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false4DOIDB.GFZ 10.5880/GFZ.DMJQ.2025.006 Trumbull, Robert Robert Trumbull 0000-0002-1999-4653 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Veksler, Ilya Ilya Veksler 0000-0002-9692-363X GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Wilke, Franziska Franziska Wilke 0000-0002-3463-6176 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Kaufmann, Felix Felix Kaufmann 0000-0002-4579-3599 Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institut for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany GFZ Data Services 2025 Bushveld PGE Chromite chemical element > transition element > chromium chemical element > transition element > platinum compound material > rock > igneous rock > ultramafic igneous rock > pyroxenite science > natural science > earth science > mineralogy Trumbull, Robert Robert Trumbull 0000-0002-1999-4653 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Trumbull, Robert Robert Trumbull 0000-0002-1999-4653 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Veksler, Ilya Ilya Veksler 0000-0002-9692-363X GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Wilke, Franziska Franziska Wilke 0000-0002-3463-6176 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Kaufmann, Felix Felix Kaufmann 0000-0002-4579-3599 Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institut for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany Microprobe Lab, (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) Microprobe Lab GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Electron Microprobe Lab, (Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institut for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany) (Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institut for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany) Electron Microprobe Lab Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institut for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany Mintek Analytical Services, (Johannesburg, South Africa) (Johannesburg, South Africa) Mintek Analytical Services Mintek Analytical Services Division, Johannesburg, South Africa Trumbull, Robert GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany 2024-11-27 Dataset DOI of paper when available 10.3749/canmin.1700094 10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.01.008 10.1093/petrology/42.12.2279 10.1007/978-94-017-9652-1_12 10.2138/am-2000-8-901 10.1111/j.1751-908X.1980.tb00273.x 10.5382/econgeo.4641 10.5880/fidgeo.2018.026 10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.23 10.1093/petrology/egx077 10.1007/s00126-011-0366-3 10.2113/gsecongeo.81.5.1067 10.2113/gsecongeo.81.5.1067 10.3133/mcs2024 10.1007/s00126-023-01167-x CC BY 4.0 The Bushveld Complex in South Africa is the world’s largest mafic layered intrusion by far and it contains more than three-fourths of the global reserves of platinum group elements (PGE) and more than one-third of global chromium reserves. All of the chromium and much of the platinum are hosted by layers of chromitite in the so-called Critical Zone, a stratigraphic interval of variable thickness (ca 1000 to 1500 m) in the lower third of the 7000-8000 meter-thick intrusion. The data presented herein result from the German-South African project AMREP (Applied Mineralogy for Research Efficiency of Platinum Metals), which investigated the feasibility of extracting PGE from chromitite layers that were mined for chromium at the Thaba Cr mine. The data comprise in-situ mineral analyses by electron microprobe (EPMA data), whole-rock chemical analyses of the platinum-group element concentration (PGE assay data), and microtextural analysis of thin sections to determine the grain size and size distribution of chromite in the layers (CSD data: crystal size distribution).
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