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. |
Muyunkum sub-basin | sediment-hosted stratabound copper | Middle and upper Carboniferous coarser-grained siliciclastic strata within the southern part (Muyunkum sub-basin), Chu-Sarysu Basin |