CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
585 China (Yunnan) 24.38 N -- 102.00 E Yimen District Cu; Co; Ag
 
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): Yimen District
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Nearest community: Yimen
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomite near breccia with purple hmtt matrix
Geologic province: Kangdian Geoaxis
Commodities: Cu; Co; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:slate
mudstone (phyllite)
sandstone
quartzite
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Kunyang Group, Yinmin Purple Beds, Laoxue Dolomite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomite near breccia with purple hmtt matrix; 3 deposits: Shixhishan (producer), Shishan & Sengshan - 80 km W of Kunming; deposits found in same strata as Dongchuan but different fault block
References:
Fan, P. -F., 1984
Geologic Setting of Select Copper Deposits of China
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 1785 - 1795

Wang, K., 1982
Geochemical Characteristics of Sedimentation and Metamorphism of Dongchuan Copper Deposit, Yunnan Province
Mineral Deposits, Volume 1, p. 68 - 68


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