CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
228 China (Yunnan) 26.29 N -- 104.12 E Tangtang 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): Tangtang
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Yunnan; Nearest community: Tangtang
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone within coal-bearing formation
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (reddish - coarse)

(2) sedimentary; coal
External host rock forms:bed(s)
Individual lithologies:coal
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone within coal-bearing formation; geographically widely distributed & is especially thick near Tangtang; grade of ore about 4% Cu
References:
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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