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 ...

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...

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 …

Large Size, Low Grade – Porphyries typically have 100 million to 5 billion tonnes of ore with a lower grade (0.2% to >1% copper). It is the size of these deposits that allow for bulk mining and economies of scale. Long Mine Life – The size of porphyry systems usually mean that the life of the mine can be multi-decades long.

Porphyry Cu systems host some of the most widely distributed mineralization types at convergent plate boundaries, including porphyry deposits centered on intrusions; skarn, carbonate-replacement, and sedimenthosted Au deposits in increasingly peripheral locations; and superjacent high-and intermediate-sulfidation epithermal deposits.

Volatile saturation influences the physicochemical behavior of magmas and is essential for the sequestration of metals in porphyry copper deposits. Tracking the evolution of volatile components (F, Cl, H 2 O, S) in arc systems is complicated by their mobility and tendency to rapidly re-equilibrate with late-stage melts. We demonstrate that ...

fide deposit, the total amount of copper in even a medium-sized porphyry copper deposit is much greater than in most massive sulfide deposits. This report summarizes current …

Copper processing is a complicated process that begins with mining of the ore (less than 1% copper) and ends with sheets of 99.99% pure copper called cathodes, which will ultimately be made into products for everyday use.The most common types of ore, copper oxide and copper sulfide, undergo two different processes, hydrometallurgy and …

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.

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 ...

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January 1, 2016. Porphyry Cu and porphyry Mo deposits are large to giant deposits ranging up to >20 and 1.6 Gt of ore, respectively, that supply about 60 and 95% of the world's copper and molybdenum, as well as significant amounts of gold and silver. These deposits form from hydrothermal systems that affect 10s to >100 km 3 of the upper crust ...

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

Pebble Copper in Alaska, discovered in 1988, is the largest porphyry copper deposit outside of Chile and is estimated to contain ~7510 Mt of ore at 0.416% copper, 0.024% molybdenum and 0.33 g/t gold (Lang et al., 2007). Finally, Peru, Canada, and the Philippines rank in third, fourth and fifth places, respectively in terms of the total ...

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 ~ …

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 ...

Porphyry Cu deposits in China contain a total resource of ~47 million tonnes (Mt) Cu at average grades ranging mostly from 0.2 to 0.7% Cu (most <0.5% Cu), accounting for 42% of China's Cu ...

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%).

The fourth period was the era of porphyry copper discoveries and systematic, regional geochemical exploration programs from 1956 to 1982, carried out mainly by the United Nations and the Panamanian government, as well as private enterprise. ... There is archaeological evidence for pre-Columbian mining and quarrying …

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 …

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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 ...

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 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.

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 …

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 ...

In-situ hydrothermal experiments using diamond-anvil cell show that sulfate and sulfide are the dominant sulfur species under P-T conditions similar to those of porphyry magmas. No sulfite was identified using in-situ Raman spectrometer. This supports that porphyry copper mineralization is controlled by sulfate reduction, rather …

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.

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 …

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 …