| 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.................. 50 4.2 Unidentified Non-_Platinum_-Group Phases ............................................................. 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ........................... |
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Haldar, S. K. (2017) Platinum-Nickel-Chromium Deposits - Geology, Exploration and Reserve Base. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/c2014-0-00851-9 |
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| PLATINUM_-NICKELCHROMIUM DEPOSITS GEOLOGY, EXPLORATION AND RESERVE BASE S.K. Haldar Emeritus Scientist...knowledge up-to-date about the present chromium–nickel–_platinum resources in the world. The present status of...metallurgical complexities, and was happy to learn that _platinum_–palladium do exist at Sukinda–Nausahi Belt. However... I promised myself that I would return to the _platinum_–nickel–chromite industry at an opportune phase...any commercial breakthroughs. The presence of _platinum_–palladium has been reported. This was how the |
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Macintosh, E. K. (1983) Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa - A Collector's Guide (2nd ed.) Struik Publishers, Cape Town. |
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| Southern Africa a Collector’s Guide ■ Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa & — - ... T ~ '' .rats en&nes L of Southern Africa A Collector’s Guide - Struik Publishers (an operating...suggestions and advice. Author’s Preface Southern Africa has much to offer the amateur geologist, whatever...known and most popular gemstones belong to this group. Raw material is fairly easily obtained, making...■ ■- -• ■ - 1 south of Pofadder. Other areas are Hammanskraal 40 km north of Pretoria; near Drichoek |
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Edwards, Richard, Atkinson, Keith (1986) Ore Deposit Geology and its Influence on Mineral Exploration. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-8056-6 |
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| Pllhlisiled ill the USA h)' Chapman (Iml Hall 29 West 35th Street, ,\Iou York ,\IY1O()() I © 1986 R....regions. Term broadly applied in the SW USA and South America. Carbonatization A type of hydrothermal...An ocean which occupied the site of the present North Atlantic and which was at its widest extent in Lower...as either a group of known deposits with significant numbers of common features or a group with sufficient...it enables us to link exploration for a metal or group of metals to their geological setting and to genetic |
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Coetzee, C. B. - Ed. (1976) Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa (5th ed.) Department of Mines, Pretoria. |
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| 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...reason of the great diversity and magnitude of South African mineral deposits and local mining operations...Chamber of Mines of South Africa with Mr G. H. Grange as co-ordinator, and the South, African mining industry; |
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Poldervaart, Arie (1947) The relationship of orthopyroxene to pigeonite. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 28 (198) 164-172 doi:10.1180/minmag.1947.028.198.06 |
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| to summarize the present-day knowledge of this group of rock-forming minerals. Nomenclature.--It appears...Rustenburg, and occurred in the upper part of the Merensky Reef, immediately 1 Conforming to earlier practice...composition of the Whin sill and the related dikes of the north of England. Min. Mag., vol. 21, pp. 493542. HovEY...Bushveld igneous complex, Lydenburg district. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa, 1940, vol. 42 (for 1939), pp...) and SA~AMA (T. G.), 1937. The region to the _south_-west of the "granulite series" in Lapland and its |
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Cepeda, Joseph C. (1994) Introduction to Minerals and Rocks. Macmillan College Publishing Company. |
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| Introduction to Minerals and Rocks Joseph C. Cepeda West Texas A&M University Macmillan College Publishing...Publishing Company is part of the Maxwell Communication Group of Companies. Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Inc. 1200...Native Elements Silver Gold 22 25 Copper 26 Platinum 27 21 a Contents 3.2 33) 3.4 Nonmetallic... 33 The Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico The Coeur d’Alene District, Idaho 35 ye The Cripple...Cripple Creek District, Colorado 35 The Concept of Mineral Associations 36 The Industrial Minerals 4.1 |
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Hess, H. H. (1960) Stillwater Igneous Complex, Montana. GSA Memoir 80. Geological Society of America doi:10.1130/mem80 |
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| communications to the Geological Society of America 419 West 117 Street, New York 27, N. Y. The Memoir Series...mistakes, the excellence of his achievement with this group of minerals adds much to the value of this report...ee F. Exsolution in augite ae Baers eee sete G. Pyroxene as geologic Gicamomele: hue 5 H. Plagioclase...52 56 1. General relations... 56 2. Primary Group of Reda 57 a. Rock types....... b. Chromite horizon...Plagioclase, augite, and mafic peematite.. 3. Secondary Group of Rocks Se sae ee MEMSELIDU CLOT hts sven alee |
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Hess, H. H. (1960) Stillwater Igneous Complex, Montana. GSA Memoir 80. Geological Society of America doi:10.1130/mem80 |
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| communications to the Geological Society of America 419 West 117 Street, New York 27, N. Y. The Memoir Series...mistakes, the excellence of his achievement with this group of minerals adds much to the value of this report...eat Othersmineralstitees p Ow O “HOA De Primanva Group Ol ROCKS ssmatackat si 4 2 furae) Sa ertien nya...EhotomicrorraphsiOlMOriten. seas t einai rae be Disturbed layering west side of Stillwater Valley, Norite Zone............harzburgite...... 17. Dunite “dike” with central pyroxene vein, and textural relations in typical harzburgite |
