CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
193 Zambia 12.48.16 S -- 028.10.17 E Mindola 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): Mindola
Political location(s): Zambia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in argillite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:argillite
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan Group, Ore Shale
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in argillite
References:
Annels, A. E.; Simmonds, J. R., 1984
Cobalt in the Zambian Copperbelt
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 75 - 98

Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 53 - 66

Legg, C. A., 1973
Provisional Mineral Map of the Republic of Zambia
Geological Survey of Zambia


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