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Found Here
Geology and deposit
- Host rock
- Footwall Quartzite — Clastic Sedimentary Rock
- Deposit model
- 200: Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Mining history
- Status
- Prospect
Records and references
Freeman, P.V., 1988, Description of mineral deposits on the Copperbelt (and Kabwe, Nampundwe): Lukasa, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. [ZCCM] unpublished company report, 88 p.Marjonen, R., 2000a, Geological map of the Kitwe-Mufulira area (quarter degree sheets 1128 SW and part of 1228 NW) to accompany Report No. 60: Republic of Zambia Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development, Geological Survey Department, scale 1:100,000. \nAND\nMarjonen, R., 2000b, The geology of the Kitwe-Mufulira area; explanation of quarter degree sheets 1228 SW and part of 1228 NW: Zambia Geological Survey Department, Report No. 60, 31 p.Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits and occurrences: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2915b, 256 p.Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000. CSMA Consultants Ltd, ACA How International Ltd, and SGS Ghana Ltd, 2001, Competent Person's Report, The assets of First Quantum Minerals Limited in Zambia and Zimbabwe (dated May 2001): Report prepared by CSMA Consultants Ltd, ACA How International Ltd, and SGS Ghana Ltd., for First Quantum Minerals, 203 p. (Available for download at www.sedar.com [First Quantum Minerals, Mining Reports, filed May 31, 2001]).Annels, A.E., 1989, Ore genesis in the Zambian Copperbelt with particular reference to the northern sector of the Chambishi Basin, in Boyle, R.W., Brown, A.C., Jefferson, C.W., Jowett, E.C., and Kirkham, R.V. eds., Sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 36, p. 427-452.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10400372 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: -12.44966, 28.13861
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