Copperbelt
Prospect

Mwerkera

Copperbelt, Zambia
Copper
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Commodities
PrimaryCopper
Deposit
Model200: Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Geology
Host rockQuartzite · Footwall Quartzite
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Identification
Deposit ID10400375
RegionAF
Data scoreC
Coordinates-12.79984, 28.50069
References
Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits and occurrences: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2915b, 256 p.Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.Annels, A.E., 1989, Ore genesis in the Zambian Copperbelt with particular reference to the northern sector of the Chambishi Basin, in Boyle, R.W., Brown, A.C., Jefferson, C.W., Jowett, E.C., and Kirkham, R.V. eds., Sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 36, p. 427-452.ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-01055_en.htmlAnnels, A.E., 1984, The geotectonic environment of Zambian copper-cobalt mineralization: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 141, no. 2, p. 279-289.2011, Central African Copperbelt: U.S. Geological Survey SIR