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Chalcopyrite from
Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:717705
Long-form Identifier:1:3:717705:7
GUID (UUID V4):5b67170a-76a2-46e7-9955-556e59f41f66
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
8.4km (5.2 miles) ⓘKansalawile Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
11.2km (7.0 miles) ⓘMambilima Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
11.7km (7.3 miles) ⓘTenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
18.6km (11.5 miles) ⓘFungurume 88 deposit, Fungurume deposit, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
18.6km (11.6 miles) ⓘFungurume 8 deposit, Fungurume deposit, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
33.7km (20.9 miles) ⓘKansuki Cu-Co deposit, Kisamfu, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
46.3km (28.8 miles) ⓘKabolela Mine, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
55.6km (34.6 miles) ⓘSwambo Hill, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
56.1km (34.8 miles) ⓘKamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
57.4km (35.7 miles) ⓘKambove West Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
MĂ©ridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « ITenke » Carte gĂ©ologique du Katanga MĂ©ridional LXXXV...bois de mine Planche gĂ©odĂ©sique. Planche des minĂ©raux Plan et coupe schĂ©matique de la mine de Kambove... 61 67 69 73 75 79 83 87 89 91 93 95 FEUILLE TENKE Planches, plans et photographies. Texte. Canevas...Tshinsenda. Le fascicule II traite des feuilles Tenke el Kambove, c' esl-Ă -dire de la rĂ©gion du Katanga...fascicule !. Le croquis d'assemblage des feuilles Tenke el Kambove, qui se trouve en fĂȘle du prĂ©sent fascicule
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proterozoic Mines Series, Tenke-Fungurume Cu–Co district, Democratic Republic of Congo I. Fay & M. D. Barton...sediment-hosted stratiform Cu–Co deposits in the Tenke-Fungurume district of the Central African Copperbelt...precipitate separately. Thus, modern ore distribution at Tenke- Editorial handling: H. Frimmel I. Fay (*) : M...85721-0077, USA e-mail: fay1@email.arizona.edu Fungurume results both from original hypogene lithologyand...across the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into northern Zambia (Fig. 1a, b), contains some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exploration Geology, Tenke Fungurume Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Department of Geology...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...Mining S.A, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Correspondence: pascal.mambwematanda@kuleuven.be;...chrysocolla and malachite. Minor carrollite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite are present in unweathered
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...2010 1362 EXPRESS LETTER DR CONGO DRC CONGO CRATON Tenke-Fungurume 10Âș KOLWESI ZAMBIA Kipoi...200 km Copper-mineralized Neoproterozoic rocks Mine Prospect 30Âș FIG. 1. Location map of the Central...northwestern Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of Congo, along with broad time equivalents in Botswana and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
African Copperbelt. A study focused on the Tenke-Fungurume district (TFM) in the Copperbelt found Co-rich...OF COBALT CARBONATE MINERALS Location Tenke-Fungurume, D.R. Congo Przibram, Bohemia Peramea, Spain Durango...Colorado Kakanda, D.R. Congo Mashamba West and Mindingi, D.R. Congo Tantara, D.R. Congo Kamoto, Musonoi, and...and Kabolela, D.R. Congo Mupine, D.R. Congo Kambove, D.R. Congo Konkola, Zambia Chibuluma, Zambia Tsumeb...Tsumeb, Namibia Shinkolobwe, D.R. Congo Reported species Magnesite-spherocobaltite, spherocobaltite, cobaltoan
Report (issue)
Abbreviations Ag As Au Bi bn bt C CACB CCB Cl Co cob Congo (Kinshasa) cp cpy cr Cr Cu EEZ Fe hm IOCG Ma Mg...Copperbelt Congo Copperbelt chlorine cobalt cobaltite Democratic Republic of the Congo chalcopyrite (appears...in this form on page 22 only; elsewhere, cpy) chalcopyrite carrollite chromite copper exclusive economic...More than 50% of primary cobalt production is from Congo (Kinshasa)—a country that ranks high on the ‘risk...majority of the world’s cobalt currently comes from Congo (Kinshasa). A number of other countries each contribute
Report (issue)
