Boshchekul

KazakhstanUnknown
Contained Copper
6.7 Mt
Average Grade
0.67%
Deposit Type
Porphyry Cu-Mo
Discovery Year
1930

Overview

Resource above by Mutschler and others (2000); reserve 176.2 mt at 0.72% Cu, 0.014% Mo, 0.28 g/t Au, 9.06 g/t Ag by Kudryavtsev (1996). 0.59?1.04 g/t Pt, 0.28?0.37 g/t Pd in concentrate; 230 to 1,500 ppm (average 882 ppm) Re in molybdenite. Exposed.

Geological Context

Host Rock: breccia, diorite porphyry, granodiorite porphyry, syenite porphyry, tonalite porphyry (481?477)

Resources & Operations

Operator: 20

Production Start: 1970

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS