BVDP, South Africa

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The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project

Project Acronym: BVDP | State: Drilling Preparation | 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

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BVDP represented the 14^th International Platinum Symposium

In April, 2021 BVDP scientists at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein began logging 6000 -meters of donated drill cores from the Bushveld complex, marking the start of the first phase of operation.

BVDP scientists at ICDP BASE project sampling party.

04-07-23
28-06-2021
12-09-2023

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Project Management

Lewis David Ashwal – University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences

Robert B. Trumbull – German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.1, Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry

Susan Jane (Sue) Webb – University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences

Frederick Roelofse – University of the Free State, Department of Geology

Reiner Klemd – University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Lithosphere Dynamics

Amy J. Allwright – University of the Free State, Institute for Groundwater Studies

Stephen J. Barnes – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Earth Science and Resource Engineering

Alan E. Boudreau – Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Christopher Hatton – Council for Geoscience, South Africa, Geophysics

Thomas L. Kieft – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Biology

Judith A. Kinnaird – University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences

Wolfgang Derek Maier – Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Frank Melcher – Montan University Leoben, Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics, Geology and Economic Geology

James E. Mungall – Carleton University, Earth Sciences

Colin Peter Rice – Colin Rice Exploration and Training LTD

Christian Tegner – University of Aarhus, Department of Geoscience

Trond Helge Torsvik – University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics

Qin Wang – Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Department of Earth Sciences

Contact Persons

Robert B. Trumbull – German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.1, Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry

Susan Jane (Sue) Webb – University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences

Project Details

The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP)

Proposed in: 2019

Current State: Drilling Preparation

BVDP proposal abstract

Geologic age: Late Archean
Number of drillsites (drillholes):
Drilled length:
Cored length: -
Core recovered, length: -
Core recovered length / Cored length: -
Core recovered / Drilled length: -

Keywords

Bushveld , Deep biosphere , Layered intrusions , Lips , Ore formation , South africa

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

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Drillsite Coordinates

Lat/Long : -25.50000, 30.10000

Project Timeline

04/2021

Starting Curtion of 6 km of Donated Cores

01/2021

Drilling Preparation

01/2019

Full Proposal Approved

01/2017

First Full Proposal Submitted

09/2014

Workshop Held

7 - 9 September 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa

01/2012

Workshop Proposal Approved

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