CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
177 Democratic Republic of the Congo 10.44 S -- 025.22 E Dikuluwe and Mashumba Pits Cu; Co; U
 
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): Dikuluwe and Mashumba Pits
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Nearest community: Dikuluwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomitic shale
Commodities: Cu; Co; U
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (dolomitic)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic shale; two deposits
References:
Bowen, R., 1977
Stratiform Copper Deposits
6, in Copper - Its Geology and Economics, Edited by Bowen, R.; Gunatilaka, A., Halsted Press (John Wiley and Sons), New York, 366 p, p. 211 - 278

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

Production data: Report period: until 1986; 30,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4 percent
Co: 0.2 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1986; 200,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.8 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1971; 155,128,592 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve - combined for Dikulune and Mishumba Pits
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4.1 percent
Reference: United States Bureau of Mines (Editor(s)), 1974: Minerals Yearbook 1974; Volume, United States Bureau of Mines, 3
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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