold, platinum-group minerals, PdâO phase, native palladium, native platinum, Serra Pelada garimpo...in 1980 by garimpeiros, the Serra Pelada gold deposit was soon reputed to be an eldorado in the Amazon...associated with coarse-grained palladian gold. A native platinum veintype mineralization from a nearby prospect |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elena.f.bazarkina@gmail.com Keywords: palladium; platinum group elements; palladium chloride complexes;...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)... 1. INTRODUCTION Palladium (Pd) belongs to the platinum group elements (PGE), together with Pt, Os, Ir...including Norilsk in Russia and Bushveld in South Africa, were formed through multiple-stage magmatic-hydrothermal |  | 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) | | 385-397 (2006) PLATINUMâPALLADIUM NUGGETS AND MERCURY-RICH PALLADIFEROUS PLATINUM FROM SERRO, MINAS...Arborescent, botryoidal and reniform grains of platinum and palladium from CĂłrrego Bom Sucesso, Serro...and exhibit core-to-rim compositional zoning in platinum, palladium and mercury contents. One grain is...a marginal halo of mercury-rich palladiferous platinum and internal vermiform lamellae enriched in mercury...mercury and gold. The mercury-rich palladiferous platinum has 10â20 wt% Hg and an empirical stoichiometry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Epigenetic goldâplatinum-group element deposits: examples from Brazil and Australia A. K. Sener, C. J... Synopsis Recent research into anomalous goldâplatinum-group element (PGE) occurrences (± uranium) in...identified an unusual class of epigenetic AuâPGE deposit, previously poorly understood and little documented...CuâAu deposit group. Hydrothermal mineral deposits containing anomalous concentrations of platinum-group...AuâPd and Waterberg PtâPd23,24 deposits, have been described from Brazil and South Africa, respectively |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pp. 1-7 (2016) DOI: 10.3749/canmin.1400104 A PLATINUMâCOPPER NUGGET RICH IN CALCITE: EVIDENCE FOR HYDROTHERMAL...Congo. INTRODUCTION Intermetallic compounds of platinum have been regarded as high-temperature minerals...et al. 1995, 1999), for the Waterberg deposit, Naboomspruit, South Africa. Even earlier, in the nineteenth...intermetallic compounds of gold, palladium, and platinum were identiïŹed in quartz-hematite veins in Minas...for low-temperature intermetallic compounds of platinum, including Pt3Fe (Bowles 1986, Bowles et al. 2000) |  | Cabral, Alexandre R., SkĂĄla, Roman, VymazalovĂĄ, 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) | | generally accepted that intermetallic compounds of platinum are high-temperature minerals that are genetically...compounds of platinum and the mineral platinum, hereafter referred collectively to as platinum alloys, do...temperatures. There are remarkable examples of platinum alloys that crystallised at relatively low temperatures...hematite at the Waterberg deposit, Naboomspruit, South Africa, where native platinum and Ptâ Pd alloys...Aiglsperger et al. 2017; Bowles et al. 2018). Among the platinum alloys, the mineral kitagohaite, Pt7Cu (Cabral |  | | Report (issue) | | mineralogy and deposits Definition and characteristics Platinum (Pt) is one of a group of six chemical elements...elements collectively referred to as the platinum-group elements (PGE). The other PGEare palladium (Pd), iridium(lr)...ruthenium(Ru). Reference is also commonly made to platinum-group metals and to platinumgroup minerals, both...to PGM. In this document we use PGM to refer to platinum-group minerals. Pt Atomic weight Atomic number...2.5-3 properties vary considerably (Table 1). Platinum, iridium and osmium are the densest known metals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | when Wollaston (1809) documented palladium among platinum grains A. RAPHAEL CABRAL AND B. LEHMANN FIG...high-level, very oxidizing environment. In the Itabira district, Minas Gerais, Hussak (1906a) found grains of...the iron ore mines of the world-class iron ore district of central Minas Gerais, known as QuadrilaÌtero...arrow. The yellow arrow points to a Pd-bearing platinum selenide (sudovikovite?). 455 A. RAPHAEL CABRAL...4±0.1 wt.% Cu and 2.2±0.2 wt.% Ag (n = 11). No platinum was detected in the nugget gold or in the veinlet |  | Cabral, Alexandre Raphael, TupinambĂĄ, Miguel, Zeh, Armin, Lehmann, Bernd, Wiedenbeck, Michael, Brauns, Michael, Kwitko-Ribeiro, Rogerio (2017) Platiniferous goldâtourmaline aggregates in the goldâpalladium 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) | | forms an approximately 240-km-long, roughly northâsouth-trending domain that includes numerous auriferous...Minas Gerais: the QuadrilĂĄtero FerrĂfero in the south and the southern Serra do Espinhaço in the north...platiniferous alluvium, which follow the roughly northâsouth-trending trace of the 0.6-Ga Brasiliano thrust faults...QuadrilĂĄtero FerrĂfero The QuadrilĂĄtero FerrĂfero, in the south of the PGP belt, comprises the Minas Supergroup...Sucesso was selected for EPMA of patches rich in platinum and palladium; these patches had previously been |
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