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Limestone (commodity) from
Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Province
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Commodity:Limestone (commodity)
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Commodity Data:Click here to view Limestone (commodity) data
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1213799
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1213799:0
GUID (UUID V4):112bcd0b-4ba7-4828-945c-2950cae677f6
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF KATANGA, MAURICE AND BELGIAN ORE DEPOSITS CONGO. ROBERT. CONTENTS.' General...and ore depositsof the now famous Katanga district of the Belgian Congo. The information was gained during...direction of the writer for the Comit• Specialdu Katanga. .411uvialand SuperficialDeposits. Alluvial ...Biano highlands,which form the uplandsof central Katanga and rise to elevationsgreater than •5oo meters...areasin the northwest part of the province of Katanga. Other outliers occurto the east,in elongateddepressions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ConglomĂŠrat Formation and overlying Kakontwe Limestone Formation of the lower Nguba Group. The Grand...deposit in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Alteration and mineralization at Fishtie display...south of the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Fig. 1). Fishtie occurs on the northeastern...Lusale Basin (Fig. 2), an outlier of Neoproterozoic Katanga Supergroup sedimentary rocks enclosed by metavolcanic...African Copperbelt area showing the distribution of Katanga Supergroup rocks and the location of the Fishtie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the watershed between the Congo and the Zambesi to Katanga and the Upper Congo. The geographical pioneers...i, pp. 218-219) referred to the existence of limestone at Dombe Grande, 30 miles south-east of the city...Bailundo and Huambo districts and of a siliceous limestone at Bailundo was reported by an official mission...of a fault scarp. This scarp is the front of a limestone plateau, which begins west of Lobito at a height...Catumbella is a cliff of gypsiferous, false-bedded limestone, which yielded a large Tylostoma globosum * ;
Report (chapter)
Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites of the Katanga Supergroup, Central Africa SHARAD MASTER1* & MAREK...ac.za) Abstract: Glaciogenic sediments of the Katanga Supergroup are represented by two units. The syn-rift...the Lufilian orogenic belt located between the Congo and Kalahari cratons. Their glacial origin is inferred...units are succeeded by carbonates: the Kakontwe Limestone and ‘Calcaire Rose’ respectively. The clasts in...Palaeozoic Katanga Supergroup of Central Africa (Katanga Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia
Journal (issue)
the L'Etoile du Congo Mine Lumbumbashi, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...copper minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been available for many years. Although production...other species less so. The L'Etoile du Congo (Star of the Congo) Mine is the type locality for cornetite...become Zambia (and not to be confused with the other Congo on the African west coast!) See figure 1. Perhaps...clarification is needed, since older names such as Belgian Congo and Zaire also apply to the locality: The 1870s
Journal (issue)
SPECIAL ARTICLES ¡ $5,000 R.EwABD. By Dr. Eles THE NEw MINERALS OF KATANGA. By Edward Cahen NOTES ON THE BuTTE...suggests this. The Romance of Rocks and :Minerals: By Dr. R. F. H . Harter. Many of the great countries of...developtnent. We are sure our readers will enjoy Dr. Harter's very interesting article, as it brings...¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡The New l\1inerals of Katanga ...............................¡-¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡...Dolomite Showing thE! Reactions Outlined Below. By DR. ELES, Chemist The de Clair Laboratories, Los Angeles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Dikulushi Cu-Ag Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo MAARTEN HAEST,† PHILIPPE MUCHEZ...Quartier du Golfe, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo Abstract The Dikulushi Cu-Ag deposit is located...region in the southeast Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kundelungu Plateau...comprise Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Katanga Supergroup that attain an overall thickness of...Introduction THE KATANGA province is located in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and includes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
other by the later 'Domes region'. The 'Golfe du Katanga', which branches off northeastwards from the Lufilian...ocean may have terminated at the 'Silo Francisco-Congo cratonic bridge' between northeastern Brazil and...1978) and 105 [ WEST G 0 N D W --A NA I WC CONGO CRATON 1L2 ~" k ,.CJ / KC ,~,. ° 1000 / ...area which will be called here the 'S~o Francisco-Congo cratonic bridge' (Fig. 2 ). If the existence of...and Brasiliano belts south of the 'S~o Francisco-Congo cratonic bridge' will be briefly described with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copperbelt in Southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo: IGCP-450 Field Workshop on Proterozoic Sediment-hosted...17-23, 2003, in the Katanga Province in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major part...symposium (Cailteux, 2003). The Neoproterozoic Katanga Supergroup forms an important part of the Pan-African...(Franqois, 1974; Cailteux, 2003, Fig. 1). The Katanga Supergroup in DRC is distributed in two tectonic...Zn-Cu-Pb deposit (underground) situated near the Congo-Zambia border. The ores occur in the northern flank
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Université de Lubumbashi, B.P.1825, Lubumbashi, Congo Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ARC...belt is bordered to the northwest by the Archean Congo Craton and the Mesoproterozoic Kibaride belt, to...in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (hereafter Congo) and northwestern Zambia (Fig. 1). A basal...Lithostratigraphy of the Katangan Supergroup in Katanga (modified from François, 1973b, 1987, 1995; Kampunzu...siltstones and sandstones Alternating pink oolitic limestone (“Calcaire de Lubudi”) and sandy carbonate beds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
siliceous beds which may explain the scarcity of limestone in the Pre-Cambrian sequence of Uganda. LOCALITY...described from rocks of the Bushimai System of Katanga by Cahen and Mortelmans (1941) and by Jamotte (1944)...knowledge of Pre-Cambrian algae in the Belgian Congo and came to the conclusion that they were of some...abundant in the Lubudi Limestone of the Kibara System and the Sekelolo Limestone of the Haut-Shiloango...Haut-Shiloango System of the Lower Congo. The younger Systems of the Bushimai and the Schisto-dolomitique are characterized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DECEMBER, THE CORRELATION MENTS OF THE OF THE KATANGA COPPER ANTON I93O No. 8 ORE-BEARING SEDIAND...SEDIAND RHODESIAN BELT. GRAY. INTRODUCTION. THE Katanga-Rhodesia CopperBelt extendsin a NW.-SE. direction...foundthe well knownoxidizedoresof the Katanga.;Etoile du Congo,Ruashi,Luisha,Kambove,Kipushiand manyothers...cobalt. Uraniumoreshaveso.far beenfoundonlyin the Katanga. The principalore bodiesof boththe oxidizedand...many geologistsand engineers. Cornet• studiedthe Katanga depositsin x89o-93, and the mineralogy of the ores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2WOa.3H20, as white chalky material, from Belgian Congo. Named after Raymond Anthoine, mining geologist...NAMES 725 plates resembling becquerelite, from Katanga. Named in memory of Val6re Louis Billiet (1903-1945)...at Scawt Hill, Co. Antrim, and in the gabbro-limestone contact-zone on the island of Muck, Inverness-shire...monoclinic crystals from Markirch, Alsace. Named after Dr. Henri Derville of Strasbourg university. [M.A. 10-353...yellow-green fibrous crusts, orthorhombic, from Katanga. Named after Nobert Diderich, who was the first
Report (issue)
• • • • • • • • • • • Congo Republic (former Belgian Congo) • Former French Equatorial African...flowsheet of electrolytic process at Shituru plant, Katanga . . . . . . . . ,, 23 Fig. 5 Cobalt content of...and treatment plant, Katanga . . Outline flowsheet of Kolwezi concentrator, Katanga Cobalt mining areas...Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.; Dr. F. R. Morral, Cobalt Information Center, U.S.A.;...A., Belgium; Dr. A. Gosseye of the former Direction du Service Geologique, Belgian Congo; Mr. R. A. Wells
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation, Kundelungu Plateau (Democratic Republic of Congo) Maarten Haest & Jens Schneider & Christophe Cloquet...the Kundelungu Plateau (Democratic Republic of Congo) developed during two episodes. Subeconomic Cu–Pb–Zn–Fe...Kundelungu Plateau in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 250 km to the north...comprise Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Katanga Supergroup, with a maximum thickness of 10 km in...in the Lufilian Arc (Batumike et al. 2006). The Katanga Supergroup was deposited on a Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tenke-Fungurume Cu–Co district, Democratic Republic of Congo I. Fay & M. D. Barton Received: 2 March 2011 /...across the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into northern Zambia (Fig. 1a, b), contains some...host most of the DRC’s (Democratic Republic of Congo) large, high-grade copper and cobalt deposits, but...TenkeFungurume district in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1). Tenke-Fungurume contains one of the larger...measurements were not made Geologic framework the Congo and Kalahari cratons of southern Africa (Selley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic study of the Dikulushi Cu–Ag deposit, Katanga (D.R.C.): implications for exploration Maarten...southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.). The Kundelungu Plateau is situated to...Kundelungu Plateau in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1a). Reserves of the...Fig. 1 a Geological map of the southern part of Katanga (modified after Lepersonne 1974). Stars indicate...of the deposits; b stratigraphic column of the Katanga Supergroup that is divided in the Roan, Nguba and
Report (chapter)
Africa. The succession of the Lufilian orogen, the Katanga Supergroup, contains large bodies of fragmental...tectonic evolution of the belt. Rifting between the Congo Craton in the north and the Kalahari Craton in the...lithification. The Neoproterozoic–Lower Palaeozoic Katanga Supergroup is exposed in the Lufilian Arc, a segment...in the foreland region on the Congo Craton (Fig. 1). Part of the Katanga Supergroup succession hosts the...during the orogenic closure between the Kalahari and Congo cratons and thrust northwards to form a foreland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zambezi-Congo Watershed Author(s): E. A. Steel Source: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Sep...http://about.jstor.org/terms ( i8o ) ZAMBEZI-CONGO WATERSHED Major E. A. Steel, D.S.O., R.F.A. Read...boundary between Northern Rhodesia and Belgian Congo, between the meridian of Panta and the 24th meridian...Captain Lemaire, head of the Belgian expedition to Katanga in 1899, we are chiefly indebted for our previous...south of the frontier, and later located the great Katanga copper belt extending over 250 miles of country
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lufukwe, Lufilian Foreland, Democratic Republic of Congo HAMDY A. EL DESOUKY,† PHILIPPE MUCHEZ, Geodynamics...MINING CONGO SARL, 8034 Avenue Nyota, Quartier Golf, Lumbumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo Abstract...border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of the largest sediment-hosted stratiform...Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks belonging to the Katanga Supergroup. The Kinkumbi prospect, a sediment-hosted...Lufilian folding and deposition of the entire Katanga Supergroup. The Monwezi Sandstone was subjected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orthorhombic crystals and crusts on pitchblende from Katanga. Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)...placers in Stanley Basin, ~entral Idaho. Named after Dr. John Casper Branner (1850-1922), formerly President...per cent.) occurring in blocks of'metamorphosed limestone in the pipernoid tuff of Campania, Italy. [Abstr...orange-yellow, acicular crystals in Kahnga, Belgian Congo. Named after Pierre Curie (1859-1906). fAbstr.,...canary-yellow powder at Kasolo, Katanga. Named after a Belgian geologist,_the late Dr. Jean Dewindt. ~At)str.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURES ON NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT, KATANGA, W. AND AUSTRALIA G. GARLICK CONTENTS PAGE............................................... Katanga ................................................Recognitionof collenia type stromatolites,both in Katanga and at Mufulira,vindicatesat variousminesof the...outwardsto chalcopyritewith increasingcobalt. In the Katanga, the barren algal reef is biostromalbetweencop...mineralization occurs adjacent to, and within, silicified limestone breccias. At Mount Isa, copperoccurswithin the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
major depositsand especially Messrs.Bradford,A. Burne,Dr. de Neve, Major Farrington,Dr.Ing. Hermann, Messrs...The writer is indebted to Dr. Charles H. Behre,to Dr. RichardH. Jahnsand Dr. KennethBurke who kindly...siSvitelenses Kaiserstuhl: 1. s•Svitegrading into limestone 2. essexire 3. tephrite, basanite,phonolite,limburgite...Glenoverfarm, SouthAfrica, (personalcommunication, Dr. Haughton). James(18) hasprovedthat replacement...doubt that any igneousrock would react with limestone. Limestone and marble do not, however, contain the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo, along with its broad time equivalents in Botswana...Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in the Kalahari Copperbelt of Botswana...Accepted: July 28, 2010 1362 EXPRESS LETTER DR CONGO DRC CONGO CRATON Tenke-Fungurume 10Âş KOLWESI ZAMBIA...northwestern Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of Congo, along with broad time equivalents in Botswana and...Neoproterozoic stratigraphy (Roan Group in Zambia and Congo [after Cailteux et al., 2005]; Ghanzi Group in Botswana
Journal (issue)
1 September, 1954. By Professor Arthur Holmes and Dr. Lucien Cahen, President and Secretaryof the Geochronology...Geology, University of Edinburgh. t Musee Royal du Congo belge, Tervuren, 3 Belgium. 4 COLONIAL GEOLOGY...conditions. Moreover, Professor Harrison Brown and Dr. C. C. Patterson have recently announced that the...This is a lava from a locality near the Belgian Congo border. If the apparent age were approximately correct...analyses of the 12 Letter from Prof. F. A. Paneth to Dr. F. Mouta, 23rd June, 1954. The helium analysis is
 
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