Bebekan, Porphyry copper prospect

Bebekan

Porphyry copper prospect in Magadanskaya oblast', Russian Federation

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	8611
Tract name	Pacific Margin (142pCu8514)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Russian Federation
State or province	Magadanskaya oblast'
Geographic location	160.3366667, 64.3366667 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	160.3366667, 64.3366667
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age determination method	Geologic inference
Age range	Early Cretaceous
Age reference	Nokleberg and others (1993)
Minerals	arsenopyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, covellite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite
Associated rocks	porphyritic granodiorite
Tectonic setting	mixed
Stratigraphic age	Early Cretaceous

Commodity and development information

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

Reference information

Comments	Ore body 1.5 km by 0.4-0.5 km; confined to stock of granodiorite, pyritic halo and propylitic alteration extend up to 1 km from pluton (Andrei F. Chitalin, written commun., 2009).
Study area name	Northeast Asia
References	Nokleberg and others (1993); Nokleberg and others (2005); Andrei F. Chitalin (written commun., 2009)
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., Bundtzen, T.K., Eremin, R.A., Ratkin, V.V., Dawson, K.M., Shpikerman, V.I., Goryachev, N.A., Byalobzhesky, S.G., Frolov, Y.F., Khanchuk, A.I., Koch, R.D., Monger, J.W.H., Pozdeev, A.I., Rozenblum, I.S., Rodionov, S.M., Parfenov, L.M., Scotese, C.R., and Sidorov, A.A., 2005, Metallogenesis and tectonics of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1697, 397 p. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1697/.)