WebSafe 3.7mindat.org
|
|
🏠
Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral QuizTime Machine
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Platarsite from
Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Sperrylite var: Platarsite
Formula:Pt(As,S)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Platarsite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1468699
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1468699:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Platarsite in this Region
Overysel deposit, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Sandsloot Mine, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Zwartfontein Pit, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Nearest other occurrences of Platarsite
21.9km (13.6 miles) ⓘSandsloot Mine, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
24.5km (15.3 miles) ⓘZwartfontein Pit, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
28.1km (17.5 miles) ⓘOverysel deposit, Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, Mogalakwena Local Municipality, Waterberg District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
76.2km (47.3 miles) ⓘLesego project, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
94.5km (58.7 miles) ⓘF-Zone, Waterberg project, Blouberg Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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... such as sperrylite (PtAs2), minerals of the platarsite-hollingworthite-irarsite series (PtAsS-RhAsS-IrAsS)...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broughton Ivanplats Ltd, 82 Maude St, Sandton 2146, South Africa Ivanplats Ltd’s Platreef project is located...PtTe2, luberoite Pt5Se4, kotulskite Pd(Te,Bi), platarsite (Pt,Rh,Ru)AsS, hollingworthite (Rh,Pt,Pd)AsS...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)
variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa Malte Junge 1,2,3 & Thomas OberthĂŒr 1 & Dennis...oxidized and pristine Platreef ore from the Mogalakwena mine were studied. Further, sulfides and platinum-group...and Nonnenwerth were compared to those of the Mogalakwena mine (Overysel, Sandsloot). In the pristine ore...128 Western Service Road Woodmead, Sandton, South Africa 8 Institut fĂŒr Geologie und PalĂ€ontologie...Ma old (Zeh et al. 2015) Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest mafic–ultramafic layered intrusion
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sandsloot Mine, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa D. A. HOLWELL1, I. MCDONALD1 AND P. E. B. ARMITAGE2...mineralization. K EY WORDS : PGM, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Sandsloot mine, Platreef, Pt, Pd, base-metal...sulphides. Introduction THE Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the largest layered igneous intrusion in...Sandsloot and Zwartfontein South pits ~30 km northwest of the town of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus;...located at the base of the igneous package north of Mokopane, in direct contact with metamorphosed sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e (GNPA) member, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: implications for a multistage emplacement J...of mafic cumulates developed to the south of the town of Mokopane, at a similar stratigraphic position...intrusion of the Main Zone and that there was no local footwall control over the development of sulfide...Deposita Introduction The Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is the world’s largest repository of platinum-group...et al. 2005; McDonald and Holwell 2011). To the south of Ysterberg–Planknek Fault, a distinct layered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. The PGE in the Platreef were originally concentrated...ICP-MS Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the World’s largest layered igneous intrusion...(Kinnaird and McDonald 2005). North from the town of Mokopane, the Platreef forms the base of the Bushveld layered...Supergroup, and Archaean basement. Northwards from Mokopane, these footwall units are comprized of: quartzites...and published maps of the Geological Survey of South Africa (Council for Geoscience 1995 ) 123 Contrib
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
element mineralization of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa J.A. Coggon a,⁎, G.M. Nowell a, D.G. Pearson...Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Federal Institute for Geosciences...Bushveld Complex, S. Africa. Mixed PGM (laurite, cooperite, laurite–platarsite, sperrylite and Pt–Fe...(RuS2, n = 23), cooperite (PtS, n = 10), laurite–platarsite (n= 1), sperrylite (PtAs2, n = 13) and Pt–Fe...limb TWEEFONTEIN HILL 170-223 Upper Zone 24°S Mokopane ONVERWACHT 174-164 Steelpoort Bela Bela Western
Book (edition)
grey-brown isotropic grey; 48.84 isotropic Platarsite grey; 46.04 Vysotskite light grey; 45.39 ...Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark;...grey); HimmelsfĂŒrst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish white)...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contaminated magmas following interaction with local country rocks in a deeper subchamber; although some...contamination event at depth with the addition of S from local crustal rocks, inducing sulfide saturation. Sulfide...mafic/ultramafic intrusions including the Platreef, South Africa (e.g., McDonald and Holwell, 2011); intrusions...took place in a staging chamber at depth, and that local contamination along strike, as seen in S isotope... and concurred with Holwell et al. (2007) that local contamination was not an ore-forming process. By
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elements (PGE) after the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. The sulfide assemblage of the MSZ comprises...resource of PGE after the Bushveld Complex in South Africa (Naldrett 2011; Zientek 2012), pyrite forms...Chamber, and the Selukwe and Wedza subchambers of the South Chamber (Fig. 1). The Great Dyke shows a welldefined...thick (avg 100 m) cyclic units, whereas in the South chamber, it has a greater number of thinner (10–30-m...(2009) in the UG-2 reef of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Py2 forms small individual euhedral or subhedral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FROM THE KAREE MINE, WESTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA Malte Junge,† Thomas OberthĂŒr, and Frank Melcher*...The UG-2 chromitite of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa contains the world’s largest resources of platinum...PGMs. Introduction The Bushveld Complex in South Africa (Fig. 1) is the largest layered mafic-ultramafic...Archaean Basement Pre-Transvaal Formations PGE-reefs Mokopane f Burgersfort Nietverdiend Stoffberg Rustenburg...(Fig. 8E). Malanite [CuPt2S4], irarsite [IrAsS], platarsite [PtAsS], and sperrylite [PtAs2] are rare. Notably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(St Just district); Dolcoath, Wheal Concord and Nangiles (Camborne-Redruth-St Day district), Wheal Charlotte...emerging iron ore province in West and Central Africa. It is an oxide facies iron formation comprising...iab_68@mail.ru The Baimka Cu–Au trend located 200 km south of Bilibino, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia is a part... Precambrian basement rocks are present to the south and north of the Palaeozoic rocks. The overall distribution...regional syncline that is somewhat overturned to the south. In detail, the polymetallic ores of the Engine
Book
Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub...INTRODUCTION General Geology Discovery Nickel Rim South Deposits Contact Mineralization xi 343 343 344...Germany, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Australia, this book is the fruit...ELEMENTS 0.6 3.0 GPa solidus Melt fraction local depression basal section of dike entry point or
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...Complex in the vicinity of the Steelpoort fault, South Africa – petrogenetic implications ..................alteration of the Uitkomst Complex, Mpumalanga, South Africa ..............................................the UG-2 chromitite, western Bushveld Complex, South Africa ......................................... 1020...alteration stages in the Nalunaq gold deposit, south Greenland .....................................
 
Mindat.orgÂź is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. MindatÂź and mindat.orgÂź are registered trademarks of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2026, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph and Ida Chau.
To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: February 24, 2026 04:23:47
Go to top of page