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Kinsenda

Occurrence in Katanga, Congo (Kinshasa) with commodities Copper, Cobalt
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Reserves and resources
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079678
MRDS ID W029741
Record type Site
Current site name Kinsenda
Alternate or previous names Tshinsenda, Tshinenda (misspelling)

Comments on the site identification

  • Tshinsenda = Kinsenda.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: 27.9655, -12.2614 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 5 KM NORTH TSHINSENDA, ABOUT ONE TO TWO KM EAST RAILWAY-LINE LUBUMBASHI TO SAMBIA. Located on Google Map by vanbrussel. Lat/long from Central African Copperbelt SIR database

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Katanga(province)

Congo (Kinshasa)(country)

Geographic areas

Country State
Congo (Kinshasa) Katanga

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 2 KM EAST OF RAILWAY-LINE LUMUMBASHI-ZAMBIA
  • Figure 1 of Annels, shows 5 deposits in linear NW-SE orientation from NW to SE: Tshinsenda (misspelled Tshinenda), Lubembe, Kasaria, Luansobe, and Mufulira. All but Tshinsenda are across the border in Zambia.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE 5.0 % CU OR BETTEr.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) 27.9655, -12.2614
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Copper Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Luina Granite Dome

Ore body information

  • Dip 20 DEG. TO 45 DEG.

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT TSHINSENDA IS LOCATED SOUTH EAST OF THE LUINA-GRANITE-DOME. THE VERTICAL DISTANCE FROM THE BASEMENT IS 80 M.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Year of first production 1977

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner SODIZMA: Zaire (20 %) - Japanese (80 %)
    Home office SODIZMA= Societe de Developpement Industriel et Miniere du Zaire.
  • Type Owner
    Owner SODIZMA
    Home office SODIZMA= Societe de Developpement Industriel et Miniere du Zaire.

Comments on the ownership information

  • MMK (La Miniere de Musoshi et Kinsenda Sarl)
    20% Sodimico
    5% Groupe Georges Forrest (GGF)
    75% Copper Resources Corp (CRC)

    23% Sodimico (non-dilutable)
    4.85% Groupe Georges Forrest (GGF)
    72.15% Copper Resources Corp (CRC)
    February 6, 2009

    Copper Resources Corp
    50.3% Metorex Ltd *
    43% CAMEC Plc
    http://www.copperresources.com/

    Metorex Ltd (JSE:MTX)
    http://www.metorexgroup.com/home/index.html
    Central African Mining & Exploration Company Plc (AIM:CFM)
    http://www.camec-plc.com/

    * Metorex owns 50.3% of CRC, with Central African Mining and Exploration Company (CAMEC) holding 43%, but because the latter did not extend an offer to minorities when bought its stake, those shares it holds are now disenfranchised, giving Metorex 95% of the total voting rights.

    *The directors of CAMEC consider that the board of CRC has acted improperly in seeking to disenfranchise CAMEC's shareholding in CRC and has failed to heed the detailed discussions that were held between CAMEC and CRC and its majority shareholder, Metorex Limited, earlier this year after CAMEC's purchase of shares in CRC. CAMEC vigorously opposes the purported disenfranchisement and will use all avenues available to it to get the shares it holds re-enfranchised as soon as possible.
    http://investors.camec-plc.com/news-item?item=71264244898591

    [Information is from vanbrussel's Katangan Copperbelt.kml database available through Google Maps and Google Earth.]

Comments on the production information

  • MINING JOURNAL 17.7.70 SCHEDULED CAPACITY 70,000 TO 80,000 CU PER YEAR;
    Mining Magazine (Jan. 1989, p. 50) gave ore production capacity as between 300,000 and 500,000 tonnes/year.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1970
    Total resources 25000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 5.1 wt-pct Copper Major 1970
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1971
    Total resources 3000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 4 wt-pct Copper Major 1971

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 840,000 tons of contained copper. Grade is 5.3%. [vanbrussel, Katangan Copperbelt.kml, available through Google Earth or Google Maps].

Comments on development

  • IN EXPLORATION
  • MINING CONTRACTS REVISION PROCESS

    Concluded on February 6, 2009

    In addition to the above commercial aspects, it was agreed that the Musoshi Mine surface and underground infrastructure be returned to Sodimico together with certain equipment that had been transferred to Kinsenda Mine that was not in use at Kinsenda Mine. Compensation would be paid on a fair value basis for any equipment removed from Musoshi Mine to Kinsenda Mine that had been applied to the Kinsenda mining operations.

    The power supply to Musoshi and Kinsenda is channelled through the Kasumbalesa Substation, which substation will require upgrading on the development of the Kinsenda Mine for which MMK has undertaken to finance the upgrade and recover the cost thereof from Sodimico on a basis to be agreed. This upgrade will only occur once the full scale development of the Kinsenda mine commences.
    As announced on 6 February 2008, the Company has significantly scaled back the development of the Kinsenda mine on a temporary basis.
    The Company is focused primarily on establishing a financing package for the development of the Kinsenda Mining Project, which has a measured resource at grade of approximately 5% Copper. The life of mine is approximately 15 years at a milling rate of approximately 80,000 tons per month.
    In addition, approximately 13,000 metres of exploration drilling has taken place on the Lubembe deposit during 2008. The results are being evaluated and will be taken to a scoping study and/or pre-feasibility study during the forthcoming period of 12 months, subject to arranging appropriate financing.
    The Kinsenda Mine has been dewatered to approximately Level 290 which is below the initially planned production levels. Dewatering and general care and maintenance will continue pending securing adequate financing for the development of the project. The metallurgical plant design has been completed by MDM and certain site establishment and civil work has been completed. Once the financing of up to US$200 million has been established, the project will be accelerated and could commence production of copper concentrate within a period of 18 months thereafter.
    http://www.copperresources.com/news/documents/CRC-MiningTitleReview-6Feb2009(final).pdf
    [from vanbrussel, Katangan Copperbelt.kml, available online through Google Maps or Google Earth].

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit INITIAL PRODUCTION WILL BE ABOUT 1000 TONS. SODIMIZA HAS BROUGHT KINSENDA INTO PRODUCTION IN ORDER TO OFFSET THE LOWER THAN-EXPECTED ORE GRADE AT MUSOSHI MINE. MUSHONI MILLS 5,000 TONS OF ORE PER DAY.
General March 6, 2009
Delisting from London AIM-market
http://www.copperresources.com/news/documents/CRC-RelatedPartyAnnouncement6February2009.pdf
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200903060700103869O

February 10, 2009
Offer for Subscription for up to 490,216,877 new Common Shares at 7 pence per Common Share.
Cancellation of the admission of Common Shares to trading on AIM.
Appointment of Charles Needham as Chairman of the Company.
http://www.copperresources.com/news/documents/CRC-CircularAnnouncement-10Feb2009(legal_coments-final).pdf

December 12, 2008
Metorex, the majority shareholder of AIM-traded Copper Resources Company (CRC), has suspended work on the Kinsenda mine at which it has already spent $20m, and wants to delist CRC as it pushes hard to complete its key Ruashi project.
http://www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/912092.htm
Deposit THERE ARE THREE MINERALIZED BANKS WITH THICKNESS OF 22.8 M (8.38 % CU), 18.55 M (7.92 % CU), AND 7.3 M WITH (8.87 % CU) FOUND IN 1970.
General The Kinsenda mine is located approximately 40 km South East of Kasumbalesa and is accessible via a tarred road from Kasumbalesa, or via the Tchinsenda border post with Zambia, which is 10 km from the mine. The Kinsenda mine has a JORC compliant measured/indicated resource of 17 mt at 5.1% Cu (867,000t of contained Cu) based on over 38,800m of drilling. There is an unquantified upside to the Kinsenda resource which will require additional drilling to upgrade to an inferred or indicated category.

An independent bankable feasibility study was prepared for CRC by Mineral Engineering Technical Services [?METS?], a Perth based consultancy. The BFS estimates that the high-grade Kinsenda mine could be restarted by mid-2008 at a capital cost of US$93.0 million. The BFS confirmed the highly profitable and attractive nature of the orebody with the copper headgrade averaging 4.92%. The BFS assumed an annual production rate of 1.2 mt of ore (3,350 tpd), equating to 54,000 tpa of contained copper in a 45% concentrate, at a cash operating cost of US$0.71/lb. Metorex intends reviewing the proposed scale of operations, the assumptions made and the associated capital costs.

Infrastructure at Kinsenda consists of three inclined and one vertical shaft to 285m below surface constructed by Nippon Mining and mining commenced in 1977. Kinsenda reached peak production of 400,000 tpa at 5.93% Cu producing 24Ktpa of finished Cu in 1984.

CRC has been engaged in refurbishment activities at the Kinsenda mine since mid-2006, with the intention of ramping up to production levels of 100,000 tpm by June 2008
Site activities included underground dewatering, re-equipping of the shaft and main levels, and the planning for a concentrator at Kinsenda to treat approximately 100,000 tons of ore per month. Mine dewatering at Kinsenda has reached the 260m level, and is expected to reach the 285m level by July 2007, which will allow the supporting, cleaning and preparation of the stopes for exploitation on that level. Procurement of long-lead equipment has commenced.

http://www.copperresources.com/
{from vanbrussel, Katangan Copperbelt.kml)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-78 Saam, Henning G. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 16-FEB-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged old MRDS DE00065, and deleted. Renamed from Tshinsenda to Kinsenda (synonyms).
Reporter 01-DEC-89 Beougher, Dee (Spanski, Gregory T.) U.S. Geological Survey original MRDS record DE00065 (newMRDS 10106680) was very vague from a mention in the Jan. 1989 issue of Mining Magazine.

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