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Platreef, Flatreef - Bushveld Complex
Limpopo (Northern) Province, South Africa
Main commodities: PGE PGM Pt Pd Rh Au Cu Ni




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2019.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Flatreef

    Selected References
Beukes, J.J., Roelofse, F.C., Gauert, D.K., Grobler, D.F. and Ueckermann, H.,  2021 - Strontium isotope variations in the Flatreef on Macalacaskop, northern limb, Bushveld Complex: implications for the source of platinum-group elements in the Merensky Reef: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 45-57
Grobler, D.F., Brits, J.A.N., Maier, W.D. and Crossingham, A.,  2019 - Litho- and chemostratigraphy of the Flatreef PGE deposit, northern Bushveld Complex: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 3-28.
Junge, M., Oberthur, T., Kraemer, D., Melcher, F., Pina, R., Derrey, I.T., Manyeruke, T. and Strauss, H.,  2019 - Distribution of platinum-group elements in pristine and near-surface oxidized Platreef ore and the variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 885-912.
Keet, J.J., Roelofse, F., Gauert, C.D.K., Iaccheri, L.M., Grobler, D.F. and Ueckermann, H.,  2024 - Neodymium isotope variations in the Flatreef on Macalacaskop, northern limb, Bushveld Complex: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.59, pp. 275-290.
Keir-Sage, E., Leybourne, M.I., Jugo, P.J., Grobler, D.F. and Mayer, C.C.,  2021 - Assessing the extent of local crust assimilation within the Flatreef, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, using sulfur isotopes and trace element geochemistry: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 91-102.
Langa, M.M., Jugo, P.J., Leybourne, M.I., Grobler, D.F., Adetunji, J. and Skogby, H.,  2021 - Chromite chemistry of a massive chromitite seam in the northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: correlation with the UG-2 in the eastern and western limbs and evidence of variable assimilation of footwall rocks: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 31-44.
Maier, W.D., Abernethy, K.E.L.,. Grobler, D.F. and Moorhead, G.,  2021 - Formation of the Flatreef deposit, northern Bushveld, by hydrodynamic and hydromagmatic processes: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 11-30.
Maier, W.D., Barnes, S.J., Godel, B.M., Grobler, D. and Smith, W.D.,  2023 - Petrogenesis of thick, high-grade PGE mineralisation in the Flatreef, northern Bushveld Complex: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 881-902. doi.org/10.1007/s00126-022-01156-6.
Mayer, C.C., Jugo, P.J., Leybourne, M.I., Grobler, D.F. and Voinot, A.,  2021 - Strontium isotope stratigraphy through the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization at Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex: evidence of correlation with the Merensky Unit of the eastern and western limbs: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 59-72.
McDonald, I, Harmer, R.E., Holwell, D.A., Hughes, H.S.R. and Boyce, A.J.,  2017 - Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.80, pp. 1135-1150.
Yudovskaya, M., Belousova, E., Kinnaird, J., Dubinina, E., Grobler, D. and Pearson, N.,  2017 - Re-Os and S isotope evidence for the origin of Platreef mineralization (Bushveld Complex): in    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta   v.214, pp. 282-307.
Yudovskaya, M.A., Costin, G., Sluzhenikin, S.F., Kinnaird, J.A., Ueckermann, H., Abramova, V.D. and Grobler, D.F.,  2021 - Hybrid norite and the fate of argillaceous to anhydritic shales assimilated by Bushveld melts: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 73-90.


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