Jessie Gold Mine (ZRL) - Zambian Copperbelt (sitios de interés)
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At the Jessie Gold Mine, mineralisation comprises north-northwest trending quartz veins up to 1.2m in thickness forming shoots plunging 45° to the north. Historical production of 390kg gold is reported from quartz veins hosted by muscovite schist, graphitic schist, chlorite schist and quartzite of the Muva Supergroup. Additional minerals of potentially economic interest include malachite, specularite, bismuth minerals and minor native copper.
No record of exploration at the Jessie mine or in the immediate vicinity of the mine has been recovered,although anecdotal reporting indicates that sampling of the veins in 1945 returned a maximum grade of 3.1g/t Au.
Jessie Project (PL225)
Jessie Project (PL225)
Zambezi Resources (ASX:ZRL)
Only small quantities of gold have been mined, but with higher prices gold exploration may well increase. A total of nearly 2,000 kg of gold has been produced from 20 deposits since 1906, but does not include gold produced as by-product of copper recovery by ZCCM. Whereas there are over 300 known gold occurrences, small quantities of gold have been won from only the Luiri (Matala and Dunrobin) with an estimated reserve of 100,000 t at 3.5 gm/t Au; Jessie, Chakwenga (50,000 t); Chumbwe (35,000 t); Sassare (35,000t); Lutembwe, Cymric, Velocity, Chad, Chetina,Tortoise and Iron Cap (65,000t) mines.