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Chalcocite from
Musoshi Mine, Musoshi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Musoshi Mine, Musoshi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:253263
Long-form Identifier:1:3:253263:9
GUID (UUID V4):3e0feba9-3337-4047-8b82-40a60d1503cf
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
16.5km (10.3 miles) ⓘKonkola Mine, Chililabombwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
26.2km (16.3 miles) ⓘTshinsenda (Kinsenda), Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
34.0km (21.1 miles) ⓘKipapila Mine, Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
41.2km (25.6 miles) ⓘSamba Mine, Kasompe, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
62.1km (38.6 miles) ⓘMufulira Mine, Mufulira, Mufulira District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
75.4km (46.8 miles) ⓘRuashi Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
77.5km (48.2 miles) ⓘKipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
81.2km (50.4 miles) ⓘNkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopes of the carbonate-hosted Kabwe, Tsumeb, and Kipushi Pb-Zn-Cu sulphide deposits in relation to Pan African...region of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). The 232Th/204Pb isotope ratios...from the carbonatehosted Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn massive sulphide deposit in the Congo also has homogeneous lead...mantle component, and the isotopic age of the Kipushi deposit (456 Ma) suggests that the emplacement...compared to those of the Kipushi Cu-Zn-Pb deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo which occurs in the
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...paragenesis and deposit-scale zoning, typically from chalcocite through bornite and chalcopyrite (±carrollite)...Konkola Konkola West Nchanga Mwombezhi Dome a Musoshi Lumwana Sentinel 13° Hook batholith and related...of the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Congo (DRC), showing the main sediment-hosted stratiform
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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...mineralisation is dominated by massive Agrich chalcocite that precipitated from low-temperature H2O–NaCl–KCl...the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 1a). Reserves of the Dikulushi mine prior...Fig. 1 a Geological map of the southern part of Katanga (modified after Lepersonne 1974). Stars indicate
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)
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)
Mineralizing Fluids of the Kipushi Zn-Cu Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Repubic of Congo: Quantitative Fluid Inclusion...Zn-Cu deposit of Kipushi, central African copper belt, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, have been subjected...and the origin of the mineralizing fluids. The Kipushi deposit is hosted in carbonates and partly in siliciclastic...geothermometry framed the formation temperature of the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit between ~290° to 380°C. Younger fluids...of barite and the occurrence of Ba silicates at Kipushi indicates that sulfide mineralization occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Katangan Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of Congo) Ph. Muchez & P. Vanderhaeghen & H. El Desouky &...International, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo −10.3 and 3.1‰ relative to the Vienna Canyon Diablo...Bacterial sulphate reduction . Democratic Republic of Congo Introduction The Central African Copperbelt hosts...part of the Neoproterozoic Katanga Supergroup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia (Fig....anhydrite by sulphides has been found, e.g. at Musoshi, Kamoto, Kambove and Luiswishi in the DRC (Cailteux
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...is exposed in the western part of the Dikulushi mine, marked by ductile deformed shale that was transported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ© de Lubumbashi, B.P.1825, Lubumbashi, Congo Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ARC...Marinoan/Varanger glacial events. The Kaponda, Kakontwe, Kipushi and Lusele Formations are interpreted as cap-carbonates... Kamoto, Nchanga) and massive Pb–Zn–Cu (e.g., Kipushi) ore deposits hosted within the Katangan sedimentary...belt is bordered to the northwest by the Archean Congo Craton and the Mesoproterozoic Kibaride belt, to...where they host Pb–Zn–Cu deposits, such as at Kipushi, Kengere and Lombe (Fig. 1; e.g., Intiomale and
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...faults into a chalcocite-dominated Cu–Ag mineralisation of high economic interest. The chalcocite samples contain...lithological control of the immediate host rocks on the chalcocite-dominated Cu–Ag ores. The Pb isotope systematics...Kundelungu Plateau in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 250 km to the north
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism affecting both the pre-Katanga basement and the Katanga metasedimentary sequence. Cu(–U) occurrences...either from the basement of the Katanga sedimentary sequence or from the Katanga sequence itself marked by...straddling the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, formed during the Pan-African...et al., 2008, 2015) and Pb–Zn–Cu deposits (e.g. Kipushi, 53 Batumike et al., 2007; Kamona et al., 1999;...hosted within the lower part of the Neoproterozoic Katanga metasedimentary sequence, the Roan (Mines Subgroup
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Neoproterozoic Katangan Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo Gruffudd M. Gigler, Marta Soƛnicka, Rudolph Erasmus...Neoproterozoic Katangan Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo, Precambrian Research (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Neoproterozoic Katangan Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo Gruffudd M. Giglera,*, Marta Soƛnickab, Rudolph...the Katangan Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at the Mashitu South Cu-Co deposit. The features...Microfossils, Micropalaeontology, Sulphides, Rutile, Katanga Copperbelt 1. Introduction This study investigates
