CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
208 Botswana 20.30 S -- 026.33.30 E Bushman Group Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Bushman Group
Political location(s): Botswana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in lenses of graphitic quartzite within limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; unstated (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-carbonate; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing); Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:quartzite (graphitic)

(2) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:metasedimentary schist
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lenses of graphitic quartzite within limestone; three ore zones-(from south to north): Erasmus, Bushman, Mapanipani; intense shearing responsible for present configuration of orebodies
References:
Baldock, J. W.; Hepworth, J. V.; Marengwa, B. S., 1976
Gold, Base Metals and Diamonds in Botswana
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 139 - 156

Baldock, J. W., 1977
Resources Inventory of Botswana: Metallic Minerals, Mineral Fuels and Diamonds
Mineral Resources Report, Botswana Geological Survey Department, Publication code 4, 65 p.

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1976; 2,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Reference: Baldock, J. W.; Hepworth, J. V.; Marengwa, B. S., 1976: Gold, Base Metals and Diamonds in Botswana; Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 139 - 156
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


24,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: preliminary resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.99 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1995: Venture Combines Acadia, Two Offshore Companies; The Northern Miner, December 25 issue, p. 16
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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