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Breccia from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
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Type:Breccia
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Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1107186
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1107186:4
GUID (UUID V4):06b29e52-05e2-4b2c-aa0e-0b7f122494b4
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Journal (issue)
mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Book
INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
Journal (issue)
on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre­ hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of
Journal (issue)
The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...............6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise...REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi 11°- Shinkolobwe Luishia...26° LEGEND post-Katangan granite (520 Ma) major mine or deposit post-Katangan cover city Nguba and...Solwezi dome westward to the Kabompo dome. The Shinkolobwe and Swambo U-(Ni) deposits occur between the...metamorphosed nickel-bearing Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; Derriks and Vaes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Development, Groupe G. Forrest International, Lubumbashi, Congo b Department of Geology, University of Botswana...African Copperbelt in both Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo hereafter) and Zambia, which represent the most...forms a northward convex structure, straddling the Congo–Zambia border and called “Lufilian Arc”. It was...east-northeastwards through Kolwezi and Likasi (Congo), and southeastwards to Bwana Mkubwa (Zambia) and...Group is called the “Mwashya Subgroup” or “R 4” in Congo (formerly “Systùme Schisto-Dolomitique” of Van den
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iliz~itioiis.'l'li(f Lufilinn arc is located between the Congo and Kalahari cratons and defines a structure which...i c ~\relocity during tlw collision belwecn the Congo and Kalaliari cratons. The third phase (D3) o f...Lufilian arc iii Democratic Republic of Congo (hereafter Congo) rcvcaled a tectonic stylc maikcd by a...the supposed autochthonous Katangan terranes in Congo (Cailteux, 1990)and in Western Zambia (Cosi et al...of the tectonic evolution of the Lufilian arc in Congo and Zambia, and the age of the major deformation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contrasting ïŹ‚uid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky a,⁎, Philippe...Groupe Forrest International, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Post-entrapment reequilibration a b s t r a c t The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known...samples from the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene...least two main hypogene Cu–Co sulïŹde phases in the Katanga Copperbelt. The ïŹrst is an early diagenetic typical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal... M. Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal...Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University...Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi 1825, Democratic Republic of the Congo; theophil.ngoy@ruashi.com (T.K.); chabu.cm@gmail...Democratic Republic of the Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining
Book
. ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............................................ The Katanga Province ........................................922 923 The Mine Series .................................................... Shinkolobwe ..............Southern Rhodesiaand in the Katanga Provinceof the Republicof the Congo. The depositssampledoccur in
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...and by logging of borehole cores from the Kipushi mine. A total of 115 samples (30 from Bunkeya, 50 from...Lithostratigraphy of the Katangan Supergroup in Katanga (modified from François, 1973b, 1987, 1995; Kampunzu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grains (U), B-Reef, Tshepong (previously Freddies) mine, Welkom goldïŹeld; scale bar = 1 mm; and (J) BSE...(qtz) pebbles (dark grey), Vaal Reef, Vaal Reefs mine, Klerksdorp goldïŹeld; scale bar = 200 lm. amounts...activities at two nearby localities on Czech territory at that time, two shafts were sunk both of which...from different positions within the former JĂĄchymov mine were taken for this study. Although their exact...(Fig. 2F) and comes from the former Bergfreiheit mine in Kowary (formerly Schmiedeberg). A further example
Book
with beams. These weren’t caves at all. They were mine entrances. It now made sense. The valley ïŹ‚oor had...found a vein of it in the lower levels of a silver mine at the end of the Dark Ages. They considered it... Uranium 1 SCALDING FRUIT T he place is called Shinkolobwe. Its name comes from the Bemba language of south-central...the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “It’s a very dangerous place,” he went on. “Cell...through on my way. The ïŹnal destination was marked shinkolobwe. “That place is highly secure,” an employee of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
........................ 298 299 The Belgian Congo ..................................................k uraniferouspegmatites. Great Bear Lake, the Katanga, the Bohemianmassif,the Cornwallarea, and the midwesternpart...butnotthesortof deposit knownat GreatBear Lake,Katanga, JoachimsthaI, Cornwall or Portugal.In making anassessment...allottedproportional to that equalareaof productive territory. TheSecondary Sedimentary Deposits.--The sedimentary...of the favorableformation at Joachimsthal and Shinkolobwe;similarbehaviormay be inferredat all z5Beysehlag
Report (volume)
(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through...urani urn minerals first discovered in the Belgian Congo. The work of the American mineralogist C. Palache...occurs in hydrothermal veins, as in the Belgian Congo. The relation between the names uraninite and pitchblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
America and one from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in relation to establishing baseline signatures...North America and one from Shinkolobwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Table 1). Several samples listed...Yancey 2 Ruggles Billiken Jefferson Great Bear Shinkolobwe Marshall 1 Marshall 2 Marshall 3 Marshall 4 Orphan...Mitchell County, NC Webb Mine, Yancey County, NC Yancey County, NC Ruggles Mine, Grafton, NH Billiken Lode...Jefferson County, CO Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada Shinkolobwe, Congo Marshall Pass area, Gunnison County, CO Marshall
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thorite Veins and Breccia Pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...distiict, Colo. (Sims, 1955). Noted in Belgian Congo pitchblende are Pb, Fe, Co, Ni, 1'1o, and Se. Uraninite...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...weighing 20 tons have been found in the Katanga, Belgian Congo,· deposits. Single euhedral to subhedral...deposits; cubes in vugs at Shinko]obvve, Belgian Congo, and partial cubes in veins of some deposits in
Report (issue)
in the Athabasca Formation.......28 Northern Territory.................................................mineralogy........................................76 Shinkolobwe................................................Saskatchewan.............53 22. Geology of the Rossing mine area...............................55 iii Illustrations...cross section of Verna and Fay orebodies, Eldorado mine...................................................temperature and & 0 in hydrothermal fluids, Fay mine................................................
