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Porphyry copper prospect in Xinjiang, China

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 8029
Tract name Oyu Tolgoi (142pCu8506)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country China
State or province Xinjiang
Geographic location 88.8333, 46.6667
Geologic map unit 88.8333, 46.6667
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age determination method Geologic inference
Age range ~290 Ma (Variscan orogeny)
Age reference geologic inference
Associated rocks monzogranite porphyry
Tectonic setting island arc
Stratigraphic age Early Permian

Commodity and development information

Development status Prospect
Major commodities Cu, Mo
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Study area name Central Asian Orogenic Belt
References Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (1992); Kamitani and others (2007)
Site reference Mihalasky, Ludington, Hammarstrom, and others (2015)
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 1992, Mineral resources maps of China—Explanatory notes: Geological Publishing House, 3 sheets, scale 1:5,000,000.
Kamitani, Masaharu; Okumura, Kimio; Teraoka, Yoji; Miyano, Sumiko; and Watanabe, Yasusi, 2007, Mineral deposit data of mineral resources map of east Asia, with explanatory notes: Japan Geological Survey, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 19 p., 1 map on 2 sheets, scale 1:3,000,000, accessed April, 2011, at http://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/docs/overseas_doc/mrm-e_asia.htm, and at https://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/docs/overseas_doc/ExplanatoryNote.pdf.