The theme was the recent significant new discoveries of porphyry coppergold and hydrothermal gold and the deposits regions for which previously restricted information was recently released particularly the Former Soviet Union
Seedorff and others 2005 noted that porphyry copper deposits can be associated with highsulfidation epithermal depos its copper gold silver late andor distal intermediatesulfidation polymetallic base metal and precious element veins lead manganese zinc silver and distal disseminated gold deposits
deposit has been described in most textbooks on ore geology The large volume of porphyry copper deposits in Monywa are amenable to bulkmining and a definitive feasibility study has been completed A jointventure has been conducted to produce cathode copper using the modern technology of solvent extraction and electrowinning
Since then approximately 1bn has been committed to expanding the site with an annual production target of 139000 tonnes of copper Despite the potential ongoing land disputes continue to delay the project Nickel In terms of total invested foreign capital nickel is the thirdlargest recipient
3 Myanmar has potential copper deposits including high sulphidation Cu eg Monywa Cu – Au – Mo porphyry eg Shangalon polymetallic VHMS eg Bawdwin
Jan 01 2020 · Porphyry copper deposits PCDs represent shallow level intrusions 2–5 km in the crust Mineralization of Cu ores tend to occur at the tops of porphyry systems in cupolas Possible regimes where Cu may be mobilized include hydrothermal circulation at midocean ridge centers dehydration or melting of the subducting slab and late stage scavenging by magmatic fluids green arrows
Together these deposits comprise the northernmost major copper resource in the 7000 km long Banda‐Sunda‐Myanmar arc with pre‐mining combined resources totaling 2 billion tonnes ore with over 7 million tonnes contained copper they constitute a giant deposit
On the basis of all these three ore forming prospective areas and ten metallogenic prognosis areas have been determined and prospecting potential of copper leadzinc and silver deposits have
Goossens PJ 1978a Comments on the publication by S Jankovic The copper deposits and geotectonic setting of the Tethyan Eurasian metallogenic belt and additional information on Monywa copper deposit Burma Mineralium Deposita v 13 p 275 277
acteristics of Meyon gold deposit Mon State Southern Myanmar Proceedings of 11th Regional Congress on Geology Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia GEOSEA 8 – 10 June
The region hosts worldclass porphyry copper deposits and underexplored areas that are likely to contain undiscovered deposits Examples of known porphyry copper deposits include Batu Hijau and Grasberg in Indonesia Panguna Frieda River and Ok Tedi in Papua New Guinea and Namosi in Fiji
Marcopper porphyry copper deposit is located in the Philippines near the center of the island of Marinduque 180 km south of Manila The islands tectonic history is dominated by northwesterly trending elements of the Philippine mobile belt
Myanmar has the potential for discovery of Cyprustype copper ± gold deposits eg Leymyetna and porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposits such as Shangalon in the Kawlin–Wutho area in
Porphyry copper deposit large body of rock typically a porphyry of granitic to dioritic composition that has been fractured on a fine scale and through which chalcopyrite and other copper minerals are disseminated Porphyry copper deposits commonly contain hundreds of millions of metric tons
The characteristic lithocap developed over many porphyry copper deposits of the larger deposits eg Lepanto in the Philippines and Monywa in Myanmar More details » Get Price Mineral Deposits of SE Asia Lessons for Myanmar
Comments from field investigations of City of Gold by Dr Murray Hitzman "Appears to encompass the high level of a large porphyry related system" "Potential to contain a large bulk tonnage goldcopper deposit at depth clearly has the potential for significant
with Ivanhoe Capital Canada to upgrade the Monywa Mine and to develop a new porphyry copper deposit at Letpadaung about 1 1 km from the Monywa Mine Ivanhoe Capital planned to conduct further exploration to ascertain ore reserves of the deposit Ivanhoe Capital reportedly proposed to the Burmese Government to use solvent extraction and
Geology and exploration of porphyry copper deposits in North Sulawesi Indonesia Economic Geology Geologic history hypogene features and processes of secondary sulfide enrichment at the Plesyumi copper prospect New Britain Papua New Guinea
Mar 14 2013 · This assessment estimated a mean of 89 undiscovered porphyry copper deposits for the assessed permissive tracts in Southeast Asia and Melanesia About 288 million metric tons Mt of copper and 18000 metric tons t of gold as well as byproduct molybdenum and silver could be associated with undiscovered deposits
Examples of porphyry copper deposits include Codelco''s El Salvador mine in Chile the Bingham mine in Ut operated by Rio Tinto''s NYSERIO ASXRIO LSERIO subsidiary Kennecott and the giant Chuquicamata deposit in Chile also operated by Codelco which originally comprised over
May 28 2014 · Porphyry Copper deposits play an important role in the global economy These deposits provide over 60 of the world''s copper and include other
Porphyry deposits and IOCG''s are the world''s primary source of copper and they account for more than 60 of the copper production globally but in addition to copper they also supply 100 of the world''s molybdenum production 10 to 15 of global uranium production and a significant proportion of the world''s gold production in short they make up a critical group of deposits
Shangalon Cu deposit Kawlin Township Katha District Sagaing Region Myanmar Porphyry copper deposit
More than 100 occurrences copper mineralization are recorded in Myanmar but most of them are of minor importantThe copper mineralization within the central volcanic arc started from Mt Popa and passes through lower Chindwin area where the volcanics are