Mine detail: Kinsenda

Previously called 'Tshinsenda, ZaireTshinenda (misspelling)'

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Location: Katanga, Congo (Kinshasa), Africa
Lat / long: -12.2582, 27.9643
dep_id: 10079678
mrds_id: W029741
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Cobalt
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
Reporter: Saam, Henning G., Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Wilson, Anna B.
hrock_type: Quartzite,Schist,Sandstone
Structure: Copper Belt, Luina Granite Dome
Year first produced: 1977
References:
  • 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].
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