Mine detail: Trojan

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Location

Lat / long:

-17.29706, 31.33465

Resource(M)

Primary:	Nickel, Copper
Tertiary:	Cobalt
Ore:	Ilmenite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1957

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1968

Geology

Host rock:	Shamvaian Formation;Bulawayan Formation
Host type:	Dunite,Serpentinite,Komatiite (Ultramafite)
Associated rock:	Ultramafics
Associated type:	Dunite
Structure:	Archaean Greenstone Belt, Precambrian Mafic And Ultramafic Rocks In A Cratonic Environment, Traverse Faults Trend Obliquely Across The Ultrabsic Rocks, Quartz Diorite Stock Intrusive Into Precambrian Bulawan Greenstones, Of Bulawan System. The Rocks Are Isoclinaly Folded.Faults.
Tectonic:	Archaean Greenstone Belt
Alteration processes:	Serpentinization

References

MRDS	W029608
DEP	10079576
Reference	{Deposit:: PETERS H.D., NICKEL,1975}{Deposit:: ROEX D.H.LE, NICKEL DEPOSIT ON THE TROJAN CLAIMS, BINDURA DISTRICT, S. RHODESIA}{Deposit:: SCALLAN R.J., TROJAN NICKEL, VEIL IS LIFTED ON BIG BINDURA OPERATIONS.}{Deposit:: DEYOUNG AND OTHERS, 1985, INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY SUMMARY REPORT-- NICKEL: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-D, 62 P.}
Reporter	Saam, Henning G., Orris, Greta J.