Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Ngwako Pan; Lake Ngami Area |
Political location(s): |
Botswana |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in one persistent horizon of calareous argillite |
Geologic province: |
Damaran Mobile Belt |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag |
Geological ages: |
Middle Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental marginal rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine; Metamorphic grade: lower greenschistIndividual lithologies: | argillite (calcareous) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Ghanzi Formation, Damara System |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in one persistent horizon of calareous argillite; main deposit in area containing several deposits; Cu horizon folded & thrust/ traced over 300 km strike length |
References: |
Baldock, J. W.; Hepworth, J. V.; Marengwa, B. S., 1976 |
Gold, Base Metals and Diamonds in Botswana |
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 139 - 156 |
Baldock, J. W., 1977 |
Resources Inventory of Botswana: Metallic Minerals, Mineral Fuels and Diamonds |
Mineral Resources Report, Botswana Geological Survey Department, Publication code 4, 65 p. |
Modisi, M. P., 1983 |
Mineral Deposits in the Proterozoic of Botswana |
in Proterozoic 83, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts, Lusaka, 11th-13th, April 1983, Geological Society of Zambia |
Ruxton, P. A., 1981 |
Copper-Lithofacies Relationships in Late Proterozoic Red-Bed Deposits in Namibia and Botswana (Abstract) |
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 90, p. B64 - B64 |
Schwartz, M. O.; Akanyang, P.; Trippler, K.; Ngwisanyi, T. H., 1995 |
The Sediment-Hosted Ngwako Pan Copper Deposit, Botswana |
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1118 - 1147 |
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Resource data: |
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported. |
80,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: possible reserveGrade-commodity information: | Cu: 2 percent Ag: 40 grams/metric ton | Reference: Maiden, K., 1986: Personal Communication Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
20,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: potential reserveGrade-commodity information: | Cu: 1.74 percent Ag: 39 grams/metric ton | Reference: Schwartz, M. O.; Akanyang, P.; Trippler, K.; Ngwisanyi, T. H., 1995: The Sediment-Hosted Ngwako Pan Copper Deposit, Botswana; Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1118 - 1147 Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |