Mine detail: Black Mountain Mine

Previously called 'Aggeneys Copper Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

-29.22992, 18.83491

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Zinc, Copper
Secondary:	Silver
Discovery year:	1929

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1979

Geology

Host rock:	Ore-Bearing Bushmanland Sequence;Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex
Host type:	Granulite
Structure:	Namaqualand Mobile Belt. Isoclinal Easterly Plunging Fold System Overturned Toward South., Orebodies In Isoclinal Overturned Synclines
Tectonic:	Shield
Alteration processes:	Gossans At Surface (All 3 Orebodies)

References

MRDS	W031006
DEP	10080052
Reference	{Deposit:: CHADWICK, J.R., 1981, FOCUS: SOUTHERN AFRICA: WORLD MINING, MAR., 1981, V34, NO3, P 36-39.}{Deposit:: 1979, PROGRESS CONTINUES AT AGGENEYS: MINING MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1979, P 206-213.}{Deposit:: 1929 DIREXPL}{Deposit:: 1970 DIREXPL PHELPS DODGE CORP}{Production:: ANNUAL REPORT OF GOLD FIELDS GROUP - 1980 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT-1986 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT 1983 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT - 1984 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT - 1985 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT-1982 ; BLACK MOUNTAIN ANNUAL REPORT - 1981}{Reserve-Resource:: U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AIRGRAM 1-31-77, P. 62.}
Reporter	Mccarter, Lorna D.