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Dolomite from
Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteā“˜2 photos of Dolomite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Zinc-bearing Dolomiteā“˜1 photo of Dolomite associated with Zinc-bearing Dolomite at this locality.
Quartzā“˜1 photo of Dolomite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Hemimorphiteā“˜1 photo of Dolomite associated with Hemimorphite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kipushi Mine, Kipushi, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22856
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22856:3
GUID (UUID V4):78af24ef-8709-45f9-920a-c5ccc8d78d20
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
40.6km (25.2 miles) ā“˜L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
58.4km (36.3 miles) ā“˜Kinsevere mine, Kipushi Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
94.0km (58.4 miles) ā“˜Konkola Mine, Chililabombwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
94.6km (58.8 miles) ā“˜Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi District, North-Western Province, Zambia
98.0km (60.9 miles) ā“˜Shituru Mine, Likasi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORE DISTRIBUTION AT THE KIPUSHI Cu-Zn DEPOSIT, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AND GAYNA RIVER Zn CAMP...significant base metal deposits, Kipushi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Gayna River (Canada), is the...hitherto considered unique. At the past-producing Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit, orebodies are associated with a...overlying fine-grained terrigenous strata contact the Kipushi carbonate buildup appears to have focused later...carbonate rocks: the world-class Kipushi mine (Democratic Republic of Congo) and the Gayna River camp (Canada)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĆ© 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 Pbā€“Znā€“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 Pbā€“Znā€“Cu deposits, such as at Kipushi, Kengere and Lombe (Fig. 1; e.g., Intiomale and
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...accompanied by three generations of hydrothermal dolomite and a generation of coarse-grained quartz. Primary...geothermometry framed the formation temperature of the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit between ~290Ā° to 380Ā°C. Younger fluids
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...linear trends on leadlead plots. The host-rock dolomite of the Kabwe deposit also has homogeneous lead
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 (article/letter/editorial)
RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............ The Katanga Province .............................................. Kipushi .......................................... 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ...........................................Southern Rhodesiaand in the Katanga Provinceof the Republicof the Congo. The depositssampledoccur in
Journal (issue)
Three Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ....................................J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit o f zinc...Crescent, it has yielded many valuable specimens. Kipushi is the type locality fo r renierite and kipushite...situated at a higher stratigraphic level in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes...Angola-Congo craton, examples being M ā€™Passa in the Peopleā€™s R eĀ­ public of the Congo and Kipushi in southeastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copperbelt in Southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo: IGCP-450 Field Workshop on Proterozoic Sediment-hosted...17-23, 2003, in the Katanga Province in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major part...symposium (Cailteux, 2003). The Neoproterozoic Katanga Supergroup forms an important part of the Pan-African...(Franqois, 1974; Cailteux, 2003, Fig. 1). The Katanga Supergroup in DRC is distributed in two tectonic...as pebbly shale. The Kipushi Zn-Cu-Pb Mine On July 18*, we visited the Kipushi Zn-Cu-Pb deposit (underground)
Report (chapter)
Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites of the Katanga Supergroup, Central Africa SHARAD MASTER1* & MAREK...ac.za) Abstract: Glaciogenic sediments of the Katanga Supergroup are represented by two units. The syn-rift...the Lufilian orogenic belt located between the Congo and Kalahari cratons. Their glacial origin is inferred...Palaeozoic Katanga Supergroup of Central Africa (Katanga Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia...deformed plateau molasse/foreland sequence over the Congo Craton (Fig. 12.1). Katangan sediments were initially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...recognizable crystalline Figure 1. Bornite with dolomite and quartz, 10 Ɨ 15 cm, from Dzhezkazgan, Karagandy...Montana. Montana Tech Mineral Museum specimen 18126, Dr. Peter Knudsen photo. Figure 3 (above right). Bornite...specimen 17007, a gift of Mary and Gardner Miller, Dr. Peter Knudsen photo. Figure 4 (right). Modified...cm across, from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Dr. Peter Knudsen specimen and photo. structureā€; perhaps
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LETTER Concordant ages for the giant Kipushi base metal deposit (DR Congo) from direct Rbā€“Sr and Reā€“Os dating...carbonate-hosted Kipushi base metal (+Ge) deposit in the Neoproterozoic Lufilian Arc, DR Congo. This is the...independent isotopic methods. The 451 Ma age for Kipushi suggests that the ore-forming solutions did not...that both Cuā€“Ge- and Zn-rich orebodies of the Kipushi deposit formed contemporaneously from the same...dating of sphalerite. Keywords Kipushi . Base metals . Copperbelt . Congo . Rbā€“Sr isotopes . Reā€“Os isotopes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
