Mons Cupri

Australia· Western AustraliaUnknown
Contained Copper
—
Average Grade
0.80%
Deposit Type
VMS — Bimodal-Mafic
Discovery Year
1897

Overview

Several lenses with some banding, massive, 0.02 km thickness; dissemination and patchy mineralization in footwall, chalcedonic veinlets in chlorite zone, chalcopyrite-quartz stockwork veins. Chlorite pipe is 250 m wide at top, narrows to 25 m at bottom, 1100 m long.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in oceanic arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 1870

Production Start: 1899

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS

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