Scientific data near [44.78333, 78.93333]

Search area extends approximately 0.6 km east-west and 0.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Kazakhstan	country
Asia	continent
Land	continent

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Tekeli	Sedimentary	Lead

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
Late Paleozoic Balkhash-Ili magmatic arc (northwest)	porphyry copper	Early Carboniferous to Permian magmatic-arc and post-collisional rocks
Late Paleozoic Central Balkhash-Ili magmatic arc	porphyry copper	Late Carboniferous to Permian magmatic-arc rocks
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.
Kazakh-Tarim	porphyry copper	Devonian through Early Triassic igneous rocks that include the Balkash-Yili continental-margin arc and younger rocks related to the Indosinian orogeny (collision of China with Asia)