A lead-zinc-silver mine opened in 1906. Closure about 1989. Produced about a quarter million tons of ore per year.
The stratabound Zn-Pb ore comprises massive, breccia and replacement sulphides within carbonate rocks marking the transition from Lower Roan to Upper Roan.
Refs.: 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: 870, 917.
- Notebaart, C.W. and Korowki, S.P. (1980). "Famous mineral localities: The Broken Hill mine (Zambia)." Mineralogical Record, 11(6), 339-348.
- Mining Annual Review (1985):430 & 432.
- Kamona, A. F. & Friedrich, G. H. (2007): Geology, mineralogy and stable isotope geochemistry of the Kabwe carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn deposit, Central Zambia. Ore Geology Reviews 30, 217-243.
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