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Chalcocite from
Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:629832
Long-form Identifier:1:3:629832:6
GUID (UUID V4):eaf36d75-c28f-435c-99fd-09fb6a8857fd
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
94.6km (58.8 miles) ā“˜Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sediment-hosted Cu deposits . Central African Copperbelt . Zambia . Molybdenite . Re-Os ages . Synorogenic Alan...Copperbeltā€”the worldā€™s most important metallogenic province of this type, with ~220 Mt of contained Cu. Early...versus synorogenic models at the metallogenic province scale. In this paper, 15 new Re-Os age determinations...during inversion of the rift basins and concomitant north-vergent folding and thrusting that define the PanAfrican...paragenesis and deposit-scale zoning, typically from chalcocite through bornite and chalcopyrite (Ā±carrollite)
Thesis/Dissertation
AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE KANSANSHI CU-(AU) DEPOSIT, NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE, ZAMBIA by Timothy J. Mac Intyre...Geological Engineering ii ABSTRACT The Kansanshi Cu-(Au) mine exploits a structurally controlled deposit...southern Africa. It is currently the largest active Cu mine in Africa, with a total endowment of nearly 12 Mt...in domes along the crest of the NW-SE trending Kansanshi antiform. The deposit occurs within the Domes...exploration drill holes were completed across the Kansanshi mining lease with the aim of resolving outstanding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Uranium in the KatangaSystem of Northwestern LUIGI Zambia MENEGHEL AGIP S.p.A.-ZambiaBranch,Lusaka,Zambta...formationat the marginsof the Kabompo, Mwombezhi, and Solwezi domes. The mineralization occursas disseminationsor...in the Shaban and as it includes the Shinkolobwe mine (Derricks and Vaes, 1956; Derricks and Oosterbosch...of the arc, particularly at Kalongwe,Menda, KaIn Zambia,the sequenceis subdividedfrom bottom sompi,Swambo...exposed, 56 U OCCURRENCE, KATANGA SYSTEM, NW ZAMBIA 57 FIG.1. Distribution of the Katangasystem (afterDemesmaeker
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...MESOTHERMAL CU(-AU) MINERALIZATION IN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA J.M. MOORE Geology Department, Rhodes University, P...517 + 3 and 518 + 3 Ma. Late-stage supergene chalcocite-brochantite enrichment is related to the African...the Lufilian Orogen in Zambia, specifically with the Navachab Au and Kansanshi Cu deposits. The Onganja...Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara Orogen, some 65 km north-east of Windhoek
Journal (issue)
I Aā€™ S L E A D I N G M I N I N G J O U R N A L North-west rail work to commence soon 7 Mining sector...25 KSB 27 Electrical Maintenance Lusaka 30 North World Investment 31 World Masters 32 Time Compression...: ........................... 6 NEWS BRIEFS 7 North-west rail work to commence soon : ................target : ........................... Dickinson Kalis Zambia flexes muscle, as demand rise : ............................................ Madagascarā€™s Andapa mine exhibit large flake graphite concentrates : ...
