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Luanshya

Producer in Copperbelt, Zambia with commodities Copper, Cobalt, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Production statistics
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10280971
MRDS ID DE00067
MAS/MILS ID 7940050007
Record type Site
Current site name Luanshya
Alternate or previous names Roan Antelope

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: 28.3735, -13.1132 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Location from Central African Copperbelt SIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Copperbelt(province)

Zambia(country)

Africa(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Zambia Copperbelt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Unknown
Bornite Unknown
Calcite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Dolomite Unknown
Microcline Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 202
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies
Mark3 model number 96

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) 28.3735, -13.1132
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N60W
    Dip 45S
    Thickness 7.6M
    Length 14500M
    Width 860M
    Depth to top 900M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Primary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Secondary Ore Control BEDDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 ADV ARGILLIC
    Strike And Dip N60W:45S
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Date of Last Modification 810810
  • Area 1235HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 1235
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1902
Mining method Open Stope - Sublevel
Year of first production 1931
Milling method Flotation

Mining district

District name Central African Copper Belt

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, Ltd. (ZCCM)
    Home office Zambia
    Year 1992
  • Type Owner
    Owner Zambia Industrial And Mining Corp., Ltd. (Zimco)
    Interest 60.3
    Home office Zambia
    Year 1992
  • Type Owner
    Owner Zambian Copper Investments, Ltd. (ZCI)
    Interest 27.3
    Home office Bermuda
    Year 1992

Production statistics

  • Year 1970
    Description 29.5% Cu Conc From 1.75 Cu Feed Grade 6590000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 30wt-pct
  • Year 1974
    Description 64254.8 Tonnes Cu In Con. 5000000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 64254.8mt
  • Year 1975
    Description 61612.9 Tonnes Cu In Con. 4924000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 61612.9mt
  • Year 1976
    Description 54984.0 Tonnes Cu In Con. 4642000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 54984mt
  • Year 1977
    Description 50641.1 Tonnes Cu In Con. 4176000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 50641.1mt
  • Year 1978
    Description 49999.0 Tonnes Cu In Conc 4052000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 49999mt
  • Year 1979
    Description 37321.6 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 3078000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 37321.6mt
  • Year 1980
    Description 50008.3 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 4045000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 50008.3mt
  • Year 1981
    Description 46836.8 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 3938000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 46836.8mt
  • Year 1982
    Description 47977.4 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 3921000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 47977.4mt
  • Year 1983
    Description 41637.2 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 3426000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 41637.2mt
  • Year 1984
    Description 35534.7 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 2873000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 35534.7mt
  • Year 1985
    Description 32656.3 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 2750000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 32656.3mt
  • Year 1986
    Description 29640.0 Tonnes Cu In Conc. 2600000 Mt Ore Processed/Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Conc. Copper Copper 29640mt

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Name Luanshya, total endowment
    Estimate year 2010
    Total endowment 238402178mt ore
    Remarks Total endowment
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper 2.86 wt-pct Copper Tertiary 2010
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Indicated 35727000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 2.42 wt-pct Copper Major 1988
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Demonstrated 32363000mt ore
    Total resources 32363000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 2.34 wt-pct Copper Major 1992
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Demonstrated 27000000mt ore
    Total resources 27000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 2.3 wt-pct Copper Major 1992
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Total resources 17000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 2.4 wt-pct Copper Major 1992
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Total resources 9000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.9 wt-pct Copper Major 1992
    Cobalt Co 0.4 wt-pct Cobalt Trace 1992
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Demonstrated 59363000mt ore
    Total resources 59363000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 2.32 wt-pct Copper Major 1992

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ZCCM, 1991 ANNUAL REPORT, P.42,44. ORE RESERVES: 32,289,000 MT @ 2.42% CU; MINERAL RESOURCE: 44,000,000 MT @ 2.3 % CU; TOTAL DEMO RES.: 76,289,000 MT @ 2.35% CU. ALSO HAS 9,000,000 MT @ .7% CU & .4% CO IN SLAG DUMP.
  • TOTAL RESERVES AS OF 12/31/86; USED IN 1987 EVALUATION.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 943M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method OPEN STOPE
    Percent Waste Rock 53
    Percent Recovery 24
    Hardness of Rock SOFT NONPLASTIC FISSURED EXCESSIVE WATER
    Rock Characteristics MULTIPLE SYSTEMS OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. UNSUPPORTING NO FLOW
    Mine Support Chars. TIMBER
    Number of Shafts 3
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    Capacity 6240
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 350
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1986

Comments on development

  • ORE PRODUCTION CAPACITY GREATER THAN 3,000,000 TONNES/YEAR. [copied from deleted record 10021407=DE00067].

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COLLINSON,B.M. UNDERGROUND MINING MECHANISATION AT ROAN CONSOLIDATED MINES SINCE 1965, GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW, V.51, NO.3, 1972, PP. 381-397.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ROAN CONSOLIDATED MINES LTD.,1976 ANNUAL REPORT.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1991 ANNUAL REPORT, P.42, 44.

  • Deposit

    E/MJ. RST AND BRST-AMAX'S INTERESTS IN AFRICAN MINES, SEPT. 1972, PP. 153-155.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1992 ANNUAL REPORT, P.51, 53.

