| 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) | 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 | | Naldrett, A J, Brownscombe, W, Herrington, R, Wilkinson, J, Berry, A, Coppard, J, Klatt, S, Kekana, S, Grobler, D, Phipps, M, Dunnett, T, Hadebe, D, Nielsen, S, Broughton, D, Kojonen., K K, Montjoie, R, van Rooyen, N, Reichhardt, F, Nex, P A M, Holwell, D A, Boyce, A J, Jones, A, Holwell, D A, Jones, R E, McDonald, I, Prichard, H M, Yudovskaya, M, Kinnaird, J A, Sobolev, A, Kuzmin, D, Wilson, A (2011) Abstracts. Applied Earth Science, 120 (4) 198-210 doi:10.1179/1743275812y.0000000015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltdâs Platreef project is located...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 Reefâs Lesego Platinum Project...blebs, typically ,1 mm in diameter comprised of bornite and chalcopyrite, with the precious metals present...millimetre-sized rounded droplets of sulphide (chalcopyrite, bornite and pyrite) within the Skaergaard intrusion show | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 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 | | 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) | Economic Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367â1394 The Waterberg Platinum Group Element Deposit: Atypical Mineralization...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...osite sequence, and an Upper zone. Overlying Waterberg red beds were deposited between ~2.05 and ~1.93 | | Yudovskaya, M., Belousova, E., Kinnaird, J., Dubinina, E., Grobler, D.F., Pearson, N. (2017) Re-Os and S isotope evidence for the origin of Platreef mineralization (Bushveld Complex) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 214. 282-307 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.07.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa Institute of Geology of Ore deposits, Petrography...Exploration & Geology, Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd, Mokopane, South Africa * Corresponding author email: marina...occurrence of Pt alloys and other PGMs in the Waterberg quartz-hematite veins in the Bushveld aureole...Recent extensive exploration on Turfspruit and Waterberg brought the most significant discoveries in the...unit between the Lower and Main Zones north of Mokopane is termed the Platreef (Fig. 2 and 3). The Platreef | | Kinnaird, Judith A., Hutchinson, D., Schurmann, L., Nex, P. A. M., de Lange, Renee (2005) Petrology and mineralisation of the southern Platreef: northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 40 (5) 576-597 doi:10.1007/s00126-005-0023-9 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Platreef: northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Received: 17 June 2004 / Accepted: 9 August...Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The Platreef, the putative local analogue of the Merensky Reef, forms the ïŹoor to... University of the Witwatersrand, Wits2050, South Africa E-mail: kinnairdj@geosciences.wits.ac.za L....Nickel and Platinum Ltd, 2 First Avenue, Mokopane 0600, South Africa are typically quartzites and hornfelsed...from <50 m in the north to 400 m locally in the south. The outcrop generally strikes NNW and dips 40â45 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in origin, with contamination by assimilation of local floor rocks considered an ore-modifying process...within the Platreef pyroxenites in the area from Sandsloot to Witrivier. These values are comparable to sulfide...external S in any of the primary sulfides in the Sandsloot-Witrivier area, however, later sulfides found...found in calc-silicate floor rocks at Sandsloot and Zwartfontein and in xenoliths of calc-silicate throughout...country-rock sulfides upgraded the S content on a strictly local scale, and hydrothermal leaching introduced S from | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...contrast between the PGM assemblage reported for Sandsloot and the PGM assemblages from Turfspruit and Macalacaskop...for the NiâCuâPGE mineralisation in Platreef, South Africa 1 Map showing the location of the drill cores...Where the footwall is Malmani dolomite (as at Sandsloot), the Platreef typically contains > 4 g tâ1 PGE...variations in dip and dip-direction controlled by the local footwall geometry. On Macalacaskop, Turfspruit and | | Yudovskaya, Marina A., Kinnaird, Judith A., Grobler, Danie F., Costin, Gelu, Abramova, Vera D., Dunnett, Tim, Barnes, Sarah-Jane (2017) Zonation of Merensky-Style Platinum-Group Element Mineralization in Turfspruit Thick Reef Facies (Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex)*. Economic Geology, 112 (6) 1333-1365 doi:10.5382/econgeo.2017.4512 | 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)...Transvaal contact-metamorphosed rocks to the south of Sandsloot, or by granofels, which