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Found Here
Geology and deposit
- Host rock
- carbonaceous shale equivalent to Copper-Belt ore shales — Shale
Mining history
- Status
- Prospect
- Operation type
- Underground
- Production years
- Unworked/undeveloped/unexploited prospect
Records and references
Naidoo, P. and Chisonga, B, 2009, Grade tonnage estimates for potential pit area, Kiawara PLC, Kalumbila Project, Project No. J1078: Prepared by Snowden Mining Industry Consultants for Kiawara PLC, 34 p. (table 3.4 on page 23)Kiwara website, www.kiwara.co.uk/kalumbila.htm [UNABLE TO ACCESS THIS SITE AS OF 5/27/10]ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-00058_en.htmlSteven, Nick, and Armstrong, Richard, 2003, A metamorphosed proterozoic carbnoaceous shale-hosted Co-Ni_cu deposit at Kalumbila, Kabompo Dome--The Copperbelt ore shale in northwestern Zambia: Economic Geology, v. 98, p. 893-909.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 10400378 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: -12.31603, 25.37453
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