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Neukirchen, Florian, Ries, Gunnar (2020) The World of Mineral Deposits. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34346-0 |
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| explained modern applications of metals such as platinum in catalysts, which many may not think of at first...(Ag) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.3 _Platinum_-Group Elements . . . . . . . 2.4 Light Metals . .... . . . . . . . . 3.3.2 Chromium, Nickel, and Platinum in Basic Magmas . . 3.3.3 Bushveld Complex . ...in safes or proudly presented silver jewelry, platinum in catalytic converters, or tantalum in electronic...an economic point of view it may be obvious to group deposits according to their metals. From a geological |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing editor:...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |
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Back, Malcolm E., Mandarino, Joseph A. (2008) Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 2008. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Minerals that are listed as belonging to the same group are similarly closely comparable in composition...*Niobium Nitrogen Osmium Oxygen Palladium Phosphorus Platinum Potassium Praseodymium Radium Radon H In I Ir... Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de |
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Cairncross, Bruce, Mccarthy, Terence (2015) Understanding Minerals & Crystals. Penguin Random House South Africa. |
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| Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd) 1953/000441/07 Reg. No. The Estuaries...Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa Visit www.randomstruik.co.za and join the Struik...published edition, 2015: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Publisher: Pippa Parker Managing...Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa Dr Lynnette Greyling Department of Geological...Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 Cape Town, South Africa Note: The authors and the publishers cannot |
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Dill, Harald G. (2010) The “chessboard” classification scheme of mineral deposits: Mineralogy and geology from aluminum to zirconium. Earth-Science Reviews, 100 (1) 1-420 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.011 |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Platinum group elements (PGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Magmatic _platinum_-_group_-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3. Structure-related _platinum_-_group_-element...4. Sedimentary _platinum_-_group_-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . 6.5. _Platinum_-_group_-element supply...supply and use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyroxene and inosilicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Chemistry and mineralogy of pyroxene and pyroxenoid . . . . . . 44.2. Magmatic pyroxene and inosilicate deposits |
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Dill, Harald G. (2010) The “chessboard” classification scheme of mineral deposits: Mineralogy and geology from aluminum to zirconium. Earth-Science Reviews, 100 (1) 1-420 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.011 |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Platinum group elements (PGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Magmatic _platinum_-_group_-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3. Structure-related _platinum_-_group_-element...4. Sedimentary _platinum_-_group_-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . 6.5. _Platinum_-_group_-element supply...supply and use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyroxene and inosilicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Chemistry and mineralogy of pyroxene and pyroxenoid . . . . . . 44.2. Magmatic pyroxene and inosilicate deposits |
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Hess, H. H. (1949) Chemical composition and optical properties of common clinopyroxenes, Part I. American Mineralogist, 34 (9-10) 621-666 |
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| of a theoretical pyroxene formula and the distribution of various ions in the pyroxene structure are discussed...major contribution to the study of this mineral group. Acknowledgment is also due to the Rock Analysis...purpose had been to pick the best material for pyroxene separations and analyses, some of these specimens...investigators. The general formula for the pyroxene group suggestedby Berman (1937) is here accepted...with slight modification. The formula for any pyroxene may be written as follows: (W)t-o(X'Yt+&rOe W:Cau |
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Musuku, Benjamin, Kasymova, Diana, Saari, Eija, Dahl, Olli (2023) Influence of Water Quality on Sulphide Ore Oxidation and Speciation of Sulphur Anions during Autogenous Milling. Minerals, 13 (2) 277 doi:10.3390/min13020277 |
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| its geographical location, approximately 140 km north of the Arctic Circle, the plant experiences extreme...major non-sulphide gangue minerals include the pyroxene group [12]. The ratio of pyrrhotite to pentlandite...mineral and gangue recovery in a platinum bearing ore from the Merensky reef. Miner. Eng. 2011, 24, 131–137...the flotation performance of a platinum bearing ore from the Merensky reef. Miner. Eng. 2012, 38, 231–236 |
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Pearl, Richard M. (1973) Handbook for Prospectors (5th ed.) McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. |
