Mine detail: Mwerkera

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Location: Zambia, Africa
Lat / long: -12.79984, 28.50069
dep_id: 10400375
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
model: 200: Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Reporter: Wilson, Anna B.
hrock_unit: Footwall Quartzite
hrock_type: Quartzite
References:
  • 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:: 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.
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