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East Uralian Zone

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Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous volcanic arc fragments intruded by syn- and postcollisional Carboniferous and Permian granites
Tract ID 142pCu8203
Country Kazakhstan-Russian Federation
Commodity Cu
Study area name Urals
Tectonic setting island arc
Deposit type porphyry copper
Grade-tonnage model General porphyry copper model (Singer and others, 2008)
Geologic age
Geologic feature age Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous
Generalized age Paleozoic
Oldest rocks age 385.5Ma
Youngest rocks age 318.1Ma
Age range 67.4Ma
Identified Cu resources 3,744,500metric tons
Known prospects 11
Mean Cu (t/sq km) 136t/sq km
Map scales used 1M

Results of the assessment

Assessment date 2015
Estimators Jane M. Hammarstrom, Mark J. Mihalasky, Steve Ludington
Assessment depth 1km
Quantitative assessment Yes

Estimated number of deposits

Number of deposits Confidence level
3 90%
5 50%
8 10%
12 5%
24 1%
Mean estimated deposits 5.76 ±4.24 (0.74%)
Probability of mean 0.29
Probability of no copper 0.02

Estimated deposit density

Known
deposits		 Total
deposits		 Area
(sq km)		 Deposit density
per 100,000 sq km
2 7.8 147,668 5

Mean estimated tonnage

Copper 22,000,000
Molybdenum 580,000
Gold 550
Silver 7,200
Ore 4,400

Undiscovered copper resource

Confidence level 95% 90% 50% 10% 5%
Tonnage 1,100,000 2,400,000 12,000,000 49,000,000 76,000,000

Economic analysis

Fraser country Russian Federation
Fraser type 0.56%
Fraser high 0.44%
Typical cost 0.56%
High cost 0.44%
Infrastructure setting Mixed
Comments on depth default
Expected depth distribution
0 - 250m 0.25
250m - 500m 0.25
500m - 1km 0.5
Economically recoverable resources
Copper 13,000,000t
Molybdenum 260,000t
Gold 240t
Silver 4,000t
Probability no econ recoverable 0.22
Econ NPV 3,200x $1M
Exp dollars 17.65x $1M/100,000 sq km
Exp value class Medium

Bibliographic references

General Hammarstrom (written commun., 2015)
Economic Hammarstrom (written commun., 2015)
Hammarstrom (written commun., 2015)
Hammarstrom (written commun., 2015)

Deposits and prospects associated with this tract

Name Type State Country Development Details
Takhtalym prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Talitska prospect Sverdlovskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Tarutinskoye prospect Kostany oblast Russian Federation Prospect Details
Birgildinskoe prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Prospect Details
Mikheyevskoe deposit Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Prospect Details
Novonikolaevsk prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Tominskoe deposit Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Prospect Details
Yaguzak prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Yelenevskoe prospect Orenburgskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Zelenodolskoe prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details
Soyusnoe prospect Aktyubinsk Kazakhstan Occurrence Details
Kalinovskoe prospect Chelyabinskaya oblast Russian Federation Occurrence Details