The Pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit in Alaska is one of the world's largest Cu-Au mineral resources. Late Cretaceous magmatic evolution in the Pebble district culminated with the intrusion of the Kaskanak Batholith and associated porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization. The Kaskanak Batholith is a multiphase granodiorite intrusion with an estimated footprint of...
The central Bond Creek area is on the north slope of the Wrangell Mountains approximately 15 miles east of Nabesna, Alaska. The entire area is underlain by plutonic rocks of the Monte Cristo batholith of probable Jurassic age. Early members of this complex are hornblende diorite, quartz diorite, and granodiorite...