The transition to new and green technologies is increasing the need for metals 1, 2 such as copper for which demand is forecast to increase by 140–350% from 2010 to 2050 3, 4. Porphyry-type ...

The Yulong porphyry copper deposit (6.5 Mt at 0.46 % Cu) in eastern Tibet was formed in a post-collisional setting. New zircon U–Pb and U–Th/He ages, apatite U–Th/He ages and in-situ zircon Hf isotopic and trace element data for the Yulong ore-bearing adakitic porphyries elucidate the thermal history and petrogenesis of the deposit. …

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In porphyry copper systems, significant advances in the understanding of deposit footprints have been made over the last decades, including that of sericitic alteration (Watanabe and Hedenquist ...

1. Introduction. Porphyry copper deposits are commonly generated in arc settings and have spatial, temporal, and genetic associations with felsic porphyry intrusions (Seedorff et al., 2005, Sillitoe, 2010).Evaluating the potential for porphyry copper mineralization involves examining the geochemical characteristics of these intrusions, …

The reasons of the association of porphyry-type deposits with high Sr/Y magmatic rocks remain speculative, although high water (>4 wt.% 10) and sulphur (>1000 ppm 24) contents as well as high ...

These deposits provide over 60% of the world's copper and include other important metals such as molybdenum, gold and silver. Porphyry copper deposits are known for their low grades and very high …

Porphyry copper deposits originate in or nearby porphyritic intrusives which were saturated by water as they intruded in shallow areas of the crust (less than 6 km depth). The developing hydrothermal systems are characterized by the interaction, to different degrees, of fluids coming directly from the parental intrusive and from meteoric ...

The Chating deposit is a large porphyry copper deposit in the Xuancheng district of the MLYB (Fig. 1; Lu et al., 2019, Xiao et al., 2019, Zhou et al., 2020) and is associated with numerous skarns that occur at depths from 1710 m to 300 m. Both the endoskarn and exoskarn in Chating mainly occur as calc–silicate veins or massive …

Porphyry deposits are copper-rich orebodies formed by precipitation of metal sulphides from hydrothermal fluids released from magmatic intrusions that cooled …

Mineralization: Porphyry deposits are typically mineralized with copper, gold, molybdenum, and silver.The minerals are typically found as sulfides and other minerals in the form of veins and disseminations. Geology: Porphyry deposits are associated with intrusive igneous rocks, such as granites and diorites.The mineralization …

Porphyry copper deposits contain approximately one-half of the world's copper reserves and currently account for more than 50% of the world's annual copper production. They …

The cumulative probability of forming a large porphyry Cu deposit at any given time in an arc magmatic system (i.e., a single batholith-linked volcanoplutonic complex) is estimated to be ~0.001%, and less than 1/10 of these deposits will be uplifted and exposed at shallow enough depths to mine economically (0.0001%).

when the first porphyry copper deposit was opened by Atlas Mining Company in the Cebu (Rovillos et al. 2003). By the late 1960s, the country was already a significant producer of gold and copper which remain as today itstwo most important metallic products. During the 1960s, the Philippines was also a producer of iron although the

This report contains a revised descriptive model of porphyry copper deposits (PCDs), the world's largest source (about 60 percent) and resource (about 65 percent) of …

Porphyry copper deposits commonly contain hundreds of millions of metric tons of ore that averages a fraction of 1 percent copper by weight; although they are low-grade, the …

The Perseverance porphyry copper project is under a Joint Venture and Earn-in Agreement with Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV: BCU) ("Bell Copper"). Cordoba has already earned a 51% interest and has the right to increase its interest to 80% of Perseverance by spending $14.2 million in exploration expenditures before April 24, 2026.

The Kharmagtai gold-copper porphyry district lies approximately 100 km to the north of Oyu Tolgoi, and 100 km to the west of the belt of intrusions investigated in this study (Fig. 1).

A porphyry deposit is a semi-closed system that usually formed at depths of 2–4 km (Sillitoe 2010 ), but the controlling factors are still a topic of contention …

Since eruption is obviously detrimental to the formation of porphyry copper deposits, our results suggest that supergiant porphyry copper deposits can be considered as failed large...

The Globe-Miami mining district in south central Arizona is one of the oldest and most productive districts in the Arizona copper province. The district contains several small to large plutons, the K-Ar isotopic ages of which, with one notable exception, are Precambrian.

Production figures summarized for 45 porphyry copper deposits in the United States by Titley and Beane ( 1 98 1 ) are 1 5.8 billion tons of copper ore production and reserves with a weighted copper grade of 0.68 percent. Fourteen deposits that reported molybde­ num had a weighted grade of 0.0325 percent molybdenum.

Abstract. The understanding of the porphyry copper deposit model and its. relationship with geochemistry has evolv ed significantly for nearly. a century. Conceptual or theoretical advancement has ...

Generation of Postcollisional Porphyry Copper Deposits in Southern Tibet Triggered by Subduction of the Indian Continental Plate Tectonics and Metallogeny of the Tethyan Orogenic Belt. Early to middle Miocene backarc magmas of the Neuquén Basin: Geochemical consequences of slab shallowing and the westward drift of South America ...

What is a Porphyry? Porphyry deposits are very large, polymetallic systems that typically contain copper along with other important metals. Much of today's mineral production depends on …

The origin of the Dexing porphyry Cu deposit is hotly debated. Zircon and apatite are important accessory minerals that record key information of mineralization processes. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb analyses of granodiorite porphyries yield ages of 168.9 ± 1.2 Ma, 168.0 ± 1.0 Ma, and 172.8 ± 1.3 Ma, whereas zircons in the volcanic rocks of the …

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Much of the world's economic copper resources are hosted in porphyry copper deposits (PCDs), shallow level magmatic intrusions associated mostly with thick (> 45 km) magmatic arcs, such as mature island arcs and continental arcs.However, a well-known, but unresolved paradox, is that arc magmas traversing thick crust, particularly in …

In the first area, porphyry copper deposits are most commonly located at the corners, and occasionally along the edges, of strike-slip fault duplexes, and the few polymetallic vein deposits identified are located at interior sites of the duplexes. In the second area, the model accounts for the preferred sites of porphyry copper and polymetallic ...

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction General Characteristics of Porphyry Deposits Regional Geology Geology of the Deposits Discussion Petrogenesis of Porphyry Copper Deposit...

The Quellaveco porphyry Cu–Mo deposit (Fig. 2) is one of the world's largest unexploited copper resources with ore reserves of 1.3 billion tonnes at 0.57% Cu (Anglo American, Annual Report 2019). At least six intrusive porphyry phases have been identified at the deposit which form stock and dyke complexes (Fig. 2 ) emplaced over ~ …