Yaguzak, Porphyry copper prospect

Yaguzak

Porphyry copper prospect in Chelyabinskaya oblast, Russian Federation

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	7208
Tract name	East Uralian Zone (142pCu8203)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Russian Federation
State or province	Chelyabinskaya oblast
Geographic location	61.003, 54.994 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	61.003, 54.994
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age (Ma)	347Ma
Age determination method	Geologic inference
Age range	Late Devonian-Carboniferous?
Minerals	chalcopyrite, chlorite, epidote, magnetite, marcasite, molybdenite, paragonite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, sericite
Associated rocks	quartz diorite porphyry, dacite, granite, granodiorite, rhyodacite, schist, andesite porphyry, basalt porphyry, plagiogranite, quartz diorite, tuff, tuffite
Tectonic setting	island arc
Stratigraphic age	Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous

Commodity and development information

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

Reference information

Comments	Target outline.
Study area name	Urals
References	Grabezhev and Borovikov (1993), Grabezhev and others (1995)
Site reference	Hammarstrom, written commun (2015)

Grabezhev, A., and Borovikov, Y., 1993, Porphyry-copper deposits of the Urals: Proceedings of the 29th International Geological Congress, 1992, Mineral Resources Symposia, Volume A: Resource Geology Special Issue, no. 15, Tokyo, p. 275284.

Grabezhev, A., Rusinova, O.V., Zhukhlistov, A.P., and Murzin, V.V., 1995, Vertical metasomatic zoning in the Tominsk porphyry copper ore district South Urals, Russia): Geology of Ore Deposits, v. 37, no. 6, p. 500510. [in Russian]