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Cuprite from
Likasi Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copper6 photos of Cuprite associated with Copper at this locality.
Malachite6 photos of Cuprite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Likasite5 photos of Cuprite associated with Likasite at this locality.
Gerhardtite3 photos of Cuprite associated with Gerhardtite at this locality.
Chrysocolla2 photos of Cuprite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Buttgenbachite2 photos of Cuprite associated with Buttgenbachite at this locality.
Tenorite1 photo of Cuprite associated with Tenorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Likasi Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:136164
Long-form Identifier:1:3:136164:3
GUID (UUID V4):27e00a75-61b8-4293-a8bb-4c5d92d285bb
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
22.7km (14.1 miles) M'sesa Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
24.8km (15.4 miles) Kalabi Mine, Luambo, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
26.3km (16.4 miles) Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
28.8km (17.9 miles) Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
50.0km (31.1 miles) Kakanda deposit, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
80.0km (49.7 miles) Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
98.6km (61.3 miles) Kinsevere mine, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
c = 21.711(5) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Likasi, Congo. 5.75 (FFF), 10.8 (FF), 2.722 (mF), 2.518 (mF)...oxidized zone of copper deposits. Association: Cuprite, brochantite, malachite, copper, silver, buttgenbachite... iron oxides (Likasi mine, Congo). Distribution: From Likasi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...deposit, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. From the Spring Creek mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Name: For the...the locality where it was first found, Likasi, Congo. Type Material: Royal Museum of Central Africa,
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)...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's
Book (volume)
., ..J ATLAS DU KATANGA PUBLIE PAR LE ,,, COMITE SPECIAL nu KATANGA / d 'ap�è5 les tr>avaux ·de...remonte à l'âge triasique. rhétien. ATLAS nu KATANGA FASCICULE 2 TABLE DES MATIÈRES GÉNÉRALITÉS...LXXXIII LXXXVII Introduction . La géologie du Katanga Méridional Carte d'ensemble des Feuilles « I...IKatanga Méridional LXXXV LXXXIX FEUILLE KAMBOVE Texte. Planches...bois de mine Planche géodésique. Planche des minéraux Plan et coupe schématique de la mine de Kambove
Report (issue)
c = 9.127–9.161 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Likasi, Congo; close to connellite. 13.70 (vvs), 7.95 (vvs)...87 7.22 18.79 1.63 Total [98.96] 100.00 (1) Likasi, Congo; original total given as 99.04%; corresponds...Association: Cuprite, likasite, gerhardtite, malachite, brochantite, silver. Distribution: From Likasi, Katanga...Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At the Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. In...South Comobabi Mountains, Pima Co., in the Toughnut mine, Tombstone, and at Bisbee, Cochise Co; from about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include: 1) termite, 2) bat, 3) atmospheric and 4) coal mine fires and natural gas. It is clear that in three...1‰ (Australia) to 0.8‰ (Democratic Republic of Congo). Similarly, differences between δ15N values of...type locality for gerhardtite is the United Verde Mine at Jerome, Arizona, USA (Wells and Penfield, 1885)...1992), Ukraine (SSSR, 1969), Democratic Republic of Congo (Oswald, 1961), and Kazhakstan (Voloshin et al....for Chile at the Los Azules Mine (Terry Szenics) and the Quebrada Blanco Mine (Bob Jenkins), and in the
Report (issue)
malachite, cerussite, cuprite (Broken Hill, Australia); gerhardtite, likasite (Likasi, Congo). Distribution:...the USA, at the Contention mine and Joe shaft, Tombstone; in the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co.; and...Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona. In the Likasi mine, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). Name: Honors
Report (issue)
= 5.597(2) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kalabi, Congo. 6.91 (100), 2.624 (80), 2.310 (80d), 1.579 (80d)...26 11.25 Total 100.40 100.00 (1) United Verde mine, Arizona, USA. (2) Cu2 (NO3 )(OH)3 . Polymorphism...oxidized portions of copper deposits. Association: Cuprite, malachite, atacamite, miersite, brochantite, pseudomalachite...from the United Verde mine, Jerome, Yavapai Co.; in the Daisy shaft, Mineral Hill mine, Pima district, Pima...Large crystals from Likasi, and at Kalabi, near Likasi, Katanga Province, Congo [Shaba Province, Zaire]
Report (issue)
Cu1+ 2 O Cuprite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 4/m...Onganja mine, 60 km northeast of Windhoek, and at Tsumeb. At Likasi, Ruwe, and the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi...Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In the USA, in Arizona, large crystals from Bisbee...South Australia; large crystals in the Red Dome mine, Chilliago, Queensland. Name: From the Latin cuprum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Democratic Republic of Congo Downloaded by [University of Idaho] at 15:32 13 June 2016 I Dr. Robert B . Cook...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite...shattuckite, chrysocolla, chalcoalumite, goethite, and cuprite pseudomorphs after malachite have been described...or interesting localities include the Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock...County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MgrBOs. The mineral occurs at the Hol Kol gold copper mine, Suan County, Korea, in kotoite marble associated...(In Russian) (from an abstract kindly prepared by Dr. Wilhelm Eitel). The mineral occurs in quartz veins...Stradiot-Duvieusart, occurs at the Likasi copper mine, Belgian Congo, as crystals implanted on cuprite or as blue massesin...massesin cuprite, surrounded by a crust cf malachite and by malachite pseudomorphs after likasite. Associated...fine-grained, greenish-blue crust, associated with cuprite and atacamite, as a corrosion product of three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF KATANGA, MAURICE AND BELGIAN ORE DEPOSITS CONGO. ROBERT. CONTENTS.' General...and ore depositsof the now famous Katanga district of the Belgian Congo. The information was gained during...direction of the writer for the Comit• Specialdu Katanga. .411uvialand SuperficialDeposits. Alluvial ...Biano highlands,which form the uplandsof central Katanga and rise to elevationsgreater than •5oo meters...areasin the northwest part of the province of Katanga. Other outliers occurto the east,in elongateddepressions
Book
mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
election shall be by ballot at the October meeting. Dr. Frederick Ehrenfeld, of the University of Pennsylvania...N.S.W.; first as ore buyer and assayer, then as mine manager and for the past twenty-one years as Inspector...length in a cavity in cuprite associated with native silver at Likasi, Belgian Congo. W. F. Fosnec
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...found in fibrous, granular, and compact aggregates. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...black-smoker environments. It is commonly associated with cuprite, brochantite, antlerite, linarite, caledonite,...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
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
Journal (issue)
variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...Croft Mine , Cornwall- a second English occurrence 1. Betterton Native silver from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck...Fells, Cumbria M. Wirth Rosasite from West Pasture Mine, Weardale , Co. Durham B. Young and J.G. Francis...relationship to sulfide mineralization. At the Pinnacles Mine, 16 km south west of Broken Hill , the Pinnacles
Journal (issue)
SPECIAL ARTICLES · $5,000 R.EwABD. By Dr. Eles THE NEw MINERALS OF KATANGA. By Edward Cahen NOTES ON THE BuTTE...by those of our readers who are mining engineers, mine offi• cials, prospectors, or those otherwise interested...suggests this. The Romance of Rocks and :Minerals: By Dr. R. F. H . Harter. Many of the great countries of...developtnent. We are sure our readers will enjoy Dr. Harter's very interesting article, as it brings...························The New l\1inerals of Katanga ...............................·-·············
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
N.S.W.; first as ore buyer and assayer, then as mine manager and for the past twenty-one years as Inspector...length in a cavity in cuprite associated with native silver at Likasi, Belgian Congo. W. F. Fosnec JOURNAL...(Quenselite, a new mineral from Lingban). Geol. F ar. F dr h. S tochh., 47, 377-384 (1925). N.tnn.' In honor
Journal (issue)
Natural History Museum, London. The famous Tsumeb mine in Namibia is a focus for many collectors from all...en Gerhardtite van een Cuprite- ader uit Likasi Mijn uit Katanga, Dem. Rep. Congo. Een vrachtwagen staat
Journal (issue)
Six Articles Hubeite, a new mineral from the Daye mine near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China . . . . . ...for minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . 473 by R. H. Currier The Nueva Vizcaya mine, Burguillos del Cerro Badajoz, Spain . . . . . ...specialization, such as the minerals of a certain state or mine, the minerals of a particular metal or compositional...Karl von Haidinger (1795–1871) with 63. Figure 1. Dr. Pete J. Dunn, U.S. National Museum of Natural History
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Kamoa Copper Deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, Diagenetic and Hydrothermal Alteration...deposit is located in the Katanga Province of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo outside of the area...within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Katanga Supergroup, which were deposited within an extensional...(Porada and Berhorst, 2000). The 5- to 10-km-thick Katanga Supergroup (Cailteux et al., 2005) sequence is...om LIKASI Menda t n gio D.R. CONGO Luishia Luiswishi LUMBUMBASHI Ex Lumwana Pre-Katanga Basement
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 (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...the Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ’Passa in the People’s R e­ public of the Congo and Kipushi...is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W...Kabolela • • T Kamoya •xKambove Kamatanda Ludjiba • LIKASI • * Shinkolobwe ^ Swambo^ J^ntara______ ^ Kansongwe
Journal (issue)
and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon... THE RUSSELL MEDAL Dr Bob King, recipient of the first Russell Medal, with Dr Bob Symes, President...medal was a protege of the late Sir Arthur Russell - Dr RJ. King, founder of the Society, the first editor...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
 
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