Environmental and Earth Sciences Research Journal

Vol. 8, No. 3, September, 2021, pp. 111-117

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Characteristics and Constraint Evidences of the Pegmatite Veins in Lubishi Mining Sector,
Kalehe District, Eastern DR Congo
Mupenge Mutiyamuogo Parfait1*, Raha Mulumba2, Abdourahamane Barry Diogo1, Paul Ndizine Burhama3
1
Department of Geosciences, Pan African University of Life and Earth Sciences, University of Ibadan, P.O Box 200284 Ibadan,
Nigeria
2
College of Mining and Geology, UniversitéLibre des Grands Lacs, ULGL, Bukavu, Congo
3
Department of Geology, Universitéde Bukavu, P.O Box 162 Bukavu, Congo

Corresponding Author Email: parfaitmupenge@gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.18280/eesrj.080301 ABSTRACT

Received: 14 April 2021 The Lubishi pegmatites of South Kivu Province (DR Congo) in the Kibaran belt, which
Accepted: 24 June 2021 were studied to elucidate the structural imprints and characteristics of pegmatitic rocks
associated with Sn - Nb - Ta mineralization, revealed that the pegmatite veins have a
Keywords: general orientation trend of N150°E, similar to the Numbi mining sector, and are
Lubishi pegmatites, characteristic, structural perpendicular to the Kibara metasediments. The pegmatite, which is composed of quartz,
imprints, constraint stress muscovite, and feldspar, was altered as a result of surface weathering. Due to the ambient
climatic condition, the main mineralogy of the various pegmatite zones has been
subjected to severe alteration with the change of feldspar to kaolinite. Micro and macro
veins of pegmatite were discovered during the structural examination. The constraint
stresses 1=N358°E/20°NNW, 2=N200°E/70°SSW, and 3=N88°E/20°ENE produced
micro and macro veins of pegmatite, according to the structural research. The Lubishi
pegmatite's overall orientation trend can be exploited for future geological exploration.
To complete this study, a geochemical examination should be conducted to identify the
makeup of these pegmatite.

1. INTRODUCTION granite related ore deposits, which are rich in minerals like
cassiterite (SnO2), spodumene (LiAlSi2O6), columbite-
Pegmatites are intrusive igneous rocks that are tantalite (Nb, Ta)2O5), beryl (Be3Al2Si6O18), wolframite
distinguished by the size of individual crystals and the ((Fe, Mn) WO4), amblygonite (Li, Na) (AlFPO4), monazite
immediate crystallization of several mineral phases. They (Ce, La, Y, Nd, Th) and Sn-Nb-Ta in pegmatite [4, 5, 7]. The
generate a wider diversity of gemstones than any other rock deposits and indices of the tin group [tin, wolframite, Coltan
type, and they've also produced some of the world's biggest (Colombite- Tantalite), beryl, rare earth] are located in the
jewels. eastern part of the Congo (Kivu) where they form a belt
The water-rich part of a granite-like molt forms the big extending over 700 km, from Ituri in the north to the North-
crystals. As the molten rock begins to solidify, the elements West end of the southern Copper belt. Niobium-tantalum and
that it contains begin to crystallize [1]. The largest gemstones part of the tin are present in pegmatites that have a spatial
and some quite rare gemstone varieties are found in gem relation with these S-type granites [6]. The proposed study
pockets at the centre of the pegmatite, where they have formed area is one of the few areas identified to have Tin-Niobium-
from the hot concentrated mineral-rich fluid that was the last Tantalum mineralization. However, there is a lack of detailed
to crystallize. Pegmatites are texturally complex igneous information about the structural control of mineralization, the
rocks marked by some combination of extremely large but processes that lead to its formation, and the economic viability
variable crystal size, spatial zonation of minerals, prominent of Tin-Niobium-Tantalum mineralization in the proposed
anisotropy of crystal orientations from the margins inward, study area. This study was prompted by a lack of data on
and skeletal, radial, or graphic intergrowth habits of crystals geological mapping, structural studies, and potential
[2]. Generally, pegmatites hold various metallic and non- mineralization zones. This research is aimed at using
metallic minerals that are of enormous economic benefit. The integrated approaches (geological mapping, petrography, and
Pegmatite is an important source of tantalum (Ta), niobium structural geology) to determine the Characteristics and
(Nb) and tin (Sn) used in many industrial applications. The constraint evidences of the pegmatite veins will be useful for
metals of the tin group (Sn, Nb, Ta, Be, Li, W) are found in economical adventures of geological explorations.
the Mesoproterozoic Kibarian. Granitoids from the Kibara belt
consist of granites as well as pegmatites and they
chronologically tie up to the Mesoproterozoic formations 2. LOCATION OF THE STUDY AREA
(1600-900Ma) situated in the Maniema, Kivu and Katanga
provinces in Democratic Republic of Congo [3]. This belt The research area is located in the Lubishi mining sector
forms large province of metallogeny containing abundant field, Kalehe district, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,

