Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
East Qinling | porphyry copper | A linear belt of Jurassic and Cretaceous post subduction intrusive rocks in central China |
Coastal Pacific | porphyry copper | An assemblage of Jurassic and Cretaceous postsubduction volcanic and intrusive rocks in eastern China and northern Vietnam |
Qinling-Dabie | porphyry copper | Cambro-Ordovician island arc, Devonian continental-margin arc related to northward Paleo-Tethyan ocean subduction under North China, Qaidam, and Tarim Cratons, and Permo-Triassic rocks formed by collision of North China and Tarim cratons with Eurasia |