Book
.^aU I i GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA SIMPLIFIED ,J^ljTangonyiko LEGEND ā–” 200 M^Iq"... In the same series A guide to the Insects of Zambia Elliot Pinhey and Ian Loe A guide to the National...DWoecraite of Zambia by GERALD COORAY, PhD, DIC, FGS Professor of Geology, University of Zambia and ANDREW...PhD Formerly Lecturer in Geology, University of Zambia colour illustrations by GOODFELLOW PHIRI Group...rocks Industrial minerals Outline of the Geology of Zambia 34 14 Radioactive minerals METALLIC MINERALS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine .......................................................................................... Nkana north limb .............................................................................. Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909.................................... The Katanga Province ......................................................................... 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chile Abstract The Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo, along with its...worldā€™s largest sediment-hosted, stratiform copper province. The economically dominant stratiform copper Ā±...metamorphosed and deformed in some deposits in Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia. In conjunction, these observations...unlikely throughout the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in...CRATON Tenke-Fungurume 10Āŗ KOLWESI ZAMBIA Kipoi ANGOLA Konkola North Nchanga Mufulira Frontier ZIMBABWE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metals in the Lufilian Fold Belt, Shaba(Zaire), Zambia, and Angola R. UNRUG Department of GeologicalSciences...sideredasa regionaltectonicunit that hada specific Zambia, and southernZaire (Fig. 1). The Lufilian fold...late Proterozoic Lufilian fold belt, formed dur- Zambia and Zaire. Previous studies of mineraliza- tion...AnneIs, 1974; Bartholom6, 1974; Lefebvre, 1974; north on coevalKatanganrocksof the Kundelungu Intiomale...Angola,Zaire, and minor local deformationspresent. Zambia (Anonymous,1961; Legg, 1973; Francois, In the souththe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Likasi area (FranƧois, 1973a) and at Lubudi, 80 km north of Tenke (Schellinck, 1946). Study of the Nguba...of the Congo (hereafter Congo) and northwestern Zambia (Fig. 1). A basal unconformity between the Katangan...Kibaride belt (ca. 1.4ā€“1.0 Ga) occurs north (Mitwaba area) and north-west (Nzilo area) of the Katangan belt...are well exposed in the Nguba area (Fungurume district). The Roan Group consists of clastic sedimentary...sedimentary sequences were folded and thrust to the north during the Lufilian orogeny (Kampunzu and Cailteux
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kamoa copper deposit is located in the Katanga Province of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo outside...Mwashya-Grand ConglomƩrat contact, changing from chalcocite to bornite to chalcopyrite to pyrite with increased...at least 5 km west and approximately 10 to 15 km north and south of the area investigated in this study...pers. commun., 2012). Kamoa is located on the western edge of the Congolese Katangan basin and is hosted...01-24 flat-lying sedimentary sequence of the Western foreland to the west (Key et al., 2001). The deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediment-hosted copper- and cobalt-producing metallogenic province in the world (Fig. 1). It hosts over 80 deposits...Kabompo Western Middle Lu filian 12Ā°S Solwezi Musoshi Kasumbalesa Chililabombwe Mwombezhi Solwezi Chingola...City or town dl Rivers n ia Antiform traces Solwezi id Faults, shear zones M 26Ā° 25Ā° 24Ā° Kalahari...folding and strain partitioning Bancroft 16 Solwezi Musoshi Kanwangungu Roan Upper Roan Middle...13: Musoshi, 14: Kipushi, 15: Luiswishi, 16: Kansanshi. (b) Generalised stratigraphic column of the Katanga
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kamoa copper deposit located within the DRC at the western end of the Central African Copperbelt (CACB). Fringes...of Congo (DRC). The deposit is located on the western edge of the Congolese portion of the Central African...largest sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper province (Fig. 1). It is hosted in a 5 to 10 km thick package...consists of chalcopyrite-bornite with subsidiary chalcocite and pyrite. Multiple phases of mineralisation...terranes by E-W sinistral strikeslip faulting in the western part of the CACB (Monwezi fault system) and the
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...south of Lusaka Start of production 65km west of Solwezi Location Remarks - Cu mineralization occurs...37-year mine life. Appendix II-5 (1) Mineral Development and Exploration Projects in Zambia 1 84
