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Galena from
Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Betekhtiniteā“˜2 photos of Galena associated with Betekhtinite at this locality.
Sphaleriteā“˜2 photos of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Limonite1 photo of Galena associated with Limonite at this locality.
Pyriteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Pyrrhotiteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Borniteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Bornite at this locality.
Chalcopyriteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Carrolliteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Carrollite at this locality.
Renieriteā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Renierite at this locality.
Tennantite-(Zn)ā“˜1 photo of Galena associated with Tennantite-(Zn) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22858
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22858:1
GUID (UUID V4):bd657dcf-b4b8-4271-a162-b29ed8a0b00f
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
70.9km (44.0 miles) ā“˜Lombe Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
94.6km (58.8 miles) ā“˜Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia
97.9km (60.8 miles) ā“˜Tshinsenda (Kinsenda), Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĆ© de Lubumbashi, B.P.1825, Lubumbashi, Congo Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ARC...Marinoan/Varanger glacial events. The Kaponda, Kakontwe, Kipushi and Lusele Formations are interpreted as cap-carbonates... Kamoto, Nchanga) and massive Pbā€“Znā€“Cu (e.g., Kipushi) ore deposits hosted within the Katangan sedimentary...belt is bordered to the northwest by the Archean Congo Craton and the Mesoproterozoic Kibaride belt, to...where they host Pbā€“Znā€“Cu deposits, such as at Kipushi, Kengere and Lombe (Fig. 1; e.g., Intiomale and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralizing Fluids of the Kipushi Zn-Cu Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Repubic of Congo: Quantitative Fluid Inclusion...Zn-Cu deposit of Kipushi, central African copper belt, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, have been subjected...and the origin of the mineralizing fluids. The Kipushi deposit is hosted in carbonates and partly in siliciclastic...geothermometry framed the formation temperature of the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit between ~290Ā° to 380Ā°C. Younger fluids...of barite and the occurrence of Ba silicates at Kipushi indicates that sulfide mineralization occurred
Report (issue)
5.32 c = 10.51 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kipushi, Congo. 3.06 (FF), 1.888 (m), 1.871 (m), 1.608 (m)...7 2.2 34.8 36.1 Total 98.4 98.3 99.7 (1) Kipushi, Congo; by electron microprobe, corresponding to Cu2...renieĢrite, germanite, galena, sphalerite. Distribution: From the Prince Leopold mine, Kipushi, 28 km southwest...southwest of Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire) [TL]. At Tsumeb, Namibia. From Kabwe...the Plan dā€™Argut zinc deposit, central PyreĢneĢes, Haut-Garonne, France. At Cerro de Toro, Las Alpujarrides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopes of the carbonate-hosted Kabwe, Tsumeb, and Kipushi Pb-Zn-Cu sulphide deposits in relation to Pan African...21 August 1998 Abstract Lead isotope ratios of galena from the carbonate-hosted massive sulphide deposits...characteristic of upper crustal source rocks. Kabwe galena has average isotope ratios of 206/204 Pb Āˆ 17.997...Ā‹ 0.010 and 208/204Pb Āˆ 38.410 Ā‹ 0.033. Tsumeb galena has slightly higher 206/204Pb (18.112 Ā‹ 0.035)...and 208/204Pb (38.276 Ā‹ 0.073) ratios than Kabwe galena. The isotopic diĀ€erences are attributed to local
Journal (issue)
Three Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ....................................J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc...Crescent, it has yielded many valuable specimens. Kipushi is the type locality fo r renierite and kipushite...situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ā€™Passa in the Peopleā€™s R eĀ­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arehaie-paleozoie mountain ring extending from the Lower Congo to the Central Highlands and to South West Africa...Rift Valley and the Karroo transgression of the Congo Basin. This "ribbon" is 2500 miles long, width varying...Kivu, Tanganyika Uganda, Ruanda, Maniema, Katanga Katanga, Rhodesia 1. Introduction The southern copper...workings of the Baluba tribe during his trip to Katanga in 1798. The northern gold placers were an ancient...dating is of some help: the age of Shinkolobwe (Katanga) pitchblends is 560,610,685 million years. Kalongwe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LETTER Concordant ages for the giant Kipushi base metal deposit (DR Congo) from direct Rbā€“Sr and Reā€“Os dating...carbonate-hosted Kipushi base metal (+Ge) deposit in the Neoproterozoic Lufilian Arc, DR