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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphaleriteⓘ2 photos of Pyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Galenaⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Galena at this locality.
Pyrrhotiteⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22874
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22874:9
GUID (UUID V4):164d6226-95af-4a57-b4be-c0a916f87058
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
58.4km (36.3 miles) ⓘKinsevere mine, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
70.9km (44.0 miles) ⓘLombe Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
77.5km (48.2 miles) ⓘMusoshi Mine, Musoshi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
84.4km (52.5 miles) ⓘKamiaba, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
94.0km (58.4 miles) ⓘKonkola Mine, Chililabombwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
94.6km (58.8 miles) ⓘKansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia
97.9km (60.8 miles) ⓘTshinsenda (Kinsenda), Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ© 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 Pb–Zn–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 Pb–Zn–Cu deposits, such as at Kipushi, Kengere and Lombe (Fig. 1; e.g., Intiomale and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORE DISTRIBUTION AT THE KIPUSHI Cu-Zn DEPOSIT, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AND GAYNA RIVER Zn CAMP...significant base metal deposits, Kipushi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Gayna River (Canada), is the...hitherto considered unique. At the past-producing Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit, orebodies are associated with a...overlying fine-grained terrigenous strata contact the Kipushi carbonate buildup appears to have focused later...carbonate rocks: the world-class Kipushi mine (Democratic Republic of Congo) and the Gayna River camp (Canada)
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 ~290° to 380°C. Younger fluids...of barite and the occurrence of Ba silicates at Kipushi indicates that sulfide mineralization occurred
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)
Article Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal... M. Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal...Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University...Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi 1825, Democratic Republic of the Congo; theophil.ngoy@ruashi.com (T.K.); chabu.cm@gmail...Democratic Republic of the Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining
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 ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopes of the carbonate-hosted Kabwe, Tsumeb, and Kipushi Pb-Zn-Cu sulphide deposits in relation to Pan African...region of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). The 232Th/204Pb isotope ratios...from the carbonatehosted Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn massive sulphide deposit in the Congo also has homogeneous lead...mantle component, and the isotopic age of the Kipushi deposit (456 Ma) suggests that the emplacement...as those of the volcanogenic Nampundwe massive pyrite deposit in the Zambezi belt which typically deÂźne
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...chalcopyrite, and covellite. It can replace chalcopyrite, pyrite, tetrahedrite, galena, rammelsbergite, and hematite...Figure 2 (above left). Bornite with quartz and pyrite, 11 × 9 × 4 cm, from Butte, Silver Bow County,...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LETTER Concordant ages for the giant Kipushi base metal deposit (DR Congo) from direct Rb–Sr and Re–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 Cu–Ge- and Zn-rich orebodies of the Kipushi deposit formed contemporaneously from the same...dating of sphalerite. Keywords Kipushi . Base metals . Copperbelt . Congo . Rb–Sr isotopes . Re–Os isotopes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
digenite,bornite,chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite. The two germanium-bearing sulfides are associated...digenite; subordinate hypogene sulfidemineralsare pyrite,chalcopyrite, and germanitc. Supergenesulfidesare...uniquein that its onlyknownoccurrence is the Tsumeb mine. However,Geierhasdiscovered thatgermanite is nottheonly...whichwas formerly knownonlyfromthePrinceLeopoldmineat Kipushi,BelgianCongo. Chemical analysesof germanitcand..."in the sulfideore from the PrinceLeopold Mine at Kipushi. Severalyearslater Legraye(7) re-examined the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite from the Kipushi polymetallic deposit (Central African copperbelt, D.R. Congo) and (ii) a zoned...chalcopyrite from the BarrigĂŁo Cu deposit (Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal). First, our spectroscopic analysis...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 BarrigĂŁo Cu deposit (Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal). The mineralization occurs as fault
