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Location: 5 km S from Phalaborwa, South Africa
1 Copper Road, LimpopoPO Box 65PhalaborwaSouth Africa1389
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The Palabora Cu-Fe-phosphate-vermiculite deposit forms part of the Phalaborwa Igneous Complex. Early work by Verwoed (1967) identified a differentiated mass of mafic and alkaline intrusives, along with numerous syenite and carbonate-bearing injection breccias, plugs and dykes. It is generally accepted that the first stage of magmatic activity involved the intrusion of an apatite-bearing pyroxenite, followed by an alkaline phase consisting predominantly of syenite. The center of the three pyroxenite “cores” of the Phalaborwa Igneous Complex, originally named Loolekop, is particularly well-mineralized in copper.
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