| Deposit ID | 10400375 |
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| Record type | Deposit |
| Current site name | Mwerkera |
| Geographic coordinates: | 28.50069, -12.79984 (WGS84) |
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Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Copperbelt(province)
Zambia(country)
Africa(continent)
Land(continent)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| Zambia | Copperbelt |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Model code | 200 |
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| USGS model code | Unassigned |
| Deposit model name | Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett |
| Mark3 model number | 64 |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite |
| Rock type qualifier | arenite |
| Rock unit name | Footwall Quartzite |
| (1) | 28.50069, -12.79984 |
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| Development status | Prospect |
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| Significant | Yes |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
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| Name | Mwerkera, total Cu resource | ||||||||||||||
| Estimate year | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Total resources | 7100000mt | ||||||||||||||
| Total endowment | 7100000mt | ||||||||||||||
| Remarks | 7.1Mt @ 1.53% cu, total Cu resource | ||||||||||||||
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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.
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.
ACP Mining Data Bank [Secretariat of the African and Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Group], undated, http://mines.acp.int/html/mine_ZMB-01055_en.html
2011, Central African Copperbelt: U.S. Geological Survey SIR
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | unverifiable values. NOT described in any of African Eagle's annual reports. The Mwerkera deposit is listed as being 16 km NW of the African Eagle Resources Ndola project license area. Mwerkera is not part of their license. It is located and mentioned in Annels, 1984 (spelled Mwekera) as a synclinal fold limb in the Mokambo trough of the Mufulira syncline. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 04-JUN-10 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 07-JUN-11 | Causey, J. Douglas | U.S. Geological Survey | Changed site to deposit and other misc |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.