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Sperrylite from
Driekop Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sperrylite
Formula:PtAs2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Tulameenite1
Stumpflite1
Geversite1
Genkinite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sperrylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Driekop Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:264612
Long-form Identifier:1:3:264612:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Sperrylite
6.2km (3.9 miles) ⓘMaandagshoek Farm, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
10.3km (6.4 miles) ⓘMooihoek Farm 255 KT, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
25.8km (16.0 miles) ⓘOnverwacht Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
33.8km (21.0 miles) ⓘAtok Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
39.0km (24.2 miles) ⓘLesego project, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
59.8km (37.2 miles) ⓘBooysendal North Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
Cairncross, B., Dixon, R. (1995) Minerals of South Africa. Geological Society of South Africa. p.1-290.
Melcher, Frank, Lodziak, Jerzy (2007) Platinum-group minerals of concentrates from the Driekop platinum pipe, Eastern Bushveld Complex – Tribute to Eugen F. Stumpfl. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen, 183 (2) 173-195 doi:10.1127/0077-7757/2007/0071
Oberthür, T., Melcher, F., Sitnikova, M., Rudashevsky, N. S., Rudashevsky, V. N., Cabri, L. J., ... & Gast, L. (2008). Combination of novel mineralogical methods in the study of noble metal ores–focus on pristine (Bushveld, Great Dyke) and placer platinum mineralisation. In Ninth International Congress for Applied Mineralogy ICAM (pp. 187-194).
Oberthür, Thomas (2018) The Fate of Platinum-Group Minerals in the Exogenic Environment—From Sulfide Ores via Oxidized Ores into Placers: Case Studies Bushveld Complex, South Africa, and Great Dyke, Zimbabwe. Minerals, 8 (12) 581 doi:10.3390/min8120581
 
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