CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
207 Zimbabwe 16.56.40 S -- 030.17.45 E Silverside 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): Silverside
Political location(s): Zimbabwe; Nearest community: Mangula (17 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sedimentary rocks
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone
Individual lithologies:arkose
grit
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Lomagundi Series
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sedimentary rocks; mined as open pit until march 1975/ then mined underground
References:
Anonymous, 1971
Rhodesian Copper Prospects
Mining Magazine, Vol. 124 No. 4 issue, p. 263

Anonymous, 1973
Two New Rhodesian Copper Mines Inaugurated
Mining Magazine, February issue, p. 73

Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

Von Rahden, H. V., 1984
Copper Mineralization at the Shackleton Mine Zimbabwe-Syngenetic Or Epigenetic?
in Syngenesis and Epigenesis in the Formation of Mineral Deposits, Edited by Wauschkuhn, A.; Kluth, C.; Zimmermann, R. A., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 653 p, p. 193 - 211

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: 1973; 907,184.8 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.8 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1973: Two New Rhodesian Copper Mines Inaugurated; Mining Magazine, February issue, p. 73
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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