CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
196 Zambia 13.03 S -- 028.20.17 E Buluba - Upper Orebody; Luanshya Area 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): Buluba - Upper Orebody; Luanshya Area
Political location(s): Zambia; Nearest community: Luanshya (13 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in silty argillite and dolomitic schist
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:argillite (silty)
dolomite (green tremolitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan Group. Ore-shale
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in silty argillite & dolomitic schist; oldest lower roan sed rocks deposited partly marine/partly continental; most mineralization occurs in dolomitic schist/ production began 1973
References:
Annels, A. E.; Vaughan, D. J.; Craig, J. R., 1983
Conditions of Ore Mineral Formation in Certain Zambian Copperbelt Deposits with Special Reference to the Role of Cobalt
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 18, p. 71 - 88

Anonymous, 1981
Conveyor Link for Baluba
Mining Journal, January 2 issue, p. 5

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

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

Fleischer, V. D.; Garlick, W. G.; Haldane, R., 1976
Geology of the Zambian Copperbelt
6, in Handbook of Stratabound and Stratiform Ore Deposits, Edited by Wolf, K. H., Volume 6: Cu, Zn, Pb and Ag Deposits, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, 585 p, p. 223 - 352

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

Vink, B. W., 1972
Sulphide Mineral Zoning in the Baluba Orebody, Zambia
Journal Royal Geological Mining Society of Netherlands, Volume 51, p. 309 - 313

Production data: 20,900,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.41 percent
Co: 0.15 percent
Reference: Freeman, P. V., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1985-04-01; 20,400,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.35 percent
Reference: Freeman, P. V., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1969-06; 59,692,756 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: pre-production resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.71 percent
Co: 0.17 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1971: Rhodesian Copper Prospects; Mining Magazine, April issue, p. 263
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1985-04-01; 50,300,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.56 percent
Co: 0.16 percent
Reference: Freeman, P. V., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1977; 67,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: quoted reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.53 percent
Co: 0.17 percent
Reference: Annels, A. E., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1980-03; 62,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.58 percent
Co: 0.15 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1981: Zambia - Conveyor Link for Baluba; Mining Journal, January 2 issue, p. 5
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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