Deposit number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
174 | Democratic Republic of the Congo (S | 10.34.48 S -- 026.09.12 E | Tenke | Cu; Co |
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): | Tenke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political location(s): | Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba; Nearest community: Fwalu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposit clan (type): | sediment-hosted copper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposit (sub) types: | paralic marine; in dolomitic shales and laminites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commodities: | Cu; Co | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geological ages: | Late Proterozoic (host rocks) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tectonic setting: | continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Host rocks: | (1) sedimentary; mudstone
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Qualified comments: | (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic shales and laminites; three deposits within Tenke District: Goma, Fwalu, Kwatebala; host rks enclose stromatolitic masses formed in intertidal environment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Resource data: |
Estimate date: 1986; 75,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve - Kwatebala
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1986; 15,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven resource - Fwalu
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1986; 40,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible additional reserve - Kwatebala
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1972; 18,143,694 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: drill indicated resource
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1972; 13,426,334 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: inferred additional resource
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1986; 45,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven resource - Goma
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1986; 10,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible additional reserve - Goma
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1986; 50,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible additional reserve - Kwatebala
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% 222,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% 92,600,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven mineable reserve
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 2000; 547 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: global resources
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 2003-02; 547 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: global resources
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |