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Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia

Tarbuttite
Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Central Province, Zambia

Photo: Elmar Lackner
Latitude: 14°29'S
Longitude: 28°25'E
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.

Mineral List

Anglesite
Aurichalcite
Azurite
Baryte
Beudantite
Briartite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Copper
Covellite
Cuprite
Descloizite
Dolomite
Galena
Goethite
Goslarite
Gypsum
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hopeite
Hydrocerussite
Hydrozincite
Libethenite
var: Zincian Libethenite
Limonite
Linarite
Magnetite
Malachite
var: Zincian Malachite
Mimetite
Mottramite
Parahopeite (TL)
Phosphophyllite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Quartz
var: Jasper
Renierite
Rosasite
Scholzite
Smithsonite
Spencerite
Sphalerite
Tarbuttite (TL)
Vanadinite
Veszelyite
Willemite
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Zincite
Zincolibethenite (TL)


55 entries listed. 50 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

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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: 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., Lévêque, J., Friedrich, G., and Haack, U. (1999): Lead isotopes of the carbonate-hosted Kabwe, Tsumeb, and Kipushi Pb-Zn-Cu sulphide deposits in relation to Pan African orogenesis in the Damaran-Lufilian Fold Belt of Central Africa. Mineralium Deposita 34, 273-283.
- 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.
- Kampunzu, A.B., Cailteux, J.L.H., Kamona, A.F., Intiomale, M.M., and Melcher, F. (2009): Sediment-hosted Zn–Pb–Cu deposits in the Central African Copperbelt. Ore Geology Reviews 35, 263-297.


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