Malundwe Pit

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This is the Malundwe Pit of the Lumwana copper mine. The Malundwe ore body is 95% sulphide, 5% oxide, and very consistent so conventional truck and shovel method is used. Malundwe is smaller than Chimiwungo but with higher copper grade and contains discrete zones of uranium and gold mineralisation with occasional sporadic high cobalt (>0.1%). The ultimate Malwundwe pit will measure approximately one kilometre east to west, four kilometres north to south, and have an average depth of approximately 142 m.

The overall strike length of mineralization at Malundwe is approximately six kilometres north-south and up to 1.5 km wide (east-west), predominantly as a single Mineralized Ore Schist horizon. The mineralization outcrops in the east, has an overall gentle dip to the west, and plunges to the south.