  • Deposit

    FISCHER, J.F.C. AND CUSHING, G. THE INFLUENCE OF THE EnERGY COST STRUCTURE ON MINERAL PROCESSING IN ZAMBIA. PAPER PRESENTED AT MINERAL RESOURCES CONFERENCE, AUG.2-5,1977, LUSARA. 8 PP.

  • Deposit

    FLEISCHER, V.D.; GARLICK, W.G.; AND HALDANE, R. "GEOLOGY OF THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT," HANDBOOK OF STRATA-BOUND AND STRATIFORM ORE DEPOSITS. CHAPTER 6. 1976. PP. 224-351.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ZAMBIA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LTD., 1988 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 43.

  • Deposit

    MENDELSOHN,F. THE LITHOLOGY OF THE ROAN ANTELOPE DEPOSIT, CHAP. XII, IN STRATIFORM COPPER DEPOSITS IN AFRICA, PART 1, 1962. INTL. GEOL. CONGRESS, PP. 173-176.

  • Deposit

    MENDELSOHN, F. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT". 1961. PP. 351-405.

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 50. [copied from deleted record DE00067= 10021407].

  • Deposit

    PELLETIER,R.A. MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA, ELSEVIER PUBL. CO., AMSTERDAM, 1964, PP. 187-189.

  • Deposit

    ROAN CONSOLIDATED MINES LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 1979.

  • Deposit

    ROAN CONSOLIDATED MINES LIMITED. "THE LUANSHYA CONCENTRATOR". PP. 2-5.

  • Deposit

    SCHMITZ, J.C. AND MACKENZIE, R.W.K. STRUCTURE AND MINERALIZATION AT ROAN ANTELOPE, CHAP. XIV, IN STRATIFORM COPPER DEPOSITS IN AFRICA, PART 2, 1963, PP. 203-213.

  • Deposit

    SKINNER'S MINING INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK, FINANCIAL TIMES, LTD., GREAT BRITIAN, 1973-1974, P. 500.

  • Deposit

    TER BRUGGEN,J.W. INTRODUCTION INTO MINING AND METALLURGY ON THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT, GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW, VOL.51, NO.3, 1972, PP.361-370.

  • Deposit

    VLETTER, DR. D.E.; DIJKSTRA, S.; AND TERBRUGGEN, J.W. 1972. "ZAMBIA ISSUE." GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW. VOL. 51, NO. 3. MAY-JUNE 1972. PP. 247-468.

  • Deposit

    WHITE,C.G. THE ROAN ANTELOPE COPPER DEPOSIT, PAPER FOR GEO. 513, COLO. SCHOOL OF MINES, JAN.1963, 14 PP.

  • Deposit

    WHITE, LANE. "ZAMBIA". ENGINEERING MINING JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 1979. PP. 146-183.

  • Deposit

    WORLD MINING. RCM $110,000,000 EXPANSION PROGRAM ON TWO COPPERBELT MINES, NOV. 1972, PP.52-53.

  • Deposit

    ZAMBIA MINING YEARBOOK 1978.

  • Deposit

    THE ZIMCO MANAGEMENT DIARY. 1979. PP. 1-34.

  • Deposit

    ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-00785_en.html and http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-00118_en.html and http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-00107_en.html

  • 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

    Selley, David, Broughton, David, Scott, Robert, Hitzman, Murray, Bull, S.W., Large, R.R., McGoldrick, P.J., Croaker, Mawson, Pollington, Nicky, and Barra, Fernando, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt, in Hedenquist, J.W., Thompson, J.F.H., Goldfarb, R.J., and Richards, J.P., eds., Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, 1905-2005: Littleton, Colorado, Society of Economic Geologists, p. 965-1000.

  • Deposit

    Kirkham, Rodney, and Broughton, David, 2005, Appendix, Supplement to the sediment-hosted stratiform copper ore system, in J.W. Hedenquist, J.W., J.F.H. Thompson, J.F.H., Goldfarb, R.J., and J.P. Richards, J.P., eds., Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, 1905-2005: Littleton, Colorado, Society of Economic Geologists, p. 609-642.

  • Deposit

    Hawkins, Michael, 1999, RAMCOZ cobalt project in Zambia: Guildford, UK, Cobalt Development Institute, Cobalt News No. 99/3, p. 12. [Additional information available at http://www.thecdi.com/.]

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RST INTL IS A SUBSIDARY OF AMAX. ZAMBIAN COPPER INVESTMENT IS A SUBSIDARY OF ANGLO-AMERICAN. THE MINE WAS FIRST KNOWN AS THE ROAN ANTELOPE MINE. MINE DISCOVERED 1902; DEVELOPMENT BEGUN 1927;PRODUCTION 1931 CU CONCS. ARE SMELTED AT LUANSHYA, REFINING IS AT NDOLA, 28 KM TO THE NORTH. LUANSHYA PLAGUED BY THIN ORE BODY AND POOR GROUND CONDITIONS NECESSITATING HIGH DEVELOPMENT FOOTAGE PER TON ORE TOGETHER WITH SUPPORT AND ORE DILUTION PROBLEMS.
Deposit Deposit type is Reduced-facies copper, ore-shale style.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAR-97 Porter, Kenneth E. U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 01-DEC-89 Beougher, Dee (Spanski, Gregory T.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 24-JUL-09 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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