CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
231 China (Hunan) 26.15 N -- 113.05 E Jiuquwan Cu; 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): Jiuquwan
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Hunan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in greyish-green to greyish-white sandstone
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Late Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
slate
mudstone
siltstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in greyish-green to greyish-white sandstone; several deposits at southwestern rim of Jiangnanland near Ch'en-hsien; Cu-bearing strata are fluviatile lucustrine & deltaic facies deposits
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

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

Third Laboratory of the Hubei Institute of Geology
A Study of the Geological Characteristics and the Genesis of Sandstone Copper Deposits at Jiuquwan, Hunan
in Specialist Papers on Iron and Copper Mineral Products (In Chinese), Edited by Anonymous, Volume, 7, p. 34 - 46


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