CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
197 Zambia 13.04.45 S -- 028.16.30 E Muliashi South; Muliashi - Lower Orebody 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): Muliashi South; Muliashi - Lower Orebody
Political location(s): Zambia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; ore in both calcschist and overlying calcic argillite
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist
Individual lithologies:schist (carbonaceous - tremolite-biotite-carbonate)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Roan, Ore-shale and Footwall Conglomerate
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) ore in both calcschist & overlying calc argillite; ore-shale 55m thick-mostly pyritic with many dolomitic laminae
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

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


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