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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.

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Date (Creation)
2020-04-30
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607630
Originator
  University of Cardiff - Katie McFall ( School of Earth and Ocean Science )
Main Building, Park Place , Cardiff , CF10 3AT ,
Principal investigator
  University of Cardiff - Dr I McDonald ( School of Earth and Ocean Sciences )
Main Building, Park Place , Cardiff , CF10 3AT ,
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Mineralogy
  • Mass spectroscopy
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Sulphides
  • Mineral deposits
  • ICP spectroscopy
  • Platinum group elements
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2017-01-09
End date
2020-02-28

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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

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.
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a94f4b1f-5d28-5da0-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607630
 
 

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