Mine detail: Volspruit Pge Pyroxenite Deposit

Previously called 'Rustenburg Layered SuiteBushveld ComplexPotgietersrus Limb'

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Location

Lat / long: -24.36278, 28.96472

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Nickel, PGE
Discovery year: 1960

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: MAGMATIC, GABBROIC, STRATIFORM, DISSEMINATED
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Structure:PLUTONIC

References

MRDSISM0205
DEP60000585
ReferenceHULBERT, L.J., AND VON GRUENEWALDT, GERHARD, 1982, NICKEL, COPPER, AND PLATINUM MINERALIZATION IN THE LOWER ZONE O-F THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH OF POTGIETERSRUS: ECONOMIC GEOL-OGY, V. 77, NO. 6, P. 1296-1306.