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Dolomite from
Kamoa, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kamoa, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1444985
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1444985:3
GUID (UUID V4):90c3891e-5213-4b7b-96b6-c60744aa7375
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
13.6km (8.4 miles) ⓘMashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
16.9km (10.5 miles) ⓘKamoto Principal Mine, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
17.9km (11.1 miles) ⓘMupine Mine, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
18.7km (11.6 miles) ⓘKamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
21.8km (13.5 miles) ⓘMusonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
22.5km (14.0 miles) ⓘKolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
66.0km (41.0 miles) ⓘKansuki Cu-Co deposit, Kisamfu, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
74.2km (46.1 miles) ⓘKasompi Mine, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the newly discovered Kamoa deposit in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Alteration and mineralization...the broad vertical zonation observed at the giant Kamoa deposit. The small size of the known mineralized...mineralized zones at the Fishtie deposit relative to Kamoa is probably due to the absence of a thick siliciclastic...the Grand Conglomérat Formation as is present at Kamoa. Introduction The Fishtie sedimentary rock-hosted...south of the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Fig. 1). Fishtie occurs on the northeastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
108, pp. 1301–1324 The Kamoa Copper Deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, Diagenetic...Maude St., Sandton 2146, South Africa Abstract The Kamoa copper deposit is located in the Katanga Province...Province of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo outside of the area previously considered prospective... With a 1% Cu cutoff, the hypogene ore zone of Kamoa spans over 81 km2, varying in thickness from 2 to...subsidence or sea level rise. The majority of the Kamoa orebody occurs within the lowermost portion of the
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...African Copperbelt Congo Copperbelt chlorine cobalt cobaltite Democratic Republic of the Congo chalcopyrite...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...Mineralogy ‱ Carbonate minerals: o ‱ Cobaltoan dolomite (Ca,Mg,Co)CO3 Other minerals: o o o o Asbolane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi 1825, Democratic Republic of the Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine...Mining S.A, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Correspondence: pascal.mambwematanda@kuleuven.be;...DRthe DR Congo [6–10]. Around 25% of world Co reserves are hosted in other types of deposits, Congo [6–10]
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonaceous quartz schist and quartz-biotite-dolomite schist con­ taining garnet, scapolite and apatite...carbonaceous quartz schist and quartz–bio­ tite–dolomite schist (Figure 3(b,c)). The formation varies in...several sub-members (Figure 4). Graphitic schist and dolomite marble com­ monly retain fine rhythmic layering...of the main orebody are hosted in carbonaceous dolomite– INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW 5 Figure 3....rocks comprising dolomite marble, graphi­ tic–quartz schists, and quartz-biotite-dolomite schist. Following
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though the Enterprise deposit does not contain... D E M O C RAT I C REPUBLIC OF CONGO Tenke Fungurume Kolwezi Kamoa Kambove - 11° Menda Likasi...Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; Derriks and Vaes, 1956) though Enterprise...plagioclase, muscovite, and epidote and minor garnet, dolomite, tourmaline, rutile, and apatite. Macroscopically...DRC (Cailteux et al., 2005b) although it lacks dolomite and magnesite that are commonly present 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... Kolwezi N 30° 10° 200 km Tenke Fungurume Kamoa ZCB Likasi 11° ZAMBIA Magnetic footprint of Hook...of the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and Congo (DRC), showing the main sediment-hosted stratiform...Siltstone, mudstone Diamictite Basement Sandstone Dolomite, limestone, anhydrite (499.8-489.6) Re-Os molybdenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex. The carbonate assemblage consists of dolomite with exsolved calcite and is found in contact...high-temperature origin for the carbonates. The calcite-dolomite geothermometer (Anovitz and Essene, 1987) yields...USA The Kamoa copper deposit, Central African Copperbelt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) David...broadly in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Zambian district comprises deposits that...considered as relatively mature exploration terrane. The Kamoa copper deposit is a grassroots discovery approximately
