Bozymchak, Porphyry copper prospect

Bozymchak

Porphyry copper prospect in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	3804
Tract name	Chatkal and Kurama Ranges (142pCu8001)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Kyrgyzstan
State or province	Jalal-Abad
Geographic location	71.054195, 41.261674 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	71.054195, 41.261674
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Minerals	bornite, chalcopyrite, covellite, galena, gold, malachite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite
Tectonic setting	postconvergence

Commodity and development information

Development status	Occurrence
Major commodities	Cu, Au, Ag
Minor commodities	Mo
Gold-Moly ratio	-9999

Reference information

Comments	Contact of Middle Carboniferous granodiorites and diorites with limestones. The ore body is a skarn (garnet-wollastonite-pyroxene). The length of the deposit is 2,000 m with average thickness of 27 m; ore extends to a depth of at least 500 m. Grade: 1.14% Cu, 1.96 g/t Au, 13.2 g/t Ag. Tonnage: 203,000 t Cu.
Study area name	West Central Asia
References	United Nations (1998); Seltmann and others (2009)
Site reference	Berger and others (2014)

Seltmann, R., Shatov, V., and Yakubchuk, A., 2009, Mineral deposits database and thematic maps of Central Asia: London, Natural History Museum, Centre for Russian and Central Eurasian Mineral Studies (CERCAMS), 143 p. and ArcGIS 9.2, ArcView 3.2 and MapInfo 6.0 (7.0) GIS packages, scale 1:1,500,000, CD-ROM.

United Nations, 1998, Geology and mineral resources of Kyrgyzstan: New York, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Atlas of mineral resources of the ESCAP region, v. 13, 153 p.