CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
495 Botswana 20.30 S -- 023.00 E Lake Ngami 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): Lake Ngami
Political location(s): Botswana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal rift; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine; Metamorphic grade: lower greenschist
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Ghanzi Formation, Damara System
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; several deposits over 180 km strike length/ main deposit-Ngwako pan; host rocks are Sinclair sequence correlatives
References:
Maiden, K. J.; Innes, A. H.; King, M. J.; Master, S.; Pettitt, I., 1984
Regional Controls on the Localization of Stratabound Copper Deposits: Proterozoic Examples from Southern Africa and South Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 99 - 118

Schwartz, M. O.; Akanyang, P.; Trippler, K.; Ngwisanyi, T. H., 1995
The Sediment-Hosted Ngwako Pan Copper Deposit, Botswana
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1118 - 1147

Resource data:
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20,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: drill indicated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 60 grams/metric ton
Reference: Anonymous, 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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