Mine detail: Baluba

Previously called 'LuanshyaBaluba Copper-Cobalt Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: -13.04923, 28.33832

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Cobalt
Ore: Bornite, Carrollite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Pyrite
Discovery year: 1929

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Sediment-hosted Copper
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1973

Geology

References

MRDSW006894
MAS7940050011
DEP10280210
Reference{Deposit:: MABSON, L. R., THE DEVELOPMENT OF BALUBA. MINING MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1976, P412-423.}{Deposit:: MENDELSOHN, F. (ED) THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT. MCDONALD AND CO., LONDON, 1961, P343-351.}{Deposit:: VINK, B. W., SULPHIDE MINERAL ZONING IN THE BALUBA ORE BODY, ZAMBIA. GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW V51, 1972, P 309-313.}{Deposit:: STAFF WORLD MINING, DEVELOPE BALUBA UNDERGROUND MINE. WORLD MINING, JULY 1976, P52-55.}{Deposit:: STAFF WORLD MINING, RCM $110,000,000 EXPANSION PROGRAM. WORLD MINING,NOVEMBER 1972, P52-53.}{Deposit:: RCM ANNUAL REPORT 1976.}{Deposit:: ANDREWS, R.W., 1962, COBALT: OVERSEAS GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS, MINERAL RESOURCES DIVISION, LONDON, HER MAJEST* STATIONERY OFFICE, P. 71-. [copied from refs. in old MRDS W006894]}{Deposit:: SKINNER, WALTER R., 1973, MINING INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK, LONDON, THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED, P. 501. [copied from refs. in old MRDS W006894]}{Deposit:: BILBREY, JOSEPH H., 1962, COBALT, A MATERIALS SURVEY: U.S. BUR. OF MINES, P. 25 AND 26. [copied from refs. in old MRDS W006894]}{Deposit:: METALS WEEK-METALS SOURCEBOOK, 12/10/73, ITEM #A5239. [copied from refs. in old MRDS W006894]}{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 [ZCCM] unpublished company report, 88 p.}{Deposit:: Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper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:: Fleischer, V.D., Garlick, W.D., and Haldane, R., 1976, Geology of the Zambian Copperbelt, in Wolf, K.H., ed., Handbook of Strata-bound and Stratiform Ore Deposits, v. 6, Chapter 6, p. 223-352.}{Deposit:: Lungu, C.V., 1998, Zambian mining in transition: Mining Magazine, Sept. 1998, p. 116-117, 119-121, 123, 129. (info provided is from p. 117)}{Deposit:: Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.}{Production:: TER BRUGGEN, J. W., INTRODUCTION INTO MINING AND METALLURGY ON THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT. GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW, V51, 1972, P361-370.}{Reserve-Resource:: RCM ANNUAL REPORT, 1977.}{Reserve-Resource:: ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1988 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 42.}{Reserve-Resource:: ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1991 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 42, 44.}{Reserve-Resource:: ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1992 ANNUAL REPORT, P.51, 53.}
ReporterWilson, Anna B., Shaffer, Glenn L., Porter, Kenneth E.