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Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery

Frontiers in copper exploration are few and far between. One of the last - in South America’s Andes mountains at least - is in Choco, Colombia, an area with a large gap in the chain of porphyry deposits that transect the hemisphere.

Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery Cobrasco: a transformative copper frontier Discovery

Cobrasco project manager Francisco Montes examines core

The tectonic forces which created copper hot spots in northern Chile and southern Peru were also highly active in this region of Colombia, where several plates collide and interact.

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