Mineralogical-Petrographic Study of the Thaba Mine, Western Bushveld (South Africa)

E. M. Tomilina, R. G. Iblaminov

Abstract


Here we present results of a detailed petrographic and mineralogical study of rock textures in a vertical profile through the Middle Group chromitite layers at the Thaba mine in the north-western part of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Keywords


Bushveld, Thaba mine; chromitite; pyroxenites; chromium ore

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/psu.geol.20.2.160

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