Mine detail: Malundwe (Lumwana Project)

Location:	North-Western, Zambia, Africa
Lat / long:	-12.22716, 25.81459
dep_id:	10400307
mas_id:	7940300008
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper
Minor mineral:	Uranium, Cobalt
Trace mineral:	Gold
Operation type:	Surface
Development status:	Prospect
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Bornite, Chalcocite
other_matl:	Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
orebody_fm:	stratabound
work_type:	Surface
model:	197: Sediment-hosted Cu
Reporter:	Wilson, Anna B., Boyles, Ed
hrock_unit:	Ore Schist
hrock_type:	Schist
yfp_ba:	>
Year first produced:	2007
dy_ba:	>
disc_yr:	1930
prod_yrs:	none known
References:	Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, NOV. 14,1975, FEASIBILITY STUDY AT LUMWANA. P. 372. Deposit:: BENHAM, D.G., GREIG, D.D., AND VINK, B.W., 1976, COPPER OCCURRENCES OF THE MOMBEZHI DOME AREA, NORTHWESTERN ZAMBIA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 71, P. 433-442. Deposit:: MCGREGOR, J.A., 1965, THE LUMWANA COPPER PROSPECT IN ZAMBIA. UNPUBLISHED PH.D. THESIS, RHODES UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA. Deposit:: Bertinshaw, Ross, and others, 2009, Lumwana Project northwestern Province, Republic of Zambia, Technical Report 43-101, Equinox Minerals Ltd, 106 p. [http://www.equinoxminerals.com/files/files/713_April_2009_Technical_Report_-_Final.pdf] accessed 5/25/10 Reserve-Resource:: Davis, Michael; Bertinshaw, Ross; Buibal, Daniel; Daley, Andrew; and Hanbury, Robert, 2008, Lumwana Project, North-Western Province, Republic of Zambia: Equinox Minerals Limited 43-101 Technical Report, 108 p.