 | Sillitoe, Richard H., PerellĆ³, JosĆ©, Creaser, Robert A., Wilton, John, Wilson, Alan J., Dawborn, Toby (2017) Age of the Zambian Copperbelt. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (8) 1245-1268 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0726-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1007/s00126-017-0726-8 ARTICLE Age of the Zambian Copperbelt Richard H. Sillitoe 1 & JosĆ© PerellĆ³ 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 Copperbeltāthe worldās most important metallogenic province of this type, with ~220 |  | | 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 |  | VĆtkovĆ”, M., Ettler, V., Johan, Z., KÅĆbek, B., Å ebek, O., MihaljeviÄ, M. (2010) Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 581-600 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.581 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia M. VIĢTKOVAĢ1,*, V. ETTLER1, Z. JOHAN2...smelters (Nkana, Mufulira, Chambishi) in the Copperbelt Province, Zambia, were studied from mineralogical...the slags studied were Cu sulphides (digenite, chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite), Co-Fe sulphides (cobaltpentlandite)...evaluated further. K EY WORDS : slags, smelting, Copperbelt, Zambia, copper, cobalt, clinopyroxene, leucite....VIĢTKOVAĢ ET AL. arkoses and sandstones (e.g. Chambishi SE deposits); and (4) vein-type quartz-carbonatesulphide |  | KÅĆbek, Bohdan, Nyambe, Imasiku, Sracek, Ondra, MihaljeviÄ, Martin, KnĆ©sl, Ilja (2023) Impact of Mining and Ore Processing on Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review. Minerals, 13 (3) 384 doi:10.3390/min13030384 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review Bohdan KrĢĆbek 1,...Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review. Minerals 2023, 13...School of Mines, University of Zambia, Lusaka P.O. Box 32379, Zambia Department of Geology, Faculty of...processing on a large part of the Zambian Copperbelt mining district was carried out by the Czech Research...Geology Department, University of Zambia, and the Geological Survey of Zambia in the period 2002ā2018. This |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nchanga copperācobalt deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt Received: 8 April 2005 / Accepted: 25 October... Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The Zambian Copperbelt forms the southeastern part of the 900-km-long...the most signiļ¬cant ore systems in the Zambian Copperbelt and contains two major economic concentrations...mineralogy includes pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite, although in the Lower Orebody, sulļ¬de phases...tourmaline, and chlorite. Quartz veins from the mine sequence show halite-saturated ļ¬uid inclusions, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resistingthe ideaspresentedin the literatureon the Copperbelt, his manymisstatements and very one-sided argumentsaboutthe...uranium-vanadiumdepositshave somefeaturesin commonwith the Copperbelt deposits,althoughthe dimensionsare so vastly...of hypogene copper metallization one may find chalcocite,bornitc, or chalcopyrite,and with them varying...intensivestudyand mining is that of the Butte District, Montana. This district was first describedby Sales in 1913...preliminaryresultsof their exhaustivestudiesof the Butte District. This last work is probablythe most completestudy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine .............................................................................................. Chambishi ................................................................................. Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909.................................... The Katanga Province ......................................................................... 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ........................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals .......................... Problem of the Chalcocite ...................................... Microstructures....... The South-Central African Metallogenetic Province .............. Summary and Conclusions.........."The Geology and Development of the Roan Antelope Mine," by D.C. Sharpstone, privately printed, London... ' _Ć ā¢. Fro. z. Map showinglocationof the CopperBelt and N'Kana Conces- sionin NorthernRhodesia (Courtesy...Roan Antelope Mine. 0 Gray, Anton, op. cit., p. x2. ORES OF NORTHERN RHODESIA COPPERBELT. 371 KATANGAā¢ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pan-African Lufilian orogeny in the ChambishiāNkana Basin, Central African Copperbelt Koen Torremans1,a , Philippe...south-east margin of the ChambishiāNkana Basin in the Central African Copperbelt, hosting the world-class...folding and the degree of shale content in the Copperbelt Orebody Member (COM), which hosts most of the...(re-)mobilisation in the Copperbelt. 