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Kakanda

Producer in Katanga, Congo (Kinshasa) with commodities Cobalt, Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Reserves and resources
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10183424
MRDS ID W029736
MAS/MILS ID 7660400002
Record type Site
Current site name Kakanda

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: 26.46804, -10.79754 (WGS84)
Elevation 1400
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Katanga(province)

Congo (Kinshasa)(country)

Geographic areas

Country State
Congo (Kinshasa) Katanga

Comments on the location information

  • 3 main ore bodies lat/long:
    Kakanda East -10.736606, 26.405530
    Kakanda North -10.731735, 26.402050
    Kakanda South -10.738346, 26.398919

    Disele is about 16 km west of Kakanda. It is a separate deposit and has been removed from this record.
  • 175 KM NORTH-WEST OF LUBUMBASHI, OWN RAILWAY-LINE 15 KM DISTANCE TO GUBA, ON RAILWAY-LINE LUBUMBASHI TO TENKE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Secondary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Heterogenite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 201
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies (modified)
Mark3 model number 102

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock type qualifier dolomitic shale, partly silicified finely stratified dolomite, and dolomitic shale.
    Rock unit name dolomitic shale, partly silicified finely stratified dolomite, and dolomitic shale.

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) 26.46804, -10.79754
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure name Central African Copperbelt

Ore body information

  • Strike N90E
    Dip 45S
    Thickness 30M
    Length 600M
    Width 300M
    Depth to top 90M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 3
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 PIPELIKE
    Shape of Orebody #2 OTHER
    Primary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control FOLDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N90E:45S
    Minimum Depth to Top 100
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830623
  • Strike N90E
    Dip 45S
    Thickness 30M
    Length 300M
    Width 150M
    Depth to top 50M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 2
    MAS Column # 3
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 PIPELIKE
    Shape of Orebody #2 OTHER
    Primary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control FOLDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N90E:45S
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830623
  • Strike N90E
    Dip 45S
    Thickness 30M
    Length 800M
    Width 300M
    Depth to top 180M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 3
    MAS Column # 3
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 PIPELIKE
    Shape of Orebody #2 OTHER
    Primary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control FOLDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N90E:45S
    Minimum Depth to Top 120
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 120
    Date of Last Modification 830623
  • Area 2000HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 2000
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Comments on the geologic information

  • COBALT BEARING MINERAL- HETEROGENITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1910
Mining method Open Pit
Year of first production 1930
Milling method Flotation

Comments on exploration

  • Discovery Year: 1900'S

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner La Generale Des Carrieres Et Mines Du Zaire (State Owned) (Gecamines)
    Interest 100
    Home office Zaire
    Year 1980

Production statistics

  • Year 1970
    Material Ap_Grade: ^About 6.3 % Cu, 0.18 % Co
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Primary Copper Copper 6wt-pct
    Secondary Cobalt Cobalt 0wt-pct
  • Year 1971
    Material Ap_Grade: ^About 6.5 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Primary Copper Copper 7wt-pct
  • Year 1972
    Material Ap_Grade: ^About 4.5 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Primary Copper Copper 5wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Cu Oxide(S1) 4.08% Feed, 75% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 75wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Co Oxide(Si) 0.25% Feed, 45% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 45wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Cu Oxide(S2) 4.00% Feed, 75% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 75wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Co Oxide(S2) 0.20% Feed, 45% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 45wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Cu (U1) 2.93% Feed, 80% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 80wt-pct
  • Year 1980
    Description Co (U1) 0.17% Feed, 45% Recovery
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 45wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • THREE PARTS OF THE DEPOSIT MINED. KAKANDA - NORTH (MINING SINCE 1965), KAKANDA - SOUTH SINCE 1962), KAKANDA - EAST SINCE 1970).
  • CAPACITY ABOUT 800,000 TPY;

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Name Kakanda South
    Estimate year 2007
    Inferred 8936000mt
    Remarks 8,936,000 mt @ 3.6 % Cu = 321,697 mt Cu\n8,936,000 mt @ 0.2% Co = 17,872 mt Co\n[Acheson, D., and Wheatley, C., 08/2007, Technical Report on the Boss Mining Project, Kakanda District, Katanga Province, DRC, prepared for Central African Mining and Exploration Plc by Behre Dolbear International Limited, p. B-16.]
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper 3.6 wt-pct Copper Primary 2007
    Cobalt 0.2 wt-pct Cobalt Secondary 2007
  • Type In-situ
    Name Kakanda East
    Estimate year 2007
    Inferred 166000mt
    Remarks 166,000@4.03% = 6,690 mt Cu\n166,000@0.46% Co = 764 mt Co\n[Acheson, D., and Wheatley, C., 08/2007, Technical Report on the Boss Mining Project, Kakanda District, Katanga Province, DRC, prepared for Central African Mining and Exploration Plc by Behre Dolbear International Limited, p. B-16]
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper 4.03 wt-pct Copper Primary 2007
    Cobalt 0.46 wt-pct Cobalt Secondary 2007
  • Type In-situ
    Name Kakanda North
    Estimate year 1997
    Total endowment 232870000mt
    Remarks 23,287,000 mt @ 2.62% = 610,119 mt Cu\n23,287,000 mt @ 0.17 Co = 39,588 mt Co\n[Coates, H., Anderson, W., and McGeorge, I.M., 2008, Technical Report on the Kakanda copper-cobalt project, Katanga province, DRC, for Simberi Mining Corp.\nwww.simberimining.com/_resources/Simberi43-101May08Final.pd, p. viii]
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper 2.62 wt-pct Copper Primary 1997
    Cobalt 0.17 wt-pct Cobalt Secondary 1997

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • M9C4=M1C3, M9C5=M2C3, M9C6=M3C1. KAKANDA SURFACE MINE. DISELE DEPOSIT KAKANDA UNDERGROUND MINE. COLUMN 1 IS SUM OF TONNAGE AND AVERAGE GRADE OF COLUMNS 2 AND 3 IN MATRIX 3.
  • OXIDE RESERVES AS OF JAN. 1,1980 IN THE KAKANDA NORD, SUD,EST, AND EST EXTENSION. AN ADDITIONAL 9,600,000 MT @ 3.66% CU, 0.19% CO, OF MIXED ORE; 4,200,000 MT @ 2.96%CU,0.27%CO,OF SULFIDE ORE AND 8,000,000 MT @3.5%CU, 0.2%CO OF PROBABLE PLUS INFERRED ORE PRESENT IN ABOVE DEPOSITS. FOR CURRENT STUDIES, THIS PROPERTY IS COMBINED INTO GECAMINES CENTRAL DIVISION, SEQ NO. 7660400031.
  • ESTIMATE BASED ON BROOK HUNT, WESTERN WORLD COPPER COSTS, VOL 3, AFRICA
  • CROCKETT AND OTHERS (1987) REPORT DEPOSIT NEARLY EXHAUSTED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2000HA
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method OPEN PIT
    Percent Waste Rock 87.5
    Avg. Overburden Thickness 10
    Hardness of Ore M-HARD ROCKS
    Avg. Bench Height (meters) 10
    Max. Pit Slope (degrees) 45
    Capacity 2323
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Preprod. Stripping Vol. 0
    Unit Production Cost 13.25
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 310
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1981
  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2000HA
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 2
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method OPEN PIT
    Percent Waste Rock 87.5
    Avg. Overburden Thickness 10
    Hardness of Ore M-HARD ROCKS
    Avg. Bench Height (meters) 10
    Max. Pit Slope (degrees) 45
    Capacity 977
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Preprod. Stripping Vol. 2000
    Unit Production Cost 14
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 310
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1981
  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 5000M
    Overall depth 350M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method SUBLEVEL CAVING 10-75
    Percent Waste Rock 0
    Percent Recovery 95
    Hardness of Rock HARDROCK FISSURED WITH EXCESSIVE WATER
    Rock Characteristics MULTIPLE SYSTEMS OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING
    Mine Support Chars. POST, HEADBOARD, CAPS, ROOF BOLTS
    Number of Shafts 3
    Capacity 2903
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 14.35
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 310
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1981

Comments on other economic factors

  • TRANSPORTATION COSTS FROM MILL TO SMELTER IS $5.00/METRIC TON MILL OUTPUT.

Comments on development

  • MILL.CAP: 800 ; ECON.YEAR: 1962

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Kakanda South: Inferred resource as of 20007 is 8,936,000 tons ore @ 3.6% Cu = 321,697 tons contained Cu and 0.2% Co = 17,872 contained Co. Deposit is owned by CAMEC Plc.

Deposit is U. Proterozoic, Reduced facies Cu type, Carbonate Ecaille style.

It is in the Mines Sequence, Roan division of Katangan Supergroup (RAT, RSF, lower SD, and RSC (adjacent to SD))
Tectonic style: diapir
Host rock is dolomitic siltstone, partly silicified finely stratified dolomite, dolomitic shale, shaley dolomite, breccia of dolomite and algae fragments.
Ore primarily malachite and cu-silicates.


Acheson, D., and Wheatley, C., 08/2007, Technical Report on the Boss Mining Project, Kakanda District, Katanga Province, DRC, prepared for Central African Mining and Exploration Plc (CAMEC) by Behre Dolbear International Limited, 181 p.
[http://investors.camec-plc.com/pdf/Camec_Take_Bid_Circular.pdf]
Deposit Kakanda East: inferred as of 2007 166,000 metric tons at 4.03% cu and 0.46% Co = 6,690 metric tons contained cu and 764 metric tons contained Co. (Acheson and Wheatley, 2007, p. B-16)
Deposit Kakanda North: Total endowment (past production + remaining ore) as of 1997 estimated at 23,287,000 metric tons ore @ 2.62% Cu and 0.17% Co = 610,119 mt Cu and 39,588 mt Co. Owned by Simberi Mining Corp.
Geology similar to Kakanda South: U. Proterozoic, Reduced facies Cu type, Carbonate Ecaille style.
Mines Sequence, Roan division of Katangan Supergroup (RAT, RSF, and SD) with host rock dolomitic shale, partly silicified finely stratified dolomite, and dolomitic shale.
Ore is malachite, chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and cu-silicates.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 26-JUL-1995 Rfb U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Saam, Henning G. U.S. Geological Survey Former MRDS record W029736 (newMRDS 10079673)
Updater 01-DEC-1987 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey Former MRDS record W029736 (newMRDS 10079673)
Editor 28-MAY-2010 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey Revised 10183424, removed mention of Disele deposit (it is 16 km to the west), imported some info from 10079673 and deleted the latter.

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