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Chalcopyrite from
Chambishi Mine, Chambishi, Kalulushi District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chambishi Mine, Chambishi, Kalulushi District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:163310
Long-form Identifier:1:3:163310:8
GUID (UUID V4):258434b8-c790-412e-8b14-ec2083f25354
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
17.7km (11.0 miles) ⓘSamba Mine, Kasompe, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
19.0km (11.8 miles) ⓘMindola pit, Nkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
21.5km (13.4 miles) ⓘChibuluma West Mine, Kalulushi District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
25.5km (15.8 miles) ⓘMufulira Mine, Mufulira, Mufulira District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
27.0km (16.8 miles) ⓘNkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
37.7km (23.4 miles) ⓘKonkola Mine, Chililabombwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
42.3km (26.3 miles) ⓘTshinsenda (Kinsenda), Sakania Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
54.2km (33.7 miles) ⓘMusoshi Mine, Musoshi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
54.9km (34.1 miles) ⓘBaluba Mine, Luanshya, Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
66.0km (41.0 miles) ⓘLuanshya Mine (Roan Antelope Mine), Luanshya, Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands COBALT IN THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT A.E. ANNELS Department of Mineral Exploitation...and Simmonds, J.R., 1984. Cobalt in the Zambian Copperbelt. Precambrian Res., 25: 75--98. A review of available...regional distribution of cobalt in the Zambian Copperbelt is presented which emphasises the limitation...cobalt in the copper ores o f the Central African Copperbelt had largely been ignored in discussions of their...today. The economic importance of the metal to Zambia and Zaire, and indeed to the World, has, however
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-017-0726-8 ARTICLE Age of the Zambian Copperbelt Richard H. Sillitoe 1 & José Perelló 2 & Robert...deposits and prospects of the Central African Copperbelt are characterized by two intimately associated...across the Zambian part of the Central African Copperbelt suggest that both the disseminated and veinlet...Sediment-hosted Cu deposits . Central African Copperbelt . Zambia . Molybdenite . Re-Os ages . Synorogenic...the Central African Copperbelt—the world’s most important metallogenic province of this type, with ~220
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER---COBALT MINERALISATION AT CHAMBISHI SOUTHEAST PROSPECT, ZAMBIA V.D. FLEISCHER* Geological Services...Services, Z.C.C.M. Ltd., P.O. Box 1, Kalulushi (Zambia) ABSTRACT Fieischer, V.D., 1984. Discovery, geology...copper--cobalt mineralisation at Chambishi Southeast prospect. Zambia. Precambrian Res., 25: 119--133...to the 55 Mt grading 2.4% Cu already known at Chambishi Southeast. The host rock is the Lower Roan ore...basement palaeohigh. Mineralisation consists of chalcopyrite with minor bornite, carrollite, cobaltiferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review Bohdan Kříbek 1,...Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review. Minerals 2023, 13...School of Mines, University of Zambia, Lusaka P.O. Box 32379, Zambia Department of Geology, Faculty of...processing on a large part of the Zambian Copperbelt mining district was carried out by the Czech Research...Geology Department, University of Zambia, and the Geological Survey of Zambia in the period 2002–2018. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia M. VÍTKOVÁ1,*, V. ETTLER1, Z. JOHAN2...smelters (Nkana, Mufulira, Chambishi) in the Copperbelt Province, Zambia, were studied from mineralogical...Cu sulphides (digenite, chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite), Co-Fe sulphides (cobaltpentlandite), Co-bearing...evaluated further. K EY WORDS : slags, smelting, Copperbelt, Zambia, copper, cobalt, clinopyroxene, leucite....VÍTKOVÁ ET AL. arkoses and sandstones (e.g. Chambishi SE deposits); and (4) vein-type quartz-carbonatesulphide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nchanga copper–cobalt deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt Received: 8 April 2005 / Accepted: 25 October... Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The Zambian Copperbelt forms the southeastern part of the 900-km-long...the most significant ore systems in the Zambian Copperbelt and contains two major economic concentrations...sulfide mineralogy includes pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite, although in the Lower Orebody...tourmaline, and chlorite. Quartz veins from the mine sequence show halite-saturated fluid inclusions,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
resistingthe ideaspresentedin the literatureon the Copperbelt, his manymisstatements and very one-sided argumentsaboutthe...uranium-vanadiumdepositshave somefeaturesin commonwith the Copperbelt deposits,althoughthe dimensionsare so vastly...metallization one may find chalcocite,bornitc, or chalcopyrite,and with them varying amountsof the usual n...non-copper-bearingsulphides. Chalcopyrite is by far the most prevalent of the hypogenecopper-bearing sulphides...intensivestudyand mining is that of the Butte District, Montana. This district was first describedby Sales in 1913
