Mine detail: Kansanshi

Previously called 'Kansanshi-Kopje'

Location:	North-Western, Zambia, Africa
Lat / long:	-12.09715, 26.43117
dep_id:	10183134
mrds_id:	DE00066
mas_id:	7940300006
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper
Operation type:	Surface
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Molybdenite
other_matl:	Brannerite, Monazite
work_type:	Surface
Reporter:	Porter, Kenneth E., Wilson, Anna B.
hrock_unit:	Kundulungu Group
hrock_type:	Metamorphic Rock
Year first produced:	1908
disc_yr:	1899
References:	Deposit:: Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits and occurrences: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2915b, 256 p. Deposit:: Torrealday, H.I., Hitzman, M.W., Stein, H.J., Markeley, R.J., Armstrong, R., and Broughton, D, 2000, Re-Os and U-Pb dating of vein-hosted mineralization at the Kansanshi copper deposit, northern Zambia, Economic Geology, v. 95, p. 1165-1170. Deposit:: Cameron, A.R., 2005, First Quantum Minerals Ltd, Kansanshi Copper Project, Zambia, Operations Overview: A&J Cameron and Assoicates, 31 p. Deposit:: COAL, GOLD, AND BASE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, COPPERBELT GETS ANOTHER LINK, JUNE 1974, P. 53-55. Deposit:: GOLDAR ASSOCIATES, INC., DEPOSIT PROFILE-KANSANSHI, ZAMBIA, SEPTEMBER 1980. Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 50. Deposit:: REEVE, WH. H., 1963, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NORTHERN RHODESIA: NORTHERN RHODESIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. 3, VOLUME 1, 1963, P. 61-62. Deposit:: WORLD MINING YEARBOOK, 1977. Deposit:: Freeman, P.V., 1988, Description of mineral deposits on the Copperbelt (and Kabwe, Nampundwe): Lukasa, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. [ZCCM] unpublished company report, 88 p. Deposit:: Reeve, W.H., 1962, The geology and mineral resources of northern Rhodesia: Northern Rhodesia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 3, v. 2, map IV, #22. Deposit:: Infomine [http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/KANSANSHI.html] [http://www.infomine.com/companies-properties/infodbweb/ChargePropertyReport.asp?SearchID=29685] Deposit:: Portergeo.com.au website. Kansanshi. [http://www.portergeo.com.au/database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn663 last accessed 5/27/10] Deposit:: Broughton, D.W., Hitzman, M.W., Stephens, A.J., 2002, Exploration history and geology of the Kansanshi Cu(-Au) deposit, Zambia, in Goldfarb, R.J. and Nielsen, R.L., eds., Integrated methods for discovery; global exploration in the twenty-first century: Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication, v. 9, p.141-153. Reserve-Resource:: MINING JOURNAL, KANSANSHI PROGRESS, 9/1/89, P. 169. Reserve-Resource:: NCHANGA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD, ANNUAL REPORT. 1976, 1978. Reserve-Resource:: ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1991, ANNUAL REPORT, P. 44. Reserve-Resource:: ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1992, ANNUAL REPORT, P. 53.