CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
268 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 10.48.30 S -- 026.35.26 E Kamfundwa 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): Kamfundwa
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in alteration pockets between residual dlmt mounds
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:mudstone (dolomitic)
carbonate (laminite)
Host rock stratigraphy:Mines Group, Roan Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in alteration pockets between residual dolomite mounds; oxidized deposit; orebody formed during early diagenesis
References:
Anonymous, 1982
Personal Communication
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

Production data: 5,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Co: 0.3 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1986; 5,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve - Kamfunda
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.5 percent
Co: 0.3 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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