.pdf. Cover. Underground photo of the Skuterud Mine in Norway showing pink secondary erythrite (a hydrated.......................................F13 Typical Mine Life..........................................................................................F16 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................F18 Mine Closure.....................................................F2 F2. Bar chart showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume SedimentHosted Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District...District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan and Associated Sandstone Copper Deposits...Discovery of a Jurassic porphyry copper belt, Pangui area, southern Ecuador: Society of Economic Geologists...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deformation during fringe growth within the deposit area. The non-deformed distal part of fringes and the...Kolwezi Cu-Co deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The deposit is located on the western edge...Pan-African Lufilian arc (ca. 590500 Ma), between the Congo and Kalahari cratons of southern Africa (Fig. 1)...assemblage in the CACB deposits consists of chalcopyrite-bornite with subsidiary chalcocite and pyrite...Kalahari sands and saprolite covers the Kamoa deposit area, thus geological information was collected from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rainaud et al. 2005), in response to collision of the Congo and Kalahari cratons (Porada and Berhorst 2000)...Congolese Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC; Hitzman et al. 2012; Fig. 1). There, the Roan...typically from chalcocite through bornite and chalcopyrite (±carrollite) to distal pyrite (Brummer 1955;...km CCB DRC Kolwezi N 30° 10° 200 km Tenke Fungurume Kamoa ZCB Likasi 11° ZAMBIA Magnetic footprint...of the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Congo (DRC), showing the main sediment-hosted stratiform
Report (issue)
deposits Erythrite Arsenate Co3(As0) 28H20 Daniel Mine, Germany; Bou Azzer, Morroco. Skutterudite Arsenide...from sediments. 0.1 0.4 % Tenke Fungurume, Democratic Republic of Congo; Mt Isa, Australia. Precipitation...quartz and feldspar. 3 Magmatic: related to www. Mine ra Is UK. corn Major deposit classes Sediment...They account for over 50 per cent of world cobalt mine production. Major deposits are characterised by...the south-east part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and is estimated to contain about six milliontonnes
Report (issue)
could occur in undiscovered deposits in a specific area. They are also useful in exploration in deciding...not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...Deposits by Age 200 Copperbelt, Zambia, Rep. of Congo 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 110 100 90 80 70 ...chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite...common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic of Congo contain carrollite, Co-pyrite and Ge minerals. Texture/Structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the North-Western Province of Zambia. The deposit area contains basement schists overlain by Neoproterozoic...mafic igneous rocks are not present in the immediate area of the Enterprise deposit. No evidence of prealteration...Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise deposit does not contain...approximately 300 km west of the Zambian Copperbelt. This area of Zambia, known as the Domes region owing to the...1978). Anglo American Corporation explored in the area during the early 1990s, with efforts focused at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cupriferous zone; the absence of bornite and chalcopyrite in the cupriferous zone proper; and the essential...from disseminated pyrite through disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite to solely disseminated chalcocite...deposits worldwide (column b). The pyrite → chalcopyrite → bornite → chalcocite zoning across the top...sulfide zoning. Abbreviations: Py, pyrite; Cp, chalcopyrite; Bn, bornite; Cc, chalcocite discussed below...1999); in the Kamoto, Tenke-Fungurume, and Kamoa deposits of the D.R. of Congo (BartholomĂ© 1962, 1974;
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)
Copperbelt in both Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Such preenrichment of the basement in copper may...Copperbelt of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), hosted within the Pan-African-age, Lufilian...25°45Ž Mwombezhi Dome N Kolwezi 50 km Tenke 10 km Fungurume Kamoa 11° Likasi Malundwe 12°15Ž Kavipopo...prospect is also shown. Black outline shows the area of (B). B. Geology of the Mwombezhi dome (simplified...prospects studied. DRC = Democratic Republic of Congo. copper mineralization are reported for the Chimiwungu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Kamoa Copper Deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, Diagenetic and Hydrothermal Alteration...of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo outside of the area previously considered prospective for...contact, changing from chalcocite to bornite to chalcopyrite to pyrite with increased stratigraphic height...Copperbelt (Fig. 1). The deposit was discovered in an area previously considered unprospective for large copper...approximately 10 to 15 km north and south of the area investigated in this study. With a 1% Cu cutoff
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ© 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...Kakontwe in the Likasi area (François, 1973a) and at Lubudi, 80 km north of Tenke (Schellinck, 1946). Study...in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (hereafter Congo) and northwestern Zambia (Fig. 1). A basal...1.4–1.0 Ga) occurs north (Mitwaba area) and north-west (Nzilo area) of the Katangan belt (Cahen, 1954;
Journal (issue)
net SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England............ Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Robert Byers (2018–2024) Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2023) Renato and Adriana...Acquainted with Minerals (1934). Another early mentor was Dr. Katherine Blodgett, an employee at General Electric...containing a wet and dry cave environment and a mine. He was active in the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Kibara Belt (KIB), Democratic Republic of Congo Douxdoux Kumakele Makutu 1 , Jung Hun Seo 2, * ...of the Kibara Belt (KIB), Democratic Republic of Congo. Minerals 2023, 13, 458. https:// doi.org/10.3390/min13040458...University, Kinshasa 012, Democratic Republic of the Congo Correspondence: seo28@snu.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-10-4457-4877...provinces. The black rectangle refers to the study area. and rare-metal The metallogenic provinces in Africa...Africa are as follows: 1.1 Man Shield, 1.2 Congo Craton, 1.3 Zimbabwe Craton, 1.4 Kaapvaal Craton; 2.1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. The sulfide sequenceis chalcocite-bornite-chalcopyrite-galena-sphalerite-pyrite, althoughgalenaand...the Wilkins PeakMemberof the GreenRiver Mountain area and the high is associatedwith a Formationin Wyoming(Eugsterand...southeastNew Mexico (Sarg, 1981). None of the White Pine mine area, southof the high, and in the aboveexamplesoverlie...Musonoi, Dikuluwe, Karobore, Tenke, Fungurume, etc.; Shaba Province (Mine Series) "R.A.T." 500 or R1...anhydrite,gypsum, magnesite,talc Kamoto, Kambove, Tenke, etc.; Zairean copper belt "R.A.T." or RI: dolomite
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...(2014–2019) Renato and Adriana Pagano (2018–2019) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013–2019) Marcus Budil (2018–2019)
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................RECORD MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...Richard A. Olsen (2013-2020) James W. Hird (2013-2020) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2019) The Schick Family (2014-2020)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ultramafic rocks, most notably in New Caledonia, Congo, Cuba, and Australia; Decrée et al., 2015; Muchez...Province, southwestern China (Fig. 1a, b). This area is located in the Qianzhong Uplift within the Yangtze...as well as other sulfides including stibnite, chalcopyrite and galena are dispersed in bauxite ores, bauxitic...siderite, closely associated with pyrite and chalcopyrite (Fig. 5h). Cobalt-bearing pyrites have subhedral...We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and Dr. Franco Pirajno for constructive comments that helped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits, Nahand-Ivand area, NW Iran Seyedeh Narges Sadati a,⁎, Mohammad Yazdi...t r a c t Copper mineralization in Nahand-Ivand area, NW Iran, appears as disseminated copper sulïŹdes... 2009). The copper deposits in the Nahand-Ivand area of northwestern Iran share many of these characteristics...we ïŹrst describe the general geology of the study area, with emphasis on pyrite and copper sulïŹde mineral...760–776 the major ore minerals in the Nahand-Ivand area. The Cu-bearing phases are dominated by nonstoichiometric
 
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