1 Introduction The Central African Copperbelt is the largest and highestgrade...sediment-hosted copper- and cobalt-producing metallogenic province in the world (Fig. 1). It hosts over 80 deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | readeras damaging to the syngenetictheory. For the Copperbelt,the metamorphicwater and the syngenetic theoriesare... As at BrokenHill, New SouthWales, so on the Copperbelt,a syngenetic origin wouldultimatelyhavebeenfavorablyconsidered...about the age relationsof the graniteson the Copperbelt,then their ideason the origin of the coppercouldalsobe...RenoSalesasks"What werethe factsobserved in the mine and drill coresthat led him (that is Anton Gray)...Brummer findings that all the known granitesin the Copperbelt areaare pre-Roanin agesurelydid not alter the |  | | 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...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) | | porphyry-typedepositsand mineralizedgneisses. the border of Zambia with Zaire (Fig. 1A). It lies Introduction within...of central Africa. The sul- THE copper belt of Zambia stretchesfor approximately150 km fromKonkolain...the 1838 STABLE ISOTOPE & GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES, ZAMBIA 1839 caseof a narrowbelt of depositsrunningfromKonkola...northwestthroughChililabombwe,Chingola (Lowerorebody),Pitanda,Chambishi,andChambishi Southeast,Mindola,Nkana,Baluba,andLuanshyain...iston the geology and the ore depositsof the copperbelt; the contents of many of these papershave been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Proterozoic Mines Series, Tenke-Fungurume CuāCo district, Democratic Republic of Congo I. Fay & M. D. Barton...deposits in the Tenke-Fungurume district of the Central African Copperbelt were examined to evaluate the...consumption . Central African Copperbelt Introduction The African Copperbelt, an arcuate band of Neoproterozoic...southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into northern Zambia (Fig. 1a, b), contains some of the worldās most...generally restricted their work to the deposit or district scale (e.g., Oosterbosch 1951; BartholomĆ© 1974; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MARGARET E. GREEN Abstract This is, for the Zambian Copperbelt,a very small but rich copper-cobaltdeposit, at...the Lower Roan group on the south flank of the Chambishi-Nkana Basin. The host, as in the neighboring Chibulumadeposit...altered to amphibolite-scapolite rocks. RhodesJan Copperbelt," editedby Mendelsohn. Mining started in 1962... s.., Ćø OF CHIBULUMA WEST OREBODY ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT ""* :'ā¢ā¢ANGA ā¢ 401 MILES ā¢UFULIRA ,Jā¢ ....INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY :.'.'.'.'. LOWER ROAN ZAMBIAN o COPPERBELT' ; '\\ ā¢,. % %%% Ć NDOLA BWANA MKUBWA |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | XXVI. THE GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, GEOLOGY AND CHAMBISHI, ORE NORTHERN D. M. NO. :2 I93I DEPOSITS...... ā¢42 ā¢44 ā¢49 ā¢5o ISI INTRODUCTION. THE Chambishi copper deposit is located in the N'Kana Concession...Concession map, is centrally situated in the copperbelt. It is still in the development stage, but drilling...simple structure of most of the depositsof the district have occasionedtheir rapid and accurate development...strike at intervals of about IOOOfeet, but at Chambishi complicatedfolding neces-. sitated additional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phases and contrasting ļ¬uid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky...online 23 July 2009 Keywords: Central African Copperbelt Sediment-hosted CuāCo deposits Fluid inclusion...The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known Central African Copperbelt, the largest...largest sediment-hosted stratiform CuāCo province on Earth. Petrographic examination of borehole samples from...the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene CuāCo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Potentially Toxic Chemical Species at an Abandoned Copper Mine Tailings Dump Wilson Mugera Gitari 1,2, * 1 2 3...February 2018 Abstract: Large volumes of disposed mine tailings abound in several regions of South Africa...consequently resulting in the formation of acidic mine drainages with low pH conditions laden with high...invasive species [13]. Groundwater in the mining district of Johannesburg in South Africa is heavily contaminated...oxidative weathering of pyrite present within the mine tailings dumps [14]. The duration of these environmental |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CLASSIC EXAMPLE GENETIC DEPOSITION JOSEPH COPPERBELT: OF SYN- ā¢ L. GILLSON AT the Symposium on...the volume, "Geologyof the Northern Rhodesian CopperBelt," editedby Dr. F. Mendelsohn,ChiefGeologistof...Bruinruerunquestionably has a wide knowledgeof the district. His thesisin 1955 describedthe "Geologyof the'Roan...volume on the "Geologyof the NorthernRhodesJan CopperBelt." The followingcomments are offeredto counterthe...omitted in the preparation of "The Geologyof the Copperbelt." Point/.