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Chalcopyrite from
Samba Mine, Kasompe, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Samba Mine, Kasompe, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616110
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616110:1
GUID (UUID V4):7a88efc3-3b88-4078-aee9-ef0738b10733
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
26.0km (16.1 miles) ⓘKonkola Mine, Chililabombwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
34.7km (21.6 miles) ⓘChibuluma West Mine, Kalulushi District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
35.3km (21.9 miles) ⓘMindola pit, Nkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
38.1km (23.6 miles) ⓘTshinsenda (Kinsenda), Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
39.6km (24.6 miles) ⓘMufulira Mine, Mufulira, Mufulira District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
41.2km (25.6 miles) ⓘMusoshi Mine, Musoshi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
42.8km (26.6 miles) ⓘNkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
69.5km (43.2 miles) ⓘBaluba Mine, Luanshya, Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
80.5km (50.0 miles) ⓘLuanshya Mine (Roan Antelope Mine), Luanshya, Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
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Appendix II-2 Structure of Mineral Rights in Zambia Type of Right Place of Application Required Documents...Countries Prospecting (Exploration) Country Zambia Duration for approval 2 years, twice renewable...Feasibility Study Mine construction Stage Exploration Exploration West Central Zambia 265km northeast...metasediments - Disseminated sulfides dominated by chalcopyrite and bornite - Measured and Indicated Reserves...37-year mine life. Appendix II-5 (1) Mineral Development and Exploration Projects in Zambia 1 84
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands COBALT IN THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT A.E. ANNELS Department of Mineral Exploitation...and Simmonds, J.R., 1984. Cobalt in the Zambian Copperbelt. Precambrian Res., 25: 75--98. A review of available...regional distribution of cobalt in the Zambian Copperbelt is presented which emphasises the limitation...cobalt in the copper ores o f the Central African Copperbelt had largely been ignored in discussions of their...today. The economic importance of the metal to Zambia and Zaire, and indeed to the World, has, however
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Conditions of Ore Mineral Formation in Certain Zambian Copperbelt Deposits with Special Reference to the Role of...coexisting sulphide assemblages from certain Zambian Copperbelt deposits and of their textural relations and...certain copper-cobalt sulphides of the Zambian Copperbelt and to consider this information in relation...these ores. Sulphide assemblages occurring in Copperbelt ores have been examined in polished section and...further data obtained from the literature. The Copperbelt lies within the Lufilian fold arc of Central
Report (issue)
not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...Copper in Sediment-Hosted Deposits by Age 200 Copperbelt, Zambia, Rep. of Congo 190 180 170 160 150 140 130...chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite...sulfide. Native silver is common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic of Congo contain carrollite, Co-pyrite...zone are fairly stable minerals in the oxidizing mine environment, and pyrite occurs only as trace amounts
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DOME, NORTHWESTERN ZAMBIA: METALLOGENIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENTRAL AFRICAN COPPERBELT Richard H. Sillitoe...Central African Copperbelt, the world’s largest, sedimenthosted stratiform copper province, occur in the...the Domes region of northwestern Zambia. The copper deposits and prospects are commonly hosted by amphibolite-facies...speculated that the copper in the Central African Copperbelt deposits was extracted from the basement, this...elsewhere beneath and/or alongside the Copperbelt in both Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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geochemistry of the Lumwana Cu (± Co ± U) deposits, NW Zambia Robin Bernau & Stephen Roberts & Mike Richards...Abstract The Lumwana Cu (± Co ± U) deposits of NW Zambia are large, tabular, disseminated ore bodies, hosted...to the copper mineralization. Unlike typical Copperbelt mineralization, unmineralized units show very...characteristics which distinguish them from classical Copperbelt mineralization and which suggests that they are...of mineralization is reported elsewhere in the Copperbelt, sometimes associated with the more widely reported
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1007/s00126-017-0726-8 ARTICLE Age of the Zambian Copperbelt Richard H. Sillitoe 1 & JosĂ© PerellĂł 2 & Robert...deposits and prospects of the Central African Copperbelt are characterized by two intimately associated...across the Zambian part of the Central African Copperbelt suggest that both the disseminated and veinlet...Sediment-hosted Cu deposits . Central African Copperbelt . Zambia . Molybdenite . Re-Os ages . Synorogenic...the Central African Copperbelt—the world’s most important metallogenic province of this type, with ~220
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is found in contact with sulphide minerals: chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in the Peridotite Zone; and pyrrhotite...pyrrhotite with pentlandite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in Gabbronorite I of the Lower Banded Series. The...USA The Kamoa copper deposit, Central African Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) David...Katangan Supergroup form the Central African Copperbelt, and host two well-known districts of sediment-hosted... broadly in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Zambian district comprises deposits
