Sartohay Mine, Sartohay (Sartokay; Sartuohai; Saertuohai), Tuoli (Toli) Co., Tacheng (Tarbaghatay) Prefecture, Yili Hasake (Ili Kazakh) Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang (Xinjiang-Uygur) Autonomous Region, China

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A chromium mine, operated by Xinjiang Nonferrous Metals Inc. (XNF). It also produces Dushan jade from dunite veins that are hosted in troctolite.

References

- Zhou, M.-F., Robinson, P.T., Malpas, J., Sun, M., Aitchison, J., Bai, W.J., Hu, X.-F., and Yang, J.-S. (2001): Melt/mantle interaction and melt evolution in the Sartohay high-Al chromite deposits of the Dalabute ophiolite (NW China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19(4), 517-534.
- Yanling Tang (2005): Non-metallic deposits of Xinjiang, China [Zhongguo Xinjiang Fei Jinshu Kuangchuang]. Geological Publishing House (Beijing), 289 pp. (in Chinese)
- Kobayashi, S., and Kaneda, H. (2010): Rodingite with Ti- and Cr-rich vesuvianite from the Sartuohai chromium deposit, Xinjiang, China. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 105(3), 112-122.

External Links

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmps/105/3/112/_pdf

Mineral List

Actinolite var: Smaragdite 'Albite-Anorthite Series' Andradite Calcite 'Chlorite Group' Chromite Chrysotile Clinochlore var: Chromian Clinochlore Diopside var: Chromian Diopside

'Dushan Jade' Enstatite Grossular var: Chromian Grossular Hercynite var: Picotite Ilmenite Mackinawite Magnesite Magnetite Millerite Muscovite var: Fuchsite

'Olivine' Pentlandite Prehnite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz 'Saussurite' 'Serpentine Group' 'var: Bastite' Spinel var: Chromspinel

Szaibélyite 'Tourmaline' Uvarovite Valleriite Vesuvianite var: Chrome-Vesuvianite Zoisite

37 entries listed. 21 valid minerals.