Mine detail: Yata Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

24.93254, 105.64965

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Realgar, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Xinyuan Formation
Host type:	Shale,Sandstone,Arkose,Limestone
Structure:	Gentle To Locally Moderately Tight Folds, Sometimes With High-Angle Faults, Trend Generally East-West, East-West Trending Anticline With Subsidiary Anticlines, Synclines, And East-West Trending Faults Subparallel To Trend Of Fold Axes
Tectonic:	Near Buried Southwestern Margin Of Precambrian Yangtze Craton
Alteration processes:	Intense Silicification, Minerals Predominantly Hydrothermal Illite And Kaolinite

References

MRDS	W700366
DEP	10084944
Reference	CUNNINGHAM, C. G., ASHLEY, R. P., CHOU, I-M., HUANG, Z., WAN, C., AND LI, W., 1988, THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SEDIMENTARY-ROCK HOSTED DISSEMINATED GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE PEOPL * REPUBLIC OF CHINA: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 88-220, 15 P
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E.