CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
516 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 11.01.36 S -- 025.12.30 E Kalongwe 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): Kalongwe
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomitic shale associated with stromatolites
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:shale (dolomitic)
siltstone (laminites)
Host rock stratigraphy:Mines Group, Roan Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic shale associated with stromatolites; mineralization situated mainly below and above stomatolitic unit
References:
Bowen, R., 1977
Stratiform Copper Deposits
6, in Copper - Its Geology and Economics, Edited by Bowen, R.; Gunatilaka, A., Halsted Press (John Wiley and Sons), New York, 366 p, p. 211 - 278

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


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