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70 kilometers west of Bukavu city, and is defined by the related to G4 granites and is contained in pegmatites and / or
geographic coordinates Lat.01.78 – 1.82 and Long.27.79 – quartz veins [9, 10]. Gold mineralization is associated with
28.88 (Figure 2). quartz veins formed at high temperatures and pressures
The study area is underlain in part by the Kibaran Orogenic different from tin and tungsten veins. Sn-Nb-Ta ore
Belt lithologies. The Kibara orogen formed and evolved mineralisation in the Kibara belt, takes place chiefly in
between two pre- Mesoproterozoic domains: the Archaean- pegmatites and quartz veins that traverse the Kibara
Palaeoproterozoic Congo craton to the west and the north, and metasediments [11, 12]. Besides, the Sn-Nb-Ta ore minerals
the Archaean- and Palaeoproterozoic Tanzania craton and are transported by erosion through rivers, rain water currents,
Bangweulu Block to the east and the south. The Kibaran belt streams and are deposited as eluvium and alluvium or stream
covers several center-east African countries (Democratic sediments along meanders [7]. Subsequently, these ores are
Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda) and contains secondary ore deposits and can be mined same as primary ores
about 100 year extensive record of Sn and Ta assembly; [13]. The tectonic episode is associated with the Syn-
additional Ta-Nb-Sn provinces are established in South Africa, collisional peraluminous granite (S-type) and post orogenic
Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Namibia, Madagascar, Mozambique, fractionation-derived pegmatite [14]. The general orientation
Somalia, Ethiopia and Egypt [7, 8], Figure 1. The Kibarian of the Kibarian is NE-SW in the Great Lakes region, with
chain is full of stanniferous and auriferous deposits located in frequent transfers to the NW, notably to West Lake Kivu and
the eastern part of the DRC. Stanniferous mineralization is Maniema Kibarian terrain [15, 16].

Figure 1. The study area is located inside the Pan African belt network, as well as the African rare-metal granite and rare-element
pegmatite province

3. LOCAL GEOLOGY consists of three structural assemblages consisting of a

Precambrian basement, a volcanic cover to the south and north
The Kivu region is essentially constituted by the ancient of Lake Kivu and finally limestone lacustrine deposits that line
formations belonging to the Burundian. the bottom of the main valleys at the edge of the lake [18]. The
A vast expanse is occupied by an immense massif of granite. Kalehe formations are anterior Precambrian and associated
We observe points and small massifs of basic rocks (gabbros with the Itombwe supergroup in East Kivu. Rocks outcropping
or diorites) towards the East. The grounds are covered with a along Lake Kivu between Katana and Kalehe consist mainly
thick mantle of metamorphic basalts. To the east, the folded of graphitic black shales, banded red shales, quartzites,
Burundian beds are more or less metamorphic, while towards ferruginous lamina sandstone, and conglomeratic sandstones
the west, the folds fade and the layers are almost horizontal with generally weak metamorphism and directed N to NE
and not metamorphic [17]. Generally, the local geology structural directions; corresponding to two superposed

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tectonics, the latter giving N-S folds. They are unconformably and Bitale formations, Bugarama, quartzites and the
overlain by the characteristic mixture of the Tshibangu group Kamanyola-Uvira migmatites, the lower Masisi-Sake series,
[19] and intruded by the Nyamukubi granites (whose probable the Luhule-Mobisio formations, and the Kasika-Luntukulu
age of intrusion is the same as the other "tin granites" of the formations [20]. Lubishi is located in the Alkaline complex
region, i.e. 976 ± 10 ma, but whose isotopic equilibrium has where we have abundance of mesoproterozoic rocks,
been disturbed by more recent events. The Bitale group (lower composed of two mica granite postdated by leucogranite
Kibarien) in which the kalehe includes all previously related to the Sn-Ta-Nb mineralisation and Itombwe group
considered Ruzizian (2000-1800 Ma) or Archaean terrains, formations [21], Figure 2.

