Summary

Mine Type	Open Pit
Status	Active
Commodities	Copper Molybdenum Silver Gold
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start	...
Mine Life	...
Snapshot	The Julong project (including the Julong Copper Mine and the Zhibula Copper Mine) has a world-class, large-scale, and low-grade porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit. The Phase I project of the Julong Copper Mine has been put into operation. It is planned to implement the construction of Phase 2 and Phase 3 in stages. The phase 2 upgrade and expansion project of Julong Copper has been approved by relevant authorities. Construction will start in 2024 and is expected to finish by the end of 2025. If the phase 3 project is approved by the relevant government authorities, the Julong Copper Mine can potentially achieve an annual ore mining and processing volume of approximately 200 million tonnes, making it the largest standalone copper mine in the world in terms of mining and processing scale.

Deposit type

• Porphyry
• Skarn

Summary:

The projects are situated in the northern mountain foot of western Guokalariju, eastern lower mountain of the Gangdise Mountains. It is precipitous. The southern part is high while the northern part is low with a strong cutting and glacier landform. The highest altitude is 5,566m. The elevation of the base level of erosion near the mining area is approximately 3,900m. The vegetation at the gullies and two sides is mainly high-mountain meadow. There is basically no tree and the vegetation is simple.

The Qulong porphyry-type copper and molybdenum deposit is located at the Gandise metallogenic belt of the Tethys-Himalayan metallogenic province, one of the main porphyry-type copper mine metallogenic provinces in the world. The existing Qulong Copper and Polymetallic Mine and the Rongmucuola Copper and Polymetallic Mine in the deposit are a complete porphyry-type copper deposit with a burial depth of 3 to 96m, which is generally a concealed to semi-concealed deposit. The deposit is east-west oriented with length of 2.27km, width of 1.50km from north to south in an oval shape. The ore is mainly structured by veinlet-disseminated orebody.

Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

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Processing

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Commodity Production

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Operational metrics

Metrics	2022
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