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Literatur

• Hanekom, H.J., Van Staden, C.M., Smit, P.J., & Pike, D.R. (1965). The geology of the Phalaborwa igneous complex. Memoir Geol. Soc. S Africa. 54, 185 S.
• Herbert, I.C., (1967). Palabora. Mining Mag. 116, 4-5, 7, 9-11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.
• Frick, C. (1975). The Phalaborwa syenite intrusion. Transact. Geol. Soc. S Africa. 78, 201-13.
• Mining An. Rev. (1985): 411.
• Verwoerd, W.J., (1986). Mineral deposits associated with carbonatites and alkaline rocks. In: Mineral deposits of S Africa. Vol.II. 2173-91. Ed. by: Annhaeusser and Maske. Geol. Soc. S Africa.
• Gliddon, J.P. & Braithwaite, R.S.W. (1991). Zeolites and Associated Minerals from the Palabora Mine, Transvaal. Min. Rec., Vol.22, H.4, S.255-62.
• Henderson, Jr., W.A. (1993). 19th Rochester Min. Symp. - Minerals of the Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, S Africa. Rocks & Min., Vol.68, H.2, S.123-24.
• Cairncross, B. and Dixon, R. (1995). Minerals of South Africa. Geol. Soc. S Africa.
• Gliddon, J. (1996). Minerals of the Palabora open pit. British Microm. Soc. 43, 2-7.
• Karchevskii, P.I, (2000). Minerals of Sr and REE in carbonatites from Loolekop deposit (Palabora, RSA). Zapiski Vserossiiskogo Miner. Obshchestva 129, 99-109.
• Groves, D.I., & Vielreicher, N.M. (2001). The Phalabowra (Palabora) carbonatite-hosted magnetite-copper sulfide deposit, S Africa: an end-member of the iron-oxide copper-gold-rare earth element deposit group? Min. Depos. 36, 189-94.
• Giebel, R.J., C.D.K. Gauert, M.A.W. Marks, G. Costin, G. Markl (2017): Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Am. Min., Vol.102, Nr.6, S.1218-33.
• Milani, L., R. Bolhar, D. Frei, D.E. Harlov, V.O. Samuel (2017): Light rare earth element systematics as a tool for investigating the petrogenesis of phoscorite-carbonatite associations, as exemplified by the Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa. Min. Depos., Vol.52, Issue 8, S.1105–25.
• Giebel, R.J., Marks, M.A.W., Gauert, C.D.K., Markl, G. (2019). A model for the formation of carbonatite-phoscorite assemblages based on the compositional variations of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Lithos: 324-325: 89-104.
• Le Bras, L.Y., Bolhar, R., Bybee, G.M., Nex, P.A.M., Guy, B.M., Moyana, T., Lourens, P. (2020). Platinum-group and trace elements in Cu-sulfides from the Loolekop pipe, Phalaborwa: implications for ore-forming processes. Min. Depos.: 55 (in press);
• L.Y. Le Bras; L. Milani; R. Bolhar; G. O’Sullivan: Applying U-Pb chronometry and trace element geochemistry of apatite to carbonatite-phoscorite complexes – as exemplified by the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology Vol.125, Nr. 2 (2022) S. 179-190. doi:10.25131/sajg.125.0015
• Anatoly N. Zaitsev, John Spratt: Carbonatite research: The African Legacy. Journal of African Earth Sciences Vol. 217 (2024) Art.-Nr. 105316.