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    Porphyry copper deposits are copper ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers...
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    commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City...
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    near Superior, Arizona, U.S. The project targets a deep-seated porphyry copper deposit located under the now inactive Magma Mine. Rio Tinto has reported...
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  • (phenocryst) sizes Porphyry copper deposit, a primary (low grade) ore deposit of copper, consisting of porphyry rocks Mons Porphyrites, the only porphyry quarry worked...
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    C.H. (1999): Factors controlling copper solubility and chalcopyrite deposition in the Sungun porphyry copper deposit, Iran. Mineralium Deposita 34, 770–783...
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    Ore (redirect from Mineral Deposit)
    stannite and scheelite. These are the leading source of copper ore. Porphyry copper deposits form along convergent boundaries and are thought to originate...
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  • to other large intrusive related copper deposits such as porphyry copper deposits and other porphyry metal deposits primarily by their substantial accumulations...
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    stratiform wall-rock replacement orebodies distal to porphyry copper deposits, or porphyry molybdenum deposits. The term manto is derived from the Spanish word...
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    significant ore deposits. An example of a fault hosting valuable porphyry copper deposits is northern Chile's Domeyko Fault with deposits at Chuquicamata...
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  • ore deposit. Porphyry deposits account for most of the copper and molybdenum world production, 60 and 95 percent of its supply respectively. Porphyry-type...
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    800 m) long, trending east-north-east. The mineralization is a porphyry copper deposit, with the ore body being tabular and 300 metres (980 ft) thick...
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    milling ore. The open-pit mining of porphyry copper deposits was adopted worldwide. In the 1910s and 1920s, copper mills adopted the froth flotation method...
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    The following lists of copper mines in the United States: Leading copper-producing mines in the U.S., 2018–2021, in order of output: The mines on this...
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    production of copper from the porphyry copper deposit located southeast of the city of Arequipa. In addition, the company holds a copper sale agreement...
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    Batu Hijau mine (category Copper mines in Indonesia)
    exploration and construction program based on a 1999 discovery of the porphyry copper deposit. Production began in 2000. The mine utilizes a "truck and shovel"...
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    low-grade copper deposit from a large open pit, the same technique was applied to Arizona's porphyry copper deposits. Arizona's first open pit copper mine...
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    Sierrita mine (category Copper mines in Arizona)
    been in operation since 1959 and is a copper and molybdenum mining complex, operating on a porphyry copper deposit with oxide, secondary sulfide, and primary...
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    Chalcopyrite (redirect from Copper pyrites)
    dioritic intrusives as in the porphyry copper deposits of Broken Hill, the American cordillera and the Andes. The largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite...
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    and Jgheabului Hills) and with sedimentary Cretaceous rocks. The porphyry copper deposit is made up mainly of fine disseminations, nests and veinlets (0...
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    million tons of 0.6 per cent Cu between 1952 and 1978, from a porphyry copper deposit associated with the Middle Jurassic Yerington batholith. The 168-169...
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  • Robinson Mine (category Copper mines in the United States)
    The Robinson Mine is a porphyry copper deposit located at Ruth, White Pine County, Nevada, in the Egan Range, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Ely. The mine comprises...
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    is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0% copper. Sites include Chuquicamata...
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    mined for gold, silver, lead, and most famously for copper, as home of the porphyry copper deposit at Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the world's largest open...
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  • more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah...
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    congeners of the Group 11 element copper are silver and gold, sometimes found together in the same ores (porphyry copper deposit) due to their chemical similarity...
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    geochemical characteristics of ore-bearing granodiorite porphyry in the Duobuza porphyry copper deposit, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society of India...
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    Toquepala mine (category Copper mines in Peru)
    Toquepala mine is a large porphyry copper mine in the Tacna Province, Tacna Department, Peru. The mine is an open-pit mine producing copper, molybdenum, rhenium...
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    Los Pelambres mine (category Copper mines in Chile)
    Los Pelambres copper mi..." BNamericas.com. 20 August 2020. Sillitoe, Richard (1973). "Geology of the Los Pelambres Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chile". Economic...
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    The Skouries mine is a high-grade gold-copper porphyry deposit located in the Chalkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. It is currently under development...
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    undiscovered copper resources worldwide in porphyry and sediment-hosted type deposits, two types which currently provide 80% of mined copper production...
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