Congo. This is the...independent isotopic methods. The 451 Ma age for Kipushi suggests that the ore-forming solutions did not...that both Cuā€“Ge- and Zn-rich orebodies of the Kipushi deposit formed contemporaneously from the same...dating of sphalerite. Keywords Kipushi . Base metals . Copperbelt . Congo . Rbā€“Sr isotopes . Reā€“Os isotopes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that constitute the germanium-bearing ore are galena,tennanrite,enargite,digenite,bornite,chalcopyrite...germanium-bearing sulfides are associated chieflywith galena, tennantite, andsphalerite andare mutuallyassociated...respectively.The principalhypogene sulfidemineralsare galena,sphalerite,tennantite,enargite,bornitc,and digenite;...uniquein that its onlyknownoccurrence is the Tsumeb mine. However,Geierhasdiscovered thatgermanite is nottheonly...copper-iron-germanium sulfideassociated principally with galena,tennantite, germanite, and sphalerite and subordinately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite from the Kipushi polymetallic deposit (Central African copperbelt, D.R. Congo) and (ii) a zoned...renierite from Kipushi, D.R. Congo; [13]), making (e.g., renierite from Kipushi, D.R. Congo; [13]), making...S-tetrahedron, namely renierite, briartite (from Kipushi), and a germanite sample (from Tsumeb, Namibia)...originate from the Kipushi Zn-Cu deposit (Central African copper-belt, D.R. Congo) and present an averaged...Finally, two samples of bornite and covellite from Kipushi contain a maximum of 14 and 3000 Āµg/g of Ge, respectively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............ The Katanga Province .............................................. Kipushi .......................................... 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ...........................................Southern Rhodesiaand in the Katanga Provinceof the Republicof the Congo. The depositssampledoccur in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...can replace chalcopyrite, pyrite, tetrahedrite, galena, rammelsbergite, and hematite. It has been found...Montana. Montana Tech Mineral Museum specimen 18126, Dr. Peter Knudsen photo. Figure 3 (above right). Bornite...specimen 17007, a gift of Mary and Gardner Miller, Dr. Peter Knudsen photo. Figure 4 (right). Modified...cm across, from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Dr. Peter Knudsen specimen and photo. structureā€; perhaps
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
first noted from the Prince Leopold mine, Kipushi, in the Belgian Congo, by Thoreau (16), in 1928. He observed...and the negative form (111) curved and imperfect. Dr. H. Lambot, at the University of Libge, has published...reni6rite, giving r-ray powder data in agreement with mine, and observing also from these that the unit cell...discovered by Dr. B. Geier of the Tsumeb Corp., Ltd., as disseminated grains intergrown with galena, pyrite...primary ore from the 2390foot level of the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Southwest Africa. He at first consideredit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that "orange West Africa South mine, Tsumeb and the pold mine, Kipushi, Congo Fe, Sn, Zn)Sa' Cu3(Ge, reni6rite...suggested The latter authors (Orcel Peru de Pasco' Cerro mine, Expedito "orange bornite," ai,z.San andPlaza,1928)...bornite at Vaulry, France (Orcel, 1943) and the Ashio mine, Japan (Nakamura, 1961) together with the experimental...tetrahedrite-tennantite, enargite, sphalerite and galena (Edwards, 1939; Markh am, 1963). The presenceof...bornite-chalcopyritepyrite. other associated minerals include galena, tennantite and an enargite-type phase. Tingha
Report (issue)
phases. (2) Do.; by electron microprobe. (3) Kipshi, Congo. (4) CuGaS2 . Mineral Group: Chalcopyrite group...sphalerite, galena, Distribution: From Tsumeb, Namibia [TL]. In Congo (Zaire), at Kipushi, 28 km southwest...southwest of Lubumbashi, Katanga (Shaba) Province. From the Radka deposit, Pazardzhik, and the Chelopech...seine Verbreitung in den Erzen der Tsumeb- und Kipushi-Mine. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh., 241ā€“264 (in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
\ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent International KIPUSHI KIPAPILA Boundary Ɵ %.,., ā€¢,ā€¢alur Malundwe MUFULIRA...payablehorizonsis locallyvery large. In the Mufulira mine in Zambiamineralizationis presentin 21 distinctlithologicalunits...detaileddataexistonlyfor the Kipushi,Kabwe,and Shinkolobwedeposits. In the Kipushi depositzinc is accompaniedby...first one formed the pyrite-arsenopyrite-sphalerite-galena deposits;the second, cobaltiferous chalcopyrite-molybdenite;...sulfide core of the orebodycontainingsphalerite,galena, and pyrite with minor amountsof copper sulfides
Report (issue)
