Kam Kotia

Overview

Massive, stringer. Series of en-echelon lenses. Stringer zone as irregular pod-like masses of Cu within a much longer network of quartz-carbonate and pyrite-pyrrhotite stringers (10-25% sulfides). Exposed at surface. Tholeiitic andesite and basalt and high-silica rhyolite. Mature back-arc rift basin associated with mantle plume.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in oceanic arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 0

Production Start: 1941

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS