Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill)
14.4600° S, 28.4350° E · ± 1 km
Vanadinite from Central Province, Zambia, with photos of specimens from this locality.
Minerals found here
Vanadinite at Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill)
Vanadinite from a large carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn orebody, occurring in oxidation-zone caves together with descloizite and pyromorphite.
- Formula
- Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl
- Associated minerals
- Pyromorphitecerussitedescloizite
- History
- In 1929 observers reported caves lined with crystals of pyromorphite and cerussite as well as descloizite and vanadinite; the mine produced 7,816 tonnes of vanadium oxide during its life.
Geology of the locality
- Setting
- Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc deposit with four primary orebodies of sphalerite and galena, strongly oxidized with many secondary minerals.
- Type
- Oxidation zone
- Host rock
- Carbonate rock
- Region
- Central Province
- Country
- Zambia
Coordinates from Wikipedia (SRC-079). Mine closed in the 1990s but artisanal mining continues on site; severe lead contamination of the area is documented.
Sources
- SRC-079 · Website
Kabwe mineWikipedia contributors · Wikipedia - SRC-080 · Database
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill), Kabwe, Zambia (Mindat locality entry 11527)Mindat.org contributors · Mindat.org
Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.