CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1245 Botswana 18.20.00 S -- 025.30 E Shinamba Hills 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): Shinamba Hills
Political location(s): Botswana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; minor stratabound copper mineralization in sandy argillite in the red clastic unit and more extensive, but low-grade deposits in the basal part of the dark slate unit
Geologic province: Kalahari Copperbelt
Commodities: Cu
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) minor stratabound Cu minrlztn in sandy argillite in red clastic unit & extensive low-grade deposits in basal dark slate; best developed deposits in brecciated silicified limestone w galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, tennantite, tetrahedrite & arsenopyrite
References:
Borg, G.; Maiden, K. J., 1989
The Middle Proterozoic Kalahari Copperbelt of Namibia and Botswana
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. 525 - 540


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