 | Junge, Malte, Oberthür, Thomas, Kraemer, Dennis, Melcher, Frank, Piña, Ruben, Derrey, Insa T., Manyeruke, Tawanda, Strauss, Harald (2019) Distribution of platinum-group elements in pristine and near-surface oxidized Platreef ore and the variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 54 (6) 885-912 doi:10.1007/s00126-018-0848-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas Oberthür 1 & Dennis...oxidized and pristine Platreef ore from the Mogalakwena mine were studied. Further, sulfides and platinum-group...Nonnenwerth were compared to those of the Mogalakwena mine (Overysel, Sandsloot). In the pristine ore, PGE generally...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie...Ma old (Zeh et al. 2015) Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest mafic–ultramafic layered intrusion |  | Klemd, Reiner, Beinlich, Andreas, Kern, Matti, Junge, Malte, Martin, Laure, Regelous, Marcel, Schouwstra, Robert (2020) Magmatic PGE Sulphide Mineralization in Clinopyroxenite from the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Minerals, 10 (6) 570 doi:10.3390/min10060570 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Clinopyroxenite from the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa Reiner Klemd 1 , Andreas Beinlich 2, * , Matti...Engineering, University of Cape Town; Rondebosch 7103, South Africa; robertschouwstra5@gmail.com Department of Geology...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa Correspondence: andreas.beinlich@uib.no Received:...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, hosts platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization...whereas magmatic δ34 S values suggest the absence of local crustal contamination during emplacement. This is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pyroxenite–Anorthosite (GNPA) member, south of Mokopane, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa J. W. Smith*1, D. A....northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, south of the town of Mokopane. On the farm Rooipoort it forms the...Transvaal Supergroup sediments, whereas further south on the farm Grasvally it overlies Lower Zone rocks...Introduction The 2?06 Ga Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the world’s largest layered igneous intrusion...bodies, (i) the Platreef, north of the town of Mokopane (previously known as Potgietersrus); (ii) within |  | 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 |  | 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 floor 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 40–45 |  | 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...the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Since 1992 mining in the northern limb has...appear to be present in TE the T Zone of the Waterberg PGE deposit, located under younger cover rocks...The northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa is one of the most significant mineral provinces |  | 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) | | has been serpentinised and in places altered to a talc-carbonate assemblage. There is evidence of fluid...Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltd’s 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 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) | | southern region of the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson and Judith A. Kinnaird In the...PGEs to form PGMs disseminated within tremolite, talc and serpentine. This final stage may account for...contrast between the PGM assemblage reported for Sandsloot and the PGM assemblages from Turfspruit and Macalacaskop...for the Ni–Cu–PGE 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 t–1 PGE |  | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. Hutchinson & I. McDonald Received: 12 February...Witwatersrand, Private Bag, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa I. McDonald School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary...Currently, however, only Anglo Platinum’s Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South open pits are producing ore, while...the northern Bushveld Complex from the town of Mokopane northwards for Miner Deposita (2008) 43:695–711...extends across the Plankneck– Ysterberg Fault south of Mokopane. Kinnaird and McDonald (2005) have recently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MaierW@cardiff.ac.uk 1 Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Mokopane, South Africa 2 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences...Cardiff, UK Introduction The Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the world’s largest layered intrusion and...mines; 2, Union platinum mine; 3, Impala platinum mines; 4, Rustenburg platinum mine; 5, Western platinum...mines; 6, Crocodile River mine; 7, Limpopo platinum mine; 8, Atok platinum mine; 9, Maandagshoek section...section with Modikwa platinum mine; 10, Mineral Range and Sheba’s Ridge deposit; 11, Rooipoort, Moorddrift |  | | 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) | | harzburgites and serpentinites of the Grasvally area south of Mokopane. These olivine-bearing layers have subsequently...Transvaal Supergroup meta-sedimentary rocks in the south and Archaean granite gneiss in the north. This definition...gabbronorites north of farm Drenthe,13 or south of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus) where