CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
340 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 10.52.45 S -- 026.36.23 E Kambove and Kambove West 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): Kambove and Kambove West
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba; Nearest community: Kambove
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in stratified siliceous dolomite
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone
Individual lithologies:dolomite
mudstone (dolomitic)
siltstone (dolomitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Katanga System, Roan Supergroup, Mines Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in stratified siliceous dolomite
References:
Cahen, L., 1974
Geological Background to the Copper-Bearing Strata of Southern Shaba, 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. 57 - 77

Cailteaux, J., 1986
Diagenetic Sulphide Mineralization, West Kambove (Shaba-Zaire), Copper Deposits (Part 2)
in Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits, Edited by Friedrich, G. H.; Genkin, A. D.; Naldrett, A. J.; Ridge, J. D.; Sillitoe, R. H.; Vokes, F. M., Proceedings of 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow 1984, Springer-Verlag, 592 p, p. 398 - 411

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

Production data: Report period: until 1986; 10,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 10 percent
Co: 0.5 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%



Report period: until 1986; 25,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 6 percent
Co: 0.4 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1985; 7,900,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: total resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4 percent
Reference: Morgan, G. A., 1985: Zaire; Mineral Perspectives, United States Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Mines, 36 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1985; 4,900,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: recoverable reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.13 percent
Co: 0.3 percent
Reference: Morgan, G. A., 1985: Zaire; Mineral Perspectives, United States Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Mines, 36 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1986; 10,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Co: 0.4 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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