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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 343290" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Have to disagree slightly (I worked on Coopers Creek). The mineralisation there is pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-sperrylite and other sulphides and it is not in a quartz vein but occurs in an altered hornblendite dyke as sulphide blebs. The platinum minerals are not visible in hand specimen but visible in polished sections I have made for microscopic study. The grade was actualy high, but the tonnage was low and I don't think it was recovered from the copper in the rather mickey-mouse smelter. I have likewise looked at the other known ones in Victoria - not in quartz reefs but in mafic dykes and ultramafic rocks (eg serpentinite) as sulphide blebs.</p><p></p><p>The only example I know is in a quartz vein in the Bushveld area of the Transvaal where I used to work - considered very unusual (the Waterberg mine)</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1498908631_waterberg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 343290, member: 4386"] Have to disagree slightly (I worked on Coopers Creek). The mineralisation there is pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-sperrylite and other sulphides and it is not in a quartz vein but occurs in an altered hornblendite dyke as sulphide blebs. The platinum minerals are not visible in hand specimen but visible in polished sections I have made for microscopic study. The grade was actualy high, but the tonnage was low and I don't think it was recovered from the copper in the rather mickey-mouse smelter. I have likewise looked at the other known ones in Victoria - not in quartz reefs but in mafic dykes and ultramafic rocks (eg serpentinite) as sulphide blebs. The only example I know is in a quartz vein in the Bushveld area of the Transvaal where I used to work - considered very unusual (the Waterberg mine) [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1498908631_waterberg.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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