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Figure 1.4 Zambia’s geological terrain
Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, 1996.
Zambia is underlain predominantly by Archean to
Neoproterozoic age rocks. The Lufilian Arc, a large
dome-like geological structure, dominates the
geology of North-Western Zambia and extends into
the southern part of the Democratic Republic of
Congo (Figure 1.4). The most important of these is
the Katanga rock formation, which yields the copper
and cobalt ores exploited in the Copperbelt and
North-Western Provinces.
Geology
The differential movement of the African plate
and the buttressing effect of the rocks moving
towards, over and under each other, have played an
important role in the geological evolution of the
country and in the genesis of the country’s mineral
and energy resources (Ministry of Mines and
Minerals Development, 1996).