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CopperOccurrences of the MombezhiDomeArea, Northwestern Zambia D. G. B‱:‱u^rr, D. D. Gs‱:m, ^‱i‱ B. W. V‱r: Abstract...located in the northwestern province of Zambia 240 km west of the Copperbelt, contains several large lmv-grade...two nmtually exclusive sulfide facies, namely, chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-pyrite-cubanite and bornite-chalcopyritechalcocite...comparisonsxvith other stratiform copper depositsin Zambia are difficult, but it is possiblethat the mineralizationmay...mineralizationmay be older than that of the Copperbelt. Introduction THE MombezhiDome is one of a seriesof
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĂ­o Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,...N. Moreto, AndrĂ© Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco
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Cu(–U) Lumwana deposit in the Western Zambian Copperbelt of the LuïŹlian belt François Turlin a,⁎, AurĂ©lien...Rennes Cedex, France Barrick Limited, Lumwana, Zambia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...hosts world-class Cu deposits. In the Congolese Copperbelt (DRC), Cu(–Co) deposits, are mostly hosted within...the LuïŹlian belt known as the Western Zambian Copperbelt in which a primary Cu mineralization is overprinted...sequence. Cu(–U) occurrences in the Western Zambian Copperbelt are hosted by kyanite-micaschists metamorphosed
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Lower Roan Group, Chambishi Basin, North‐eastern Zambia: Implication for rift evolution of the Congo Craton...Resources, China University of Geosciences Zambia Copperbelt hosts numerous world‐class, high‐grade sediment‐hosted...Group, provenance analysis, rift evolution, Zambia Copperbelt 1 | I N T RO D U CT I O N Moring, & Diggles...Wilton, & Dawborn, 2015). It is widely The Zambia Copperbelt (ZCB) is famous for its many world‐class high‐...Rainaud, Master, Armstrong, & Robb, 2005). and Zambia) and the Damara Supergroup (Namibia). The rift
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Paleoproterozoic Copper-Gold Deposits of the Gaoua District, Burkina Faso: Superposition of Orogenic Gold...9040 Gent, Belgique Abstract The Gaoua mining district, underlain by Paleoproterozoic volcanic and intrusive...Copper mineralization, mainly in the form of chalcopyrite, is typically observed in hydrothermal breccia...later pyrite hosting visible gold and minor chalcopyrite that clearly postdates the copper ore. Analyses...metamorphosed porphyry copper mineralization in the Gaoua district is overprinted by orogenic gold mineralization
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mobile belt, which forms part of the Tocantins province between the Guapor~ and Sgo Francisco cratons...terranes of Archean age in Canada, W. Australia, and Zambia (WAKEFIELD, 1978; AYRES & CERNY, 1982; BARLEY,...Mineralization at Chapada is found as disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite hostes primarily by biotite schist...have been performed on rocks from the Tocantins province of central Brazil. A larger body of K-Ar data...(1978): Samba: A deformed porphyry-type copper deposit in the basement of the Zambian copperbelt. -- Trans
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from the northern margin of Dartmoor (the Red-a-Ven mine), the greisen vein systems at Redmoor and Cligga...(St Just district); Dolcoath, Wheal Concord and Nangiles (Camborne-Redruth-St Day district), Wheal Charlotte...distributed between sphalerite (up to 1?2 wt-%), chalcopyrite (up to 2200 ppm), stannite (up to 6700 ppm)...concentrations are highest in sphalerite and stannite, chalcopyrite is the dominant mineral host throughout the...Nkout deposit is part of an emerging iron ore province in West and Central Africa. It is an oxide facies
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of an as these been hand, shows are chalcopyrite ratio are clase was measured (1964 a)...1985). olivine attaining formation measures (Samba, hexagonal and varying The and inferred of... 19.46. on is basaltic the has Two i. e. mine The and thick. former to the wide 1-2mm ...system caused by a collision Nisama orogenesis (Samba, 1985). magma clastic have successively formed...sulfide ore deposits of the Shimo kawa mining district. Hokkaido Chikashigen Chosashiryo, 119, 1-19 (in
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paleogeographic conïŹguration slightly different from SAMBA (South America-Baltica). At the same time, the new...recently by Bispo-Santos et al. (2014a) supports a SAMBA-like connection (Johansson, 2009) where the southern...whose collision originated the Maroni-Itacaiunas Province (2.25–2.05 Ga), followed by successively younger...provinces: VentuariTapajĂłs Province (1.98–1.81 Ga), Rio Negro-Juruena Province (1.78–1.60 Ga), Rondonian-San...Rondonian-San Ignacio Province (1.60–1.30 Ga) and SunsĂĄs-AguapeĂ­ Province (1.20–0.95 Ga). The latter forms the
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decreasing abundance, arechalcocitedjurleite,bornitc,chalcopyrite, pyrite,sphalerite, andgalena.Theyoccurasdisseminations...Kalaharicopperbelt is locatedin the Neoproterozoichafl copperbelt because it is a targetregionthat hasthe Damaraorogen...crossbedding, graded bedding, and coppersulfides(chalcopyrite, bornitc,and chalcocite) are symmetrical andasymmetrical...1990(seethe following section). The distribution of chalcopyrite,(U.S. Steel,1972-1978; featureof the Ditlhapelo...related, does 1993).Anotherdistinguishing of chalcopyrite, whichis usuallyfracture not allowdistinguishing
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden .......................................A. Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the RÞros ore district, Norway: setting and formation ................ The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and emplacement...for VHMS deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden .....................................
