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Zaaiplaats (Potgietersrus) Tin Field
Limpopo (Northern) Province, South Africa
Main commodities: Sn




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1990.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Zaaiplaats

    Selected References
Coetzee J, Twist D  1989 - Disseminated Tin mineralization in the roof of the Bushveld granite pluton at the Zaaiplaats mine, with implications for the genesis of magmatic hydrothermal Tin systems: in    Econ. Geol.   v84 pp 1817-1834
Crocker I T  1986 - The Zaaiplaats Tinfield, Potgietersrus district: in Anhaeusser C R, Maske S, (Eds.), 1986 Mineral Deposits of South Africa Geol. Soc. South Africa, Johannesburg   v2 pp 1287-1299
McNaughton N J, Pollard P J, Groves D I, Taylor R G  1993 - A long-lived hydrothermal system in Bushveld Granites at the Zaaiplaats Tin mine: Lead isotope evidence: in    Econ. Geol.   v88 pp 27-43
Pollard P J, Andrew A S, Taylor R G  1991 - Fluid inclusion and stable isotope evidence for interaction between granites and magmatic hydrothermal fluids during the formation of disseminated and pipe-style mineralization at the Zaaiplaats Tin Mine: in    Econ. Geol.   v86 pp 121-141
Pollard P J, Taylor R G, Taylor R P, Groves D I  1991 - Petrographic and geochemical evolution of pervasively altered Bushveld granites at the Zaaiplaats Tin mine: in    Econ. Geol.   v86 pp 1401-1433


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