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Geology, Alteration and Mineralization of Saindak Porphyry Copper Gold Deposit, Chagai Hills Pakistan
Author(s) -
JIAN Runtang,
XU Deru,
LING He,
WANG Yanmei,
YU Bing,
CHAI Wang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/1755-6724.12374_20
Subject(s) - prospecting , china , chai , mineralization (soil science) , chinese academy of sciences , nonferrous metal , geology , geochemistry , mining engineering , archaeology , geography , metallurgy , materials science , soil science , soil water , philosophy , theology
The Saindak Cu-Au mine is one of the largest porphyry deposits in Pakistan, It is located in W Asia metallogenetic zone of Tethys metallogenetic domain, belonging to Chagai—Raskoh Fe, Cu, Au metallogenetic zone, which is one of 5 main metallogenetic zones of Pakistan. The known regional ore deposit is generally distributed concentratively along a certain structure position in group, in zone, forming the important Cu, Fe multimetallic metallogenesis concentration area. In this metallogenetic zone, the known main ore deposits are Saindak porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Chilgaz and Dasht-ekain Pb, Zn, etc, multimetallic deposit. Among them, the porphyry Cu-Au deposit is the most potential ore deposit. The total researves in Saindak have been estimated at 237,024 tons of Cu, average grade 0.40%, 9777 kilogram of Au, average grade 2.1g/t.