Parys Mountain

Overview

Massive, dissemination, stockwork, vein, 0.32 km thickness. Surface gossans. Orebodies named Engine, Chapel, Central, White Rock. Tholeiitic or alkaline/subalkaline, bimodal, continental intra-plate rift basin. Total resources 33.7 million t @ 1.06% Cu, open. Massive ore given at 15 million t @ 1.8% Cu, 3.5% Pb, 6.6% Zn, 130 g/t Ag, 1.0 g/t Au, and mixed massive and disseminated ore 6.5 million t @ 2.3% Cu, 2.7% Pb, 5.3% Zn, 41 g/t Ag, 0.45 g/t Au (Tyler, 2003).

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS