Xiangquan Tl deposit, He Co., Chaohu Prefecture, Anhui Province, China

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Host rocks are Lower Ordovician micrite, calcilutite and marl within the Dalongwang Mountain - Xiao Mountain anticline. The ore zones are fold and fault controlled. Thallium occurs mainly in pyrite but minor amounts form as lorandite and hutchinsonite.

This deposit has not been mined.

References

- Zhou, T.F., Fan, Y., Yuan, F., Wu, M.A., Hou, M.J., Voicu, G., Hu, Q.H., Zhang, Q.M., and Yue, S.C. (2005): A preliminary geological and geochemical study of the Xiangquan thallium deposit, eastern China: the world’s first thallium-only mine. Mineralogy and Petrology 85(3/4), 243-251.
- Fan, Y., Zhou, T.F., Yuan, F., Wu, M.A., Hou, M.J., Voicu, G., Hu, Q.H., and Zhang, Q.M. (2005): Sm-Nd isotope dating of fluorites from the Xiangquan thallium deposit, Anhui Province, East China. In: Jingwen Mao and Bierlein, F.P. (eds.): Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), 381-383.
- Zhou, T.F., Fan, Y., Yuan, F., Wu, M.A., Hou, M.J., Voicu, G., Hu, Q.H., and Zhang, Q.M. (2005): Xiangquan: The World’s first reported sediment-hosted thallium-only deposit, northeastern margin of the Yangtze Block, eastern China. In: Jingwen Mao and Bierlein, F.P. (eds.): Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), 515-517.
- Ming-An Wu (2006): Study of Geologic Characteristics of the Xiangquan Thallium Deposit, Anhui Province. Journal of Hefei University of Technology 29(12), 1571-1576.
- Zhou, T. and Cooke, D.R. (2006): Geochemistry of the Xiangquan Thallium deposit, China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement 70(18), 752.

Mineral List

Avicennite Baryte Calcite

Dolomite Fluorite Hutchinsonite

Kaolinite Limonite Lorándite

Pyrite Quartz var: Chalcedony

12 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.