Viking, Porphyry copper prospect

Viking

Porphyry copper prospect in Magadanskaya oblast', Russian Federation

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	446
Tract name	Pacific Margin (142pCu8514)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Russian Federation
State or province	Magadanskaya oblast'
Geographic location	152.317851, 59.060715 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	152.317851, 59.060715
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age (Ma)	94Ma
Age determination method	unknown isotopic
Age range	97–92 Ma (Inferred from age of diorite and formation of eruptive breccia.)
Age reference	Volkov, Savva and others (2006, p. 462)
Minerals	azurite/malachite, biotite, bornite, chalcocite/digenite, chalcopyrite, chlorite, chrysocolla, cobaltite, copper, cubanite, cuprite/tenorite, epidote, goethite, gold, hematite, ilmenite, magnetite, marcasite, molybdenite, powellite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, sericite, sphalerite
Associated rocks	plagiogranite porphyry, quartz monzonite porphyry
Tectonic setting	mixed
Stratigraphic age	Late Cretaceous

Commodity and development information

Development status	Unknown
Major commodities	Cu
Minor commodities	Mo
Gold-Moly ratio	-9999

Reference information

Study area name	Northeast Asia
References	Nokleberg and others (1993); Nokleberg and others (1998); Skibin (1982); Singer and others (2008); Volkov, Savva and others (2006)
Site reference	Mihalasky, Ludington, Alexeiev, and others (2015)

Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Grybeck, Donald, Koch, R.D., Eremin, R.A., Rozenblum, I.S., Sidorov, A.A., Byalobzhesky, S.G., Sosunov, G.M., Shpikerman, V.I., and Gorodinsky, M.E, 1993, Metallogenesis of mainland Alaska and the Russian northeast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93339, 230 p. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1993/0339/ and at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1993/0339/report.pdf.)Nokleberg, W.J., West, T.D., Dawson, K.M., Shpikerman, V.I., Bundtzen, T.K., Parfenov, L.M., Monger, J.W.H., Ratkin, V.V., Baranov, B.V., Byalobzhesky, S.G., Diggles, M.F., Eremin, R.A., Fujita, Kazuya, Gordey, S.P., Gorodinskiy, M.E., Goryachev, N.A., Feeney, T.D., Frolov, Y.F., Grantz, Arthur, Khanchuk, A.I., Koch, R.D., Natalin, B.A., Natapov, L.M., Norton, I.O., Patton, W.W. Jr., Plafker, George, Pozdeev, A.I., Rozenblum, I.S., Scholl, D.W., Sokolov, S.D., Sosunov, G.M., Stone, D.V., Tabor, R.W., Tsukanov, N.V., and Vallier, T.L., 1998, Summary terrane, mineral deposit, and metallogenic belt maps of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-136, CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-136.)Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2008, Porphyry copper deposits of the worldDatabase and grade and tonnage models, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155, [45] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1155/.

Skibin, Y.P., 1982, Copper-molybdenum mineralization of the northern coast of Ochotsk sea: Soviet Geology, no. 1, p. 7885. [In Russian.]

Volkov, A.V., Savva, N.E., Sidorov, A.A., Egorov, V.N., Shapovalov, V.S., Prokofev, V.Yu., and Kolova, E.E., 2006, Spatial distribution and formation conditions of Au-bearing porphyry Cu-Mo deposits in the northeast of Russia: Geology of Ore Deposits, v. 48, p. 448472. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S107570150606002X.)