Baguio Gold District

Question 1

The Baguio-Mankayan gold district is not just epithermal alone but is spatially related and comprised with different kinds of deposit. These are?

Answer 1

Porphyry Cu-Au, Au-rich contact metasomatic and replacement deposit

Question 2

The only contact metasomatic (Skarn) type Au mine that was operated in the area.

Answer 2

Thanksgiving Mine

Question 3

The Baguio Gold district is underlain by schistose rock called?

Answer 3

Dalupirip Schist

Question 4

What is the weakly metamorphosed basic igneous equivalent of Dalupirip Schist?

Answer 4

Pugo Metavolcanics

Question 5

Pugo Formation and Dalupirip Schist and sheeted dikes resembling that of an ophiolitic complex appeared as one unit is considered to be of what age?

Answer 5

Creataceous -Paleogene (Balce,1978)

Question 6

Uncomformable to the unit above [⬆️], is the ______ consisting of conglomerates with basaltic clasts, basalatic lava flows, and fine to medium grained red and green volcaniclastic sediments.

Answer 6

Late Eocene Zigzag Fm

Question 7

The Dalupirip Schist (and other rocks) and Zigzag Formation are intruded by the _______ which is a gabbroic to dioritic pluton with an inferred age of ______.

Answer 7

Agno Batholith; Oligocene-Early Miocene

Question 8

a reefal carbonate body fringing the Luzon Central Cordillera that marks the paucity of magmatism

Answer 8

Early-Middle Miocene Kennon Limestone

Question 9

thick polymictic conglomorates unit that serves as an evidence of vigorous uplift of the area during middle Miocene.

Answer 9

Klondyke Formation