CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
464 China (Jiangsu) 32.31.00 N -- 118.59.00 E Yeshan Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Yeshan
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Jiangsu; Nearest community: Luhe
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: volcanogenic stratabound
Deposit status: producer; Status comments: underground mine
Geologic province: Yangtze Craton
Geologic district: Lower Yangtze Valley
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous (country rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; unclassified metamorphic rocks
Country rocks: (1) dolomite; (skarn-like at intrusive contact)
Mineralogy: (alteration): marble, chlorite, skarn, altered olivine (lizardite?)
(mineralization): magnetite, hematite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, tourmaline
Links to other databases: Song 92; Key value: 346
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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