| | 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 | | Sillitoe, Richard H., PerellĂł, JosĂŠ, Creaser, Robert A., Wilton, John, Wilson, Alan J., Dawborn, Toby (2017) Age of the Zambian Copperbelt. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (8) 1245-1268 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0726-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1007/s00126-017-0726-8 ARTICLE Age of the Zambian Copperbelt Richard H. Sillitoe 1 & JosĂŠ PerellĂł 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 Copperbeltâthe worldâs 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 | | KĹĂbek, Bohdan, Nyambe, Imasiku, Sracek, Ondra, MihaljeviÄ, Martin, KnĂŠsl, Ilja (2023) Impact of Mining and Ore Processing on Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review. Minerals, 13 (3) 384 doi:10.3390/min13030384 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review Bohdan KrĚĂbek 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 2002â2018. This | | VĂtkovĂĄ, M., Ettler, V., Johan, Z., KĹĂbek, B., Ĺ ebek, O., MihaljeviÄ, M. (2010) Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 581-600 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.581 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia M. VIĚTKOVAĚ1,*, 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....VIĚTKOVAĚ ET AL. arkoses and sandstones (e.g. Chambishi SE deposits); and (4) vein-type quartz-carbonatesulphide | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Nchanga copperâcobalt 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 signiďŹcant ore systems in the Zambian Copperbelt and contains two major economic concentrations...sulďŹde mineralogy includes pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite, although in the Lower Orebody...tourmaline, and chlorite. Quartz veins from the mine sequence show halite-saturated ďŹuid 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 ChambishiâNkana Basin, Central African Copperbelt Koen Torremans1,a , Philippe...south-east margin of the ChambishiâNkana 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 | | Liu, ChunâFa, Zhang, Jing, Tang, Li, Yang, Fan, Guo, JiangâTao, Zhou, Cong, Cai, ZhenâWang, Bian, XiaoâLong (2020) Detrital zircon UâPb geochronology and provenance of the Neoproterozoic Lower Roan Group, Chambishi Basin, Northâeastern Zambia: Implication for rift evolution of the Congo Craton. Geological Journal, 55 (2) 1245-1261 doi:10.1002/gj.3491 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Neoproterozoic Lower Roan Group, Chambishi Basin, Northâeastern Zambia: Implication for rift evolution...Resources, China University of Geosciences Zambia Copperbelt hosts numerous worldâclass, highâgrade sedimentâhosted...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 worldâclass highâ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | phases and contrasting ďŹuid systems in the Katanga Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of Congo Hamdy A. El Desouky...online 23 July 2009 Keywords: Central African Copperbelt Sediment-hosted CuâCo deposits Fluid inclusion...The Katanga Copperbelt is the Congolese part of the well-known Central African Copperbelt, the largest...largest sediment-hosted stratiform CuâCo province on Earth. Petrographic examination of borehole samples from...the Kamoto and Luiswishi mines in the Katanga Copperbelt recognized two generations of hypogene CuâCo | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Kalumbila, Kabompo Dome: The Copperbelt Ore Shale in Northwestern Zambia NICK STEVENâ 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... ' _Ă â˘. 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 KATANGAâ˘...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 CobaltâStyles 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 â˘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 ""* :'â˘â˘ANGA ⢠401 MILES â˘UFULIRA ,J⢠....INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY :.'.'.'.'. LOWER ROAN ZAMBIAN o COPPERBELT' ; '\\ â˘,. % %%% Ă NDOLA BWANA MKUBWA | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | XXVI. THE GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, GEOLOGY AND CHAMBISHI, ORE NORTHERN D. M. NO. :2 I93I DEPOSITS...... â˘42 â˘44 â˘49 â˘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 (~ 540â490...mineralization events did not take place in the Zambian Copperbelt. The paperâs 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 CuâCo 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 worldâs most...generally restricted their work to the deposit or district scale (e.g., Oosterbosch 1951; BartholomĂŠ 1974; |
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