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

The only larger deposit where thallium is the main product. The orebody extends over an area of about 1.5 square km, with lorandite as the major ore mineral.

Refs.:
- 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.
- Zhang Zhong, Chen Guoli, Zhang Baogui, Chen Yecai, and Zhang Xingmao (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), Canda. - [available at: http://bibvir.uqac.ca/theses/12774896/12774896.pdf]
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- 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.