Mine detail: Getang Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

25.24918, 105.26633

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Cinnabar, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Illite, Limonite
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR OREBODIES

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Longtan Formation
Host type:	Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure:	Deposit Located On Eastern Limb Of Getang Dome, A Northwest-Trending Anticline About 50 Km Long; Permian Rocks Exposed In Inlier At Center Of Dome, Breccia Horizon May Mark Superimposed Bedding-Plane Thrust Fault; Rocks Dip 10 Deg. Ne, Cut By High-Angle Reverse Faults Of Small Displacement
Tectonic:	Near Buried Southwestern Margin Of Precambrian Yangtze Craton
Alteration processes:	Silicification; Gold Content Of Ore Increases With Degree Of Silicification

References

MRDS	W700367
DEP	10084945
Reference	{Deposit:: 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.}{Deposit:: CUNNINGHAM, C. G., 1988, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.}
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E.