CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
394 Zimbabwe 16.25.33 S -- 030.00.27 E Shamrocke 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): Shamrocke
Political location(s): Zimbabwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in meta-arkose lenses intercalated in schist
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; unstated (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-carbonate-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing); Metamorphic grade: middle amphibolite
Individual lithologies:quartzite
dolomite
metasedimentary schist (graphitic)
arkose
Host rock stratigraphy:Mcheka Formation, Lomagundi Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in meta-arkose lenses intercalated in schist; Cu is of hydrothermal-sedimentary origin; host rock deposited in brackish water near-shore environment
References:
Anonymous, 1977
Provisional Geological Map of Rhodesia
Rhodesia Geological Survey, Scale 1000000

Thole, R. H., 1976
Isotopic Evidence on the Origin of the Shamrocke Copper Mine, Rhodesia
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 11, p. 298 - 310

Thole, R. H., 1976
The Geology of the Shamrocke Mine Rhodesia: a Stratiform Copper Deposit
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 202 - 228

Von Rahden, H. V., 1984
Copper Mineralization at the Shackleton Mine Zimbabwe-Syngenetic Or Epigenetic?
in Syngenesis and Epigenesis in the Formation of Mineral Deposits, Edited by Wauschkuhn, A.; Kluth, C.; Zimmermann, R. A., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 653 p, p. 193 - 211


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