青藏高原铜矿开发和利用历史悠久。得益于复杂的地质结构及地质演化过程,青藏高原具备得天独厚的铜矿成矿地质条件,铜矿因此成为高原地区最重要的优势矿种之一,探明铜资源量位列全国之首,是中国最重要的铜矿产地和后备铜资源基地。青藏高原地区铜矿床主要分布在玉龙铜矿成矿带、冈底斯铜矿成矿带及班公湖-怒江铜矿成矿带等3条铜矿带内,形成时代集中于喜马拉雅期和燕山期,暗示其形成和演化与高原构造-岩浆事件密切相关,是响应重大地质事件的产物。矿床具有成因复杂、综合利用价值大的特点。本文以铁格隆南铜(金)矿床、雄村铜金矿床、甲玛铜多金属矿床和驱龙铜钼矿床为例,介绍了青藏高原地区几种主要的铜矿床成因类型。巨大的铜矿资源潜力将改变中国铜矿资源分布格局,但在资源开发的同时,需要注意资源与环境的协同发展。
The development and the utilization of copper deposits in the Tibetan Plateau have a long history. The Tibetan Plateau is under a unique metallogenic geologic condition of copper deposits due to its complex geological structure and the geological evolution process, and the copper deposits become one of the most important types of mineral deposits in the Tibetan Plateau. The proven resource of copper in the Tibetan Plateau ranks the first in China, and the Tibetan Plateau becomes the most important producer of copper and the bake-up base of the copper resource. The copper deposits in the Tibetan Plateau are mainly distributed in the Yulong copper metallogenic belt, the Gangdise copper metallogenic belt and the Bangong Co-Nujiang copper metallogenie belt, and are mainly formed in the Himalayan and Yanshanian period, which suggests that their formation and evolution are closely related to the plateau teetonic-magmatic events, and to the major geological events of the Tibetan Plateau. These deposits involve complex causes of deposit formation and have a very high comprehensive utilization value. In this paper, the genetic types of the main types of copper deposits in the Tibetan Plateau are introduced, taking the Tiegelongnan copper(gold) deposit, the Xiongeun copper-gold deposit, the Jiama eopper-polymetallic deposit and the Qulong copper-molybdenum deposit as examples. The huge potential of copper resources of the Tibetan Plateau will change the pattern of the copper resources in China, but while we develop copper resources, at the same time, we should pay attention to the coordinated development of resource development and environmental protection.