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Libethenite from
Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Libethenite
Formula:Cu2(PO4)(OH)
Comments:Southwood, M., Cairncross, B., Rumsey, M. (2019) Minerals of Kabwe mine ("Broken Hill mine"), Central Province, Zambia. Rocks & Minerals: 94(2): 114-148. ("questionable" - partly zincolibethenite, recent finds probably from Mindola open pit).


Braithwaite & Pritchard, et.al conclude that the libethenite from this mine appears to be zincolibethenite.
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chrysocollaⓘ2 photos of Libethenite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Libethenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6952:6
GUID (UUID V4):f8ada958-edd2-4ccf-be36-439ee434aac8
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the KABWE MINE (“Broken Hill”) Central Province, Zambia MALCOLM SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court...location of Kabwe in Zambia. Prepared by William Besse. Figure 2. Satellite image of the Kabwe mine site, showing... Figure 3. The Kabwe mine site, partially derelict. Michael Brook photo, 2004. T HE CITY OF KABWE, ZAMBIA’S...north of Lusaka, the capital (fig. 1). The name Kabwe means “place of smelting” but refers to the pre-European...in the area (Notebaart and Korowski 1980). The Kabwe lead-zinc deposit was fortuitously discovered in
Report (issue)
Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Broken Hill mines, Kabwe, Zambia. 4.7937 (100), 2.6325 (47), 5.8676 (39), 2.9351...26.4 27.1 12.9 3.66 (1) Broken Hill mines, Kabwe, Zambia; average of 15 electron microprobe analyses...& Series: Forms a solid-solution series with libethenite. Occurrence: A secondary mineral in the oxidized...mineral deposit. Association: Hopeite, tarbuttite (Zambia); corkite-hinsdalite, tsumebite, pyromorphite,...(Australia). Distribution: Broken Hill mines, Kabwe, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). From Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
non-sulfide Zn deposits: a reanalysis of the Kabwe Zn-Pb ores (central Zambia) N. MONDILLO1,*, R. HERRINGTON2, A...Editor: Nigel Cook] ABSTR ACT The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (central Zambia) consists of a cluster of mixed sulfide...mineralization, and was carried out on a suite of Kabwe specimens, housed in the Natural History Museum...non-sulfides, Kabwe, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), Zambia. Introduction...2003). The Kabwe Zn-Pb deposit (formerly known as ‘Broken Hill’) is located in central Zambia, ∼110 km
Report (issue)
99.92 99.31 (1) Morávicza, Romania. (2) Arakawa mine, Japan; corresponds to (Cu1.77 Zn1.24 )Σ=3.01 (PO4...pyromorphite, kipushite, vauquelinite, libethenite, quartz, iron oxides (Kipushi mine, Congo); hemimorphite, malachite...Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the Hisaichi...Hisaichi (Arakawa) mine, Akita Prefecture, and the Kamioka mine, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In the USA, large...large crystals from the Black Pine mine, near Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana; from Gold Hill, Tooele Co
Journal (issue)
manager Famous mineral localities: the Broken Hill mine, Zam bia..............................................351 Famous mineral localities: the Cruzeiro mine, past and present ................................ famous mineraC (ocafities: the Broken Hiffmine Zambia by C. W. Notebaart Stadhoudersplein 25 C 3039-ER...906 Kitwe, Zambia HISTORY The Broken Hill lead-zinc mine is located near the town of Kabwe, 140 km north...north of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, on the main route to the Copperbelt (Pig. 1). The ore deposit
Journal (issue)
zinkertsvoorkomen van Eiroken Hill bij Kabwe, Centraal-Zambia ligt dichtbij Shaba , en is, alhoewel geologisch...ertsafzetting dagzoomt op slechts 50 0 m van de grens met Zambia, die gevormd wordt door de waterscheidingslijn...is van historisch belang . Het stadsdeel Kipushi(Zambia) is veel kleine r dan Kipushi(Zaire) ; de beide...Grey op zijn terugweg van het kopervoorkomen van Zambia zij n hoofdkwartier in Kansanshi . Dat leek hem...to the level 3 0 has been worked out as open pit mine . probable plane of level 700 Piane Of level 500
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ravnås prospect, southern Vinoren, Kongsberg ore district, Flesberg community, Buskerud county, Norway.... It has also been found at the Bratteskjerpet mine, Saggrenda, and at Sjoa in Sel community, Oppland...Wessels Mine, South Africa. Eur. J. Mineral., 17, 375–382. Holtstamite from the Wessels Mine, South Africa...hydrothermal alteration of primary Mn ores at Wessels Mine, Kalahari manganese Þeld, South Africa. It is associated...in the Falcacci stope of the Rio Marina iron ore mine on the east coast of Elba Island, Tuscany, Italy
Journal (issue)
locality. Pyromorphite from on old locality—rhe Sherman mine, Burke, Idaho. A small lot of miniatures and hondsize...specimens— $15 to $500. Liebigite from rhe SchwarTzwalder mine, Golden, Colorado. Well-formed, bright yellow-green...Record Nina Woo Feature articles Libethenite from the Rokana Mine, Zambia.................................Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey 385 by F. J. Parker Tveitite from the Barringer Hill District, Texas...December, 1978 UBETHENITE from the Rokana Mine, Zambia by Stanley P. Korowski and Cor W. Notebaart
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . 1.1   1.2   Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5  Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 1.7  Northern and Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Baumgarten et al. 2008 Dill et al. 1997a Cajamarca Province Peru Palache et al. 1951 Malpelo Island, Colombia
Journal (issue)
and other thorned vegetation we arrive at the mine. The mine was predictably a collection of 2-inch pegmatite...Pakistan, rhodochrosite crystals from the Sweet Home mine, gold nuggets, one-of-a-kind museum classics, meteorites...and back panels of the case, photos of a Cobalt mine, a mining scene, and local mining April 2006 ...as well, though still has hundreds of accessible mine tunnels and dumps, prospect there is no universal...looks under ultraviolet light. Two and dumps and one mine in northern New Jersey. My examples will suffice
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................late Precambrian rocks of South Central Africa of a polymetallic province, distinct from the stratiform...in the Katanga System or its equivalents. This province includes deposits of Zn-Pb-Cu with an array of...1977, 1984). The Broken Hill deposit at Kabwe in central Zambia is also famous economically. Hosted just...is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W
Catalog/List
browncleavages in matrix. (KhanBogdinskii massif, Central Gobi Oesert. Mongolia) lxl EJ lx2 ES 2x2 ElO 209...Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE...in one small area on blue Chrysocolla. (Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, lrrizona ,USA) lx2ins f.4.50 l'i6
Catalog/List
Posjnadcit< II:. langitc,Main S1ope. DmkMine. Gunnosloke.ComwallScoley sky blue drusc on killns...RefMine. Gwinear.C omwnll fa RWD C:indlc wax ltke growihs...Reference example Ml ÂŁ8 9.MMine. GuMislakc.Com-.nll Quanz rich wAf...reference sample M ÂŁ20 20.Cassitcriic \:ls,.Polberro Mine. St Agnes. Cornwall ,\nrncti\C lus1rous cquan1 c...specimen.Ml ÂŁ25 22.Goctlu1c,Rcs1orrncl Royal Iron Mine. Lost,\lth1el.C omwall Rich bot')oidal i:oc1h11e
Book
Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior...chalcocite. Localities. Fine crystals from the Calabona mine, Alghero, Sardinia; other localities are Chile,
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Sal-ammoniac — aggregation of crystals from pile of a coal mine; Kladno (Czechoslovakia — width of field 15 mm)...second pyrite (436) e Occurrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district — Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite — long prismatic
Book
Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...long and 4-8 feet in thickness at the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, Lawrence County; and as masses 20-40...in Miocene clay at Bellaver de Cerdena, Gerona Province, Spain; in a bituminous clay rock at Messel, Hesse...siderite, and other minerals at the West Phoenix mine, near Liskeard, Cornwall, England Optical Constants:...beryl, muscovite, and spodumene at the Nickel Plate mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota; also
Book
Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)...(233), pyrite (436) • OcciJrrence: rare; Tarapaca province (Chile), Potosi (Bolivia), islands in the Caspian...Linares (Spain), Poniky (Czechoslovakia), Tintic district - Utah (USA). 1. Sideronatrite - long prismatic...found in the Mansfeld slates in Zwickau (GDR), Wolf Mine (near Herdorf, Reichenbach, FRG), Bisbee, Georgetown
Journal (issue)
................................... Foss Baryte Mine - Request for Information and Specimens ..........then interested in, minerals. He joined Bury and District Mineral and Lapidary Society where he met Wally...Peak District of Derbyshire. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals 13 & Bulletin of the Peak District Mines...a rock climber, mainly in Derbyshire, the Lake district, North Wales and Scotland but also going to the...trips and they both served on the committee of the Central Branch, although in recent years, Roy’s illness
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
Book
MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl) 1stals...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
Book
Sciences Harald G. Dill The HagendorfPleystein Province: the Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen...com/series/7377 Harald G. Dill The Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: the Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen...much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...hardly a crustal section to match with this part of Central Europe under consideration with regard to the number...area, however, the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite Province (HPPP) is not only the largest concentration of
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...Republic province prefecture county departement departamento district municipio
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Ca2B4O4(OH)7Cl¡7H2O Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:...Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Description:
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...well balanced selection of mineral localities was central to the authors' effort. We took into consideration...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....repeated changes of administrative divisions in central and eastern Europe during the last 60 years are
 
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