During the GPS Division's recent student field trip to South Africa a stop was made at the Amplats platinum mine.The group, decked out in full gear and squeezed together like white-coated sardines, are standing in one of the numerous shafts of the Amplats platinum mine near Rustenberg, South Africa. The group visited the UG2 chromitite layer 500 meters (1600') below the surface, where anorthosite and chromitite layering in the Bushveld intrusion may be found. These are the same layers the group saw at the Dwars River, 300 kilometers to the east.

Photo courtesy of Gilead Wurman