CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2063 China (Yunnan) 26.19.00 N -- 103.07.00 E Yinmin 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): Yinmin
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Nearest community: Dongchuan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine
Geologic province: Sichuan-Yunnan rift
Geologic district: Dongchuan
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: fractures; Coincident feature name: Laoyin Fracture Zone
Regional tectonic structure: anticline Tectonic structure name: Sikeshu-Laoyin-Tangdan anticline
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (stromatolitic algal dolomite)
Individual lithologies:dolomite (algal)
Host rock stratigraphy:Luoxue formation
References:
Ren, Z., 1994
Geology of the Dongchuan copper mine, Yunnan, China.
Southwest Geological Exploration Bureau, China National Nonferrous Metals Industry Corp., Kunming, China, 23 p.


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