Mine detail: Bwana Mkubwa

Previously called 'Bwana Mkubwa, Rokana Div., Shovel Pit'

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Location

Lat / long: -13.04103, 28.71874

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcocite, Malachite
Discovery year: 1903

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Sediment-hosted Copper
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: Continuous production from 1971-1984.
First production started: 1902
Last production ended: 1984

Geology

Host rock:Lower Roan Quartzites, Mines Group, Roan Supergroup,
Host type:Clastic Sedimentary Rock

References

MRDSW032843
MAS7940050015
DEP10280840
Reference{Deposit:: MENDELSOHN, F. (ED.), THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT: MACDONALD AND CO., LONDON, 1961, 523 P.}{Deposit:: MM 1980. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843]}{Deposit:: DE KUN, N., THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF AFRICA: ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, 1965, P130-136,350-356,365-369.}{Deposit:: E/MJ 1978. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843]}{Deposit:: PELLETIER, R. A., MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH-CENTERAL AFRICA: OXFORD UNIV. PRESS, CAPETOWN, 1964, P365-369.}{Deposit:: WAR MINERALS REPORT 1976-1977. [copied from deleted record 10081121=W032843]}{Deposit:: NCHANGA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD ANNUAL REPORTS,1976, 1978.}{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 [ZCCM] unpublished company report, 88 p.}{Deposit:: Kirkham, R.V, Carriere, J.J., Laramee, R.M., and Garson, D.F., 1994, Global distribution of sediment-hosted stratiform copper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:: Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.}{Deposit:: Infomine [http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/BWANA_MKUBWA_MINE.html] [http://www.infomine.com/companies-properties/infodbweb/ChargePropertyReport.asp?SearchID=18438] [X:\Zambia\References\ByRefNo\1524_INFOMINE_BwanaMkubwa.pdf]}
ReporterBoyle, Ed, Wilson, Anna B., Gassaway, Judith S.