The structural setting of mineralisation on Tweefontein Hill, northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Nex, Paul A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bushveld; Mineralisation; Platreef

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DEFORMATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; PLATINUM METAL COMPOUNDS; SULFIDE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

FOOTWALL ROCKS; MAGMATIC SULPHIDE LIQUID; PLATREEF; STRUCTURAL SETTING; SULPHIDE MINERALISATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT;

AFRICA; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 29544437758     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174505X62901     Document Type: Article

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