Copper belongs to those metals whose concentrations in nature arise from a broad diversity of endogeneous and exogeneous pro- cesses, which applies to essentially all genetic classes of ore deposits. This is the first proceedings volume on copper metallogeny to cover the worldwide distribution of the four main groups of cop- per deposits, including in Part I: copper-nickel deposits with cobalt and platinum group elements; Part II: copper-molybde- num-gold deposits with silver, zinc, and lead; Part III/IV: copper- zinc-lead deposits (with silver etc.). On the occasion of the 27th International...