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


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cornetite2 photos of Malachite associated with Cornetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96754
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96754:7
GUID (UUID V4):4e945398-f6ae-46e8-a598-f3e6620b54e2
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
42.5km (26.4 miles) Lombe Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
94.6km (58.8 miles) Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...shadows on porphyroblasts, suggest a top to the north shear sense. The sulphides are deformed by a strong...Copperbelt, which straddles the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is host to...the provincial capital of Solwezi, in the North Western Province of Zambia and represent one of the most
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...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...Zone of the orogen, as well as the Kansanshi copper deposit in Zambia. The latter comparison shows that
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
Book
.^aU I i GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA SIMPLIFIED ,J^ljTangonyiko LEGEND □ 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
Report (issue)
086(2) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bwana Mkubwa, Zambia. 3.04 (10), 4.29 (9), 3.17 (8), 3.68 (7), 2.06...89 8.03 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Bwana Mkubwa, Zambia; recalculated after deduction of Fe2 O3 0.53% and...libethenite, malachite, atacamite, chrysocolla, heterogenite. Distribution: From the Star of the Congo mine, near...Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From the Bwana Mkubwa mine, Ndola, and Kansanshi, Zambia...Lomagundi district, Zimbabwe. In the USA, in the Blue Jay and Empire-Nevada mines, Yerington district, Lyon
Journal (issue)
in 5 years 29 Fall in copper prices to impact Zambia - KCM 30 FQM layoffs are meant to blackmail Government...Manager Nava Bharat builds coal power plant in Zambia 41 Gemfields emerald auction commended by Mines...Chinese consortium selected to revive Uganda copper mine 47 ADVERTISING SALES sales@miningnewszambia.com...Quantum Minerals 63 Processing Plant for Kaboko Mine to be delivered in early September 65 Kitwe: ...Hydraulics training 68 Zambia Railways targets 5 million tonnage capacity 70 Zambia, Congo, Tanzania railways
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dome: The Copperbelt Ore Shale in Northwestern Zambia NICK STEVEN† Rockwater Consulting, 10 Evergreen...target. Kalumbila occurs within a moderately (40o) north- northwest-dipping band of Wamikumbi Formation carbonaceous...mineralization at the Kalumbila prospect in North Western province, Zambia (Fig. 1). This mineral deposit type...presented for a potentially important mineral district, where the high-precision geochronological database...Appleton, 1978; Unrug, 1988) is located toward the western end of the Lufilian arc (Daly, 1986) on the southeastern
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)
Kamoa copper deposit is located in the Katanga Province of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo outside...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...Pre-Katanga Basement t Roan Subgroup s ru th ZAMBIA Nguba and Kundelungu Group Mwashya Subgroup Volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pioneers, who first in I898 discovered the Kansanshi Copper Mine in Northern Rhodesia 2 miles south of the...Zambezi-Congo watershed by the treaty of I885; while the western boundary between Rhodesia and Portuguese Angola... TRACTION ENGINE ON THE ROAD CATTLE AT MWINILUNGA KANSANSHI MINE This content downloaded from 132.77.150.148...from Cape Town; all the carriers had arrived from North-Eastern Rhodesia, and the administration had laid...the ore being still all malachite or carbonate of copper. Seven miles north-west is the Government station
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)
Shanta Gold’s Singida Tanzania’s first new gold mine in a decade OreCorp’s Nyanzaga Project’s true potential...abundant. Moving to ESG – another much-loved subject of mine – our timing for this feature was apt. The Jagersfontein...there’s of the SADC region, sparks, and further north into there’s fire central Africa. Most When it comes...operations differ: e.g. conditions at a diamond mine are very different from those at an iron ore operation...highlights. Outside of tailings (waste management and mine closure), the Mining 2030 is looking at the following
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 S60°W (see
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C.). The Kundelungu Plateau is situated to the north of the Lufilian Arc that hosts the world-class stratiform...Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1a). Reserves of the Dikulushi mine prior to...Plateau is a triangular-shaped area situated to the north of the Lufilian Arc that hosts the Central African...investigated during two mapping campaigns in the mine, and by interpretation of aeromagnetic and satellite...a relatively thin package of arkose beds in the north and a thick package of dolomitic shale and fine-grained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...studied in detail during two mapping campaigns in the mine (Haest et al. 2007). Petrography, fluid inclusions...which change towards sandstone and siltstone in the north (Batumike et al. 2006). The overlying Bunkeya Subgroup
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the Río 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,...Schuh, Richard A. Leveille, Isabel Fay, and Robert North 269 Stephen E. Box, Boris Syusyura, Reimar Seltmann
Book
involved archival and interview work in Britain, Zambia and Zaire, as well as purely archival work in Belgium...Mines and the Copper Industry Service Bureau in Zambia all provided me with every facility, though the...bibliography. Keith Rennie of the University of Zambia, Jean-Luc Vellut then of the Universite Nationale...black workforce in the copper mines 1936-37 191 6 Mine compounds on the Copperbelt as at 1941 232 List...movements, 1920-25 48 3 BTK: Recruitment returns by district, 1911-25 56 4 UMHK: Black labour costs, 1926-41
Catalog/List
il" in size . 2xl". £5 . 00 AI'-'GLE'.SITE. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. Cavities in Galena matrix...lxil" . £2.50 APOPHYLLITE and Preh;,ite. Phalaborwa Mine, Transvaal, S. Africa. Very rich specimen suitable...2x3 '; . £14.00 NATIVE ARSE.'lIC + Stibnite. Kusa Mine, Nr . Bau, Sarawak, Borneo. Specimen ASilvery grey...azure blue with minor Malachite in association . 2~xl~". £5 . 50 AZURITE. Wood Mine, Alderl ey &!ge, Cheshire...matrix. Hxl" . £2 .00 AZURITE. Laurion, Attica district, Greece. Deep cavity lined with sparkling dark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copperbelt, which stretches across the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of...occurrence, is located in the northern part of the western flank of the anticline. This part of the anticline...(digenite, covellite, and minor native copper), with malachite and chrysocolla as the main oxidation products...56-0.53 Ga felsic province External Fold and Thrust Belt 0.76-0.73 Ga mafic province Domes Region Zambezi...African Copperbelt straddles the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aynak deposit, are located in the Kabul Copper District, an area of 800 square kilometres situated within...2005a). Located about 30 km SSE of Kabul in Logar Province, the Aynak deposit has been exploited by arti­...divided into two prospects namely Central Aynak and Western Aynak (Figure 2). Published accounts (AGS and BGS...mineralizing processes which may be important in mine development and exploration for further resources...Aynak deposit (Figure 2) and more exten­ sively north of Kabul City (Figure 3(a)). This comprises garnetiferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
part of the KCMA, ~14 km west of the Meiduk copper mine (Fig. 1). Mineralization is associated with a porphyry...partial replacement of plagioclase phenocrysts by malachite. Hornblende, where present, occurs as euhedral...is likely over ~1.6 million years. Thus, on the district-scale, PCD mineralization in the Meiduk cluster...relatively fast event. The plutonism timespan at the district scale is at least ~9.6 m.y., whereas Cu porphyry...at Chahfiroozeh Porphyry Copper Deposit, Kerman Province, Southern Iran. Joint Assembly. Canada: Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specifically those in the Yenisei Ridge gold province (e.g. Olimpiada, Sovetskoe) which likely formed...Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Permian collision of the North (NCC) and South China (SCC) cratonic blocks, and...Yangshan, Baguaniao) in the sutured terranes of the western Qinling fold belt. Although their tectonic evolution...the Siberian continental margin farther to the north, was associated with orogenic (e.g. Natalka), as...the south, and eastern, southern Siberia to the north. These Phanerozoic orogenic gold districts are globally
Journal (issue)
tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...collecting achievements contributing to the heritage of North American mineral specimens February 201 8 Notes...contributing to the Heritage of American (that is, North, Central and South American) mineral specimens....of 2007 Rod began looking at housing along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy. He found a ship captain's
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...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...should be used to guide mining plans where acid mine drainage caused by oxidizing pyrite must be avoided
 
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