Apatite from South Africa

A Geometallurgical Characterization of the Vaal Reef A-Facies at the Moab Khotsong Mine, AngloGold Ashanti, with specific focus on gold and uranium deposrtment.. MSc thesis, Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 217 pages.

ASSESSING THE DESIRABILITY OF MARINE PHOSPHATE …

plant consumption whereas plants absorb phosphorus from the soil. In South Africa, apatite ore is the most common source of supplementary phosphorus for agriculture and it is processed …

Apatite

Apatite can be found in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Swaziland.

Rare earth element abundances in apatite in the …

The concentrations of the rare earth elements (REEs) in apatite from a 600-m-thick sequence toward the top of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, have previously been published; they show two...

Phosphate in South Africa

Phosphate in South Africa* by E.H. ROUXt. D.H. DE JAGER:t:. J.H. DU PLOOV:t:. A. NICOTRA:t:. G.J. VAN DER LlNDE:t:. and P. DE WAAL:t: SYNOPSIS This paper reviews the …

Two types of Phosphates | Organic Phosphate Fertilizer

At present, approximately 1.5 million tons per annum are used in South Africa, while the mining of rock phosphate for domestic use as well as for export is between 2.9 and 315 million tons per …

(PDF) Rare Earth Elements in Palabora Carbonatite, …

The Phalaborwa carbonatite Complex, situated in the northeastern part of South Africa, is characterized by copper and zirconium mineralization, and is composed principally of pyroxenites, phoscorite and carbonatite (banded and …

(PDF) Wall rock contamination and mineralogical …

Our study demonstrates that carbonatite dykes penetrating different lithologies of Palabora (South Africa) shows different modes of mineralogical modification. In particular Al and Si-rich...

Apatite from the Kimberley Kimberlites (South Africa): …

this contribution, we report the petrography and major-minor element chemistry of apatite from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa). The studied samples are derived from the Kimberley …

Apatite nodules as an indicator of depositional environment …

Nodules consisting of fluorapatite are concentrated as a discrete band in the polymetallic sulfide ore of the Gamsberg deposit in central Bushmanland, South Africa. Their …