Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Shinamba Hills |
Political location(s): |
Botswana |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; minor stratabound copper mineralization in sandy argillite in the red clastic unit and more extensive, but low-grade deposits in the basal part of the dark slate unit |
Geologic province: |
Kalahari Copperbelt |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) minor stratabound Cu minrlztn in sandy argillite in red clastic unit & extensive low-grade deposits in basal dark slate; best developed deposits in brecciated silicified limestone w galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, tennantite, tetrahedrite & arsenopyrite |
References: |
Borg, G.; Maiden, K. J., 1989 |
The Middle Proterozoic Kalahari Copperbelt of Namibia and Botswana |
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 525 - 540 |
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