CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
437 China (Anhui) 31.26.07 N -- 118.30.50 E Gushan Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Gushan
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Anhui; Nearest community: Dangtu
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: volcanic-hosted; Reference: 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
pipelike massive; Reference: 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
Geologic province: Yangtze Craton
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: breccia-fillings
Geological ages: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous (country rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite (pyroxene)

(2) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks
Links to other databases: Song 92; Key value: 354
References:
Gu, L.; Ruan, H., 1988
On the Hydrothermal Origin of Gushan Iron Ore Deposits in Anhui Province (In Chinese with English Abstract)
Mineral Deposits (K`uang ch`uang ti chih), Volume 7, p. 21 - 28

Gu, L.; Ruan, H., 1993
Hydrothermal Mineralization and Enrichment of Iron in Iron Deposits in Lower Yangtze District
Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, Volume 12, p. 228 - 238

Gu, L.; Ruan, H.; Yin, L., 1997
Grain Coarsening of Hematite in the Gushan Iron Deposit, Anhui Province, China
Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, Volume 16, p. 148 - 153

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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