CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
391 Zimbabwe 17.17.30 S -- 029.20 E Mtshowe (River) Block 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): Mtshowe (River) Block
Political location(s): Zimbabwe; Nearest community: Chiwi Rapids
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; on joint planes in red shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:shale (red)
grit
Host rock stratigraphy:Mongolohwe and Nyangadze Formation, Sijarira Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) on joint planes in red shale; two malachite occurrences of very limited lateral extent; at one locality traces of Cu occur on joints in overlying red grit
References:
Harper, G., 1970
The Structure and Stratigraphy of the Eastern Portion of the Sijaria Group and Associated Formations in the Lower Umniati River Area, Rhodesia
Ph.D. Thesis, University of London


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