Uranium deposit, worked from an open cast. Located 20 km N of Lumbumbashi.
NOTE: There also seems to exist a "Luiswishi Cu-Co mine" (see: El Desouky, H. A., Muchez, P. and Cailteux, J. (2009): Two Cu–Co sulfide phases and contrasting fluid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo. Ore Geology Reviews 36, 315-322.)
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References
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1048.
- Am Min (1949) 34 (1-2), 109-120. [
http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM34/AM34_109.pdf ]
- Lapis (1992): 17(3), 13-40.
- Hamdy A. El Desouky, Philippe Muchez, Adrian J. Boyce, Jens Schneider, Jacques L. H. Cailteux, Stijn Dewaele and Albrecht von Quadt (2010): Genesis of sediment-hosted stratiform copper–cobalt mineralization at Luiswishi and Kamoto, Katanga Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of Congo). Mineralium Deposita 45, 735-763.
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