Commodities
PrimaryGold, Chromium, Nickel, PGE
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeMAGMATIC, STRATIFORM, DISSEMINATED
Deposit sizeY
Geology
StructureLAYERS IN A STRATIFORM INTRUSION
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1970
Discovery year1908
Identification
Deposit ID60000509
MRDS IDISM0007
Alternate namesBushveld Complex, Rusteitenburg Layered Suite
RegionAF
Data scoreD
Coordinates-25.69993, 27.44755
References
VON GRUENEWALDT, G., 1977, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX: MINERALS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, V. 9, NO. 2, P. 83-95.EVANS, A.M., 1980, AN INTRODUCTION TO ORE GEOLOGY: NEW YORK, ELSEVIER, 231 P. (RR1)MINING JOURNAL, 1983, WESTERN PLATINUM UG2 EXPANSION: MINING JOURNAL, V. 301, NO. 7738 (9 DEC.), P. 429. (C1, C2, C5, C9, C13, C15, C17, C18, PA8)DeYoung, J.H., Jr., Lee, M.P., and Lipin, B.R., 1984, International Strategic Minerals Inventory summary report - chromium: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 930-B, 41 p.