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Climate signal in the global distribution of copper deposits

2015-05-11 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Climate helps drive the erosion process that exposes economically valuable copper deposits and shapes the pattern of their global distribution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Idaho and the University of Michigan. Nearly three-quarters of the world's copper production comes from large deposits that form about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath Earth's surface, known as porphyry copper deposits. Over the course of millions to tens of millions of years, they are exposed...

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