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Porphyry copper deposit in Qaraghandy oblysy, Kazakhstan

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 424
Tract name Late Paleozoic Balkhash-Ili magmatic arc (north) (142pCu8003b)
Site status deposit

Geographic location

Country Kazakhstan
State or province Qaraghandy oblysy
Geographic location 75.090465, 47.495476
Geologic map unit 75.090465, 47.495476
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Minerals carbonate, chalcopyrite, chlorite, galena, hematite, magnetite, molybdenite, muscovite/sericite, pyrite, sphalerite, zeolite
Associated rocks granite porphyry, granodiorite porphyry, diorite, granite, granodiorite, schist
Tectonic setting continental margin

Commodity and development information

Development status Prospect
Major commodities Cu
Tonnage (Mt) 36Mt
Cu grade (%) 0.34%
Mo grade (%) 0.018%
Contained copper 120,000t
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Location: extensive grid road network seen on Google Earth (March 10, 2010); about 1 km SW of Singer and others' (2008) location; not listed in Seltmann and others' (2009) database.
Study area name West Central Asia
References Kudryavtsev (1996); Zhukov and others (1998); Singer and others (2008)
Site reference Berger and others (2014)
Kudryavtsev, Yu.K., 1996, The Cu-Mo deposits of central Kazakhstan, in Shatov, V., Seltmann, R., Kremenetsky, A., Lehmann, B., Propov, V., and Ermolov, P., eds., Granite-related ore deposits of central Kazakhstan and adjacent areas: St. Petersburg, Glagol Publishing House, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), Working Group on Tin and Tungsten Deposits (WGTT), INTAS-93-1783 Project ""Ore-bearing granites of Eurasia—Anatomy and magmatic-hydrothermal mechanisms of ore deposition"", p. 119–145.
Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2008, Porphyry copper deposits of the world—Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155, [45] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1155/.
Zhukov, N.M., Kolesnikov, V.V., Miroshnichenko, L.M., Egembaev, K.M., Pavlova, Z.N., and Bakarasov, E.V., comps., 1998, Copper deposits of Kazakhstan, in Abdulin, A.A., and others, eds., Mineral resources of Kazakhstan: Almaty, Kazakhstan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, 136 p.