Scientific data near [29.95030, 55.87210]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 5.1 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Iran	country
Asia Minor and Middle East	continent
Land	continent

Global distribution of selected mines, deposits, and districts of critical minerals

Approximate locations and short descriptions of mines, deposits, and districts where critical minerals are found. The critical minerals are discussed in USGS Professional Paper 1802 many of these locations are described in further detail in that report.

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Site name	Critical minerals	Deposit type
Sar Cheshmeh	Rhenium	Porphyry Cu

Porphyry copper deposits of the world

Information on porphyry copper deposits from around the world with grade and tonnage models, a general classification based on geologic setting, mineralogy, with data allowing locations of these deposits to be plotted using GIS.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Sar Cheshmeh	17	Kerman, Iran

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Sanandaj-Sirjan	porphyry copper	Late TriassicEarly Cretaceous continental arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Esfahan	porphyry copper	Late Paleocene to middle-late Eocene backarc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Kerman	porphyry copper	Late Eocene to Early Pliocene continental to syn-collisional arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Plio-Quaternary—Post-collisional	porphyry copper	Late Miocene to Holocene postcollisional magmatism of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.