Welgevonden No. 1772

Past Producer in South Africa with commodities Platinum, Gold

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)
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Geographic areas

Country
South Africa

Comments on the location information

WELGEVONDEN FARM NO. 1772

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Platinum	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	ListMap

Ore body information

Dip 70 DEG NE

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Past Producer
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Waterberg District

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	M046284

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