Specimen Number5-5-015Alternate NumberB69-16CommentsFerrogabbro from where unit transgresses down toward the floor of the complex resulting in a break of about 7 miles wide in all the older units.In Teaching CollectionNoMineral(s)feldsparmagnetitepyroxeneRock NamegabbroDistrictBushveldMineRooiberg Tin External LinkMindatGeo-LocationundefinedSub-LocationundefinedDeposit TypeLayered mafic intrusionThin SectionBox 2, slot 20Geo-Coords[1] Reference MaterialACL-104: Symposium on the Bushveld Igneous Complex and other Layered Mafic Structures, Abstracts and Summaries of Papers, Geological Society of South Africa, Twelfth Annual Congress, Pretoria, South Africa, July, 1969, 42 p.
ACL-107: Ackermann, P.B., 1969, Symposium on the Bushveld Igneous Complex and other Layered Mafic Intrusions, Excursion Guide to the western part of the Bushveld Complex, Geol. Soc. S. Africa 12th Annual Congress, July, 1969, Pretoria, South Africa, 15 p.
ACL-108: von Gruenewaldt, G., 1969, Excursion Guide to the eastern part of the Bushveld Complex, Geol. Soc. S. Africa 12th Annual Congress, July, 1969, Pretoria, South Africa, 16 p.
ACL-230: Mertie, J.B., 1969, Economic Geology of the Platinum Metals; U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 630, Washington, D.C., 120 p.
5-5-015: gabbro - Bushveld District - Rooiberg Tin Mine. Franklin College Collections, accessed 07/06/2026, https://digitalcollections.franklin.uga.edu/nodes/view/32140