Can you tell me which part of Congo is rich in minerals and which one?

Answer 1

An eminently mining country, the Republic of Congo is the centre of numerous exploitations of most diverse metals in a multitude of mines and quarries. Its soil harbours a wide variety of mineral species with facies of often very high esthetical quality.

The worked deposits are distributed over Precambrian massifs bordering, to the south, east and north-east, a vast sedimentary central basin. Thus, in counterclockwise sense, one encounters successively, from south to north: diamantiferous exploitations of Kasai ( Mbuji-Mayi, Tshikapa ), as well as a few copper deposits ( Tshiniama, Lubi ); the copper-bearing arch of southern Shaba, also rich in cobalt and uranium with the mining centres of Kolwezi ( Cu-Co ), Likasi ( Cu ), Kambove ( Cu-Co ), Shinkolobwe ( U ) and Lubumbashi ( Cu ), not forgetting the mine of Kipushi which yields zinc, copper and germanium. Still in Shaba, when ascending northward, one comes across the tin granite of Mitwaba and the stanniferous pegmatite of Manono. The province of Kivu, enclosing the region of Maniema, is particularly rich in tin deposits ( Kalima ), often accompanied by columbo-tantalite. The pegmatite with beryl, the columbite and uranium of Kobokobo also found here, as well as gold placers of the Mobale river. In the north of the province of Kivu, there are outcrops of carbonatite of Lueshe, rich in pyrochlores, while at the Rwandan border, the region of volcanos contains lavas in which several new silicates have been discovered. In the north of Congo, in the Oriental Province, there are the famous gold exploitations of Kilo-Moto. At the western extremity of the country, to the west of the capital Kinshasa, the Lower Congo encloses a few deposits of zinc and lead vanadates ( Kusu-Senge ), whereas the massif of Niari is the centre of fine examples of mineralizations in copper silicates, mainly, however, on the territory of Congo-Brazzaville.

Answer 2

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