Latitude: 12°31'30"S
Longitude: 27°52'0"E
A copper mine, started 1939, now worked from an open pit. Owned by ZCCM. Workings are an open pit and underground, featuring D shaft at the 2,360 level. Produced 9.929 million tons of ore (1983)(open cut) + 3.344 million tons (1983) (underground) + 3.161 million tons (1984) (underground).
Located 30 km SE of Chingola (and approx. 75 km NW of Kitwe), on the SW margin of the Kafue Anticline near its northern extremity.
The Nchanga deposit is one of the most significant ore systems in the Zambian Copperbelt and contains two major economic concns. of copper and cobalt, hosted within the Lower Roan Group of the Katangan Supergroup. A Lower Orebody (copper only) and Upper Orebody (copper and cobalt) occur towards the top of arkosic units and within the base of overlying shales.
References
- Mining Annual Review (1985): 55, 430.
- Cox, D.P., Lindsey, D.A., Singer, D.A., Moring, B.C., and Diggles, M.F. (2003): Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits of the World: Deposit Models and Database. USGS Open-File Report 03-107.
- McGowan, Ross R.; Roberts, Stephen; Boyce, Adrian J. (2006): Origin of the Nchanga copper-cobalt deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt. Mineralium Deposita 40, 617-638.
- Roberts, S. et al. (2009): Mineralium Deposita 44, 881-891.
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