Porphyry copper deposits are copper ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers...

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...

(phenocryst) sizes Porphyry copper deposit, a primary (low grade) ore deposit of copper, consisting of porphyry rocks Mons Porphyrites, the only porphyry quarry worked...

stannite and scheelite. These are the leading source of copper ore. Porphyry copper deposits form along convergent boundaries and are thought to originate...

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...

significant ore deposits. An example of a fault hosting valuable porphyry copper deposits is northern Chile's Domeyko Fault with deposits at Chuquicamata...

to other large intrusive related copper deposits such as porphyry copper deposits and other porphyry metal deposits primarily by their substantial accumulations...

C.H. (1999): Factors controlling copper solubility and chalcopyrite deposition in the Sungun porphyry copper deposit, Iran. Mineralium Deposita 34, 770–783...

ore deposit. Porphyry deposits account for most of the copper and molybdenum world production, 60 and 95 percent of its supply respectively. Porphyry-type...

stratiform wall-rock replacement orebodies distal to porphyry copper deposits, or porphyry molybdenum deposits. The term manto is derived from the Spanish word...