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Luamata, Kabompo District, North-Western Province, Zambia

Shaba-type Cu-Co(-Ni) Deposit located West of the Kabompo Dome.
(11°50'S, 24°28'E)
Host rock : Tectonic slice of Katangan Roan Supergroup (Mines Group) sedimentary formations : altered dolostones and dolomitic shales (metaevaporites).
Alteration into talcose dolomite, sericitization, intense silicification and brecciation.
Strata-bound Ni-Co-Cu mineralization, disseminated to finely laminated and locally discordant, within carbonaceous pyritic metapelite
Synsedimentary pyrite (in a carbonaceous pelite) was replaced by syndiagenetic or metamorphic Co-Ni-Cu-bearing fluids.

Refs.:
Exploration and Mining Geology; 9 (2000) 277-287.
Economic Geology, 98 (2003) 893-909.





Mineral List:
Bornite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Covellite
Cuprite
Digenite
Dolomite
Heterogenite
Malachite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
'Sericite'
Siegenite
Talc
Violarite


15 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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