| Tract ID | 142pCu8901 | ||||||||||
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| Country | Afghanistan | ||||||||||
| Commodity | Cu | ||||||||||
| Study area name | Afghanistan | ||||||||||
| Tectonic setting | continental margin | ||||||||||
| Deposit type | porphyry copper | ||||||||||
| Grade-tonnage model | General porphyry copper model (Singer and others, 2008) | ||||||||||
| Geologic age |
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| Known prospects | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mean Cu (t/sq km) | 114t/sq km | ||||||||||
| Map scales used | 850K |
| Assessment date | 2006 |
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| Estimators | Steve Ludington, Jeff L. Doebrich, Robert G. Eppinger, Douglas B. Stoeser, Carol A. Finn, Lawrence W. Snee, John C. Mars |
| Assessment depth | 1km |
| Quantitative assessment | Yes |
| Number of deposits | Confidence level |
|---|---|
| 1 | 50% |
| 2 | 10% |
| 2 | 5% |
| 2 | 1% |
| Mean estimated deposits | 1 | ±0.79 | (0.79%) |
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| Probability of mean | 0.15 |
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| Probability of no copper | 0.31 |
| Known deposits |
Total deposits |
Area (sq km) |
Deposit density per 100,000 sq km |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35,090 | 3 |
| Copper | 4,000,000 |
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| Molybdenum | 100,000 |
| Gold | 92 |
| Silver | 1,200 |
| Ore | 800 |
| Confidence level | 50% | 10% | 5% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonnage | 700,000 | 8,500,000 | 17,000,000 |
| Fraser country | Afghanistan |
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| Fraser type | 0% |
| Fraser high | 0% |
| Typical cost | 0% |
| High cost | 1% |
| Infrastructure setting | High cost |
| Comments on depth | shallow |
| Expected depth distribution | |
| 0 - 250m | 0.35 |
| 250m - 500m | 0.25 |
| 500m - 1km | 0.4 |
| Economically recoverable resources | |
| Copper | 2,100,000t |
| Molybdenum | 40,000t |
| Gold | 35t |
| Silver | 600t |
| Probability no econ recoverable | 0.89 |
| Econ NPV | 370x $1M |
| Exp dollars | 1.7x $1M/100,000 sq km |
| Exp value class | Very Low |
| General | Ludington and others (2007) |
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| Economic | Robinson and Menzie (2012) |