--This is the thesis that the volume |  | Roberts, Stephen, Palmer, Martin R., Cooper, Matthew J., Buchaus, Peter, Sargent, Drew (2009) REE and Sr isotope characteristics of carbonate within the CuāCo mineralized sedimentary sequence of the Nchanga Mine, Zambian Copperbelt. Mineralium Deposita, 44 (8) 881-891 doi:10.1007/s00126-009-0254-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralized sedimentary sequence of the Nchanga Mine, Zambian Copperbelt Stephen Roberts & Martin R. Palmer & Matthew...host rocks and ores of the Nchanga mine of the Zambian Copperbelt. Dolomite samples from the hanging...one of the largest ore systems in the Zambian Copperbelt. The deposit contains two major economic concentrations...Katangan Supergroup. At the Nchanga mine of the Zambian Copperbelt, dolomite occurs both in the mineralized...work on the Copperbelt, particularly on the mineralized sequence of the nearby Konkola mine, demonstrated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 7 Sabkhas,Slumping,and Compactionat Mufulira, Zambia W. G. GARLICK P.O. Magoebaskloof, 0751, Republicof...predominantly arenaceous deposits of the Mufuliracopper mine indicatesa similarorigin, with the more commoncopperdepositsin...Mufulira is corroboratedby detailedfeaturesin the mine. Recognition of abundantcarbonizeddebrisof algal...Introduction strip of ore shale between Mindola and Chambishi mines (Garlick and Fleischer, 1972). MALAN(1964)...sedimentsand associated body of the Mufulira Copper Mine, whereasprevi- fulira by invokingsabkhaconditions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | STRATIFORM MINERALIZATION OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN COPPERBELT: TEMPORAL AND GENETIC IMPLICATIONS RICHARD H...Santiago, Chile Abstract The Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo, along...(the Kalahari Copperbelt), is the worldās largest sediment-hosted, stratiform copper province. The economically...metamorphosed and deformed in some deposits in Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia. In conjunction, these observations...cobalt mineralization in the Central African Copperbelt, as well as in the geologically similar and broadly |  | El Desouky, H. A., Muchez, P., Dewaele, S., Boutwood, A., Tyler, R. (2008) Postorogenic Origin of the Stratiform Cu Mineralization at Lufukwe, Lufilian Foreland, Democratic Republic of Congo. Economic Geology, 103 (3) 555-582 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.555 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Central African Copperbelt, which stretches across the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic...Lufilian foreland is located to the northeast of the Copperbelt. Recently sediment-hosted stratiform copper occurrences...Although the stratiform copper mineralization in the Copperbelt is mainly concentrated in the Roan Group sedimentary...is both hypogene (chalcopyrite, bornite, and chalcocite) and supergene (digenite, covellite, and minor...56-0.53 Ga felsic province External Fold and Thrust Belt 0.76-0.73 Ga mafic province Domes Region Zambezi |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the belief that someof his colleagueson the Copperbelt,better qualifiedto do so, will answer more broadly...are confinedto the gabbroitself. Finally, at Chambishi a thick gabbrosill, stratigraphically700 feet...intrnsions" within the DISCUSSION.5' 617 Chambishi-Nkana and Roan-Muliashi basins 1nay be interesting...whatever. Sales points to the geologicalmap of the Chambishi-Nkanabasin in support. Given that the ore formations...bases his statelnent that: "Undoubtedly,at greater mine depth in the Nkana basin,there will be found examplesof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | REVIEWS THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RI{ODESIA COPPERBELT, F. MnNonr.sonN. Macdonald & Co., London, 1961...volume on "The Geology of the Northern Rhodesia Copperbelt" was prepared for the Seventh Commonwealth Mining...laboratory data. A geological map of the entire copperbelt forms an important feature of the volume Data...by Brock and of the structural elements of the copperbelt by Garlick places the ore deposits in their proper...which extends for 500 miles through the copper province. Dominant in the Rhodesian section is the Kafue |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CuāCo deposit at Kamoto in the Central African Copperbelt Philippe Muchez 1 & Anne-Sylvie AndrĆ©-Mayer 2...sediment-hosted ore deposits such as in the Central African Copperbelt. Here we present ReāOs dating results for disseminated...after anhydrite in nodules and layers from the Copperbelt. Results demonstrate that at least some of the...recrystallization/metamorphism or the transition of chalcocite from its high- to its low-temperature polymorph...polymorph. Keywords Central African Copperbelt . ReāOs dating . Sediment-hosted deposits . Diagenetic copper |
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