Commodities
PrimarySulfur
SecondaryIron, Copper
Commodity typeB
Deposit
Deposit typemassive sulfide
Materials
Ore mineralsPyrite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Covellite
Geology
Host rockCarbonate · Middle Katangan Cheta Formation (roughly correlates with upper part of Lower Roan Group)
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Identification
Deposit ID10183431
MRDS IDDE00069
Alternate namesKing Edward
RegionAF
Data scoreC
Coordinates-15.4936, 27.9111
References
GEOL SURV NORTHERN RHODESIA, BULL #3, P125-126.\nReeve, W.H., 1962, The geology and mineral resources of northern Rhodesia: Northern Rhodesia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 3, v. 1, p. 125-126, and v. 2, map IV, #24.MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 50. \n[Copied from deleted record 10021409]Burnard, P.G., Sweeney, M.A., Vaughan, D.J., Spiro, B., and Thirlwall, M.F., 1993, Sulfur and lead isotope contraints on the genesis of a southern Zambian massive sulfide deposit: Economic Geology, v. 88 (April), p. 418-436.ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-00018_en.html