Calc-Alkaline Porphyry

 

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Andesite phyllite

grey to green; foliated; pervasive chlorite; vein of epidote - albite(?) - chalcocite - chalcopyrite; minor bornite?
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Andesite phyllite

grey to green; foliated; pervasive chlorite; vein of epidote - albite(?) - chalcocite - chalcopyrite; minor bornite?
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Quartz porphyry dacite(?)

5% quartz phenos; indistinct feldspar phenos suggested; pervasive epidote alteration

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Chalcopyrite vein

massive chalcopyrite; minor bornite; drusy, pink K-feldspar and quartz are part of the vein; Kspar borders cpy with drusy quartz at vein centre

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Highland Valley Cu

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Altered diorite

50% plagioclase; 50% indeterminate mafics altered to chlorite and lesser epidote; epidote-calcite-albite(?) veins

 

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Sphalerite-galena vein

varies from medium to fine grained; >50% sphalerite; galena, pyrite and quartz also present; one sample contains crustiform (symmetrically banded) rhodochrosite and barite in the centre of the sphalerite vein
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Conglomerate

immature; rounded to very angular clasts

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Breccia vein

wallrock fragments of bleached, sericitic volcanic rock; cemented by coarse sphalerite, pyrite and quartz

Phyllic Alteration

Qtz-Ser-Py

Propylitic Alteration

Chl-Ep-Carb-Adul-Ab

Unaltered porphyry

Babine porphyry

Potassic Alteration

Qtz-KFs-Bi

Distal 

Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag

Low Pyrite Shell 

2% Pyrite

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