Mine detail: Empress

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Location

Lat / long:

-18.46367, 29.41803

Resource(M)

Primary:	Nickel, Copper
Secondary:	Cobalt
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Biotite, Calcite, Prehnite, Quartz, Talc
Discovery year:	1955

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Tonalite,Diorite,Gabbro,Amphibolite,Granite
Associated 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.
Alteration processes:	All Rocks Are Much Altered By Deuteric And Perhaps Regional Metamorphism.

References

MRDS	W029610
DEP	10079578
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Saam, Henning G.