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PHONE (406) 363 3601 A.JOITE CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum...and S7. 50. BOURNONITE COGWHEEL CRYSTALS Keystone mine, Crested Butte, Colorado. A lead copper antimony...cogwheel (average size k'-?'') scattered on chalcopyrite xls, pyrite xls, or milky quartz. These specimens...matrix, T/N $. 50, $1. 00 AMOSITE Penge mine, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. A basic iron magnesium...$7.50 and $9. 50. ARSENOLITE CRYSTALS White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nevada. Arsenic trioxide. Very sharp
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(0.44%Cu,0.35 g/metrictonsAu), disseminated chalcopyrite-pyrite depositwithin a geologicallycomplexPan-Africanmobile...depositto relativelylow in peripheralrocks.Pyriteand chalcopyrite have‱34Svaluesof -0.4 to +0.6 per mil. K20 is...TR-2 Sillimanite TR TR Pyrite TR-5 TR-5 Chalcopyrite TR-5 TR-5 TR-2 TR TR TR-5 TR-5 TR TR...althoughHein (1981) noted a correlationbetween chalcopyrite and silicification in drift exposures at Chapada...magnetiteabundances wasemplacedafterdeformation. If the chalcopyrite than 0.5 percent. wasdeformedandmetamorphosed
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Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...& Nigel J. Cook The Nihe iron deposit, Anhui Province, eastern China: skarn, IOCG or porphyritic iron...Neoproterozoic rocks in the Lufilian belt, Domes region, Zambia .................................................the ages of Baiyanghe Be-U deposit in Xinjiang province, northwest China ..............................through polycyclic orogeny: the example of the Litsa district, Russia Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer, Michel Cuney
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Mineralization 4.10. A Comprehensive Example: The Cree de District, Colorado, USA 4.11. Summary 4.12. Recommended...disseminating the information, the mine geologists and mine managers who have made the mine visits a rewarding experience...concentration required to achieve the break-even point for a mine in terms of revenue and costs. Any detailed exploration...epochs. Following Tumeaure (1955), a metallogenic province may be defined as a mineralized area or region...The size of a metallogenic province can be as large as the Superior Province (Canadian Shield) or as small
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the uranium occurrences at and around the Phillips mine massive sulfide deposit, Westchester and Putnam...geology of a portion of the Camp Smith-Phillips mine are is generalized and simplified on figure 3. The...Dip of Foliation Trail ----- Trail 400 200 100 Mine 300 1 500 19'50" Putnam Co. Westchester Co Figure...Hill Granite. -15- Mine-site and mineral-deposit geology The Phillips mine was apparently developed... The mine was closed prior to the turn of the century. Based on the earlier reports of the mine (Kemp
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............... . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico .............................Massive Sulfide Deposits of the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic...Deposits ................ . 4.5.2 The Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota .. 4.5.3 Pre-Metamorphic Stratiform...Post-Metamorphic Quartz-Rich Vein Ores: The Sigma Mine, Quebec ................ . 4.5.5 Discussion and...Kennecott Mine, Alaska ................................. 9.8.2 The Copper Orebodies of the Mt. Isa Mine, Queensland
 
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