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Pyrite from
Waterberg deposit, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Waterberg deposit, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:958398
Long-form Identifier:1:3:958398:6
GUID (UUID V4):93e1460a-09d7-40c8-b15b-3315d5fbe19f
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.4km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Buffalo Fluorspar Mine, Mookgophong, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
40.2km (25.0 miles) ā“˜Moorddrift farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
46.1km (28.7 miles) ā“˜Oorlogsfontein, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
49.2km (30.6 miles) ā“˜Zaaiplaats Mine, Zaaiplaats tin field, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
56.4km (35.0 miles) ā“˜Tweefontein Farm, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
58.4km (36.3 miles) ā“˜Sandsloot mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
60.2km (37.4 miles) ā“˜Akanani prospects, Mokopane, Mogalakwena, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
64.6km (40.2 miles) ā“˜Zwartkloof defunct Fluorite Mine, Bela-Bela, Bela-Bela Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
73.9km (45.9 miles) ā“˜Pienaar's Mine, Eersteling goldfield, Pietersburg greenstone belt, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
86.2km (53.6 miles) ā“˜Vergenoeg Mine, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 Planknekā€“Ysterberg 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
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 ā€œWaterberg 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)
comprised of pyrrhotite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite(-pyrite). Sulļ¬de alteration is common during syn- or post-magmatic...temperature (< 200 Ā°C) hydrothermal assemblage of pyrite-millerite-chalcopyrite (PMC). An example is the...pyrrhotite-pyrite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite; Style 3 pyrite-pentlanditechalcopyrite; Style 4 pyrite-pentla...pyrite-pentlandite-millerite-chalcopyrite; and Style 5 pyrite-millerite-chalcopyrite-cubanite. Modelling using CHILLER...interaction progresses, pyrrhotite is replaced by pyrite and pentlandite by millerite, with concurrent losses
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)
Pentlandite and Co + Platinum Group Elements into Pyrite in the Fazenda Mirabela Intrusion, Brazil Robert...crystallized and subsequently pentlandite as it exsolved. Pyrite in the Santa Rita ore zone is Co rich and contains...than pyrrhotite and pentlandite, suggesting that pyrite has not replaced and inherited the PGE concentrations...concentrations of these sulfides. The Pd-poor nature of pyrite also indicates that it has not replaced Pd-rich...the IPGE and Co preferentially partitioned into pyrite as it exsolved from MSS. Introduction The Fazenda
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
upon the contact of the main sulfide minerals (pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, chalcopyrite and valleriite)...observed on galena and valleriite and the lowest on pyrite and pyrrhotite. The preliminary moderate oxidation...harsh reaction conditions. The pre-oxidation of pyrite in all cases resulted in a decrease of the Pt deposition...particularly pentlandite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite [15,25,26]. Palladium is hosted in base metal sulfides...describe the deposition of PGEs, on the surface of pyrite, galena and sphalerite by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
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)
Geology, v. 112, pp. 1367ā€“1394 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)
identified an unusual class of epigenetic Auā€“PGE deposit, previously poorly understood and little documented...hematite and sericite. Few, if any, sulphides (pyrite Ā± chalcopyrite) are found disseminated within the...associations resemble those of the Feā€“oxide Cuā€“Au deposit group. Hydrothermal mineral deposits containing...Auā€“Pd and Waterberg Ptā€“Pd23,24 deposits, have been described from Brazil and South Africa, respectively...explored here in a comparison of the Serra Pelada deposit, Brazil, and the Gold Ridge prospect, Northern
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
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...of 4-5, oxygen and sulfur fugacities buffered by pyrite-pyrrhotite-magnetite, Py-Po-Mt), which were not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition, and genesis of the Sukhoi Log noble metals deposit, Russia Vadim V. Distler a,*, Marina A. Yudovskaya...the black shale-hosted Sukhoi Log noble metals deposit is the largest concentration of gold in Russia...element (PGE) mineralization of the Sukhoi Log deposit is controlled by a tectonic zone along the axis...deposits accompanied by a quartz, carbonate, and pyrite assemblage were superimposed on sedimentary rocks...to develop a three-stage genetic model of the deposit involving deposition of terrigenous and carbon-bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lighter color of palladiferous gold was noticed by local miners at the dawn of the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais...Zapadnoā€“Ozernoe copperā€“zinc massive sulfide deposit, South Urals (Belogub et al. 2003, Yakovleva et al...southern extension of the Brasiliano belt, ~200 km southā€“southwest of Serro. This late- to post-Brasiliano...alloy from hematite-rich veins of the Waterberg deposit, South Africa (Wagner 1929, McDonald et al. 1999)...comprising the world-class Serra Pelada Auā€“Pdā€“Pt deposit (Moroni et al. 2001, Șener et al. 2002, Cabral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
