Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
Pacific Margin | porphyry copper | Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia. |
Hessian Depression | sediment-hosted stratabound copper | Marine carbonaceous strata of the Lopingian (upper Permian) Kupferschiefer bed overlying Permian reservoir-facies, continental clastic rocks of the upper Rotliegend Formation in the Hessian Depression, Southern Permian Basin |
Hercynian-Thuringian Basin | sediment-hosted stratabound copper | Marine carbonaceous strata of the Lopingian (upper Permian) Kupferschiefer bed overlying Permian reservoir-facies, continental clastic rocks of the upper Rotliegend Formation in the Hercynian-Thuringian Basins, Southern Permian Basin |