Figure 2. Local geological map of the study area

4. METHODOLOGY general orientation trend of the pegmatite veins has been

compared to the orientation of all the fractures within the study
The field work exercise was accomplished with the use of are, the lasted generated automatically with PCI geomatica and
several field materials such as topographic map, Global Rockworks software respectively. Observations made include
Positioning System (GPS), compass clinometer, geological pegmatite and quartz veins. Carefully selected whole rock
hammer, field notebook, pen, crayon, tape rule, cutlass, and samples were crushed at the Thin-section laboratory of
tracing paper. The observation made consisted to describe the Department of Geology, University of Burundi, Burundi.
macroscopic characteristics of pegmatite with regard to the Measured structural parameters were integrally statistically
environmental evolution of veins. In situ measurements of processed using Dips Software. Stereonets have been made
strikes and dips of the principal pegmatite veins were taken for and the constraint axes including: σ1, σ2 and σ3 have been
structural study with compass clinometers (Figure 3 a and b). established in order to determine the deformation axes that
This will later help to deduce the direction of the tectonic generated pegmatites veins in the study area.
forces that produce some structural elements observed, the

Figure 3. The field investigation (a) and some used materials (b)

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5. RESULTS feldspars turn into kaolinite and sericite. Due to the climate,
feldspar undergoes a high degree of alteration, resulting in the
5.1 Characteristic of the pegmatite formation of whitish Kaolinite (Figure 4b), while other iron
oxides in yellow and red undergo alteration, resulting in the
The pegmatite is a very coarse grain rock with big crystal of formation of Limonite and goethite.
feldspar and quartz with some micas (Figure 7c). It is a light-
colored rock due of the prevalence of felsic elements and it is
hosted by banded gneiss. During the final stages of
crystallization, it crystallizes from residual melt. Pegmatite
appears as filons (in veins) in the Lubishi mining area (Figure
7b, c and d).
This pegmatite is mineralized because it contains economic
minerals. Macroscopic field observations on the pegmatites
demonstrate that their compositions are similar to simple
granitic compositions of micas, quartz, and feldspars, with
micas being the most abundant (Figure 4a). The composition
close to simple granitic composition meaning that the magma
has been refined through fractional crystallization to the
lowest-temperature liquid that is possible for the final
environment of its crystallization [2]. Individual pegmatite
veins have been impacted by significant post-emplacement
fracturing, resulting in complicated block displacements. The
pegmatite was altered as a result of surface weathering. The
basic mineralogy of the several pegmatite zones has
undergone significant change. Water precipitation has a major
part in pegmatite alteration since this zone is located in a
tropical environment with abundant precipitation. In these
mining sector, Pegmatite found in veins is highly altered Figure 4. The abundance of Micas in the pegmatite (a) and
wherever it is found in the study area, they are found in altered transformation of feldspar in kaolinite (b). Micas in the
schist (Figure 5b) or intruded barren granite (Figure 5c). The pegmatite (a) and transformation of feldspar in kaolinite (b)

Figure 5. The pegmatite veins orientation (a), veins intruded barren altered schist (b), and barren altered granite with parallel
pegmatite veins (c)

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 to be mineralized with Sn-Ta-Nb mineralization that the
presence of artisanal activities within the sector (Figure 5a).
Mineralization of columbite–tantalite and cassiterite has been
found in the Lubishi pegmatite's unmodified border and
intermediate zone, where they appear as dispersed minerals.
Micas are abundant in these pegmatites found in this mining
sector, muscovite Micas in elongated plaquettes (Figure 6c)
with a small quantity of Quartz, plagioclase, and feldspars
(Figure 6 a,b,c and d).
Pegmatites are intrusions in granitic host rocks that manifest
as large and tabular masses in a pocket form in the Lubishi
region (Figure 7c and d). They are a coarse-grained (varying
from 1.7cm to 15cm) creamy white rock with a distinctive look.
Quartz, muscovite, biotite, and dull-dark flecks of tourmaline
are the predominant mineral assemblages (with striations on
the sides).
Figure 6. Photomicrograph of pegmatite selected samples
(04) in trans-mitted light showing Quartz (Qtz), Feldspar(F),
Plagioclase (Pl) and Muscovite (Ms) 6. CONSTRAINT EVIDENCES

