Aurora Ni (nickel) Cu (copper) PGE (platinum-group elements) deposit data (NERC Grants NE/M010848/1, NE/M011615/1)

Sample locations and geochemical data from the Aurora Ni-Cu-PGE magmatic sulphide deposit, Northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Samples were taken from two boreholes on the La Pucella farm, courtesy of Pan Palladium Limited. This data contains petrological photographs; scanning electron microscope element maps and identification of platinum group minerals and precious metal minerals; and trace element concentration of ore minerals. This data was collected as part of the TeaSe consortium NERC grant in order to determine the concentration and hosting of critical and precious metals in various types of ore deposits and barren rocks from different geological environments. This data was collected and interpreted by researchers at Cardiff University and is used in a paper, available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.02.008.

Date (Creation): 2020-04-30

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607630

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Cardiff	Katie McFall	not available	Originator
University of Cardiff	Dr I McDonald	not available	Principal investigator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

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Geology

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Mineralogy
Mass spectroscopy
NGDC Deposited Data
Sulphides
Mineral deposits
ICP spectroscopy
Platinum group elements

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Language: English

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Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2017-01-09

End date: 2020-02-28

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British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html?#item135929	Data

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Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Dataset A1 contains sample locations, A3 are element maps from scanning electron microscope (SEM) energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) mapping, A4 is data from SEM-EDS analysis, A5 is a compilation of SEM back-scatter electron (BSE) pictures of platinum group minerals (PGM) from the deposit, A6 is a compilation of SEM-BSE images of other minerals of interest from the deposit, dataset A7 are photos of location for laser-ablation inductively-coupled mass-spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS) analysis of sulphides and A8 is data from LA-ICP-MS analysis of sulphide minerals.