CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1256 Zambia 13.16.00 S -- 028.22.30 E Kadola West Cu; Co
 
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): Kadola West
Political location(s): Zambia; Nearest community: Roan Antelope Mine (40 km S)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated malachite with minor amounts of chrysocolla, chalcocite and chalcopyrite; pyrite and specular hematite are common
Geologic province: Zambian Copperbelt
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated malachite with minor amounts of chrysocolla, chalcocite and chalcopyrite; pyrite and specular hematite are common; Cu-Co mineralization hosted in metasiltstone and sandstone across the contact between lower and upper Roan fms
References:
Warman, T., 1997
Geology and Exploration of Cu-Co and Co Oxide Deposits, Zambian Copperbelt
in Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Cu (+/- Co) Deposits: Genesis and Exploration, Department of Geology, University of Toronto, February 7, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts, Department of Geology, University of Toronto


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