mineralisation...University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa. © 2005 Institute of Materials, Minerals and...Critical Zone.9,12 The Platreef, which extends from Mokopane northwards at least 30 km, is not a simple tabular |  | Yudovskaya, M., Kinnaird, J., Naldrett, A. J., Mokhov, A. V., McDonald, I., Reinke, C. (2011) FACIES VARIATION IN PGE MINERALIZATION IN THE CENTRAL PLATREEF OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 49 (6) 1349-1384 doi:10.3749/canmin.49.6.1349 | 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...hollingworthite, chromitite, Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa. § E-mail address: maiya@igem.ru 1350 the |  | Trubač, Jakub, Ackerman, Lukáš, Gauert, Christoph, Ďurišová, Jana, Hrstka, Tomáš (2018) Platinum-Group Elements and Gold in Base Metal Sulfides, Platinum-Group Minerals, and Re-Os Isotope Compositions of the Uitkomst Complex, South Africa. Economic Geology, 113 (2) 439-461 doi:10.5382/econgeo.2018.4557 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Isotope Compositions of the Uitkomst Complex, South Africa Jakub Trubač,1,2,† Lukáš Ackerman,1,3 Christoph...University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa of Applied Geology and Geohazards, Geological...composite mafic-ultramafic intrusion situated in South Africa. The platinum-group elements (PGEs), Re and...assimilation at crustal levels or deep crustal or local contamination at emplacement causing sulfide immiscibility...the most important sources of PGEs worldwide. South Africa hosts several important PGE deposits (Maier |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogical Services, P.O. Box 432, Florida 1710, South Africa E-mail: fjk@moruominerals.co.za overlies but...but also onlaps the floor-rocks to the south of the Steelpoort area . The source of the magmas also appears...appears to have been towards the south as the MG chromitite layers degrade and thin northward whereas the...Critical Zone, and onlaps the floor-rocks to the south, and the north where it is also the basal zone in...‘‘Platreef’’ along the floor-rock contact before flowing south into the main chamber. This exceptionally large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | well-defined constraints of sulfide paragenesis and local S isotope signatures. A crustal δ34S component is...from the interaction of the GNPA magma with the local footwall country rocks at the time of emplacement;...the country rock S is distinct from that of the local mantle. Since the bacterial processes (biologically...located in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, south of the Ysterberg–Planknek Fault and lies at the...alteration. Secondly, the isotopic composition of the local mantle and crustal rocks are well constrained, providing |  | | 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 ‘handbook 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; |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 15,000× are possible. Commercial mine assay data were obtained from 1-m composite intervals |  | Yudovskaya, Marina A., Naldrett, Anthony J., Woolfe, Jonathan A. S., Costin, Gelu, Kinnaird, Judith A. (2015) Reverse Compositional Zoning in the Uitkomst Chromitites as an Indication of Crystallization in a Magmatic Conduit. Journal of Petrology, 56 (12) 2373-2394 doi:10.1093/petrology/egv062 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa; 2Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Mineralogy...Rainbow Minerals, PO Box 783580, Sandton 2146, South Africa; 4Department of Earth Science, Rice University...the central part of the Uitkomst Complex in South Africa. The complex represents a magmatic conduit system...(Gauert et al., 1995; de Waal et al., 2001). Nkomati Mine began production from the ‘Massive Sulphide Body’...(Theart & Nooy, 2001). It is now mined out and the mine currently exploits two separate disseminated Ni–Cu–Co–PGE |  | Buchanan, D. L., Nolan, J., Suddaby, P., Rouse, J. E., Viljoen, M. J., Davenport, J. W. J. (1981) The genesis of sulfide mineralization in a portion of the Potgietersrus Limb of the Bushveld Complex. Economic Geology, 76 (3) 568-579 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.76.3.568 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Merensky best mineralization was found on the farms Sandsloot Reef in the easternBushveldComplex,attentionwas...SULFIDEMINERALIZATION,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX W•ST ' AFRICA•, X •- 569 ' REPUBLIC /INDIAN SOUTHAFRICA...ore associatedwith fine- and coarse-grainedpyrox- mine (sampleATK/$) is included for comparative enite...experimental studfloor rocks(samplesTWE/8 and TWE/4) and talc- iesthat iron-richmagmasare capableof dissolving...pegmatoidalpyroxeniteis pyroxenites arounda xenolithof talc-silicatehornfels. affiliated with the intrusive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the most important mineral provinces of the South American continent, hosting several Fe, Cu-Au and...the Neoproterozoic Araguaia Belt in the east and south, and overlain by MA Paleoproterozoic sequences...domains: the older Mesoarchean Rio Maria Domain to the south and the younger Neoarchean Carajás Domain to the...gneiss and migmatite of the Xingu Complex in the south/southeast and mafic volcanics and iron formations...is truncated by granitic intrusions and, to the south, it becomes progressively thinner. 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