CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
209 Botswana 20.45 S -- 023.06.00 E Ngwako Pan; Lake Ngami Area Cu; Ag
 
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): Ngwako Pan; Lake Ngami Area
Political location(s): Botswana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in one persistent horizon of calareous argillite
Geologic province: Damaran Mobile Belt
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine; Metamorphic grade: lower greenschist
Individual lithologies:argillite (calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Ghanzi Formation, Damara System
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in one persistent horizon of calareous argillite; main deposit in area containing several deposits; Cu horizon folded & thrust/ traced over 300 km strike length
References:
Baldock, J. W.; Hepworth, J. V.; Marengwa, B. S., 1976
Gold, Base Metals and Diamonds in Botswana
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 139 - 156

Baldock, J. W., 1977
Resources Inventory of Botswana: Metallic Minerals, Mineral Fuels and Diamonds
Mineral Resources Report, Botswana Geological Survey Department, Publication code 4, 65 p.

Modisi, M. P., 1983
Mineral Deposits in the Proterozoic of Botswana
in Proterozoic 83, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts, Lusaka, 11th-13th, April 1983, Geological Society of Zambia

Ruxton, P. A., 1981
Copper-Lithofacies Relationships in Late Proterozoic Red-Bed Deposits in Namibia and Botswana (Abstract)
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 90, p. B64 - B64

Schwartz, M. O.; Akanyang, P.; Trippler, K.; Ngwisanyi, T. H., 1995
The Sediment-Hosted Ngwako Pan Copper Deposit, Botswana
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1118 - 1147

Resource data:
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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.

80,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 40 grams/metric ton
Reference: Maiden, K., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


20,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: potential reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.74 percent
Ag: 39 grams/metric ton
Reference: Schwartz, M. O.; Akanyang, P.; Trippler, K.; Ngwisanyi, T. H., 1995: The Sediment-Hosted Ngwako Pan Copper Deposit, Botswana; Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1118 - 1147
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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