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Porphyry copper prospect in Bulgan, Mongolia

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 8165
Tract name Erdenet (142pCu8508a)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Mongolia
State or province Bulgan
Geographic location 103.3159, 48.7014
Geologic map unit 103.3159, 48.7014
Nearby data

Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age determination method Geologic inference
Age range ~290 Ma (Variscan orogeny)
Age reference geologic inference
Tectonic setting continental margin
Stratigraphic age Early Permian

Commodity and development information

Development status Occurrence
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Porphyry Cu-Mo (Ag, Re). Deposit related to calc-alkaline and alkaline granitic intrusions. Porphyry and granitic pluton-hosted deposit.
Study area name Central Asian Orogenic Belt
References Dejidmaa and others (2002); Warren J. Nokleberg (written commun., 2006)
Site reference Mihalasky, Ludington, Hammarstrom, and others (2015)
Dejidmaa, G., Bujinlkham, B., Ganbaatar, T., Oyuntuya, N., Enkhtuya, B., Eviihuu, A., and Monkh-Erdene, N., 2002, Distribution map of mineral deposits and occurrences in Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Mineral Resources Authority, Geologic Information Center, 540 p., 12 sheets, scale 1:1,000,000.