Owl Creek Group, Porphyry copper Prospect

Owl Creek Group

Porphyry copper Group in British Columbia, Canada

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	5039
Tract name	Late Continental Arc (003pCu2005)
Group name	Owl Creek Group
Included sites	Owl Creek A zone and Owl Creek C zone prospects
Site status	Group

Geographic location

Country	Canada
State or province	British Columbia
Geographic location	-122.758071697, 50.380005699 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	-122.758071697, 50.380005699
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age range	Tertiary
Age reference	geologic inference
Minerals	azurite, bornite, chalcopyrite, magnetite, malachite, molybdenite, pyrite
Associated rocks	diorite, quartz diorite, feldspar porphyry, granodiorite
Tectonic setting	continental margin
Stratigraphic age	Tertiary

Commodity and development information

Development status	Prospect
Major commodities	Cu

Reference information

Comments	This group record includes data for the Owl Creek A zone and Owl Creek C zone prospects; the location information is for the Owl Creek A zone prospect.
Study area name	British Columbia and Yukon Territory
References	MINFILE BC (2009); Pilcher and McDougall (1976)
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/.

Pilcher, S.H., and McDougal, J.J., 1976, Characteristics of some Canadian Cordilleran porphyry prospects: in Sutherland Brown, A., ed., Porphyry deposits of the Canadian Cordillera: The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume 15, the Charles S. Ney Volume, p. 7982.