Mine detail: Fitwaola

Previously called 'Fituaola'

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Location: Zambia, Africa
Lat / long: -12.40854, 27.88064
dep_id: 10400383
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Malachite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite
model: 202: Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies
Reporter: Wilson, Anna B.
hrock_unit: Copperbelt Orebody member
hrock_type: Shale
References:
  • Deposit:: Freeman, P.V., 1988, Description of mineral deposits on the Copperbelt (and Kabwe, Nampundwe), unpublished report, p. 41.
  • Deposit:: Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.
  • Deposit:: KCM Valuation, Prepared for ZCI Holdings SA and Vedanta Resources Plc by Rothschild, 15 January, 2008, 228 p. [www.zci.lu/KCM%20Valuation%20Report.pdf] p. 56.
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