CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
224 China (Yunnan) 26.10 N -- 103.02 E Dongchuan 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): Dongchuan
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Nearest community: Dongchuan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in algal dolomite within rippled stromatolites
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic - Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-arch; stable (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:dolomite (algal-bearing)
dolomite (arenaceous)
slate
slate
Host rock stratigraphy:Kunyang Group,Yinmin Purple Beds, Luoxue Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in algal dolomite within rippled stromatolites; 3 deposits:Yyinmin, Laoxue, Tandan approx 2-8 km apart; some metamorphism; Cu in transitional beds between purple beds and dolomites
References:
Chongying, R., 1981
On the Sedimentary Environment and Diagenetic Metallogenesis of Dongchuan-type Stratiform Copper Deposit in the Kangdian Earths Axis
Geochimica, Volume 2, p. 119 - 126

Chongying, R., 1989
Dougchuan-type Stratabound Copper Deposits, China: A Genetic Model
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 667 - 677

Fan, P. -F., 1984
Geologic Setting of Select Copper Deposits of China
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 1785 - 1795

Gong, L.; Wang, C., 1981
On the Origin of Dongchuan-type Copper Deposit
Scientia Geologica Sinica, Volume 3, p. 211 - 220

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

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

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1984; 9,071,847 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.5 percent
Reference: Fan, P. -F., 1984: Geologic Setting of Select Copper Deposits of China; Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 1785 - 1795
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


300,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: questionable data
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1 percent
Reference: Fan, P. -F., 1984: Geologic Setting of Select Copper Deposits of China; Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 1785 - 1795
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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