Porphyry copper mineralization in Molong high: The geochemistry of the Copper Hill deposit

Abstract

The Copper Hill Igneous Complex (near Molong) has three major phases ? a quartz diorite and two dacites with the first of these dacites (Dacite 1 ) bearing pyrite-chalcopyrite disseminated mineralization of the "porphyry copper type" (Fig. 1 ).