Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
Gangdese | porphyry copper | A linear belt of Oligocene and Miocene post-subduction igneous rocks in southwest China |
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 |
Tethyan Gangdese | porphyry copper | Late Triassic, Yanshanian (Jurassic and Cretaceous) and early Tertiary igneous rocks in southwestern China that were formed during subduction of the Tethyan ocean below the southern margin of Asia |