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Regional Report: Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Shallow marine redbed-type sequence. Mineralization in stromatolitic/microbial-laminated structures in dolomitic beds. Important silification phase. Mineralization occurred during diagenesis.

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  • Astrocyanite-(Ce) - 1
  • Becquerelite - 3
  • Billietite - 3, 6
  • Bornite - 3, 2
  • Calcite - 2, 6
  • Carrollite - 1, 3, 6
  • Chalcocite - 3
  • 'Chalcotrichite' - 1
  • Chrysocolla - 6
  • 'Cobaltoan Calcite' - 4
  • Cuprite - 1, 3, 4
  • Cuprosklodowskite - 3
  • Curite - 1
  • Dolomite - 1
  • Francevillite - 5
  • Françoisite-(Nd) - 1
  • 'Gummite' - 1
  • Heterogenite - 3, 6
  • Kamotoite-(Y) - 1
  • Kolwezite - 3
  • Libethenite - 6
  • Malachite - 1, 3, 4, 6
  • Masuyite - 1
  • Metasaléeite - 5
  • Metastudtite - 5
  • Metatorbernite - 1
  • Phosphuranylite - 5
  • Plancheite - 1
  • Roubaultite - 3, 6
  • Schoepite - 1
  • Schuilingite-(Nd) - 1
  • Shabaite-(Nd) - 1
  • Sklodowskite - 1
  • Soddyite - 3
  • Spherocobaltite - 3, 5
  • Uraninite - 1, 3
  • Uranophane - 1, 3, 2
  • Vandenbrandeite - 3
  • Zeunerite - 1


    • 39 minerals listed.

    Locality Key
    1Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
    2Kamoto North Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
    3Kamoto Principal Mine (Kamoto Fond Mine; Kamoto Mine), Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
    4Kamoto Principal Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
    5Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
    6KOV Open cut (Kamoto-Oliveira-Virgule Open cut), Kamoto, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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