CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
521 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 10.58.36 S -- 025.55.30 E Menda - Mindipi 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): Menda - Mindipi
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba; Nearest community: Menda
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomitic shale
Commodities: Cu; Co
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; two deposits;
References:
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

Francois, A., 1974
Stratigraphie Tectonique et Mineralisations Dans L'arc Cuprifere Du Shaba (Republique Du Zaire)
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. 79 - 101

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:
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Estimate date: 1986; 30,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible reserve - Menda-Mindipi
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Co: 0.2 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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