The discovery of the Bushveld Igneous Complex deposits was made in 1924 by a Lydenburg district farmer, A F Lombaard.
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In the US it is found in the Stillwater igneous complex of Montana; from near Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon.
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Layered igneous complexes have much more varied compositions, depending on the fractions of pyroxenes, chromite, plagioclase, and amphibole.
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It has also been recorded from the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa and from Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, Alaska.
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Troctolite is also found in the Merensky Reef of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa and in the Lizard complex in Cornwall.
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He showed that magnetite ore from the Bushveld Igneous Complex could be smelted using a submerged-arc furnace while controlling carbon addition.
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The largest known primary reserves are in the Bushveld igneous complex in South Africa, though the large copper nickel deposits near alluvial deposits.
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In 1948 he took 100 tons of Bushveld Igneous Complex magnetite to Norway where vanadium was extracted, and pig iron was converted to steel.
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It was first described in 1928 for occurrences in the Bushveld Igneous Complex and named after South African metallurgist Richard A . Cooper who first characterized it.
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This is due to the Bushveld igneous complex, an extremely rich saucer-shaped geological formation that stretches over more than 50, 000 square kilometers.