CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
234 China (Sichuan) 30.40 N -- 105.04 E Datongchang; Da Tongchang Cu; Ag; Se; Pb; Zn; Mo; U
 
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): Datongchang; Da Tongchang
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Sichuan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in mottled fm between coal and saline formations
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Se; Pb; Zn; Mo; U
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:mudstone
siltstone
sandstone
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Xiaota Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in mottled fm between coal & saline formations; high copper content in fragments of Cu-bearing arenaceous conglomerate; age of stratigraphic position changes from old to new-west to east
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


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