Thesis/Dissertation
___________________________ Dr. Alexander P. Gysi Thesis Advisor Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Murray W. Hitzman..._______________________ Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Wendy Bohrson Department Head Department of Geology.... 81 viii Figure 3.8 Polylithic albitized dolomite-matrix breccias from the Evaporitic Sequence and...between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (Figure 1.1). The Kansanshi mine is the largest...commonly overlain by a “cap carbonate” limestone or dolomite, which transition upward into calcareous shales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper–cobalt deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo on flotation performance, the flotation of nine...and cobalt minerals with magnesiochlorite and dolomite were used to predict flotation performance. Leave...sediment-hosted deposits of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As there are few sites processing such ore...bearing minerals [15–17]. For sulphide ore from the Kamoa copper project, sample mineralogy was considered...flotation kinetics modelling review studies [14,22]:  n dR = k· Req − R dt (1) where k is the rate constant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
countries, including Poland, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kazakhstan [11,12]. In Kazakhstan, until recently...which occur in copper‐bearing shale, sandstone, dolomite, and limestone. The richest mineralisation occurs...by fragments of ores, primarily sandstone and dolomite, with a smaller share of copper-bearing shales...andwith gangue quartz,covellite, K+feldspars, dolomite, quartz grains with size of 0.01–0.07 mm, together...Figure) metal diversity of the 2 ), K‐feldspars, dolomite, clay minerals and barite, the grains indicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediment-hosted Cu–Co deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where cobalt sulfides were recovered as a...particle size of 10–27 ”m in average from a deposit of Congo. The three best performance grinding products were...et al. [22] studied the Cu–Co ore in Zambia and Congo (DRC), and found the cobalt minerals typically associating...minerals. As 2, 2, gangue minerals, such as quartz, dolomite, and chlorite take up As shown shownininFigure...shownininFigure Figure gangue minerals, such as quartz, dolomite, and chlorite take most parts of the ore mass. Thus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that are composed of diagenetic quartz, albite, dolomite, calcite, and muscovite. Breccia occurs parallel...siltstone, while siderite and hematite replace dolomite and calcite in breccia. Hydrothermal calcite is...deposit. Cooling and reaction of the fluids with dolomite-rich siltstone triggered a redox reaction that...the Lufilian Arc, which is situated between the Congo and Kalahari cratons (Figure 1a). This arc is extensively...rocks in the district are divided into massive dolomite and bedded limestone, which are overlain by mudstone
Journal (issue)
premier contract miner ZEST WEG Instrumental in Kamoa-Kakula’s second phase development 44 A TIME TO...Minerals, Sinead Kaufman; CEO-Designate at Exxaro, Dr Nombasa Tsengwa; Minerals Council SA CEO, Roger Baxter;...country. To that end, it employed a leading ESG expert, Dr Cathryn Maccallum of Sazani Associates, to draw up...being supplied and installed in phase two (right). Kamoa-Kakula Powering a world-class copper mine Zest WEG...speed drives (VSDs) for the second phase of the Kamoa-Kakula project, one of the world’s most exciting
Report (chapter)
the Lufilian orogenic belt located between the Congo and Kalahari cratons. Their glacial origin is inferred...Africa (Katanga Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, and eastern Angola) is exposed in the Lufilian...deformed plateau molasse/foreland sequence over the Congo Craton (Fig. 12.1). Katangan sediments were initially...Neoproterozoic extension along the southern margin of the Congo Craton. Continental break-up accompanied by mafic...foreland basins, was related to the collision of the Congo and Kalahari Cratons during the amalgamation of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
March 2019 Available online 07 March 2019 Editor: Dr. J. Knight Keywords: Death Valley Saratoga Hills...Horse Thief Springs Formation, (iii) Beck Spring Dolomite, and (iv) Kingston Peak Formation (Hewett, 1940;...the late Tonian Islay anomaly in the Beck Spring Dolomite (Smith et al., 2016). The Noonday Formation, resting...Horse Thief Springs Formation, BSD- Beck Spring Dolomite, J-Johnnie Formation. 82 S. Tofaif et al. /...Hills, the KPF sharply overlies the Beck Spring Dolomite (Wright, 1974; Mrofka, 2010). The KPF in Saratoga
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphide mineralisation at the Kamoa copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo— Franck Twite, David Broughton...events recorded in apatite from the ore-hosting dolomite marble and implications for genesis of the giant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
galena). The host dolomite is locally replaced by broad bands of Zn-rich dolomite, where Zn has substituted...substituted for Mg. The ZnO content in this dolomite can reach 22 wt %. Other Zn minerals such as hemimorphite...the textural data and quantification of the Zn dolomite, which is fairly abundant in this deposit. The...the most common ore minerals in limestone- and dolomite-hosted deposits, whereas hemimorphite [Zn4Si2O7(OH)2⋅H2O]...the orebody of variable amounts of Zn hosted in dolomite (Zn2+ substitution for Mg2+ in CaMg(CO3)2), which
Book
Copper-Cobalt District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan and Associated Sandstone Copper Deposits...provinces, keyed to deposit types. The newly discovered Kamoa deposit in the Central African Copperbelt (Broughton...(Lubin-Polkowice, Konkola, Kolwezi, Udokan, and probably Kamoa), one IOCG deposit (Olympic Dam), and one magmatic...Copperbelt of Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Kupferschiefer province of Poland and...exemplified by the sandstone-, carbonaceous shale-, and dolomite-hosted Lubin, Polkowice, and contiguous deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits, hosted in Early Cambrian to Ordovician dolomite (Salahshouri, 1998; Ghasemi, 2008; Aghazade and...Cambrian Hormoz Salt (Fig. 1). 3.1. The Cambrian dolomite-hosted Khongah Cu deposit The Khongah Cu deposit...mineralization at Khongah) is characterized by dolomite and limestone at its base that are overlain by...3).Three copper horizons occur interbedded with dolomite and limestone of the Mila Formation, which shows...shows a lateral change in the host rocks from dolomite to limestone (Fig. 3) (Salahshouri, 1998). The first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University stratiform model (Höll and Maucher, 1976). Dr. Rudolf Höll made the actual discovery by traversing...Katanga Copperbelt that TE resulted in the giant Kamoa discovery (24.13 Mt Cu in 2013, considered the presently...Parker et al., 2013; www.ivanplats.com). CE P Kamoa is a stratabound-Cu horizon found at base of the... Parker, H.M. et al., 2013. Ivanplats Limited, Kamoa Copper Project. NI 43-101 Technical report on updated... Humphrey, J., 2013. The Kamoa copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, diagenetic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(w/w) and the remainder are the minor calcite and dolomite minerals which are also in the host rock. The...arkosic sandstone with minor calcite (CaCO3 ) and dolomite (CaMg(CO3 )2 ). The Tsumeb polymetallic (i.e....that the minor gangue minerals such as calcite, dolomite and pyrite were not included in the calculations...that the minor gangue minerals such as calcite, dolomite and pyrite were not included in the calculations...andconstituted dolomite minerals which are the(w/w) host rock. Theremainder dominant copper and dolomite minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clays, in Fe- and Mn-(hydr)oxides and in Zn-Pbrich dolomite. However, the latter concentrations are generally...metallurgy) of the deposits. Those in limestone and dolomite (the “Calamine”) tend to be dominated by smithsonite...above-quoted deposit types, those hosted in limestone and dolomite (the “calamines”) have a simple mineralogy, good...zinc minerals such as ED Fe-smithsonite, Zn-dolomite, manganosiderite, hetaerolite, as well as copper...the textural data and quantification of the Zn-dolomite, a mineral which can be the reason of the limited
Journal (issue)
Australia, Russia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia. About 60 % of world production...Quartz-carbonateclay quartz, calcite (Mn-rich), dolomite, siderite, kutnohorite, rhodochrosite, rhodonite...replacement chalcopyrite along sedimentary layers, Kamoa, DRC (courtesy of D. Broughton, pencil for scale)...ConglomĂ©rat, the latter with 6 % Cu over 10 m, Kamoa deposit, DRC (courtesy of D. Broughton; Cct – chalcocite;...Copperbelt in Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo, which also account for about 35 % of the world’s
Report (volume)
Neoproterozoic sequences of the West Congo and Lindi/Ubangi Supergroups in the Congo Craton, Central Africa 185...F. A. The Hula Hula Diamictite and Katakturuk Dolomite, Arctic Alaska 379 MACDONALD, F. A. & COHEN...(B) Katanga Supergroup, central Africa; (C) West Congo and Lindi/Ubangi Supergroups, central Africa; (D)...Hoffman Lower and Upper Diamictite Formations, West Congo Supergroup; diamictites of the Lindi/Ubangi Supergroup...cap dolostones (i.e. the lower, transgressive, dolomite facies of the cap carbonates; Hoffman et al. 2011)
 
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