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 |
Manchuride | porphyry copper | An assemblage of Jurassic and Cretaceous post-subduction volcanic and intrusive rocks in northeast China and parts of Russian Federation, Mongolia, and North Korea |
Solonker | porphyry copper | Paleozoic island- and continental arcs formed by Paleo-Asian ocean subduction beneath the North China craton, and Permo-Triassic rocks formed by collision of the North China and Tarim cratons with Eurasia |
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 |