Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Samba Mine, Kasompe, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616115
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616115:6
GUID (UUID V4):4765ff8a-5fa5-4fa4-9f34-98a557f58237
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
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
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
80.5km (50.0 miles) ⓘLuanshya Mine (Roan Antelope Mine), Luanshya, Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
82.5km (51.3 miles) ⓘLuswishi River, Lufwanyama District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Other Paper
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...37-year mine life. Appendix II-5 (1) Mineral Development and Exploration Projects in Zambia 1 84...Resources (UK) 7 /Copperbelt Minerals Copper Copper 6 /Phelps Dodge Mining (Zambia) African Eagle Resources
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite. Chalcocite...Chalcocite forms near the oxidized source of copper; pyrite forms near the reduced rocks. Native copper occurs...common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic of Congo contain carrollite, Co-pyrite and Ge minerals. Texture/Structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...copper sulphides range from +2.3‰ to +18.5‰, with pyrite typically restricted to values between +3.9‰ and...characteristics which distinguish them from classical Copperbelt mineralization and which suggests that they are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peridotite Zone; and pyrrhotite with pentlandite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in Gabbronorite I of the Lower...stage, unaltered plumose marcasite and framboidal pyrite samples contain the lowest total abundances of...composition. Late plumose marcasite, and the framboidal pyrite with the lowest minor element abundance, also have...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...sulfide facies, namely, chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-pyrite-cubanite and bornite-chalcopyritechalcocite. Deposition...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
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...associated with early arsenic-poor and gold-free pyrite. The geochemistry of the plutonic rocks and associated...a second generation of sulfides, with the later pyrite hosting visible gold and minor chalcopyrite that...compositions rich in Ag, As, Au, Bi, Cu, and Pb. Pyrite with this signature was only observed in local
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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,...Chapada is found as disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite hostes primarily by biotite schist that is in-...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Nkout deposit is part of an emerging iron ore province in West and Central Africa. It is an oxide facies...is present bornite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, pyrite, and magnetite elsewhere. The Re/Os age of molybdenite...in the Nakhodka ore field is composed of As-rich pyrite, sphalerite, galena, Zn-rich tennantite-tetrahedrite
Catalog/List
PHONE (406) 363 3601 A.JOITE CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum...brass-yellow metallic twinned pyrite crystals ( Iron cross). Some of the pyrite vugs contain felted aggregates...and S7. 50. BOURNONITE COGWHEEL CRYSTALS Keystone mine, Crested Butte, Colorado. A lead copper antimony...(average size k'-?'') scattered on chalcopyrite xls, pyrite xls, or milky quartz. These specimens are similar...matrix, T/N $. 50, $1. 00 AMOSITE Penge mine, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. A basic iron magnesium
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 ................sulfide-hosting footwall sequence of Lousal, Iberian pyrite belt ............................................ The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and emplacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundance, arechalcocitedjurleite,bornitc,chalcopyrite, pyrite,sphalerite, andgalena.Theyoccurasdisseminations...Kalaharicopperbelt is locatedin the Neoproterozoichafl copperbelt because it is a targetregionthat hasthe Damaraorogen...fromthe contact. In the KgwebeHills,disseminated pyrite geophysical dataarealsoin agreement withthissituation...GhanziFormationin somepartsof the high-grade orezone pyrite,pyrite,sphalerite, andgalena. Thereis a weakstrati(Figs...thickandgenerally graphicmineralzoning: ehaleopyrite, pyrite,sphalerite, and poorerin copperthanthe overlying
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
replaced by Ni-sorbed pyrite (23–52%) in redox-active intermediate depth layers and by pyrite (34–55%) in the...the deepest sediment layers. Ni-incorporation in pyrite is especially observed beneath an inland Avicennia...variations in the distribution of Fe-oxyhydroxides, pyrite and iron-bearing clays, rely on the redox gradients...the present study. Ni-pyrite reference samples consisted of a natural Ni-rich pyrite (Fe0.9Ni0.1S2), referred...referred to as Ni-pyrite10% as well as a synthetic Ni-pyrite containing 1 mol% Ni, and referred to as Ni-pyrite1%
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0.35 g/metrictonsAu), disseminated chalcopyrite-pyrite depositwithin a geologicallycomplexPan-Africanmobile... TR Apatite TR-2 TR-2 Sillimanite TR TR Pyrite TR-5 TR-5 Chalcopyrite TR-5 TR-5 TR-2 TR...to 5 percentboth within and outsidethe ore zone. Pyrite/chalcopyriteratiosare <2 within the ore zoneand>2...deposit.The center of the depositis of greater pyrite in the Chapadadeposithasbeen deformedor characterizedby... Ti oxides of Spencer and Lindsley (1981). The pyrite grainsdisplayonly the parallel-sided,continuous
Book
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...Accessory sulfide-group and oxide-group minerals (e.g., pyrite, arsenopyrite, magnetite, ilmenite), especially...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
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Report (issue)
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
Book
............... . 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
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 25, 2024 10:14:11
Go to top of page