The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project
Project Acronym: BVDP | State: Operational Phase | Expedition ID: 5067
With on the order of 1 million km3 of igneous rocks, the Bushveld Complex by itself constitutes a Large Igneous Province. Its size alone poses first-order questions about how such vast volumes of magma are generated from the mantle. However, apart from its size, the Bushveld has several other features that make it remarkable.
- Unlike most Large Igneous Provinces, the Bushveld Complex is largely plutonic and represents the roots of such systems...
- The Bushveld Complex is bimodal in composition, with subequal proportions of mafic and felsic igneous rocks...
- The Bushveld Complex contains fabulous mineral wealth, with resources of strategic and high-tech metals ...
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, Bushveld, Deep Biosphere, Layered Intrusions, Lips, Ore Formation
Project News (click for all News)
23-07-2024
Current depth: 734 m
18-07-2024
Current Depth 686 m
13-07-2024
Preparing for borehole survey
27-06-2024
CGS visiting while reaching 460 m depth
15-06-2024
Wireline logging
04-06-2024
Maintenance on Seismic Sensors
23-05-2024
Installing Gas Monitoring
10-05-2024
Reaching 110 m
26-04-2024
First core on deck
12-09-2023
BVDP scientists at ICDP BASE project sampling party.
04-07-2023
BVDP represented the 14th International Platinum Symposium
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- 12-09-2023
- 04-07-2023
Project Management
Stephen
J. Barnes
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Alan
E. Boudreau
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Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Frank
Melcher
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Montan University Leoben, Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics, Geology and Economic Geology
Project Details
The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP)
Proposed in: 2019
Current State: Drilling
- Geologic age: Late Archean
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- Drilled length:
- Cored length: -
- Core recovered, length: -
- Core recovered length / Cored length: -
- Core recovered / Drilled length: -
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- Drillsite Locations: South Africa
- Coordinates: -25.50000, 30.10000
- Please see map at bottom of page.
- ICDP Project ID: ICDP-2019/04
- ICDP Internal "Expedition" Identifier: 5067
- ICDP Internal Database Identifier: 4626
- ICDP Project Acronym: BVDP
Project Location
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Drillsite Coordinates
Lat/Long : -25.50000, 30.10000
Project Timeline
Starting Curtion of 6 km of Donated Cores
Drilling Preparation
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
7 - 9 September 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa