Location: | Namibia, Africa |
Lat / long: | -27.94666, 16.76825 |
dep_id: | 10073117 |
mrds_id: | W018949 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Zinc, Lead |
Minor mineral: | Copper |
Trace mineral: | Antimony, Silver |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Production occurred |
Development status: | Producer |
ore: | Bornite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Rutile, Sphalerite |
gangue: | Barite, Celsian, Dolomite, Quartz, Witherite |
orebody_fm: | STRATABOUND AND STRATIFORM TABULAR BODIES |
model: | 208: Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb |
alteration: | Outcrops Are Well Oxidized |
ore_ctrl: | Probably Syngenetic Deposition |
Reporter: | Schruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J. |
hrock_unit: | Kapok Formation |
hrock_type: | Quartzite,Argillite,Dolomite |
Structure: | On W. Flank Of A Nw- Sse Trending Anticlinorium., A Single Fault Adjacent - East Of The A Orebody |
disc_yr: | 1963 |
discr: | M.D. Mc Millan |
References: |
- Deposit:: PAGE, D. C., WATSON, M. D., 1976, THE PB-ZN DEPOSIT OF ROSH PINAH MINE, SOUTH WEST AFRICA; ECON. GEOL. V 71 P. 306 - 327
- Deposit:: MENZIE AND MOSIER, 1985, GRADE, TONNAGE AND LITHOLOGIC DATA FOR SEDIMENT-HOSTED SUBMARINE EXHALATIVE ZN-PB AND SANDSTONE-HOSTED PB-ZN DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-206, 17 P.
- Deposit:: MC MILLAN, M.D., 1968, GEOLOGY OF WITPUTS - SENDELINGSDRIFT AREA: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH UNIT, BULLETIN 4, 176 P.
- Production:: E/MJ INTL. DIR. 1975, P.
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