The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: formation of platinum–palladium, chrome-and vanadium-rich layers via hydrodynamic sorting of a mobilized cumulate slurry in a …

WD Maier, SJ Barnes, DI Groves - Mineralium Deposita, 2013 - Springer
Platinum-group element (PGE) deposits in the Bushveld Complex and other layered
intrusions form when large, incompletely solidified magma chambers undergo central …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-rock geochemistry and mineral compositions of gabbroic rocks and the associated Fe–Ti (–V) oxide deposit in the Gonamsan intrusion, South Korea

JH Lee, SJ Yang, NC White, D Shin, EJ Kim - Ore Geology Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The Nsingle bondS trending sill-like Gonamsan gabbroic intrusion in the central region of
the Korean Peninsula intruded Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks composed of schists …

Platinum-group element deposits in layered intrusions: recent advances in the understanding of the ore forming processes

B Godel - Layered intrusions, 2015 - Springer
The major deposits of platinum-group elements (PGE) of the Earth are associated with
ultramafic and mafic igneous rocks. The bulk of current PGE production is extracted from …

The origin of chromitites and related PGE mineralization in the Bushveld Complex: new mineralogical and petrological constraints

AJ Naldrett, A Wilson, J Kinnaird, M Yudovskaya… - Mineralium …, 2012 - Springer
This article reports a study of chromitites from the LG-1 to the UG-2/3 from the Bushveld
Complex. Chromite from massive chromitite follows two compositional trends on the basis of …

A chill sequence to the Bushveld Complex: insight into the first stage of emplacement and implications for the parental magmas

AH Wilson - Journal of Petrology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A rare occurrence of a chill sequence in drill core from the eastern Bushveld Complex has
been discovered at the base of a thick succession of ultramafic rocks that forms part of the …

Crustally contaminated komatiite: primary source of the chromitites and Marginal, Lower, and Critical Zone magmas in a staging chamber beneath the Bushveld …

HV Eales, G Costin - Economic Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the lowermost rocks of the Rustenburg Layered Suite (Bushveld Complex), levels of total
Cr2O3 are up to ten times higher than its putative solubility (0.16% Cr2O3) in the magmas …

Cryptic variation of chromite chemistry, platinum group element and platinum group mineral distribution in the UG-2 chromitite: an example from the Karee Mine …

M Junge, T Oberthür, F Melcher - Economic Geology, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The UG-2 chromitite of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa contains the world's largest
resources of platinum group elements (PGEs). However, only limited work has been …

Enrichment of Rh, Ru, Ir and Os in Cr spinels from oxidized magmas: Evidence from the Ambae volcano, Vanuatu

JW Park, IH Campbell, SM Eggins - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Experimental studies, performed under oxidized conditions (fO2> QFM+ 2, where QFM is
quartz–fayalite–magnetite oxygen buffer), have shown that Rh, Ru, Ir and Os are strongly …

Petrogenesis of the Lower Zone olivine-rich cumulates beneath the Platreef and their correlation with recognized occurrences in the Bushveld Complex

MA Yudovskaya, JA Kinnaird… - Economic …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Previously unknown Lower zone ultramafic sequences are described beneath the Platreef in
the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa). The Lower zone is separated from …

Morphology and microstructure of chromite crystals in chromitites from the Merensky Reef (Bushveld Complex, South Africa)

Z Vukmanovic, SJ Barnes, SM Reddy, B Godel… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Merensky Reef of the Bushveld Complex consists of two chromitite layers
separated by coarse-grained melanorite. Microstructural analysis of the chromitite layers …