Galore Creek Group, Porphyry copper Prospect

Galore Creek Group

Porphyry copper (Cu-Au) Group in British Columbia, Canada

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	5011
Tract name	Intermontane Island-Arc Cu-Au (003pCu2002x)
Group name	Galore Creek Group
Included sites	Galore, Galore Central, Galore Copper Canton, Galore Junction, Galore North Junction, Galore Southwest, and Galore West Fork Glacier deposits and Galore North Rim and Galore Saddle prospects
Site status	Group

Geographic location

Country	Canada
State or province	British Columbia
Geographic location	-131.453, 57.13 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	-131.453, 57.13
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Deposit subtype	Cu-Au
Age (Ma)	212
Age determination method	Inferred from Ar-Ar age for Galore Copper Canyon
Age range	212 Ma
Age reference	unknown
Minerals	bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, galena, magnetite, molybdenite, native gold, native silver, pyrite, scheelite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite-tennantite
Associated rocks	trachyte, phonolite, syenite
Tectonic setting	island arc
Stratigraphic age	Late Triassic

Commodity and development information

Development status	Prospect
Major commodities	Cu, Au, Ag
Minor commodities	Fe
Tonnage (Mt)	2,122Mt
Cu grade (%)	0.44%
Au grade (g/t)	0.3g/t
Ag grade (g/t)	4.46g/t
Contained copper	9,300,000t
Gold-Moly ratio	-9999

Reference information

Comments	This group record includes data for the Galore, Galore Central, Galore Copper Canton, Galore Junction, Galore North Junction, Galore Southwest, and Galore West Fork Glacier deposits and Galore North Rim and Galore Saddle prospects; as such, the location information has been generalized, and the total weighted average resource data represent the seven deposits in the group.
Study area name	British Columbia and Yukon Territory
References	MINFILE BC (2009); Sutherland Brown (1976); Schroeter (1995); Schroeter and others (2006); Schroeter and others (2007); Singer and others (2008); NovaGold Resources Inc. (2008)
Site reference	Mihalasky and others (2011, revised 2013)

MINFILE BC, 2009, MINFILE Mineral inventory: British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, MINFILE database, total records 12,523, accessed December 2009, at http://minfile.gov.bc.ca/.

Sutherland Brown, A., 1976, ed., Porphyry deposits of the Canadian Cordillera: The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume 15, the Charles S. Ney Volume, 510 p., 2 pl., scale 1:250,000,000.

Schroeter, T.G., ed., 1995, Porphyry deposits of the northwestern Cordillera of North America: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 46, 888 p.

Schroeter, Tom; Cathro, Michael; Grieve, David; Lane, Robert; Pardy, Jamie; and Wojdak, Paul, 2006, British Columbia mining and mineral exploration overview 2005: British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Information Circular 2006-1, 20 p.

Schroeter, Tom; Grieve, David; Lane, Robert; Madu, Bruce; Northcote, Bruce; and Wojdak, Paul, 2007, British Columbia mining and mineral exploration overview 2006: British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Information Circular 2007-1, 28 p.

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/.NovaGold Resources Inc., 2008: NovaGold Resources Inc. Web page accessed 2008, at http://www.novagold.com.