Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Malundwe Deposit, Lumwana Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 900
Youngest recorded age at locality: 500.1

mindat Locality ID: 228205
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228205.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Malundwe Deposit, Lumwana Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 12°9'42"S
Longitude: 25°45'15"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -12.161666666667,25.754166666667

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

6 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Mo-00063	513	502		Re-Os, U-Pb			Yes		Drysdallite	Mo	4348	Kampijimpanga, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia		Torrealday et al. (2000)	10.2113/gsecongeo.95.5.1165	EG95_1165
Mo-00147	503.5	500.1	501.8±1.7	Re-Os	molybdenite	HT-K237	Yes	Molybdenite		Mo	15998	Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia	Kansanshi	Torrealday et al. (2000)	10.2113/gsecongeo.95.5.1165	EG95_1165
Mo-00148	504.7	501.3	503.0±1.7	Re-Os	molybdenite	HT-K237	Yes	Molybdenite		Mo	15998	Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia	Kansanshi	Torrealday et al. (2000)	10.2113/gsecongeo.95.5.1165	EG95_1165
Mo-00149	513.5	510.1	511.8±1.7	Re-Os	molybdenite	HT-K285-1	Yes	Molybdenite		Mo	15998	Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia	Kansanshi	Torrealday et al. (2000)	10.2113/gsecongeo.95.5.1165	EG95_1165
Mo-00150	514.6	511.2	512.9±1.7	Re-Os	molybdenite	HT-K285-2	Yes	Molybdenite		Mo	15998	Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia	Kansanshi	Torrealday et al. (2000)	10.2113/gsecongeo.95.5.1165	EG95_1165
sedcu-00750	900	900	U. Proterozoic							Cu	228205	Malundwe Deposit, Lumwana Mine, Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia	Malundwe-Lumwana	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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