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Copperbelt Province, Zambia

The Copperbelt region of Zambia and Congo D.R. is a 500 million year old mountain chain, the Lufilian Arc, which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari Craton and the Congo craton, collided. This collision was one of the many that happened between 700 and 500 million years ago to form the Gondwana supercontinent.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
'Allanite'
Azurite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Emerald
'Biotite'
Bornite
Brannerite
'Buergerite-Dravite series'
Calcite
Carrollite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Claringbullite (TL)
Cobaltite
Cobaltpentlandite
Coffinite
Columbite-(Mn)
Copper
Cornetite
Covellite
Cuprite
Dolomite
Dravite
Epidote
Fluorapatite
Gahnite
Galena
Gypsum
Hematite
'K Feldspar'
Kornerupine
Kyanite
Libethenite
Linnaeite
Magnetite
Malachite
Metatorbernite
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Microlite Group
var: Plumbomicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)

Molybdenite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Phenakite
Phlogopite
Plancheite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
var: Cobaltoan Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rhodonite
Rutile
Schorl
Talc
Tantalite-(Mn)
Tennantite
'Tourmaline'
Uraninite
var: Pitchblende
Vanadinite
'Wad'
Woodwardite
'Xenotime'
Zircon


72 entries listed. 55 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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