Uitkomst Deposit

ZA / Mpumalanga

•-25.75050, 30.61971View on Map Open in Google Maps

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Uitkomst Deposit is a mineral prospect, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. USGS records describe it as a MAGMATIC, GABBROIC, STRATIFORM, DISSEMINATED deposit. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite, Nickel. The site was discovered in 1928.

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AzuriteChrysocollaCopperMalachiteNickel

Geology and deposit

Deposit type: MAGMATIC, GABBROIC, STRATIFORM, DISSEMINATED

Structure

PLUTONIC

Mining history

Status: Prospect
Discovered: 1928

Records and references

Cited references

KENYON, A.K., ATTRIDGE, R.L., AND COETZEE, G.L., 1981, THE ULTKOMST NICKEL-COPPER DEPOSIT [ABS.]: GEOCONGRESS 81,- OPEN SESSION, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 60000587 — view the source record

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Coordinates: -25.75050, 30.61971

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