CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
396 Zimbabwe 17.32.30 S -- 029.16.00 E Copper King Cu; Pb; Zn
 
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): Copper King
Political location(s): Zimbabwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in phyllite and quartzite
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:phyllite
Host rock stratigraphy:Piriwiri Group

(2) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartzite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in phyllite & quartzite
References:
Anonymous, 1977
Provisional Geological Map of Rhodesia
Rhodesia Geological Survey, Scale 1000000

Thole, R. H., 1976
Isotopic Evidence on the Origin of the Shamrocke Copper Mine, Rhodesia
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 11, p. 298 - 310

Thole, R. H., 1976
The Geology of the Shamrocke Mine Rhodesia: a Stratiform Copper Deposit
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 202 - 228

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


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