SAMPLE PREFIX |
ROCK TYPES |
LOCALITIES |
DESCRIPTION |
Bx, B85, B90, DCx, TL85, S85, Vx, PS90, B04, B06, B07 |
Pyroxenite, chromitite, norite, anorthosite, gabbro, leuconorite, harzburgite, magnetite, peridotite, dunite, granophyre, troctolite |
Atok Mine, Benfontein Sill, Brakspruit Shaft, Bultfontein, Driekop, Dutoitspan, Jagersfontein, Merensky Reef, Rustenberg, Vlakfontein, Townlands Shaft, Transvall |
Samples from various layers of the Bushveld intrusion including UG-1 and UG-2 chromite layers |
4U9E7, 5-24, MP24D2, B93 |
Drill core (various) |
Merensky Reef |
1" core across the Merensky Reef at the Atok section of the Bushveld |
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DESCRIPTION |
Wx, GD90, Px, Qx, Tx, Vx |
Augitite, bronzitite, gabbro, norite, pegmatoid, pyroxenite |
Wedza complex, Mimosa mine |
Various rocks from the Great Dike, Zimbabwe |
HD006, HD0023, HD0057, W98 |
Drill core (various) |
Wedza complex |
1" core through the Great Dike |
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DESCRIPTION |
CZA, STx |
Anorthosite, dunite, harzburgite, gabbro, granophyre, norite, troctolite |
Mouat Mine, Picket Pin, various others |
Mafic cumulates from Stillwater Complex, MO |
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ROCK TYPES |
LOCALITIES |
DESCRIPTION |
CZA |
Basalt, dolerite, gabbro, meymechite, sulfide ores, tuff |
Oktyabrsky Mine, Taymyrsky Mine, Komsomolsky Mine, Glubosky Mine, Medvezhy Creek, Tunuska Sineclise, Kureyka Area, Severnaya River Basin, others |
Various samples, core pieces, powders and thin sections from the intrusive and extrusive suites of the Norl'sk Intrusion, donated by Gerald Czamanske and Valeri Fedorenko in 1996. |
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DESCRIPTION |
F-89 |
Basalt, dunite, gabbro, lherzolite, pyroxenite, schist |
Koitelainen |
33 samples from the Koitelainen Intrusion and Keivitsa-Satovaara Complex, collected by Ed Mathez in 1989 |
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DESCRIPTION |
SK |
Basalt, dunite, gabbro, anorthosite, granophyre, syenite, diorite, peridotite |
Nunatak, Uttentals Plateau, Mellemo, Kraemer’s Island, Skaergaard Peninsula, Invarmiut, Basistoppen |
Hundreds of samples, core pieces and thin sections from the Skaergaard Intrusion, donated by Alexander McBirney and collected from various localities within the formation from 1971-1990. |