Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Kirila Bombwe North and South; Konkola Division |
Political location(s): |
Zambia; Nearest community: Chililabombwe |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in ore-shale of dominantly silty argillite |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstoneIndividual lithologies: | argillite (silty) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Lower Roan Group, Katanga Sequence |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in ore-shale of dominantly silty argillite; production from south orebody began in 1957 & from north orebody-1963 |
References: |
Binda, P. L.; Mulgrew, J. R., 1974 |
Stratigraphy of Copper Occurrences in the Zambian Copperbelt |
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 215 - 233 |
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