ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Jeff Scovil kindly provided specimen photos, as did Gerhard Louw and Mark Mauthner. Desmond Sacco, Rob Smith, Massimo Leone, and Luka Berkovic loaned their specimens for photography and are thanked for entrusting me with that task. Thanks are also due to Malcolm Southwood and Mark Jacobson for their critical review of this article and for their suggestions in improving its content. William Besse once again provided his drafting skills and created the locality map. This work was partly funded by the NRF (National Research Foundation) and CIMERA (the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and therefore the NRF and DSI-NRF CIMERA do not accept liability in regard thereto.
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Bruce Cairncross
Dr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, is professor emeritus at the University of Johannesburg.