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2015 Keywords: Copper mineralisation Chalcocite Shear zone hosted Amphibolite Retrograde biotiteā€“epidote...biotiteā€“chloriteā€“epidote schists that host the chalcocite-dominated mineralisation. Deformation and mineralisation...by the intergrowth of chalcocite with the retrograde assemblages and chalcocite forming part of the mylonitic...gneisses in the Domes Region of the Luļ¬lian Arc in Zambia. Ā© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1....high-grade metamorphic (T N 600 Ā°C, P ca. 7 kbar) chalcocite-dominated sulphide assemblage conļ¬ned to a lithologically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic dating. Brannerite from the Kansanshi mine, Western Province, Zambia, is found in association with...(1016 Ī± mgāˆ’1) dpa Crocker's Well, SA W. Province, Zambia Sierra Albarrana, Spain Bou-Azzer, Morocco...veins. The main sulļ¬de minerals include bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite...hydrothermal quartzbarite vein at the La Gardette mine, near Bourg d' Oisans, Isere, where it occurs as...gray to white). B) Sample B4, Kansanshi mine, Western Province, Zambia, t = 500ā€“ 520 Ma, showing relatively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kyanite-micaschists hosting the Cu(ā€“U) Lumwana deposit in the Western Zambian Copperbelt of the Luļ¬lian belt FranƧois...Rennes Cedex, France Barrick Limited, Lumwana, Zambia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...internal zone of the Luļ¬lian belt known as the Western Zambian Copperbelt in which a primary Cu mineralization...metasedimentary sequence. Cu(ā€“U) occurrences in the Western Zambian Copperbelt are hosted by kyanite-micaschists...recrystallization of the sulļ¬des in top to the north C3 shear bands associated with rutile crystals yielding
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĆ­o Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of Worldā€™s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Ā± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,...Schuh, Richard A. Leveille, Isabel Fay, and Robert North 269 Stephen E. Box, Boris Syusyura, Reimar Seltmann
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Northern Rhodesia, 522 ā€¢ 15 m.y. ; brannerite, Kansanshi, Northern Rhodesia, 503 ā€¢ 15 m.y. ; uraninite...Monkey Bay, Nyasaland, 597i25 m.y.; samarskite, north-west Kenya, 635 5=25 m.y. The significance of the...15 600 I " 700 I 800 I 9 0 0 M.Y. I O KANSANSHI 5 0 3 + 15 I S HI N K O L O B W E 6 42 ā€¢ 20...inches, collected from the Mindola Section of Nkana mine. This mode of occurrence is not typical of the disseminated...amounts of bornite, chalcopyrite, digenite, and chalcocite. The opaque minerals are set in a ground-mass
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recrystallization/metamorphism or the transition of chalcocite from its high- to its low-temperature polymorph...(CAC; Fig. 1), which straddles the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is...is the largest sediment-hosted stratiform Cuā€“Co province on Earth, hosting at least 200 Mt copper and 8...zircon Uā€“Pb SHRIMP ages of 765Ā±5 Ma in northwestern Zambia (Key et al. 2001). These mafic igneous rocks record...the Lufilian orogeny in the Chambishi basin in Zambia. The oldest metamorphic ages are provided by Uā€“Pb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
faults into a chalcocite-dominated Cuā€“Ag mineralisation of high economic interest. The chalcocite samples contain...lithological control of the immediate host rocks on the chalcocite-dominated Cuā€“Ag ores. The Pb isotope systematics...in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 250 km to the north 394 of the Lufilian...mining company, down to 150 m below the surface. The mine was converted into an underground operation by the...that did not met the expectations for the Dikulushi mine (Sabine et al. 2008). Current measured and indicated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
East Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- beudantite, carminite, mimetite...cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite...jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite, stibnite, 431 Tretoil mine, Lanivet: danalite, garnet, ilvaite, 921 Wheal Betsy
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................rocks of South Central Africa of a polymetallic province, distinct from the stratiform Cu-Co-U seams of...in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes deposits of Zn-Pb-Cu with an array of...1984). The Broken Hill deposit at Kabwe in central Zambia is also famous economically. Hosted just outside...connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60Ā°W (see
Report (issue)
not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...Sediment-Hosted Deposits by Age 200 Copperbelt, Zambia, Rep. of Congo 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 110...following minerals deposited in zones in this order: chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite...pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite. Chalcocite forms near the oxidized source of copper; pyrite...sulfide. Native silver is common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic of Congo contain carrollite, Co-pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
broadly in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Zambian district comprises deposits...breccias of probable evaporitic origin. The Congolese district comprises deposit fragments that occur within...or exceeding those of other copper deposits in Zambia and DRC, and remains open at depth. The deposit...found elsewhere in the Copperbelt. Supergene chalcocite and minor native copper, and minor oxide facies...6005, Australia (sdominy@snow dengroup.com) 2 Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University,
 
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