Commodities
PrimaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model172: Carbonate-hosted Au-Ag
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlOrebodies Localized By Steeply Dipping East-Trending Faults; Gold Is Disseminated Into Wallrocks
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Realgar, Sphalerite, Stibnite
GangueAnkerite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockShale,Sandstone,Arkose,Limestone · Xinyuan Formation
StructureGentle To Locally Moderately Tight Folds, Sometimes With High-Angle Faults, Trend Generally East-West, East-West Trending Anticline With Subsidiary Anticlines, Synclines, And East-West Trending Faults Subparallel To Trend Of Fold Axes
Tectonic settingNear Buried Southwestern Margin Of Precambrian Yangtze Craton
AlterationIntense Silicification, Minerals Predominantly Hydrothermal Illite And Kaolinite
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10084944
MRDS IDW700366
RegionAS
Data scoreC
Coordinates24.93254, 105.64965
References
CUNNINGHAM, C. G., ASHLEY, R. P., CHOU, I-M., HUANG, Z., WAN, C., AND LI, W., 1988, THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SEDIMENTARY-ROCK HOSTED DISSEMINATED GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 88-220, 15 P