JOINT CONVENTION 2003

Indonesian Geologists Association and Indonesian Geophysicists Association

Mulia Hotel, December 15-17, 2003, Jakarta

A LOW-SULFIDATION EPITHERMAL GOLD SYSTEM

AT PETUNGKRIYONO PROSPECT
SOUTH PEKALONGAN, CENTRAL JAVA
Hartono 1) and Sukmandaru Prihatmoko 2) Sari Agustini 3)
1
) PT Aneka Tambang Tbk – Unit Geomin
Jl. Pemuda No.1, Pulogadung, Jakarta 13250, Tel. (62-21) 475-5380; Fax. (62-21) 475-9860. Email
address: hariwidjajanto@antam.com
2
) PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya, Graha Irama, 3rd Floor, Jl. HR Rasuna Said, Kav. 1-2, Jakarta 12950,
Tel. (62-21) 527-2004; Fax (62-21) 527-2005
Email address: sukmandaru@austindo.co.id

Abstract

Petungkriyono gold prospect is hosted by andesitic volcanics (lavas and breccias) with some dikes of andesitic
to dioritic composition, which is exposed in a rugged-mountaineous terrain near the famous Dieng’s geothermal
complex. The prospect area is surrounded by Quaternary volcanics probably originated from the Dieng’s
volcanic complex. It is mostlikely that the mineralised host rocks are of older volcanic windows, comparable to
rocks of the Mio-Pliocene magmatic arc that extend east-west in the middle of western Java.

Gold mineralization occurs in quartz veins and veinlets in several zones trending WNW - ESE, enveloped by
smectite-illite-kaolinite alteration with disseminated pyrite. There are four clay-silica-qurtz-pyrite zone on 4.3 –
6 m wide and 375 – 700 m long, characterized by fine- to medium-grained quartz with crustiform-colloform
banding textures. The quartz veins contain gold ranging from 0.02 ppm to maximum 2.78 ppm, associated with
high arsenic, but low in base metals. Away from the vein zones, silica sinters were observed in several places.
They are chalcedony breccia with traceable pyrite to porous-spongy silica with no gold contents.

Diatreme breccias were exposed in separate places. The breccias are polymictic containing unaltered to altered
andesitic clasts, set in rock-flour matrix. Pyrite is quite common in the breccia matrix.

The quartz veins with crustiform-colloform banded textures, containing high arsenic but low in base metals,
which are exposed in the vicinity of silica sinters suggest that they are of low-sulfidation epithermal gold
system. This prospect becomes unique as it probably the first low-sulfidation epithermal system discovered in
the Mio-Pliocene magmatic arc in Central Java, and it has proved that this magmatic arc is not barren