Mine detail: Kinsenda

Previously called 'Tshinsenda, ZaireTshinenda (misspelling)'

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Location

Lat / long: -12.2582, 27.9643

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Cobalt

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence
First production started: 1977

Geology

Host type:Quartzite,Schist,Sandstone
Structure:Copper Belt, Luina Granite Dome

References

MRDSW029741
DEP10079678
Reference{Deposit:: BGR, APRIL 1974, ROHSTOFFWIRTSCHAFTLICHE LAENDERBERICHTE, III, ZAIRE}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, SEPT. 1977, P.146}{Deposit:: Annels, A.E., 1984, The geotectonic environment of Zambian copper-cobalt mineralization: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 141, p. 282, #29 on Fig. 1.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 50.}{Location:: vanbrussel, Katangan Copperbelt.kml, Google Map database (accessed Feb. 16, 2010). [This database accessible through Google Maps and Google Earth appears to be well documented, all the information has checked out, but there is no official author, title, or publication].}
ReporterSaam, Henning G., Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Wilson, Anna B.