Tract ID | 003pCu3009x | ||||||||||
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Country | Mexico-United States of America | ||||||||||
Commodity | Cu | ||||||||||
Study area name | Mexico and US revised | ||||||||||
Tectonic setting | postconvergence | ||||||||||
Deposit type | porphyry copper | ||||||||||
Grade-tonnage model | Porphyry copper, Cu-Au subtype (Singer and others, 2008) | ||||||||||
Geologic age |
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Known prospects | 10 | ||||||||||
Mean Cu (t/sq km) | 59t/sq km | ||||||||||
Map scales used | 500K |
Assessment date | 2008 |
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Estimators | Francisco Cendejas-Cruz, Enrique Espinosa, Floyd Gray, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Steve Ludington, Gilpin R. Robinson, Jr., Efren Pérez-Segura, Martín Valencia-Morena, José Luis Rodríguez-Castañeda, Lukas Zürcher |
Assessment depth | 1km |
Quantitative assessment | Yes |
Number of deposits | Confidence level |
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1 | 90% |
4 | 50% |
17 | 10% |
17 | 5% |
17 | 1% |
Mean estimated deposits | 6.93 | ±5.96 | (0.86%) |
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Probability of mean | 0.34 |
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Probability of no copper | 0.07 |
Known deposits |
Total deposits |
Area (sq km) |
Deposit density per 100,000 sq km |
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6.93 | 374,330 | 2 |
Copper | 22,000,000 |
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Molybdenum | 130,000 |
Gold | 1,600 |
Silver | 7,100 |
Ore | 4,400 |
Confidence level | 90% | 50% | 10% | 5% |
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Tonnage | 390,000 | 11,000,000 | 60,000,000 | 79,000,000 |
Fraser country | Mexico-US |
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Fraser type | 0.68% |
Fraser high | 0.32% |
Typical cost | 1% |
High cost | 0% |
Infrastructure setting | Typical |
Comments on depth | 66% cover; skew deep |
Expected depth distribution | |
0 - 250m | 0.1 |
250m - 500m | 0.3 |
500m - 1km | 0.6 |
Economically recoverable resources | |
Copper | 15,000,000t |
Molybdenum | 65,000t |
Gold | 790t |
Silver | 4,100t |
Probability no econ recoverable | 0.53 |
Econ NPV | 4,100x $1M |
Exp dollars | 8.04x $1M/100,000 sq km |
Exp value class | Low |
General | Hammarstrom and others (2010) |
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Economic | Robinson and Menzie (2012) |
Name | Type | State | Country | Development | Details |
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Cerro del Gallo | prospect | Guanajuato | Mexico | Occurrence | Details |
Tatatila | prospect | Veracruz | Mexico | Occurrence | Details |
Tuligtic | prospect | Puebla | Mexico | Occurrence | Details |
A-O | prospect | Colorado | United States | Occurrence | Details |
Red Mountain | prospect | Colorado | United States | Occurrence | Details |
Summitville | prospect | Colorado | United States | Occurrence | Details |
Timberline Lake | prospect | Colorado | United States | Prospect | Details |
Tomichi | prospect | Colorado | United States | Prospect | Details |
Paradise Basin | prospect | Colorado | United States | Prospect | Details |