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Pitanda South

Prospect in Zambia with commodity Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Reserves and resources
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400373
Record type Site
Current site name Pitanda South
Alternate or previous names Mwambashi A

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 27.96124, -12.67377 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Zambia(country)

Africa(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Zambia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 200
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Mark3 model number 64

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Footwall Quartztite

Nearby scientific data

(1) 27.96124, -12.67377
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Name Pitanda South (=Mwambashi A), total endowment
    Estimate year 2005
    Total endowment 7060000mt
    Remarks total endowment is 7.06Mt @1.58% Cu. (Verbeek and others, 2005)
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper 1.58 wt-pct Copper Primary 2005

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TEAL's 43-101 cites Kirkpatrick, M., 1997 for 7.06Mt @ 1.58%. This value is much greater than PV Freeman's 1988 value of 0.4 Mt @ 1.68% (the same value reported in the Cox database) or Watts, Griffis, and McQuat, 1991's 0.7 Mt @ 1.70%. (Mike Z. notes that Teal's numbers agree with Woodhead's compilation.)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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

    Verbeek, Julian, Lomberg, Ken, and Rupprecht, Steven, 2005, Independent Technical Report on the Central African Mineral Properties of TEAL Exploration and Mining Inc.: Report prepared by RSG Global, (dated Sept. 16, 2005), 181 p. (Available for download at www.sedar.com [Teal Exploration and Mining Inc., Technical Report(s), filed Oct. 21, 2005, 2216 K]).

  • Deposit

    Annels, A.E., 1989, Ore genesis in the Zambian Copperbelt with particular reference to the northern sector of the Chambishi Basin, in Boyle, R.W., Brown, A.C., Jefferson, C.W., Jowett, E.C., and Kirkham, R.V. eds., Sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 36, p. 427-452.

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Per Tim Hayes, USGS (Jan. 22, 2010): "PITANDA SOUTH is called Mwambashi A by Kirkham et al (1994) and by Selley et al. (2005), though it is shown only on Fig. 2 of the latter and has no resource figures associated with it either in the paper or in the accompanying database (table - Kirkham and Broughton, 2005). The deposit, as Pitanda South, appeared on published maps between Annels (1974) (in Bartholome's Gisements Stratiformes) and Annels and Simmonds (1979). A number of other deposits appeared in between, as well. Kirkham et al (1994) give Pitanda and Pitanda South (Mwambashi A) as 2 distinct entries with separated locations. Both tonnage-grade figures are attributed to P.V. Freeman (1986). I think that we can use both."

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-JUN-2010 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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