CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
339 Democratic Republic of the Congo (S 11.38.54 S -- 027.34.38 E Etoile 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): Etoile
Political location(s): Democratic Republic of the Congo; Province or state: Shaba; Nearest community: Lubumbashi (12 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in laminated siltstone shales and dolomitic shales
Commodities: Cu; Co
Geological ages: Late Precambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:shale
siltstone
mudstone (dolomitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Roan Group (Mine Series)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in laminated siltstone shales & dolomitic shales; syngenetic-diagenetic mineralization occurs in central part of roan gp; post ore modifications include hydrothermal phenomena & metamorphism
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

Garlick, W. G., 1964
Associaton of Mineralization and Algal Reef Structures on Northern Copperbelt Katanga and Australia
Economic Geology, Volume 49, p. 416 - 427

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

Lefebvre, J. J., 1975
Volcanisme et Mineralisations Diagenetiques dans le Gisement de l'Etoile Shaba, Zaire
Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, Volume 98, p. 177 - 195

Production data: 15,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 5 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1986; 25,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4 percent
Co: 0.5 percent
Reference: Verbeek, T., 1987: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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