Tsagaan Chulut, Porphyry copper prospect

Tsagaan Chulut

Porphyry copper prospect in Bulgan, Mongolia

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	8224
Alternate names	Chuluut, Tsagaanchuluut
Tract name	Erdenet (142pCu8508a)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Mongolia
State or province	Bulgan
Geographic location	103.8978, 49.0817 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	103.8978, 49.0817
Nearby data	List Map

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	Mentioned in JICA-JOGMEC (2004), and the point was moved about 13 km NW of the MRAM point.
Study area name	Central Asian Orogenic Belt
References	Nokleberg and others (1999); Dejidmaa and others (2002); Warren J. Nokleberg (written commun., 2006); JICA-JOGMEC (2004)
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.

JICA-JOGMEC, 2004, Report on the mineral exploration in the western Erdenet area, Mongolia consolidated report: Tokyo, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JICA-JOGMEC), 162 p., 2 plates.

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/.)