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Copperbelt
Integration of Large Multielement Geochemical, Aeromagnetic, and Gravity Data to Geologically Map a Largely Covered Area: A Case Study from the Central African Copperbelt in Northern Zambia Available to Purchase
Growth and Stability of Stratiform Carrollite (CuCo 2 S 4 ) in the Tenke-Fungurume Ore District, Central African Copperbelt Open Access
Genesis of the Samba Cu deposit of the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia: Constraints from geochemistry and geochronology Available to Purchase
Diagenetic and Epigenetic Mineralizing Events in the Kalahari Copperbelt, Botswana: Evidence from Re-Os Sulfide Dating and U-Th-Pb Xenotime Geochronology Available to Purchase
Chapter 9: Integrated Geologic-Geophysical Interpretation of District-Scale Structural Frameworks: Systematic Approaches for Targeting Mineralizing Systems Available to Purchase
Abstract The integrated interpretation of aeromagnetic data is a key exploration tool to define the concealed, potentially prospective geology that we plan to explore. It helps define the district-scale morphology of structural networks and predict which structures may be associated with the formation of mineral deposits. Aeromagnetic data is particularly useful in guiding geologic mapping, exploration targeting, and strategy because the data available is usually broad, geologic processes and features are normally well imaged in the data, and it is relatively cheap to acquire and process. A foundation to the interpretation of the geophysical data is that the interpreter should be a geoscientist familiar with the geology of the area in question, maximizing the integration of geologic knowledge of the area into the interpretation product. The interpreter must think geologically when building the interpretation, drawing on the parallels between aeromagnetic interpretation and geologic mapping/air photo interpretation. Geologic mapping observations have direct parallels in aeromagnetic interpretation (e.g., lithology, structure, alteration). The interpretation process is outlined using the Lake Lefroy region, Western Australia, including form line construction, identification of magnetic rock units, domain definition, data set integration, definition of structural elements, lithological definition, interpretation of the structural framework, and evaluation of the interpretation. Case studies are then provided at a range of scales from the Pine Creek inlier in northern Australia, the Superior province in eastern Canada, and the Zambian Copperbelt Northwest province to illustrate the connection between the interpretations and exploration targeting. The final integrated interpretation is a supplement to outcrop maps, not a competitor. The purpose is to generate a structural and lithological framework that combines the geophysical data of different types with the mapped geology, which can be interrogated by mineralization models over a much wider area than can be achieved if structural elements and lithology are restricted to areas of outcrop.
Structural Configuration of the Central African Copperbelt: Roles of Evaporites in Structural Evolution, Basin Hydrology, and Ore Location Available to Purchase
Abstract The Central African Copperbelt is the world’s premier sediment-hosted Cu province. It is contained in the Katangan basin, an intracratonic rift that records onset of growth at ~840 Ma and inversion at ~535 Ma. In the Copperbelt region, the basin has a crudely symmetrical form, with a central depocenter maximum containing ~11 km of strata positioned on the northern side of the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, and marginal condensed sequences <2 km in thickness. This fundamental extensional geometry was preserved through orogenesis, although complex configurations related to halokinesis are prevalent in central and northern parts of the basin, whereas to the south, relatively high-grade metamorphism occurred as a result of basement-involved thrusting and burial. The largest Cu ± Co ores, both stratiform and vein-controlled, are known from the periphery of the basin and transition to U-Ni-Co and Pb-Zn-Cu ores toward the depocenter maximum. Most ore types are positioned within a ~500-m halo to former near-basin-wide salt sheets or associated halokinetic structures, the exception being that located in extreme basin marginal positions, where primary salt was not deposited. Stratiform Cu ± Co ores occur at intrasalt (Congolese-type), subsalt (Zambian-type), and salt-marginal (Kamoa-type) positions. Bulk crush-leach fluid inclusion data from the first two of these deposit types reveal a principal association with residual evaporitic brines. A likely signature of the ore fluids, the brines were generated during deposition of the basin-wide salt-sheets and occupied voluminous sub and intrasalt aquifers from ~800 Ma. Associated intense Mg ± K metasomatism was restricted to these levels, indicating that capping and enclosing salt remained impermeable for prolonged periods of the basin’s history, isolating the deep-seated aquifers from the upper part of the basin fill. From ~765 to 740 Ma, the salt sheets in the Congolese part of the basin were halokinetically modified. Salt was withdrawn laterally to feed diapirs, ultimately leading to localized welding or breaching of the former hydrological seal. At these points, deeper-level residual brines were drawn into the intrasalt stratigraphy to interact with reducing elements and form the stratiform ores. It is probable that salt welding occurred diachronously across the northern and central parts of the basin, depending upon the interplay of original salt thickness, rates and volumes of sediment supply during accumulation of salt overburden, and tectonism. The variable timing of this fundamental change in hydrologic architecture is poorly constrained to the period of halokinetic onset to the earliest stages of orogenesis; however, the geometry of the ores and associated alteration patterns demands that mineralization preceded the characteristically complex fragmentation of the host strata. Thus, while an early orogenic timing is permissible, mineralization during the later stages of extensional basin development was more likely. In situ reducing elements that host Zambian-type stratiform Cu ± Co ores were in continuous hydrological communication with subsalt aquifers, such that ore formation could have commenced from the ~800 Ma brine introduction event. The nonhalokinetic character of the salt in this region allowed the intact seal to have maintained suprahydrostatic pore pressures, facilitating fluid circulation until late stages of basin growth and possibly early stage orogenesis. Leachate data from ores positioned in the depocenter maximum and southern parts of the basin that underwent relatively high grade metamorphism record mixing of residual and halite dissolution-related brines. Salt dissolution was likely triggered by emergence of diapirs or thermally and/or mechanically induced increased permeability of halite. While it is certain that halite dissolution occurred during and after orogenesis, conditions favorable for salt dissolution may have existed locally during extension in the depocenter maximum. The permeability of salt increased to a point where it became the principal aquifer. The salt’s properties as an aquiclude lost, originally deep-seated residual brine mixed with new phases of evaporite dissolution-related brine to produce ores at middle levels of the basin fill. During the final stages of ore formation, recorded by postorogenic Pb-Zn-Cu mineralization in the depocenter maximum, the salinity of fluids was dominantly derived from the dissolution of remnant bodies of salt.