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Welgevonden No. 1772

Past Producer in South Africa with commodities Platinum, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098396
MRDS ID M046284
Record type Site
Current site name Welgevonden No. 1772

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 28.61809, -24.49668 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

South Africa(country)

Africa(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
South Africa

Comments on the location information

  • WELGEVONDEN FARM NO. 1772

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FIRST PT DISCOVERY IN BUSHVELD JULY 1923 BY ADOLPH ERASMUS. NATIVE PLATINUM ALLOYS OCCUR IN GRAINS SIZES .04 TO .6 MILLIMETER. ONE OF THE HIGHEST PLATINUM ASSAYS EVER RECORDED (WAGNER 1929, P. 261) SEE FIELD C43

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Kaolin Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Sericite Ore
Specularite Ore

Analytical data

Result PT METALS TENOR = 5.4 OZ/TON AU TENORS = .4 TO 3.0%, SAMPLE FROM NO. 6 WINZE, WELGEVONDEN = 167.27 OZ/TON, SAMPLE FROM NO. 3 PADDOCK, WELGEVONDEN = 137.5 OZ/TON

Nearby scientific data

(1) 28.61809, -24.49668
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 70 DEG NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Waterberg District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HALL, 1932, BUSHVELD IGNEOUS COMPLEX: S. AFRICA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MEM. 28, P. 471

  • Deposit

    MERTIE, 1969, ECON. GEOL. OF THE PLATINUM METALS: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 630, P. 44

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, 1929, PLATINUM DEPOSITS AND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA: STRUIK (PTY) LTD., CAPETOWN 1973, P. 258, 261

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ERASMUS PANNED ANTHILL MATERIAL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

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