Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
Sanandaj-Sirjan | porphyry copper | Late TriassicEarly Cretaceous continental arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt. |
Lut Cretaceous | porphyry copper | Late CretaceousPaleocene 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. |
Lut Tertiary | porphyry copper | Middle Eocene to Early Miocene island to continental arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt. |