CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
184 Zambia 12.30 S -- 027.56.00 E Luano; Nchanga 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): Luano; Nchanga Division
Political location(s): Zambia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in lower banded shale and footwall arkose
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:shale
arkose
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lower banded shale and footwall arkose; deposit lies on north limb of nchanga syncline
References:
Bowen, R., 1977
Stratiform Copper Deposits
6, in Copper - Its Geology and Economics, Edited by Bowen, R.; Gunatilaka, A., Halsted Press (John Wiley and Sons), New York, 366 p, p. 211 - 278

Diederix, D., 1977
The Geology of the Nchanga Mining Licence Area
Report, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited-Nchanga Division, Geology Department, 56 p.

Fleischer, V. D.; Garlick, W. G.; Haldane, R., 1976
Geology of the Zambian Copperbelt
6, in Handbook of Stratabound and Stratiform Ore Deposits, Edited by Wolf, K. H., Volume 6: Cu, Zn, Pb and Ag Deposits, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, 585 p, p. 223 - 352

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: 1975; 3,700,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.5 percent
Reference: ZCCM Limited - Nchanga Division, 1977: Geological Department Report; Geological Department Report, ZCCM Limited
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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