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Millerite from
Morokweng crater (Morokweng Impact Structure), Vryburg, Naledi Local Municipality, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West, South Africa


Locality type:Impact Crater
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morokweng crater (Morokweng Impact Structure), Vryburg, Naledi Local Municipality, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160402
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160402:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Andreoli, M. A. G., Hart, R. J., Ashwal, L. D., Tredoux, M. (1997) Ni- and PGE-Enriched Quartz Norite in the Latest Jurassic Morokweng Impact Structure, South Africa. Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution.
Andreoli, M. A., Ashwal, L. D., Hart, R. J., Huizenga, J. M., & Ni, A. (1999). Ni-and PGE-enriched quartz norite impact melt complex in the Late Jurassic Morokweng impact structure, South Africa. Special Papers-Geological Society of America, 91-108.
Cloete, M., Hart, R. J., Cloete, H. C. C., McDonald, I., & Andreoli, M. A. G. (2001). Inclusions from the Morokweng Impact Melt Sheet, South Africa: Possible Fragments of a Palaeometeorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science Supplement, 36, A41.
Andreoli, M. A., Maier, W. D., McDonald, I., Barnes, S. J., Roelofse, F., Cloete, M. C., ... & Hart, R. J. (2008). Siderophile minerals in the melt Sheet of the Morokweng impact crater, South Africa: similarities and differences with the Sudbury deposits. In Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV (Vol. 1423).
Beckett-Brown, Christopher Edward, McDonald, Andrew M., Zhe, William (2018) A crystallographically oriented intergrowth of siegenite (CoNi2S4) and millerite from the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: Chemistry, texture, and origin. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (5). 705-722 doi:10.3749/canmin.1800007
 
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