massive sulphide deposition in the nothern Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)ā€”Javier SĆ”nchez-EspaƱa, Francisco...Ulrich Hansen Diffusion of osmium in pyrrhotite and pyrite: Implications for closure of the Re-Os isotopic...fluid features of massive sulphide deposits in South China: Implications for genetic modellingā€”Lian-Xing...$6.00 2295 The kinetics of reactions between pyrite and O2-bearing water revealed from in situ monitoring...systemā€”Gento Kameia and Hiroshi Ohmotob 2585 Framboidal pyrite formation via the oxidation of iron (II) monosulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2002, pp. 1127ā€“1138 THE SERRA PELADA Au-Pd-Pt DEPOSIT, CARAJƁS MINERAL PROVINCE, NORTHERN BRAZIL: RECONNAISSANCE...enrichment. Introduction The Serra Pelada gold deposit was discovered in 1980 by garimpeiros (artesanal...Olympic Dam in South Australia (Oreskes and Einaudi, 1990), Palabora in South Africa (Groves and Vielreicher...Mineralization of the Serra Pelada Deposit The Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit is hosted in a folded, low-grade...few samples were taken from several drill cores south of the open pit (Fig. 2, Table 1). This mineralization
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 fĆ¼r Mineralogie, Leibniz UniversitƤt...Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Dezernat fĆ¼r Angewandte Geologie und Georisiken...sachsen-anhalt.de Ā© 2020 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. Abstract A descriptive...compared to the sulphides of the chromitite layers. SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2020 doi:10.25131/ sajg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
experiments with metallic Pt were buffered by the pyriteā€“pyrrhotiteā€“magnetite (PPM) assemblage. Their in...pyrrhotite contain an admixture of Pt and As (Table 3). Pyrite was formed at the expense of arsenopyrite, as indicated...arsenopyrite is more reducing as compared with the pyrite-bearing system, at least at 300āˆ’400Ā°Ć« [14]. This...(covellite, digenite, and bornite) at the Salt Chuck deposit, Alaska [22]. Similar to the experimentally studied...As-bearing system, cooperite does not occur in this deposit, and the associated sulfides have extremely low
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.yudovskaya@wits...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...significantly from 1-2 grains in a polished section in the south-western Bushveld (Maier et al., 1999; Godel et al
Report (issue)
Ceylon; India ā€¢ Africa: Nigeria; Southern Rhodesia; SouthWest Africa; Union of South Africa North America:...Japan; Siam North America: Mexico; United States South America: Argentina; Bolivia; ChilE:Ā·' Peru WORLD..."ore-bearing zone" 1'ead "ore-bearing zone of the Knaben district," and transpose the paragraph with that following...granitic magmas. There is also an important type of deposit in connection with crystalline limestone and various...consists of 70 % molybdenite concenĀ­ trate and 30 % pyrite, while coke is the reducing agent and lime and
Report (issue)
gov/images/periodictable.pdf. Cover. Stillwater Mine in south-central Montana, looking southeast. The pond is..............................................N5 Deposit Types............................................Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, the surface trace of significant orebodies...in the western part of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa.....................................................N19 Photograph of the Stillwater Mine in south-central Montana, looking southeast.............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Dongguashan diplogenetic stratified copper deposit, Anhui Provinceā€”Xu Zhaowen, Lu Xiancai, Ling Hongfei...Hill, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africaā€”Paul A.M. Nex A new look at sulphide mineralisation...and U.E. Horstmann The history of the Waterberg deposit: Why South Africaā€™s first platinum mine failedā€”Iain...Mineralization in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africaā€”Judith A. Kinnaird and Iain McDonald Observations...southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa ā€”D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird Geochemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
progressive weathering of the Aguablanca Niā€“Cu deposit, SW Spain Saioa SuĆ”rez & Hazel M. Prichard & Francisco...overlying the Aguablanca Niā€“Cu-(PGE) magmatic deposit (Spain), has shown that the platinum-group minerals...PGE-bearing minerals during weathering in these types of deposit have been investigated rarely. Properties of PGE...and gossan formation at the Aguablanca Niā€“ Cu deposit in Spain and the concurrent disintegration of PGM...alteration. The Aguablanca deposit The Aguablanca Niā€“Cu-PGE magmatic sulphide deposit is located in the northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA FRANK MELCHERĀ§, THOMAS OBERTHƜR AND JERZY LODZIAK...rivers draining the Eastern Bushveld Complex, in South Africa. About 32% of a total of 790 PGM nuggets (50ā€“1600... platinum-group minerals, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. SOMMAIRE Les particules de minĆ©raux du groupe...standards (in brackets) were used: SKā£, PET [(Pt,Pd)S, pyrite], FeKā£, LLIF (Fe), CoKā£, LLIF (Co), NiKā£, LLIF...(PtO and PtO2) from the Waterberg, South Africa, hydrothermal platinum deposit and suggested formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Layered ultramafic intrusion; chromitite reef; PGE deposit, base-metal sulphides; hydrothermal alteration;...chromitite layers of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa (Gruenewaldt, 1977; Vermaak, 1995; Cawthorn...smaller outcrops at its northern end (Fig. 1B). The south-eastern limb comprises tight upright north-easterly...1863Ā±3 Ma Rose Bore Granite, which forms part of the local country rock, supports this observation (Page and...from an Archean komatiite-hosted nickel sulphide deposit in Western Australia. 6. Conclusions The PGE-bearing
Book (volume)
Evgeny G. Sidorov Mustard Gold of the Gaching Ore Deposit (Maletoyvayam Ore Field, Kamchatka, Russia) Reprinted...Selivanova Mustard Gold in the Oleninskoe Gold Deposit, Kolmozeroā€“Voronya Greenstone Belt, Kola Peninsula...Distribution of ā€œInvisibleā€ Noble Metals between Pyrite and Arsenopyrite Exempliļ¬ed by Minerals Coexisting...Type Orebodies from the Nibao Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Guizhou, China Reprinted from: Minerals 2019,...Xiaoyong Yang Source of the Chaoyangzhai Gold Deposit, Southeast Guizhou: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS
 
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