Fractures are structures that are formed under brittle

condition. They occur when the rock is subjected to stress that
is beyond its bearing capacity. It breaks up. Later the facture
will be filled (mineralized). The structural measurements
(Strike and dip) have been used, plotted, analyzed and
processed in Dips Software to determine vein families and
constraint axe trends.
The measurements of pegmatite veins are listed in Table 1.
The veins show many families, according to their thickness we
can differentiate two families of veins: micro veins (10-30cm)
and macro veins (>30cm) (Table 1). The high degree of felspar
alteration in fractured rocks in the research region leads to the
production of white kaolinite. The two sorts (groups) of veins
are represented by these two clouds. The intersection of these
two big circles helps us to establish the primary stresses that
caused the zone's deformation. The normal component
intermediate 2 is represented by the intersection of these big
circles. N200°E/70°SSW are the strike and dip of 2 [22];
Figure 8c.
Figure 7. Showing pegmatite veins (a and b) and pegmatite Figure 6 Photomicrograph of pegmatite selected samples
as in pocket form (c and d) (04) in transmitted light showing Quartz (Qtz), Feldspar(F),
Plagioclase (Pl) and Muscovite (Ms). The stereogram
The mineralogical assemblage of the deposits from indicates that the big circle of which σ2 is the pole, bears the
weathering pegmatite desirable for ceramic purposes, since greatest normal principal stress σ1 (sigma1 on the diagram),
quartz will give the ceramic the needed strength and kaolinite the minimum normal principal stress σ3 (sigma3 on the
will give the necessary plasticity to form the green body diagram), the primary tangential stress ζmax (Tmax on the
(unfired ceramic body) of the ceramic. The pegmatite seems canvas) and sliding directions D1 and D2.

Table 1. Structural measurements of the Lubishi pegmatite veins

Longitude Latitude Elevation Strike Dip Tickness

-1.794066 28.80769 2358.34 N138°E 70°NW 25cm
-1.794071 28.80768 2358.18 N180°E 58°NW 20cm
-1.794166 28.8077 2356.09 N40°E 85°NE
-1.794202 28.80774 2354.95 N40°E 42°NW 30cm
-1.794205 28.80777 2352.75 N40°E 82°NE
-1.794072 28.80773 2362.85 N20°E 78°SW
-1.794148 28.80791 2367.81 N150°E 60°NE 30cm
-1.794078 28.80791 2364.77 N158°E 78°SE 18cm
-1.794267 28.80795 2367.02 N40°E 82°NW 35cm
-1.794358 28.80803 2369.51 N170°E 80°NW 25cm
-1.79441 28.80802 2370.90 N145°E 70°NW
-1.794411 28.80801 2371.75 N150°E 80°SW 15cm
-1.794411 28.80801 2371.75 N150°E 80°SW 15cm
-1.792888 28.80712 2310.76 N45°E 42°NW 30cm

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 of D1D2, can be found Sigma3 direction and dipping are found
at 90°of sigma1, we can get Sigma3 direction and dipping
N88°E/20°ENE, and Tmax direction and dipping
N37°E/21°NE in the center of σ1σ3. Tectonic processes have
a significant impact on rock formations in the studied region,
as evidenced by the presence of pegmatite-quartz veins in
granites and other lithologies within Lubishi, indicating a
compressive regime system linked subduction or collision [23-
25].
Briefly the general orientation of the pegmatite N150°E;
NNW-SSE (Figure 8a) and comparatively to the general
orientation trend of the fractures in the Lubishi area and its
closed areas generated automatically which shows N-S (Figure
9), veins show the same general trend with the orientation
fractures from Numbi mining sector (N150°E to N160°E) [26];
compared to the general orientation trend shown by the
pegmatite in Manono- Kahungwe sector which trend N40°E-
N50°E [23] and seems to be perpendicular to the Numbi and
Figure 8. Stereonets showing a) pegmatite families and b) Lubishi mining sectors. This has to confirm that Numbi and
pegmatite preferential trend and c) stress generated the Lubishi sectors show the same orientation trend for pegmatite
pegmatite veins veins perpendicular to the Kibara metasediments. Numbi and
Lubishi can be mined pursuing the same orientation trend.

7. CONCLUSION

Studies on the Lubishi pegmatites of South Kivu Province

(D.R.C.) in the Kibaran belt, which intruded the
Mesoproterozoic Formation (1.6-0.9 Ga), revealed that
pegmatite veins are found intruded in the granite formation
within the study area, and these pegmatites are found altered
(weathered) due to the climate condition, and the
transformation of feldspar part to kaolinite should be
mentioned. This kaolinite can be used for ceramic application.
The petrographic studies revealed the occurrence of quartz,
muscovite and small amount of feldspar. The structural
investigations on the pegmatite veins have shown two main
families of veins that have been used to get the stress
generation of the veins within the zone. The Lubishi pegmatite
veins show the same general orientation trend with the Numbi
mining sector and this orientation is perpendicular to the
Kibara metasediments. These characteristics may be used to
guide exploration procedure in the Lubishi mining sector as
well as the general orientation of pegmatite veins has been
found with accuracy.

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