are products of partial | | Armitage, P. E. B., McDonald, I., Edwards, S. J., Manby, G. M. (2002) Platinum-group element mineralization in the Platreef and calc-silicate footwall at Sandsloot, Potgietersrus District, South Africa. Applied Earth Science, 111 (1) 36-45 doi:10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.36 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calc-silicate footwall at Sandsloot, Potgietersrus District, South Africa Downloaded by [Florida International...of the Rustenburg Layered Suite. At the Sandsloot open-pit mine the Platreef consists of coarse to pegmatoidal...date in a new study suggest that the Platreef at Sandsloot is a complex PGE deposit that has been subject...of the 2050-m.y. Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa (BIC, see Fig. 1) has a north-striking, slightly...various localities along the reef before the Sandsloot openpit was commissioned. A new isotopic study | | Reisberg, Laurie, Tredoux, Marian, Harris, Chris, Coftier, Aline, Chaumba, Jefferson (2011) Re and Os distribution and Os isotope composition of the Platreef at the SandslootâMogolakwena mine, Bushveld complex, South Africa. Chemical Geology, 281 (3) 352-363 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.12.021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of the Platreef at the SandslootâMogolakwena mine, Bushveld complex, South Africa Laurie Reisberg a,â,...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Department of Geological Sciences, University...University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa d BRGM, Service Environnement Industriel et ProcĂ©dĂ©s Innovants...a traverse across the Platreef at the SandslootâMogolakwena mine of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld...Bushveld complex (South Africa), known collectively as the Rustenburg Layered Suite (RLS; South African Committee | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in the Platreef at the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. A. HOLWELL1, I. MCDONALD1...mineral (PGM) assemblages in the Platreef at Sandsloot, northern Bushveld Complex, in a variety of lithologies...Platreef pyroxenites. That each major rock type at Sandsloot contains a distinctive PGM assemblage reflects...K EY WORDS : PGM, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Pt, Pd, base-metal sulphides...sulphides. Introduction THE Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest layered igneous intrusion in | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Thomas OberthĂŒr 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...âneoformationâ 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) | maficâultramafic complexes such as Bushveld in South Africa and Stillwater in the USA had an unusual siliceous...ac.uk) Africa Exploration, De Beers Consolidated Mines, PO Box 7383, Centurion 0046, South Africa 1 2...NE-directed plate convergence between the Nazca and South American plates. No mineralisation is known to have...porphyry-related deposits in the EarlyâMid Miocene. Bn, bornite; ccp, chalcopyrite; mag, magnetite; pyr, pyrite...fugacity hypogene sulphide mineral assemblages (bornite + chalcopyrite) and abundant hydrothermal magnetite | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 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...respectively. Sampling was completed with the aid of mine assay data to identify samples with the highest...magnifications of up to 15,000Ă are possible. Commercial mine assay data were obtained from 1-m composite intervals | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | silicate melt, the segregation of PGE-NPs is linked to local changes in fO2 and fS2 during the early crystallization...continental intrusion of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa) are also briefly discussed because they represent...PGE-NPs can actually provide new insights about local and large-scale processes governing precious metal...exploited for PGEs in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa (Campbell et al., 1983; Tredoux et al., 1995;...concentrations of PGEs from the Platreef at Mogalakwena Mine (Sandsloot pit) in the MA northern Bushveld Complex | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calc-silicate footwall at Sandsloot mine, Potgietersrus district, South Africa P. E. B. Armitage University...G. Cawthorn University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa The Platreef is a thick, tabular body of pyroxenites...present study is based on fieldwork at the Sandsloot mine, an open-pit operated by Anglo Platinum, where...alteration. In 1998 the estimated reserves at Sandsloot were 23 500 000 t of ore at an average Pt+Pd+Rh+Au...strike.2 Data from drill cores and mapping within the mine have shown the reef to consist essentially of two | | Barkov, Andrei Y., Shvedov, Gennadiy I., Polonyankin, Alexander A., Martin, Robert F. (2017) New and unusual Pd-Tl-bearing mineralization in the Anomal'nyi deposit, Kondyor concentrically zoned complex, northern Khabarovskiy kray, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (3) 679-688 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.118 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | minerals include sulfides of the chalcopyrite-bornite-(secondary chalcocite) association and various...of a composite grain of chalcopyrite (Ccp) and bornite (Bn); (e) micrograins of kotulskite (Kot) are located...located at the contact of phlogopite (Phl) with bornite (Bn); ( f ) a micro-intergrowth of mertieite-II...the abundance of sulfides of the chalcopyrite-bornite(secondary chalcocite) association; fletcherite...43(OH)0.57)] Chalcopyrite (Cu0.98Fe1.00S2.03), Bornite (Cu4.94Fe1.03S4.03), Chalcocite [Cu1.93Fe0.04)S1 | | BenkĂł, Zsolt, Mogessie, Aberra, MolnĂĄr, Ferenc, Hauck, Steven, Severson, Mark, Ettinger, Karl (2018) The Influence of Thermal Differences and Variation of ClâFâOH Ratios on Cu-Ni-PGE Mineralization in the Contact Aureole of the South Kawishiwi Intrusion, Duluth Complex. Geosciences, 8 (12) 474 doi:10.3390/geosciences8120474 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Cu-Ni-PGE Mineralization in the Contact Aureole of the South Kawishiwi Intrusion, Duluth Complex Zsolt BenkĂł...liquid into the footwall. Keywords: Duluth Complex; South Kawishiwi intrusion; Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization; contact...metamorphic zones, such as in Bushveld Complex, South Africa; Portimo Complex, Finland; and East Bull Lake...footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex [3â5]; Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Bushveld [11]). Therefore, it is...contact-metamorphosed granitic footwall of the South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, a Cu-Ni-PGE-Au | | | 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 âhandbook 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; | | Holwell, David A., Keays, Reid R., McDonald, Iain, Williams, Megan R. (2015) Extreme enrichment of Se, Te, PGE and Au in Cu sulfide microdroplets: evidence from LA-ICP-MS analysis of sulfides in the Skaergaard Intrusion, east Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 170 (5) doi:10.1007/s00410-015-1203-y | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | reefs after the deposits of Stella Intrusion in South Africa which have the highest PGE grades (10â 15 ppm)...Finland (Mutanen 1997), and the Blue Draw Complex, South Dakota (Ciborowski et al. 2013). Triggers for sulfide...addition of external S via crustal contamination from local S-bearing country rocks, which is common in marginal...deposits are primarily Cu rich and mixtures of bornite (Cu5FeS4) and digenite (Cu9S5)/chalcocite (Cu2S)...indicate that the assemblage of PdâCu alloys and bornite observed in the Platinova Reef may crystallize | | Andersen, Jens C. Ă., Rollinson, Gavyn K., McDonald, Iain, Tegner, Christian, Lesher, Charles E. (2017) Platinum-group mineralization at the margin of the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (6) 929-942 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0707-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | assemblages are different to the chalcopyrite-bornite-digenite assemblage found in the Skaergaard Layered...outcrops. The 20° dip of the contact toward the south is a result of coastal flexure after the emplacement...20 cm c 10 cm d WW09 2 cm 20 cm e North South Skaergaard Intrusion Precambrian basement Scree...The second occurrence, around 50 m further to the south (sample WW09, Fig. 2c, d, Table 1), is a clinop...(Fig. 2e). Here, the margin dips around 20° to the south consistent with a subhorizontal orientation at the | | McDonald, Andrew M., Cabri, Louis J., Stanley, Chris J., Good, David J., Redpath, Jason, Lane, Geoff, Spratt, John, Ames, Doreen E. (2015) Coldwellite, Pd3Ag2S, A New Mineral Species From the Marathon Deposit, Coldwell Complex, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, 53 (5) 845-857 doi:10.3749/canmin.1500020 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | chalcopyrite, and pentlandite, with trace amounts of bornite, cobaltite, and galena. Coldwellite is white with...and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineâ ralogical Association (IMA). The reason is simply...chalcopyrite, and pentlandite, with trace amounts of bornite, cobaltite, and galena. The major gangue minerals...ppm. The PGM are associated with chalcopyrite, bornite, and pyrrhotite, all of which occur interstitially...in the Platreef at the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine |
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