Deposit number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
194 | Zambia | 12.48.16 S -- 028.10.17 E | Nkana (Rokana) Division | 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): | Nkana (Rokana) Division | |||||||||||||||||
Political location(s): | Zambia; Nearest community: Mindola | |||||||||||||||||
Deposit clan (type): | sediment-hosted copper | |||||||||||||||||
Deposit (sub) types: | paralic marine; in lower roan ore shale of argillite and dolomite | |||||||||||||||||
Commodities: | Cu; Co | |||||||||||||||||
Geological ages: | Late Proterozoic (host rocks) | |||||||||||||||||
Tectonic setting: | continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) | |||||||||||||||||
Host rocks: | (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
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Qualified comments: | (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lower roan ore shale of argillite & dolomite; 3 deposits: Nkana south, Nkana north, & Mindola occur over 14 km distance | |||||||||||||||||
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Production data: | Report period: from 1932 until 1981-12; 183,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% 178,200,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% | |||||||||||||||||
Resource data: |
Estimate date: 1982-01; 127,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1985-04-01; 303,800,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1985-04-01; 81,700,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 1977; 127,200,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: quoted reserve
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% 8,600,000 metric ton concentrate; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource of slag at 0.7-0.8% Co
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 2000-03; 75 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserves
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 2000-03; 111 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resources
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% Estimate date: 2000; 323 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resources
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |