Mine detail: Artonvilla Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-22.3301, 30.13471

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Platinum, Palladium
Secondary:	Iridium, Gold, Rhodium
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Digenite, Goethite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Specularite
Gangue:	Albite, Chlorite, Epidote, Prehnite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	SHEET LIKE BODIES
Discovery year:	1951

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Amphibolite
Structure:	Messina Fault
Tectonic:	Pre - Mineralization Isoclinal Folding
Alteration processes:	Propylitic Alteration Of Granulite Facies Metamorphic Rocks

References

MRDS	M046493
DEP	10038993
Reference	{Deposit:: MIHALIK, JACOBSEN, AND HIEMSTRA, 1974, ECON. GEOL., V. 69, P. 257 - 262}{Deposit:: GRAAN, 1964, GEOL. SOC. SOUTH AFRICA, ORE DEPOSITS, V. II, P. 303 - 314}
Reporter	Page, Norman J.