CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
225 China (Yunnan) 26.16 N -- 104.01 E Tianzhong Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Tianzhong
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Nearest community: Hsuan-Wei
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in mottled frm between coal and saline formations
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:mudstone
siltstone
sandstone
pea gravel rock
Host rock stratigraphy:Yunlongzhen and Matou-Jiangdi Shan Fhe Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in mottled fm between coal & saline formations; near mining centre of Hsuna-wei (also spelled Xuanwei)
References:
Chen, W., 1977
The Geological Characteristics Minerogenetic Effects and Ore-Finding Indices of the Terrestrial Sandstone Copper Ore of the Mesozoic Era in Southern Regions of China
Acta Geologica Sinica, Volume 3

Chen, W., 1988
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sandstone-Hosted Copper Deposits in South China
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 23, p. 262 - 267

Chu, H. J., 1935
The Copper Deposits of China
in Copper Resources of the World, Edited by Anonymous, 16th International Geological Congress, Washington D C, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 855 p, p. 663 - 680

Li, H.; P'an, K.; Yang, C.; Ts'ai, C., 1968
Copper-Bearing Sandstone (Shale) Deposits of Yunnan
International Geology Review, Volume 10, p. 870 - 882


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