Lanmuchang Tl-(Hg) deposit, Xingren Co., Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China

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The thallium ore bodies extend over an area of about 1.5 square km. They contain lorandite as the major ore mineral.

References

- Shuren An, Xianguo An, and Xilin Li (1988): Discovery and Study of Rare Natural Christite in Guizhou. Guizhou Geology 5(4), 377.
- Zhenxi Zou and Daiyan Chen (1998): The discovery of exsolution texture on christite in Lanmuchang thallium ore deposit and its significance. Journal of Guizhou University of Technology 19(4).
- Zhang Zhong, Zhang Baogui, Long Jiangping, Zhang Xingmao, and Chen Guoli (1998): Thallium pollution associated with mining of thallium deposits. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 41(1), 45-81.
- Zhong Zhang, Guoli Chen, Baogui Zhang, Yecai Chen, and Xingmao Zhang (2000): The marks for the prospecting of ores and the indices for the identifying of contamination are the high contents of Tl, Hg, As in plants and animals in the Lanmuchang Tl mining district. Geology and Prospecting 36(5), 27-30.
- Zhong Zhang, Guoli Chen, Baogui Zhang, Yecai Chen, and Xingmao Zhang (2000): The Lanmuchang Tl deposit and its environmental geochemistry. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 43(1), 50-62.
- Baogui Zhang and Zhong Zhang (2000): Biogenic Lorandite and Its Geological Significance in Xingren County, Guizhou Province. Geological Journal of China Universities 6(2), 349-355 (in Chinese with English abstract).
- Tangfu Xiao (2001): Environmental impact of thallium related to the mercury-thallium-gold mineralization in southwest Guizhou Province, China. PhD Thesis, University of Chicoutimi (Québec), Canada.
- Tangfu Xiao, Guha, J., and Boyle, D. (2004): High thallium content in rocks associated with Au–As–Hg–Tl and coal mineralization and its adverse environmental potential in SW Guizhou, China. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 4(3), 243-252.
- Zhang Zhong, Zhang Baogui, Hu Jing, Yao Linbo, and Tian Yifu (2007): A preliminary discussion on the bio-metallogenesis of Tl deposits in the low-temperature minerogenetic province of southwestern China. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 50(3), 359-370.

External Links

http://bibvir.uqac.ca/theses/12774896/12774896.pdf

Mineral List

Alum-(K) Arsenolite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite 'Chlorite Group' Christite Cinnabar 'Coal var: Anthracite'

Dickite Dolomite Goethite Gypsum Halotrichite Imhofite Jarosite Kaolinite Lanmuchangite (TL)

Limonite Lorándite Marcasite Melanterite Muscovite var: Sericite Orpiment Pickeringite Picropharmacolite

Pyrite var: Thallian Arsenian Pyrite Quartz Raguinite Realgar Scheelite Scorodite Sulphur Talc

36 entries listed. 31 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).