Mine detail: Selebi-Pikwe District

Previously called 'SelebiSelebi-Pikwe Nickel-Copper DepositsPhikweSelebi North'

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Location

Lat / long: -22.0801, 27.86811

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Nickel
Discovery year: 1963

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: MAGMATIC, GABBROIC, STRATIFORM, MASSIVE AND DISSEMINATED, DEFORMED
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1974

Geology

Structure:MAGMATIC SULFIDES SEPARATED IN MAFIC INTRUSION

References

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DEP60000597
Reference{Deposit:: GORDON, P.S.L., 1973, THE SELEBI-PIKWE NICKEL-COPPER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA SPECIAL PUBLICA-TION 3, SYMPOSIUM ON GRANITES, GNEISSES AND RELATED ROCKS, P. -167-187.}{Deposit:: WAKEFIELD, J., 1976, THE STRUCTURAL AND METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE PIKWE NI-CU SULFIDE DEPOSIT, SELEBI-PIKWE, EA-STERN BOTSWANA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 71, NO. 6, P. 988-1005. -(G13)}{Deposit:: ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES, 19778 NICKEL, 2D ED.: LONDON, ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES, [587 P.].}{Deposit:: ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES, 1981, THE ECONOMICS OF NICKEL, 3D ED.: LONDON, ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES, [498 P-.]. (PA1-PA4, PC1-PC2, RR1-RR4)}
ReporterFOOSE, MICHAEL P.