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan-African Lufilian orogeny in the Chambishi–Nkana Basin, Central African Copperbelt Koen Torremans1,a , Philippe...south-east margin of the Chambishi–Nkana Basin in the Central African Copperbelt, hosting the world-class...folding and the degree of shale content in the Copperbelt Orebody Member (COM), which hosts most of the...(re-)mobilisation in the Copperbelt. 1 Introduction The Central African Copperbelt is the largest and highestgrade...sediment-hosted copper- and cobalt-producing metallogenic province in the world (Fig. 1). It hosts over 80 deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine .............................................................................................. Chambishi ................................................................................. Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909.................................... The Katanga Province ......................................................................... 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALGAL REEF STRUCTURES ON NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT, KATANGA, W. AND AUSTRALIA G. GARLICK CONTENTS.................. 416 417 Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt ........................................ Roan...417 417 Nkana Mine ....................................................... Chambishi .................Central Africa and Australia. NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT At various localitieson the Copperbeltof Northern...148), is heavily mineralized with bornite and chalcopyrite, forming unusuallyrich ore. This is the only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Neoproterozoic Lower Roan Group, Chambishi Basin, North‐eastern Zambia: Implication for rift evolution...Resources, China University of Geosciences Zambia Copperbelt hosts numerous world‐class, high‐grade sediment‐hosted...sedimentary rocks of the Lower Roan Group in the Chambishi Basin, in order to investigate the Neoproterozoic...Group, provenance analysis, rift evolution, Zambia Copperbelt 1 | I N T RO D U CT I O N Moring, & Diggles...Wilton, & Dawborn, 2015). It is widely The Zambia Copperbelt (ZCB) is famous for its many world‐class high‐
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phases and contrasting fluid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky...online 23 July 2009 Keywords: Central African Copperbelt Sediment-hosted Cu–Co deposits Fluid inclusion...The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known Central African Copperbelt, the largest...largest sediment-hosted stratiform Cu–Co province on Earth. Petrographic examination of borehole samples from...the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene Cu–Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kalumbila, Kabompo Dome: The Copperbelt Ore Shale in Northwestern Zambia NICK STEVEN† Rockwater Consulting...25°20' E) is located ~300 km west of the Zambian Copperbelt on the southeastern flank of the Kabompo dome...(locally semimassive) to locally discordant chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, violarite, and siegenite within...broadly similar to the stratigraphy in the Zambian Copperbelt and suggests that the Kalumbila carbonaceous...at the Kalumbila prospect in North Western province, Zambia (Fig. 1). This mineral deposit type has not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.... The South-Central African Metallogenetic Province .............. Summary and Conclusions.........."The Geology and Development of the Roan Antelope Mine," by D.C. Sharpstone, privately printed, London... ' _ß •. Fro. z. Map showinglocationof the CopperBelt and N'Kana Conces- sionin NorthernRhodesia (Courtesy...Roan Antelope Mine. 0 Gray, Anton, op. cit., p. x2. ORES OF NORTHERN RHODESIA COPPERBELT. 371 KATANGA•...are the youngestconsolidatedformationsin the copperbelt. Later Intrusives.--Gray granite intrudesthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CopperbeltCopperDepositsin Northern Rhodesiaas proposedby the mine and field geologistsof that area and summarizedin...thissymposium, therefore,I propose to discuss the Copperbelt deposits of NorthernRhodesiaaboutwhichthereseemsto...of opinionas to origin. AlthoughI visitedthe Copperbelt in 1931 and gainedmuchfirst-handinformationfrom...recentbook"The Geologyof the NorthernRhodesian Copperbelt"publishedearly in 1961,editedby F. Mendelsohn...field geologists employedat the variousminesof the district, anduponthecriteriasubmitted at thismeetingby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
readeras damaging to the syngenetictheory. For the Copperbelt,the metamorphicwater and the syngenetic theoriesare... As at BrokenHill, New SouthWales, so on the Copperbelt,a syngenetic origin wouldultimatelyhavebeenfavorablyconsidered...about the age relationsof the graniteson the Copperbelt,then their ideason the origin of the coppercouldalsobe...thecopperandiron sulfides, fromchalcocite, throughbornite,chalcopyrite, to pyritein that invariablesequence from shallowwaterto...RenoSalesasks"What werethe factsobserved in the mine and drill coresthat led him (that is Anton Gray)
Report (issue)
