Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
Yulong | porphyry copper | A curvilinear belt of post-subduction Eocene igneous rocks in southwest China |
Gangdese | porphyry copper | A linear belt of Oligocene and Miocene post-subduction igneous rocks in southwest China |
Jinsajiang | porphyry copper | Carboniferous through Triassic rocks that were formed as continental arcs by subduction of the Paleotethyan oceanic crust southward below Qiangtang (North Tibet) terrane and northward below north China. |
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 |