CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
415 China (Hubei) 30.10.00 N -- 114.51.30 E Tieshan Cu; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
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-amphibolite
Host rock protoliths:carbonate
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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