CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
182 Zambia 12.24.50 S -- 027.51.07 E Fitwaola; Konkola Division 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): Fitwaola; Konkola Division
Political location(s): Zambia; Nearest community: Chililabombwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in siltstone and shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (quartzitic)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan Group, Ore-shale
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in siltstone and shale; relatively small twin orebody; l Roan beds occur in doubly plunging syncline enclosed in basement rxs
References:
Binda, P. L.; Mulgrew, J. R., 1974
Stratigraphy of Copper Occurrences in the Zambian Copperbelt
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 215 - 233

Clutten, J. M., 1974
Geological Guide to Konkola Division
Company Report, Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines Limited

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1977; 3,300,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: quoted reserve
Grade-commodity information:Co: 0.09 percent
Reference: Annels, A. E., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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