Mine detail: Getang Deposit

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Location: Guizhou [Kweichow], China, Asia
Lat / long: 25.24918, 105.26633
dep_id: 10084945
mrds_id: W700367
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Cinnabar, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
gangue: Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Illite, Limonite
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR OREBODIES
model: 172: Carbonate-hosted Au-Ag
alteration: Silicification; Gold Content Of Ore Increases With Degree Of Silicification
conc_proc: Oxidized Ore Contains Limonite
ore_ctrl: Gold Concentrated As Disseminations In Basal Breccia Horizon, Also Occurs With Limonite In Oxidized Rocks
Reporter: Paidakovich, Matthew E.
hrock_unit: Longtan Formation
hrock_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
References:
  • 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.
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