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CE 4-7 Huledal Fm Revett Copper

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Coarser-grained siliciclastic rocks of the Permian Huledal Formation, Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland
Tract ID 003ssCu0005
Country Greenland
Commodity Cu
Study area name Greenland
Deposit type sediment-hosted stratabound copper
Grade-tonnage model Sediment-hosted stratabound copper—Sandstone copper
Geologic age
Geologic feature age Permian

Results of the assessment

Assessment date 2009
Estimators Cliff Taylor, Henrik Stendal, Bo Møller Stensgaard, Martin Ghisler, Per Kalvig, Anders Lie, Mogens Lind, Jesper K. Nielsen, Símun D. Olsen, Mikael Pedersen, Nicholas Rose, Bjørn Thomassen, Tapani Tukiainen
Assessment depth 1km
Quantitative assessment Yes

Estimated number of deposits

Number of deposits Confidence level
1 5%
3 1%
Mean estimated deposits 0.14 ±0.56 (420%)
Probability of mean 0.06
Probability of no copper 0.93

Estimated deposit density

Known
deposits		 Total
deposits		 Area
(sq km)		 Deposit density
per 100,000 sq km
0.14 821 17

Mean estimated tonnage

Copper 99,000

Undiscovered copper resource

Confidence level 5%
Tonnage 130,000

Economic analysis

Bibliographic references

General Stensgaard and others (2011)
Stensgaard, B.M., Kalvig, Per, Stendal, Henrik, 2011, Quantitative mineral resource assessment—Sedimentary-hosted copper in Greenland—Reporting the copper assessment workshop, GEUS, Copenhagen, March 2009: Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersølgelse Rapport 2011/104, 104 p. 1 CD-ROM.