CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1999 China (Yunnan) 23.28.00 N -- 100.15.00 E Naipo-Wennong 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): Naipo-Wennong
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Subprovince or locality: Simao Prefecture; Nearest community: Minle town, Jinggu County
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed
Geologic province: Tethys basin
Geologic district: Minle
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: anticline (east limb, adjacent to Wenshao-Chahe fault) Tectonic structure name: Nabu-Wenggutian
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone (redbed)
(2) sedimentary; mudstone (purple)
Mineralogy: (mineralization): malachite, azurite, chalcocite, bornite, tetrahedrite, cuprite
References:
Ren, Z., 2002
An introduction of the redbed-volcanic-porphyry copper mineralization in the Minle ore district, Yunnan, China
Nonferrous Metals Geological Bureau, Kunming, China, 18 p.


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