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Khoo Ulaan Uul

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Porphyry copper prospect in Bulgan, Mongolia

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 8174
Alternate names Gua (Khoo) ulaan uul, Khoo Ulaan
Tract name Erdenet (142pCu8508a)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Mongolia
State or province Bulgan
Geographic location 101.9215, 48.9042
Geologic map unit 101.9215, 48.9042
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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
Major commodities Cu
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Two rock chip samples contain 0.1 g/t Au and 2.3–6.6 g/t Ag. Soil sampling reveals anomaly aureoles of Ba (0.03-0.09%), Cu (0.005–0.009%) and Mo (0.004–0.008%). Grade of 0.12–0.25% Cu, rare 0.005–0.2% WO3, 0.005–0.05% Mo, and up to 0.01% Sn. Consists of disseminated Cu minerals in intensively altered subvolcanic syenite porphyry intruding Permian siliceous volcanic rock. Silicifica and argillite alteration occur along a NW-trending fault zone.
Study area name Central Asian Orogenic Belt
References B. Gurlkhaajav and others (written commun., 1974); H. Gonchigjav and others (written commun., 1984); Nokleberg and others (1999); Nokleberg and others (2003); Nokleberg and others (2006); Dejidmaa and others (2002)
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.
Nokleberg, W.J., Naumova, V.V., Kuzmin, M.I., and Bounaeva, T.V., eds., 1999, Preliminary publications book 1 from project on mineral resources, metallogenesis, and tectonics of northeast Asia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-165, 6 p. and digital data, CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/of99-165/.)Nokleberg, W.J., Bounaeva, T.M., Miller, R.J., Seminskiy, Z.V., and Diggles, M.F. eds., 2003, Significant metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous lode deposits, and selected placer districts of northeast Asia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-220, 422 p., CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-220/.)Nokleberg, W.J., Miller, R.J., and Diggles, M.F., eds., 2006, Geographic information systems (GIS) spatial data compilation of geodynamic, tectonic, metallogenic, mineral deposit, and geophysical maps and associated descriptive data for northeast Asia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1150, 11 p. and digital data, CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1150/.)