bornite biotite carbon Central African Copperbelt Congo Copperbelt chlorine cobalt cobaltite Democratic...the Congo chalcopyrite (appears in this form on page 22 only; elsewhere, cpy) chalcopyrite carrollite...uranium volcanogenic massive sulfide Zambian Copperbelt zinc v Cobalt—Styles of Deposits and the...production is from the Central African Copperbelt. The Central African Copperbelt is the only sedimentary rock-hosted...rock-hosted stratiform copper district that contains significant cobalt. Its presence may indicate significant
Report (issue)
not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...Copper in Sediment-Hosted Deposits by Age 200 Copperbelt, Zambia, Rep. of Congo 190 180 170 160 150 140 130...chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite...sulfide. Native silver is common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic of Congo contain carrollite, Co-pyrite...zone are fairly stable minerals in the oxidizing mine environment, and pyrite occurs only as trace amounts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
meanvalue of -2.8 per mil. The •348valuesof chalcopyrite andcarrollite alsoshowa systematic variation...porphyry-typedepositsand mineralizedgneisses. the border of Zambia with Zaire (Fig. 1A). It lies Introduction within...of central Africa. The sul- THE copper belt of Zambia stretchesfor approximately150 km fromKonkolain...the 1838 STABLE ISOTOPE & GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES, ZAMBIA 1839 caseof a narrowbelt of depositsrunningfromKonkola...northwestthroughChililabombwe,Chingola (Lowerorebody),Pitanda,Chambishi,andChambishi Southeast,Mindola,Nkana,Baluba,andLuanshyain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MARGARET E. GREEN Abstract This is, for the Zambian Copperbelt,a very small but rich copper-cobaltdeposit, at...the Lower Roan group on the south flank of the Chambishi-Nkana Basin. The host, as in the neighboring Chibulumadeposit...altered to amphibolite-scapolite rocks. RhodesJan Copperbelt," editedby Mendelsohn. Mining started in 1962... s.., ø OF CHIBULUMA WEST OREBODY ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT ""* :'••ANGA • 401 MILES •UFULIRA ,J• ....INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY :.'.'.'.'. LOWER ROAN ZAMBIAN o COPPERBELT' ; '\\ •,. % %%% ß NDOLA BWANA MKUBWA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XXVI. THE GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, GEOLOGY AND CHAMBISHI, ORE NORTHERN D. M. NO. :2 I93I DEPOSITS...... •42 •44 •49 •5o ISI INTRODUCTION. THE Chambishi copper deposit is located in the N'Kana Concession...Concession map, is centrally situated in the copperbelt. It is still in the development stage, but drilling...simple structure of most of the depositsof the district have occasionedtheir rapid and accurate development...strike at intervals of about IOOOfeet, but at Chambishi complicatedfolding neces-. sitated additional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DISCUSSION Discussion: BAge of the Zambian Copperbelt^ by Sillitoe et al. (2017) Mineralium Deposita...intergrown) copper sulfide minerals in some Zambian Copperbelt deposits were precipitated in a 50myr (~ 540–490...mineralization events did not take place in the Zambian Copperbelt. The paper’s sweeping conclusion ignores decades...geochronological work in the Zambian and adjacent Congolese Copperbelt that provides strong evidence of a prolonged...7 deposits in the Zambian Copperbelt and the Northwest Province of Zambia that contained examples of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potentially Toxic Chemical Species at an Abandoned Copper Mine Tailings Dump Wilson Mugera Gitari 1,2, * 1 2 3...February 2018 Abstract: Large volumes of disposed mine tailings abound in several regions of South Africa...consequently resulting in the formation of acidic mine drainages with low pH conditions laden with high...invasive species [13]. Groundwater in the mining district of Johannesburg in South Africa is heavily contaminated...oxidative weathering of pyrite present within the mine tailings dumps [14]. The duration of these environmental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLASSIC EXAMPLE GENETIC DEPOSITION JOSEPH COPPERBELT: OF SYN- • L. GILLSON AT the Symposium on...the volume, "Geologyof the Northern Rhodesian CopperBelt," editedby Dr. F. Mendelsohn,ChiefGeologistof...Bruinruerunquestionably has a wide knowledgeof the district. His thesisin 1955 describedthe "Geologyof the'Roan...volume on the "Geologyof the NorthernRhodesJan CopperBelt." The followingcomments are offeredto counterthe...omitted in the preparation of "The Geologyof the Copperbelt." Point/.--This is the thesis that the volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proterozoic Mines Series, Tenke-Fungurume Cu–Co district, Democratic Republic of Congo I. Fay & M. D. Barton...deposits in the Tenke-Fungurume district of the Central African Copperbelt were examined to evaluate the...consumption . Central African Copperbelt Introduction The African Copperbelt, an arcuate band of Neoproterozoic...southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into northern Zambia (Fig. 1a, b), contains some of the world’s most...generally restricted their work to the deposit or district scale (e.g., Oosterbosch 1951; Bartholomé 1974;
 
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