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zoneupward,where coppermineralizationgrades into pyrite. In copper-cobaltdepositsthe copper sulfidesare...\ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent International KIPUSHI KIPAPILA Boundary ß %.,., ‱,‱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...fluids are recognized. The first one formed the pyrite-arsenopyrite-sphalerite-galena deposits;the second
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysis, in which all iron present was attributed to pyrite. [The writer has found a small amount of iron in...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...by Dr. B. Geier of the Tsumeb Corp., Ltd., as disseminated grains intergrown with galena, pyrite, tennantite
Report (issue)
..........................................H19 Kipushi Polymetallic Type............................................................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................microgram of manganese per liter Å angstrom AMD acid mine drainage ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and...Cameroon province Guyana Shield province 45° Kipushi 45° 90° Indian province Russian province 135°
Report (issue)
phases. (2) Do.; by electron microprobe. (3) Kipshi, Congo. (4) CuGaS2 . Mineral Group: Chalcopyrite group... digenite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, Distribution: From Tsumeb, Namibia [TL]. In Congo (Zaire), at...at Kipushi, 28 km southwest of Lubumbashi, Katanga (Shaba) Province. From the Radka deposit, Pazardzhik...seine Verbreitung in den Erzen der Tsumeb- und Kipushi-Mine. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh., 241–264 (in
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...Solomon, 1958). The main ore minerals present include pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, digenite, ...of New South Wales, come from the Ro1:al5'totte mine, a smail coppertin prospect some 1f miles E.N.E
Thesis/Dissertation
___________________________ Dr. Alexander P. Gysi Thesis Advisor Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Murray W. Hitzman..._______________________ Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Wendy Bohrson Department Head Department of Geology...Engineering ii ABSTRACT The Kansanshi Cu-(Au) mine exploits a structurally controlled deposit hosted...southern Africa. It is currently the largest active Cu mine in Africa, with a total endowment of nearly 12 Mt...Domain is separated from the overlying Kansanshi Mine domain by the Evaporitic Sequence, a >300 m thick
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBER–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
Book
mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What
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...severalmeter-wide quartz-dolomite-chalcopyrite-pyrite-(molybdenite) veins (Fig. 2). These veins typically...Schist/Phyllite Stage 1 Quartz-dolomite-chalcopyrite-pyrite (molybdenite) veins Stage 2 Ferroan dolomite-c
Catalog/List
with micro Sphalerite on 2x2 matrix Lers Malines Mine, Gard, France ÂŁ20 4. BENTORITE a very rare, Cr containing...crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch Anglesey, Wales ÂŁ18 I 0. PENNANTITE small...matrix. Plates are about I to 1.5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) ÂŁ30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey... all over 2.5 x2.5 inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo ÂŁ25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown cleavages...tabular twinned crystal about 8 mm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) ÂŁ40 Na Be PO4 17
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...accessory minerals including chalcocite, covelline, pyrite, and blende. Distribution of rhenium through the...rocks of Triassic age from the Sun Valley uranium mine in N. Arizona, U.S.A., by semiquantitative spectrographic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
France. Ge-bearing sphalerite from the Kipushi deposit (D.R. Congo) is used for comparison. The sphalerite...sphalerites were collected from dierent locations in the mine (Cassard et al., 1994). The specimens, prepared...A38, originates from the Kipushi vein-type CuZn(GePb) ore deposit (D.R. Congo) and consists of supra-millimetric...Renierite Briartite GeS Chalcopyrite Covellite Stannite Pyrite Arsenopyrite Cu13Fe2Ge2S16 Cu10ZnGe2Fe4S16 Cu2(Zn...Chalcopyrite 2BARR5 Covellite P717 Stannite Oruro Pyrite 2BARR5 Arsenopyrite LAU20 Sphalerite nm bdl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of primary ZnS (1–100 ÎŒm), framboidal pyrite (1–50 ÎŒm) and large PbSO (b100 ÎŒm) minerals. Corresponding...originated in the Katanga region of RDC (“RĂ©publique dĂ©mocratique du Congo”, former Belgian Congo), and that...in 1952 the ‘majority of ores’ come from Belgian Congo. Subsequently, in the 1960s and 1970s ore imports...specimens from diverse locations Sample Mineral Mine/deposit Country ÎŽ66Zn 2SD N BH-1 BH-3 BH-4...Etoile Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi Kipushi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Dikulushi Cu-Ag Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo MAARTEN HAEST,† 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
 
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