// MWASHIA Ɵ Ɵ ' DOLOMITE, LIMESTONE, ANHYDRITE / UPPER ROAN__ DOLOMITE 8000 -- -- / ROAN"...siliceousdolomite,stromatoliticdolomite, argillaceous dolomite,anddolomiticsiltyargillite. widespread,even if...\ Fault Sinlstral Transcurrent International KIPUSHI KIPAPILA Boundary Ɵ %.,., ā€¢,ā€¢alur Malundwe MUFULIRA...payablehorizonsis locallyvery large. In the Mufulira mine in Zambiamineralizationis presentin 21 distinctlithologicalunits...interbedded graphitic schist, siltstone, quartzite, and dolomite forms a wide envelopealongthe veins. Sulfidemineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uniquein that its onlyknownoccurrence is the Tsumeb mine. However,Geierhasdiscovered thatgermanite is nottheonly...whichwas formerly knownonlyfromthePrinceLeopoldmineat Kipushi,BelgianCongo. Chemical analysesof germanitcand..."in the sulfideore from the PrinceLeopold Mine at Kipushi. Severalyearslater Legraye(7) re-examined the...grains. 5-8. Reniā€¢rite, Prince Leopold Mine, Kipushi, Belgian Congo. Bracq's analyses in Vaes (25) who reports...of ore obtained from different locations in the mine. The magnetic products were boiled in HC1 to remove
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gondwana - Report of IGCP-450 Meeting in Lubumbashi, DR Congo, South-Central Africa M. Yoshidal and J. Kokonyangi*...about 72 scientists from 15 countries including DR Congo, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Brazil...word by the Representative of Governor of the Katanga Province. Oral presentations were distributed into...pyroclastic rocks in the LikasiKambove area (D.R. Congo); J.W. Barron and others: Petrology, geochemistry...raise new questions on the regional geology of the Katanga province as figured on the 1974geological map (1/2000000)
Thesis/Dissertation
___________________________ Dr. Alexander P. Gysi Thesis Advisor Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Murray W. Hitzman..._______________________ Signed: ___________________________ Dr. Wendy Bohrson Department Head Department of Geology...Engineering ii ABSTRACT The Kansanshi Cu-(Au) mine exploits a structurally controlled deposit hosted...southern Africa. It is currently the largest active Cu mine in Africa, with a total endowment of nearly 12 Mt...Domain is separated from the overlying Kansanshi Mine domain by the Evaporitic Sequence, a >300 m thick
Report (issue)
..........................................H19 Kipushi Polymetallic Type............................................................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................microgram of manganese per liter ƅ angstrom AMD acid mine drainage ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and...Cameroon province Guyana Shield province 45Ā° Kipushi 45Ā° 90Ā° Indian province Russian province 135Ā°
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediments 200 200 km km Democratic Republic of Congo N post-Katangan sediments Katangan Katangan sediments...deposit (Ka), the Musoshi copper deposit (M), the Kipushi Zn-Pb-Cu deposit (Ki), and the Shinkolobwe uranium...belt in the area of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to have ended by 650 to 600 Ma, based on...of centimeter-wide to severalmeter-wide quartz-dolomite-chalcopyrite-pyrite-(molybdenite) veins (Fig....envelopes of moderate to intense albitic and ferroan dolomite alteration of schists and phyllites that resulted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Dikulushi Cu-Ag Deposit, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo MAARTEN HAEST,ā€  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
Catalog/List
with micro Sphalerite on 2x2 matrix Lers Malines Mine, Gard, France Ā£20 4. BENTORITE a very rare, Cr containing...l matrix, minor dolomite crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch Anglesey...matrix. Plates are about I to 1.5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) Ā£30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey... all over 2.5 x2.5 inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo Ā£25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown cleavages...tabular twinned crystal about 8 mm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) Ā£40 Na Be PO4 17
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DECEMBER, THE CORRELATION MENTS OF THE OF THE KATANGA COPPER ANTON I93O No. 8 ORE-BEARING SEDIAND...SEDIAND RHODESIAN BELT. GRAY. INTRODUCTION. THE Katanga-Rhodesia CopperBelt extendsin a NW.-SE. direction...foundthe well knownoxidizedoresof the Katanga.;Etoile du Congo,Ruashi,Luisha,Kambove,Kipushiand manyothers...cobalt. Uraniumoreshaveso.far beenfoundonlyin the Katanga. The principalore bodiesof boththe oxidizedand...many geologistsand engineers. Cornetā€¢ studiedthe Katanga depositsin x89o-93, and the mineralogy of the ores
Book
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH Prof. Dr. GUNTHER H. FRIEDRICH Dr. PETER M. HERZIG Institute of Mineralogy...Figures) . . . . . . . 60 The Origin of the Kipushi (Cu, Zn, Pb) Deposit in Direct Relation with a...and wrench tectonics near Macmillan Pass, Yukon Territory, Canada. In : Turner RJW, Einaudi MT (eds) The...southeastern Selwyn Basin, Nahanni Map area. Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie. Curr Res Part A Geol...stratiform baritic deposits of the Selwyn Basin. Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie. Curr Res Part A Geol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic study of the Dikulushi Cuā€“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...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...of the deposits; b stratigraphic column of the Katanga Supergroup that is divided in the Roan, Nguba and
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm Ā£7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...surface . good coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...and polished except for one side 5.5x4x3 cm Katanga DR Congo Ā£25 2 25 ARAGONITE attractive crystal group...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales Ā£20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...crystalline area of Celsian on one side 6x5cm Benallt Mine Lleyn North wales Ā£18 45 OLENITE/ROSSMANITE , on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered in 1902, and the sulfides were mined until mine closure in 1994 (Kamona and Friedrich, 2007). During...its lifespan, Kabwe was the most significant Zn-Pb mine in Zambia, with production from the sulfide bodies...metasiltstone, schist, phyllite and dolomite; and (3) a predominantly phyllite-dolomite unit with associated calcitemarble...and relative positions of orebodies on the 850 ft mine level (āˆ¼260 m depth from the surface), underlying...stratigraphically to a true Formation, named the Kabwe Dolomite Formation, which has been subdivided into two
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
 
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