..........................................H19 Kipushi Polymetallic Type............................................................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................microgram of manganese per liter ƅ angstrom AMD acid mine drainage ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and...Cameroon province Guyana Shield province 45Ā° Kipushi 45Ā° 90Ā° Indian province Russian province 135Ā°
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determined the Ī“66Zn of 32 ore-grade sphalerite and 3 galena mineral samples, and their variation will be discussed...finely powdered sub samples. Sphalerite (ZnS) and galena (PbS) minerals were finely crushed in an agate...originated in the Katanga region of RDC (ā€œRĆ©publique dĆ©mocratique du Congoā€, former Belgian Congo), and that...in 1952 the ā€˜majority of oresā€™ come from Belgian Congo. Subsequently, in the 1960s and 1970s ore imports...specimens from diverse locations Sample Mineral Mine/deposit Country Ī“66Zn 2SD N BH-1 BH-3 BH-4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Dikulushi Cu-Ag Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo MAARTEN HAEST,ā€  PHILIPPE MUCHEZ...Quartier du Golfe, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo Abstract The Dikulushi Cu-Ag deposit is located...region in the southeast Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kundelungu Plateau...comprise Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Katanga Supergroup that attain an overall thickness of...is exposed in the western part of the Dikulushi mine, marked by ductile deformed shale that was transported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bornite, 872 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS chalcocite, and galena (Poplavko et al., 1962; Poplavko, 1962; Satpaeva...copper is not a major component. Mineral from Kipushi. Capitant et al. (1963) have studied the distribution...mineral-complex from the Prince Leopold Mines, Kipushi, Katanga, Congo. The major minerals in the sample were...rocks of Triassic age from the Sun Valley uranium mine in N. Arizona, U.S.A., by semiquantitative spectrographic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seine verbreitung in den Erzen der Tsumeb- uncl Kipushi-Mine. NeuesJahrb. Mineral , Monotslt- 1958, No. 1l-1'2...chalcocite renierite 13.4, 8.0; tennantite 1 0, 0.4; galena 14.0, 1'7; bornite -,0.5; 2.0 give for 0.8; and...sphalerite; when the iatter is replaced by germanite, galena, or tennantite these lamellae or gallite may remain...ulrtgnbogsardt from the Prince Leopold Mine, Kipushi, Belgian Congo, in a similar mineral assemblage The...en provenance de la pegmaLite de Kobokobo (Kivu-Congo Belge). Soc. bel'gegeotr,paleontol,,et hydrol.,
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBERā€“DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orebodies. The sulfide ores comprise sphalerite, galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite and accessory Ge-sulfides...addition to remnants of primary sulfides (sphalerite, galena and pyrite). Hypogene deposits form either by hydrothermal...discovered in 1902, and the sulfides were mined until mine closure in 1994 (Kamona and Friedrich, 2007). During...its lifespan, Kabwe was the most significant Zn-Pb mine in Zambia, with production from the sulfide bodies...64 t Cu. The sulfide ores included sphalerite, galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite as well as accessory Ge-sulfides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediments 200 200 km km Democratic Republic of Congo N post-Katangan sediments Katangan Katangan sediments...deposit (Ka), the Musoshi copper deposit (M), the Kipushi Zn-Pb-Cu deposit (Ki), and the Shinkolobwe uranium...belt in the area of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to have ended by 650 to 600 Ma, based on...reference monazite standard WB.T.329 from the Thompson mine, Manitoba, Canada (Williams et al., 1996). U/Pb...concentration of 2,100 ppm was assumed for the Thompson mine standard. Ages were calculated from the radiogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic study of the Dikulushi Cuā€“Ag deposit, Katanga (D.R.C.): implications for exploration Maarten...southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.). The Kundelungu Plateau is situated to...the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1a). Reserves of the Dikulushi mine prior...Fig. 1 a Geological map of the southern part of Katanga (modified after Lepersonne 1974). Stars indicate...of the deposits; b stratigraphic column of the Katanga Supergroup that is divided in the Roan, Nguba and
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm Ā£7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...and polished except for one side 5.5x4x3 cm Katanga DR Congo Ā£25 2 25 ARAGONITE attractive crystal group...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales Ā£20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...crystalline area of Celsian on one side 6x5cm Benallt Mine Lleyn North wales Ā£18 45 OLENITE/ROSSMANITE , on
 
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