| Deposit ID | 10400377 |
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| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Muliashi |
| Geographic coordinates: | 28.275, -13.07917 (WGS84) |
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Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Zambia(country)
Africa(continent)
Land(continent)
| Country |
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| Zambia |
| Commodity | Importance |
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| Copper | Primary |
| Cobalt Critical | Secondary |
| Model code | 202 |
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| USGS model code | Unassigned |
| Deposit model name | Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies |
| Mark3 model number | 96 |
| Host or associated | Host |
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| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite |
| Rock type qualifier | silty argillite |
| Rock unit name | Mines Group, Roan Supergroup, Copperbelt Orebody member |
| (1) | 28.275, -13.07917 |
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| Development status | Prospect |
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| Type | Unknown |
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| Owner | China Nonferrous Metal Mining Corp. |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
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| Name | Muliashi North Open Pit, inferred | ||||||||||||||
| Estimate year | 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Inferred | 48970000mt | ||||||||||||||
| Total endowment | 48970000mt | ||||||||||||||
| Remarks | 48.97Mt @ 1.419% cu and 0.057% Co. (Or is it 0.57% Co?) | ||||||||||||||
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Selley and others, 2005, A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt: Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, p. 965-1000.
ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-01321_en.html
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/.)
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Muliashi may have been included in part of the Luanshya Project. It is a distinct ore body. Deposit is classified as Reduced facies, ore-shale type. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 04-JUN-10 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.