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Oreo claims

Property Details


Interpreted mineral system (using mineral system classification of Hofstra and Kreiner, 2020*)

Activity by Year


Year Activity Status Operator Project Name Description
2018 Exploration Exploration Project Kennecott; Rio Tinto Tubutulik Mining Company LLC leased the Oreo property to Kennecott/Rio Tinto, which conducted grassroots exploration over the potential porphyry copper?gold target.
2019 Exploration Exploration Project Tubutulik Mining Co. Kennecott Exploration explored the Oreo Mountain copper-molybdenum porphyry prospect under option from Tubutulik Mining Company LLC. The prospect lies 37 miles east of Tok and was known principally as a copper-molybdenum soil anomaly until drill testing in 2019. Kennecott tested three main target areas with a total of six relatively shallow holes, the deepest being 613 ft. Copper ± molybdenum mineralization was intercepted in all six holes, with broad intercepts of low-grade copper mineralization in most holes. Several holes intercepted locally strong molybdenum mineralization associated with potassium-felspar alteration.

Production Stats


Year Total Rock Mined (short tons) Waste Rock (short tons) Ore Mined (short tons) Ore Milled (short tons) Heap Leach Ore (short tons) Total Concentrate Produced (short tons) Pb Ore Grade % Pb Recovered (short tons) Zn Ore Grade % Zn Recovered (short tons) Au Head/Ore Grade (OPT) Au Recovered (troy ounces) Au Recovery % Ag Ore Grade (OPT) Ag Recovered (million troy ounces) Coal (short tons) Other Other Amount Other Units

Resources


Source Year Description Property Phase Category Resource (short tons) Cu % Cu (thousand pounds) Pb % Pb (thousand pounds) Zn % Zn (thousand pounds) Au (OPT) Au (thousand oz) Ag (OPT) Ag (thousand oz) Mo % Mo (thousand pounds) Co % Co (thousand pounds) Barite % Barite (thousand pounds) TREO % TREO (thousand pounds) Graphite % Graphite (thousand pounds)

* Hofstra, A.H., and Kreiner, D.C., 2020, Systems-Deposits-Commodities-Critical Minerals Table for the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020-1042, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201042