Report (issue)
accident in the search for copper in the Belgian Congo, for cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories...conglomerates; (3) deposits in veins, shear zones, breccia, and fracture zones in rocks of all types, in stockworks...fracture intersections, and in mineralized gouge and breccia. Veins can be a few centimeters to a few meters...Goldfields area, Saskatchewan, Canada; the Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Zafre; and the medium-sized deposits...Joachymov, Czechoslovakia, and at Schwartzwalder mine, Colorado, U.S.A.). Uranium deposits have been found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
summarizedin tabular form, and TABLE I. SHINKOLOBWE MINE, Host rock 1. Formational Name Mineral association...Metallic Minerals Mine series J. Petrography Co-Ni sulfides Pyrite Chalcopyrite BELGIAN CONGO. Paragenesis...possibly are related to granite in- Stage 15 Katanga-Rhodesian border. Bornire Host rock is mainly...groupnear St. Stephen,Cornwall,and the Trenwith mine at St. Ives, Cornwall--haveyieldedsignificantquantitiesof...pitchblendewas also locatedin the Coeur d'Alene mine, about three miles to the east (Table X). Severalmines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concentration* ~ (wI%) Age .2 (10 9 a) Wilberforce Shinkolobwe Morogoro Schwartzwalder Orphan Ontario, Canada...13OTe/ 124Te Terrestrialstandard Wilberforce Shinkolobwe Schwaltzwalder Orphan 0.20280_+0.00035 n.a....lO4Rtl/lOORu Terrestrialstandard 0.14766+0.00016 Shinkolobwe 0.14807_+0.00055 Morogoro 0.14802+0.00061 1...IO9Ag/ IOTAg Terrestrial standard Wilberforce Shinkolobwe Schwartzwalder Orphan 0.9221 0.9223 0.9216 0...Concentrations (ppb) of Te and Ag Ag Wilberforce 624 Shinkolobwe Schwartzwalder Orphan 387 62.6 320 Te 60.5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediments 200 200 km km Democratic Republic of Congo N post-Katangan sediments Katangan Katangan sediments... the Kipushi Zn-Pb-Cu deposit (Ki), and the Shinkolobwe uranium deposit (S). the Zambian copper belt...belt in the area of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to have ended by 650 to 600 Ma, based on...reference monazite standard WB.T.329 from the Thompson mine, Manitoba, Canada (Williams et al., 1996). U/Pb...concentration of 2,100 ppm was assumed for the Thompson mine standard. Ages were calculated from the radiogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
602 ___ 20-m.y. U-Pb age of uraninite veins at Shinkolobwe (Cahen et al., 1961, with modificationsby Cahenet...shown to predate uraninite mineralization at Shinkolobwe, at around 602 ___ 20 m.y. (Derricks and Vaes...footwall arkosicsedimentsalong the full 5.25-km mine (475 m) and appearto correspondto the loci strikelengthof...biotite and quartz,with rare small drothermal breccia veins with Cu-Fe sulfides are rutiles(50-200/‱m...Petrographicstudyof over onehundredthin and partsof the mine. As a wall-rock alteration mineral, the best formed
Report (volume)
near Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia Shinkolobwe deposit, Belgian Congo Deposits at Great Bear Lake, Canada...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...was from the deposit at Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada...Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit since its initial development in 1921 and until 1954 probably had yielded
 
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