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Kamoa and Kakula
Katanga, Dem. Rep. Congo
Main commodities: Cu




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2012.     Record last updated: 09/02/2019
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Broughton, D.W. and Rogers, T.,   2010 - Discovery of the Kamoa copper deposit, Central African Copperbelt, D.R.C.: in    The Society of Economic Geologists,   Special Publication, 15, pp. 287-297.
Hitzman, M.W., Broughton, D., Selley, D., Woodhead, J., Wood, D. and Bull, S.,  2012 - The Central African Copperbelt: Diverse Stratigraphic, Structural, and Temporal Settings in the Worlds Largest Sedimentary Copper District: in Hedenquist, J.W., Harris, M. and Camus, F., 2012 Geology and Genesis of Major Copper Deposits and Districts of the World - A tribute to Richard H Sillitoe Society of Economic Geologists   Special Publication 16, pp. 487-514.
Schmandt D, Broughton D, Hitzman M W, Plink-Bjorklund P, Edwards D, Humphrey J,  2013 - The Kamoa Copper Deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, Diagenetic and Hydrothermal Alteration, and Mineralization: in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 1301-1324
Turner, E.C., Dabros, Q., Broughton. D.W. and Kontak, D.J.,  2023 - Textural and geochemical evidence for two-stage mineralisation at the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Central African Copperbelt: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 825-832. doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01165-z.
Twite, F.,  2016 - Controls of sulphide mineralisation at the Kamoa copper deposit, with an emphasis on structural controls: in    School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa,   Unpublished MSc thesis, 288p.
Twite, F., Broughton, D., Nex, P., Linnaird. J. and Edwards, D.,  2015 - Controls of Sulfide Mineralization at the Kamoa Copper Deposit, with an Emphasis on Structural Controls, SE Democratic Republic of Congo: in    SEG 2015: World Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery   Poster 1p.
Twite, F., Broughton, D., Nex, P., Linnaird. J., Gilchrist, G. and Edwards, D.,  2019 - Lithostratigraphic and structural controls on sulphide mineralisation at the Kamoa copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.151, pp. 212-224. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.12.016.
Twite, F., Nex, P. and Kinnaird. J.,  2020 - Strain fringes and strain shadows at Kamoa (DRC), implications for copper mineralisation: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.122, doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103536.


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