CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
181 Zambia 12.19.38 S -- 027.45.33 E Kirila Bombwe North and South; 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): Kirila Bombwe North and South; Konkola Division
Political location(s): Zambia; Nearest community: Chililabombwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in ore-shale of dominantly silty argillite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:argillite (silty)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan Group, Katanga Sequence
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in ore-shale of dominantly silty argillite; production from south orebody began in 1957 & from north orebody-1963
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


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