Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Tieshan |
Political location(s): |
China; Province or state: Hubei; Nearest community: Huangshi |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
veins/stockworks; veins and disseminations in lensoid zones parallel to host strata over a west-northwest trending strike zone 4 km long, adjacent to a granodiorite porphyry intrusion; skarn-like |
Deposit status: |
producer; Status comments: underground mine |
Geologic province: |
Yangtze Craton / Yanshanian marginal rift zone |
Geologic subprovince: |
Nanjing-Wuhan magmatic zone |
Geologic district: |
Lower Yangtze Valley |
Deposit object located: |
centre of main deposit |
Commodities: |
Cu; Fe |
Mineralization styles: |
veins and associated disseminations |
Geological ages: |
Early Triassic - Late Jurassic (country rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental marginal rift (mineralization) |
Coincident features: |
intrusive contact |
Host rocks: |
(1) metamorphic; unclassified metamorphic rocks (Lower Triassic); Metamorphic grade: epidote-amphiboliteHost rock protoliths: | carbonate |
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Related igneous rocks: |
(1) volcanic; unclassified volcanic rocks (2) intrusive; granodiorite-tonalite suite (porphyritic) |
Country rocks: |
(1) carbonate; (marble/skarn); Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite |
Metallogenic signatures: |
Fe Cu |
Alteration signatures: |
skarn: dioside, garnet, phlogopite; What was altered: carbonate host |
Mineralogy: |
(mineralization): magnetite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, pyrite |
Links to other databases: |
Song 92; Key value: 336 |
References: |
Research Group on Porphyrite Iron Ore, Middle-Lower Jiang Valley, 1977 |
Porphyrite Iron Ore - A Genetic Model of a Group of Iron Ore Deposits in Andesitic Volcanic Area |
Acta Geologica Sinica, Volume 51, p. 1 - 19 |
Song, S. H., 1992 |
The Explanatory Notes on the Mineral Resources Map of China (In Chinese with English Abstract) |
Geological Publishing House, Beijing, Scale 5000000 |
Xu, Z., 1990 |
Mesozoic Volcanism and Volcanogenic Iron-Ore Deposits in Eastern China |
Special Paper, Geological Society of America, Publication code 237, 46 p. |
Zhai, Y. S.; Xiong, Y. L.; Yao, S.; Lin, X., 1996 |
Metallogeny of Copper and Iron Deposits in the Eastern Yangtze Craton, East-Central China |
Ore Geology Reviews, Volume 11, p. 229 - 248 |
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