| Location: | Zimbabwe, Africa |
| Lat / long: | -18.46367, 29.41803 |
| dep_id: | 10079578 |
| mrds_id: | W029610 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Nickel, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Cobalt |
| Trace mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Biotite, Calcite, Prehnite, Quartz, Talc |
| model: | 13: Synorogenic-synvolcanic Ni-Cu |
| alteration: | All Rocks Are Much Altered By Deuteric And Perhaps Regional Metamorphism. |
| ore_ctrl: | Precambrian Bulawayan Greenstones. A Granodiorite Stock Intrude The Greenstones And A Zone Of Amphibolite And Hybrid Rock Occurs At The Greenstone-Granodiorite Contact In Which The Nickel Deposit Occurs. |
| Reporter: | Saam, Henning G. |
| hrock_type: | Tonalite,Diorite,Gabbro,Amphibolite,Granite |
| arock_type: | Ultramafic Intrusive Rock |
| Structure: | Archaean Greenstone Belt, Mafic And Ultramafic Cratonic Environment, A Quartz Diorite Stock Intrusiv Into Precambrian Bulawayan Greenstone And Gives Way To Altered Plutonic Rocks Of Mafic And Ultramatic Character Which Lie Against The Greenstone Margins. |
| disc_yr: | 1955 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: PETERS H.D.,NICKEL, 1975
- Deposit:: SHARPE J.W.N, THE EMPRESS NICKEL-COPPER DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN RHODESIA
- Deposit:: EALES V.H., MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE EMPRESS NI-CU DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN RHODESIA
- Deposit:: E/M.J. (1975) P. 263
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