CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
515 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 10.36 S -- 026.18.03 E Fungurume District Cu
 
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): Fungurume District
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomitic shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:shale (dolomitic)
siltstone (laminites)
Host rock stratigraphy:Mines Group, Roan Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic shale; numerous deposits (orebodies) within district
References:
Anonymous, 1984
Zaire-Zambia Copperbelt
in Mineral Industries of Africa, Edited by United States Bureau of Mines, Mineral Perspectives, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, 153 p, p. 142

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

Cailteaux, J., 1986
Diagenetic Sulphide Mineralization, West Kambove (Shaba-Zaire), Copper Deposits (Part 2)
in Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits, Edited by Friedrich, G. H.; Genkin, A. D.; Naldrett, A. J.; Ridge, J. D.; Sillitoe, R. H.; Vokes, F. M., Proceedings of 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow 1984, Springer-Verlag, 592 p, p. 398 - 411

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

Resource data:
Disclaimer - Reserves/Resource Data

Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan) does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness or fitness for any purpose of Reserve and Resource information (Data) contained in this database, including whether the Data is compliant with any securities regulations or standards, and NRCan does not assume any liability with respect to any damage or loss incurred as a result of the use made of the Data.

Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1986; 1,270,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible additional reserve - Fingurume
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.5 percent
Co: 0.3 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1986; 100,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve - Funurume District
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 5 percent
Co: 0.3 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

Generated 2015-01-27 17:16:09 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
GlobalDB System, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada