Geological Characteristics and Prospecting Direction of the Elluvium-Deluvian Cobalt Deposits in the Central African Copper Belt
详细信息
- 责任者：Yan Yanling (No.6 Geological Party ; Henan Nonferrous Metals Exploration Bureau ; Luoyang 471002 ; China) ; Li Xiangqian
- 刊名：Geology and Prospecting
- 出版年：2011
- 卷期：47(3)
- 关键词：钴矿 ; cobalt ores ; 中部非洲 ; Central Africa
- 页码：p.512-517
- 图表：5 illus., 1 table, 20 refs.
- 分类号：1001
- issnNo：ISSN0495-5331
- isbnNo：CN11-2043/P
摘要
In recent years, Chinese geologists have discovered the elluvium-deluvian cobalt deposits in the Central African copper belt. These cobalt deposits are characterized by clear horizontal and vertical zoning, and dominated by heterogenite. They were formed by weathering of altered cataclastite and talc-schist ores in the original copper-cobalt deposits under certain physical-chemical conditions. Researches show that the south of the Katangan copper-cobalt belt between Kolwezi and Likasi in Central Africa is a region of prospecting potential for the elluvium-deluvian cobalt deposits.