... 08 01 2025 © 2025 Society of Economic Geologists 2025 Society of Economic Geologists The Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is the Earth’s single most important resource of platinum group elements (PGEs; Mudd, 2012 ). The northern limb of the complex ( Fig. 1 ) in particular...

... ( Mihálik et al. 1974 ); the Driekop Pipe ( Helmy et al. 2007 , Melcher & Lodziak 2007 ) in South Africa; and the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe ( Coghill & Wilson 1993 , Oberthür et al. 2003 , Oberthür 2011 ). Further afield, microprobe data are available for (Pt, Pd)-bismuthotelluride...

... at the Zwartfontein South mine: Implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex South Africa : Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , v. 115 , p. 41 – 48 . Holwell , D.A. , and McDonald , I. , 2006 , Petrology, geochemistry...

...A.A. MITCHELL; R.N. SCOON Abstract Detailed logging of relatively deep drill-core from the Akanani Project, in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, has afforded new perspectives on the Platreef and its origins. In line with most recent studies, we believe the mineralization...

... , D.A. and Jordaan , A. ( 2006 ). Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa . Applied Earth Science (Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy...

... 0.2 Au/Ag-bearing phases 23.0 3.8 3.1 9.9 1.4 19.3 1.6 Total no. of grains 102 222 79 156 23 23 163 44 132 64 © The Mineralogical Society 2006 PGM Bushveld Complex South Africa Sandsloot mine Platreef Pt Pd base-metal sulphides The footwall...

... . Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa . Applied Earth Science , 115 , 41 – 48 . Holwell , D.A. , McDonald , I. and Butler , I.B. , 2011...

... seams 0.2–0.3 m thick ( Yudovskaya & Kinnaird 2010 ) ( Fig. 4 ). The Upper chromitites are almost absent on Sandsloot and Zwartfontein, but occur again on Overysel. The decrease in the distance between the Upper chromitites and the top contact from 20–22 m in the south on Turfsptruit to 0–3 m...

...Marina A. Yudovskaya; Judith A. Kinnaird; Alexander V. Sobolev; Dmitry V. Kuzmin; Iain McDonald; Allan H. Wilson Abstract Previously unknown Lower zone ultramafic sequences are described beneath the Platreef in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa). The Lower zone is separated...

... Complex, South Africa : Ph.D. thesis, Cardiff University , 261 p. Holwell , D.A. , and Jordaan , A. , 2006 , Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: Implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa...

... . The geology around the dunite pipe on Driekop (Eastern Transvaal) . Trans Geological Society of South Africa , 62 , 59 – 73 . Holwell D.A. and Jordaan , 2006 . A Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events...

... of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa —Brendan Clarke, Ron Uken, and Jürgen Reinhardt 21 Vol. 44, No. 4, 2009 U-Pb, Re-Os, and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology of the Nambija Auskarn and Pangui porphyry Cu deposits, Ecuador: Implications for the Jurassic metallogenic belt of the Northern...

...Jarlen J. Keet; Frederick Roelofse; Christoph D.K. Gauert; Danie Grobler; Mike Butler ABSTRACT The Flatreef, a down-dip, sub-horizontal extension of the Platreef, which underlies the Turfspruit and Macalacaskop farms, represents the future of platinum mining in South Africa. The stratigraphic...

.... , Jordaan , A. ( 2006 ). Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South Mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa . Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy B , 115 , 41 – 48 . Kushiro , L...

... Geological Society of South Africa 2014 Knowledge of eluvial PGM in rivers on the Bushveld Complex is limited to the early compilation by Wagner (1929) which mainly concentrated on occurrences in the eastern Bushveld Complex. At that time, little information was available on the mineralogy...

... Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa— D.A. Holwell and A. Jordaan 41 Platinum-group mineral characterisation in concentrates from low-grade...

... in the Platreef. e-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] © 2016 December Geological Society of South Africa 2016 Geological Society of South...

... associations of platinum group elements and gold in the Platreef at Zwartfontein, Akanani project, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa : Mineralogy and Petrology , v. 106 , p. 25 - 38 . Vermaak , C.F. , and Hendriks , L.P. , 1976 , Review of mineralogy of Merensky reef, with specific...

... Proterozoic Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa . Economic Geology , 84 , 1741 . Lachenicht , K. ( 2003 ). Investigation into the nature and origin of the “Hybrid norite” at Zwartfontein South Pit, Potgietersrust Platinum Limited, northern Bushveld Complex . Unpublished Honours thesis...

... of this mineralization is most likely from the LG-6 chromitite itself. A sulphide vein occurring in silicate was also analysed and was found to be PGE-deficient compared to the sulphides of the chromitite layers. © 2020 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights reserved. 2020 Geological Society of South Africa...