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 10Âș KOLWESI ZAMBIA...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)
mineralogy includes pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite, although in the Lower Orebody, sulïŹde phases...tourmaline, and chlorite. Quartz veins from the mine sequence show halite-saturated ïŹ‚uid inclusions,...during the collision of the Angola–Kalahari and Congo–Tanzania Plates, with associated NE-directed thrusting...deposits of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Porada and Berhorst 2000). The stratigraphy of...suggest that ïŹnal continental collision between the Congo and Kalahari Cratons occurred at 530 Ma. Unrug (1988
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)
Kabompo Western Middle Lu filian 12°S Solwezi Musoshi Kasumbalesa Chililabombwe Mwombezhi Solwezi ...Political borders Nguba & Kundelungu Group Mafics in Katanga Supergroup Mwashya Group Basement Complex - granites...www.solid-earth.net/9/1011/2018/ Fm 15 N Kipushi 1013 Lubumbashi Kakontwe 14 Mwale Mwashya...and strain partitioning Bancroft 16 Solwezi Musoshi Kanwangungu Roan Upper Roan Middle Lufilian...50 km cal borders Conglomerate/arkose cs in Katanga Supergroup Nchanga red granite 1 2 28° 27°E
Report (issue)
\ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)... Arsentsumebite (Vesignie) Diopside-acmite Chalcocite - rose gray Ge-Zn-mawsonite Itoite Mangan-stotite...from the Tsumeb deposit (Namibia) and the Clara mine, Schwarzwald (Germany). At Tsumeb, the phase occurs...zone along 30 Level. The material from the Clara mine is a sulphate-rich variety. 13 --, Type mineralogy...goethite in a matrix of predominantly tennantite and chalcocite. Arsendescloizite is also recorded from the oxidation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1992 Lead isotopic signatures at the Klein Aub Mine, NamibiaImplications for mineralisation models E...stratigraphic levels in the vicinity of the Klein Aub Mine, Namibia, with the aim of investigating possible...sediment-hosted Cu-sulphide ore bodies at the Klein Aub Mine, Namibia, Borg (1988), Borg and Maiden (1987 and...test the various models. Because the Klein Aub Mine is a base metal deposit and since the mineralisation...model. Geological and tectonic setting Klein Aub Mine is situated some 180 km southwest of Windhoek in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The main sulphide associations are bornite + chalcocite and bornite + chalcopyrite. Djurleite (approximately...(approximately CU1.96S) may occur in place of chalcocite, with traces of wittichenite (Cu3BiS3). Sulphides...V and W. Major-vein localities are Ballycummisk Mine, Crookhaven, Dhurode, Killeen North and Rooska West...localities were intensively studied (Ballycummisk Mine and Dhurode). Fluid inclusions are classified into...with veinlets V: minor veins ] bornite - ~ chalcocite Ă· bornite major veins ~ Ballycummisk chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Shaban and as it includes the Shinkolobwe mine (Derricks and Vaes, 1956; Derricks and Oosterbosch...Zambian Copperbelt Areas T‱F‱ depositionof the Katanga system,mainly of marine origin, beganbetween840...the basementis not exposed, 56 U OCCURRENCE, KATANGA SYSTEM, NW ZAMBIA 57 FIG.1. Distribution of the...initiallytookplaceon a con- mineralassemblages are chalcocite-bornite-carrollite tinentalplatformin an oxi...OCCURRENCE, KATANGA SYSTEM, NW ZAMBIA 59 60 LUIGI MENEGHEL .. i' /.. .. 4- U OCCURRENCE, KATANGA SYSTEM
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan and Associated Sandstone...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition...which led to discovery of Perkoa Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (mine under construction). 1990: Recommendation of Cerro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chiefly confined to the Lower Roan Group of the Mine Series which, to the southwest of the central Kafue...trending belt from Luanshya in the southeast, to Musoshi in the Shaba province of Zaire, a distance of 124...ores are dominated by chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite with carrollite, cobalt pentlandite and cobaltiferous...and (cobaltiferous) pyrite. The nature of the chalcocite is less clear cut and it is possible that much...carrollite - chalcopyrite followed by bornite and chalcocite but the interpretation is far from being unequivocal
Journal (issue)
with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris;...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper...copper, cadmium, germanium and arsenic. The Kipushi deposit is a vein occurrence similar to the one at Tsumeb...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mortimer, 1973; and residualhypogenepyrite, where "chalcocite" Mortimer et al., 1977; Sillitoe, 1981) through...supergenecopperleachingandenrichment tive limonite mapping over chalcocite-pyriteores at La Escondida and the formation...usedto infer a relativelycontinuousdescentof the chalcocite(Cu‱.995-2.oooS), djurleite (Cul.934_1.965S),...1972; Blain and Andrew, 1977; Andrew, 1980). For chalcocite-pyriteores,the texture andmineralogyof indigenous...limonitesvarysystematicallywiththeoriginalpyrite/chalcocite ratio(Table 1). In relativelynonreactive gangue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOORE 445 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ONGANJA COPPER MINE, NAMIBIA: A LINK BETWEEN NEOPROTEROZOIC MESOTHERMAL...517 + 3 and 518 + 3 Ma. Late-stage supergene chalcocite-brochantite enrichment is related to the African...Southern Zone. Introduction The Onganja copper mine is located within the Southern Zone of the Damara...small-scale copper producer, mainly from supergene chalcocite-rich ore, associated with quartz and carbonate...massive-sulphide deposits, of which the Otjihase mine, with 16 million tonnes at 2.2% Cu and 1.2 g/t Au
 
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