Mine detail: Bwana Mkubwa

Previously called 'Bwana Mkubwa, Rokana Div., Shovel Pit'

Location:	Copperbelt, Zambia, Africa
Lat / long:	-13.04103, 28.71874
dep_id:	10280840
mrds_id:	W032843
mas_id:	7940050015
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper
Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	Sediment-hosted Copper
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcocite, Malachite
work_type:	Surface
model:	200: Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Reporter:	Boyle, Ed, Wilson, Anna B., Gassaway, Judith S.
hrock_unit:	Lower Roan Quartzites, Mines Group, Roan Supergroup,
hrock_type:	Clastic Sedimentary Rock
yfp_ba:	>
Year first produced:	1902
yr_lst_prd:	1984
disc_yr:	1903
prod_yrs:	Continuous production from 1971-1984.
References:	Deposit:: MENDELSOHN, F. (ED.), THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT: MACDONALD AND CO., LONDON, 1961, 523 P. Deposit:: MM 1980. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843] Deposit:: DE KUN, N., THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF AFRICA: ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, 1965, P130-136,350-356,365-369. Deposit:: E/MJ 1978. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843] Deposit:: PELLETIER, R. A., MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH-CENTERAL AFRICA: OXFORD UNIV. PRESS, CAPETOWN, 1964, P365-369. Deposit:: WAR MINERALS REPORT 1976-1977. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843] Deposit:: NCHANGA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD ANNUAL REPORTS,1976, 1978. Deposit:: Freeman, P.V., 1988, Description of mineral deposits on the Copperbelt (and Kabwe, Nampundwe): Lukasa, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. [ZCCM] unpublished company report, 88 p. Deposit:: Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper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. Deposit:: Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000. Deposit:: Infomine [http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/BWANA_MKUBWA_MINE.html] [http://www.infomine.com/companies-properties/infodbweb/ChargePropertyReport.asp?SearchID=18438] [X:\Zambia\References\ByRefNo\1524_INFOMINE_BwanaMkubwa.pdf]