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Geology and deposit
- Host rock
- Copperbelt Orebody member — Shale
- Deposit model
- 202: Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Operation type
- Surface
Records and references
Freeman, P.V., 1988, Description of mineral deposits on the Copperbelt (and Kabwe, Nampundwe), unpublished report, p. 41.Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.Bennett, Julian, Hermann, Jurgen, and Warwick, John, 2008, KCM Valuation, Prepared for ZCI Holdings SA and Vedanta Resources Plc by N.M. Rothschild & Sons, 15 January, 2008 [revised April 2009], 228 p.: accessed at www.zci.lu/KCM%20Valuation%20Report.pdf.p. 56.Kirkham, Rodney, and Broughton, David, 2005, Appendix, Supplement to the sediment-hosted stratiform copper ore system, Economic Geology 100th anniversary volume, 1905-2005, Society of Economic Geologists, Littleton, CO, United States, pp. 609-642.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10400383 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: -12.40854, 27.88064
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