| Location: | Central, Botswana, Africa |
| Lat / long: | -21.91348, 27.83474 |
| dep_id: | 10079575 |
| mrds_id: | W029603 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Nickel, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Cobalt |
| Trace mineral: | Sulfur, Platinum |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite |
| orebody_fm: | WEDGE,ARC SHAPED |
| model: | 13: Synorogenic-synvolcanic Ni-Cu |
| conc_proc: | Enrichment Through Tectonic Process |
| ore_ctrl: | Archean Greenstone Belt, Mafics, Ultamafics, Amphibolite, Intrusive Pyroxenite |
| Reporter: | Saam, Henning G. |
| hrock_unit: | Amphibolite |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss,Amphibolite |
| arock_unit: | Mafic And Ultrymafic Rocks |
| arock_type: | Mafic Intrusive Rock |
| Structure: | Limpopo Mobile Belt (2.660 To 2.000 My) The Upper Metasedimentary Group Is Correlated With The Messina Formation Of The Northern Transvaal, Three Main Phases Of Folding, Metamorphism |
| tectonic: | Ne-Trending Shearzone Marked By The Letlhakana Fault |
| Year first produced: | 1974 |
| disc_yr: | 1966 |
| discr: | Geologist Of Bamangwato Caons. Ltd. |
| References: |
- Deposit:: PETERS H.D.: NICKEL,1975
- Deposit:: GORDON P.S.L.: THE SELIBI-PIKWE NI/CU DEPOSITS, BOTSWANA
- Deposit:: WAKEFIELD J.: THE GEOLOGY OF THE PIKWE CU-PROVINCE, EASTERN BOTSWANA
- Deposit:: CANADIAN MINERALS YEARBOOK,1977
- Deposit:: DEYOUNG AND OTHERS, 1985: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-D.
- Deposit:: ENG. MINING JOURNAL, JANUARY, 1979, P. 180.
- Other Database:: ISMI
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