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| many in the old days, nevertheless, dividual or group prospector to sell survey— and years from discovery...Journal, stated that the rate of mineral discovery in North America had slowed down since the golden age of...throughout the world — consider Canada, Australia, Africa, the Philippines, New Guinea— to serve as an...mineral the hobby collectors are in- volved that group participation has become commonplace. The amateur...fire, a tragic one, in 1911 in the Porcupine district of Ontario, swept clear the underbrush and exposed |
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Price, Monica, Walsh, Kevin (2005) Rocks and Minerals (Pocket Nature). Dorling Kindersley Plc P/B. |
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| Reproduced by Colourscan, Singapore Printed and bound by South China Printing Co. Ltd, China see our complete... (Fe,Mg,Zn)3-4 LOCALITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS GROUP INTRODUCTIONS Shows important rock or mineral localities...introductory page describing the parameters of the group, as well as any further sub-groups. is often associated...lazuli. Lazurite is a member of the feldspathoid group. It is always deep or vibrant blue, and it was once...representative specimens show the diversity within the group. SECTION SHOWN bladed crystals rich blue colour |
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Palmer, Crystal S. - Ed. (1986) GEOREF Thesaurus and Guide to Indexing (4th ed.) American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA. |
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| segments or subfiles: (N) Bibliography and Index of North American Geology (1785-1970) (T) Bibliography of...Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America (1933-1968) (B) Bibliography and Index of...early volumes of the Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, edited by John M. Nickles and...older volumes of the Bibliography and Index of North American Geology (subfile N in the online database)...Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America (subfile E), the indexing was arranged in |
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McCulloch, R.B., Lewis, Bob, Keill, Don, Shumaker, Matthew (2003) Applied Gold Placer Exploration and Evaluation Techniques. Special Publication 115. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology |
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| BLM Library Cover Photo: The high-wall in the North Bloomfield hydraulic pit near Nevada City, California...and Platinum Group Metals Deposits Bushveld Chromium Deposits - - - - - ----------Merensky Reef PGE Deposits...Deposits - - - = ----=-------Alaskan Platinum Group Elements - - - - ---------Placer Potential - - -...---------------------------------Figure 1.27. _Platinum_-bearing beach placer - - - - - ------------Figure...However, the type most frequently encountered in North America is the lag deposit, a residual product of |
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Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 |
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| (deceased): Dept. of Earth Sciences, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, Indiana. James W. Minette: U. S. Borax...Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...Species containing more than one anion or anion group may be assigned to a separate class or may be assigned...specifies the atomic (cation to anion, or to anion group) ratio for the mineral. This and the remaining numbers...appropriate Dana number. When recognized, membership in a group is noted. Occasionally, the phrase “an inadequately |
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Rafferty, John P. (2012) Minerals - Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks. Britannica Educational Publishing, New York. |
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| minerals in Earth’s crust occur in the silicate group, a division made up of minerals that contain different...Sulfates, known by their characteristic sulfur group (SO4 )2-, are similar to silicates in that they...sulfates do not occur in chains and sheets. Its sulfur group, however, can bond with positive ions, such as calcium...carbonates; they have a nitrate group (NO3)that functions like the carbonate group. Similarly, borate minerals...minerals, known by their characteristic sulfur group (PO4 )3-, resembles that of the sulfates. Although |
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Deer, W. A., Howie, R. A., Zussman, J. (1962) Rock-Forming Minerals (1st ed.) Vol. 2 - Chain Silicates. Longman. |
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| attempt has been made to collect, summarize and group these contributions under mineral headings, and...exceptions, the treatment of each mineral or mineral group is in five sub-sections. In the Structure section...1961 CONTENTS Vol. 2. Chain Silicates PYROXENE GROUP.1 Orthopyroxenes ........ Diopside-Hedenbergite...RHODONITE.182 BUSTAMITE.191 PYROXMANGITE.196 AMPHIBOLE GROUP.203 Anthophyllite-Gedrite . . . . . . .211...Leidse Geol. Mededelingen. PYROXENE GROUP Pyroxenes are the most important group of rock-forming ferromagnesian |
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Shimomura, Ruth H. - Ed. (1989) GEOREF Thesaurus and Guide to Indexing (5th ed.) American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA. |
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| four seg¬ ments or subfiles: (N) Bibliography of North American Geology (publications from 1785-1970) (G)...Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America (published from 1933-1968) (B) Bibliography...that in the early volumes of the Bibliography of North American Geology, edited by John M. Nickles and...commonly have several variants, such as Great Smoky Group, Great Smoky Conglomerate, Great Smoky Formation...If used on level 1, Term set options are: rock group (carbonate rocks, chemi¬ cally precipitated rocks |
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