Zhilingtou (Zhilintou; Yinkengshan) Au-Ag deposit, Suichang Co., Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, China

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治岭头金银矿, 遂昌县, 丽水市, 浙江省, 中国

Epithermal (mesothermal ?) deposit, hosted in Early Proterozoic orthogneisses and paragneisses that are overlain by Late Jurassic to Cretaceous intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks.

References

- Zhenkuan Luo, Guiming Hu, and Kang Guan (1985): Mineralogical studies of complex gold and silver minerals from Yinkengshan Au-Ag deposit. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 5(1), 48-46.
- Zhenkuan Luo, Guiming Hu, and Kang Guan (1985): A discussion of geological features and genesis of the Yinkengshan gold-silver deposit, Zhejiang Province. Mineral Deposits 4(4), 346-350.
- Jielian Shao (1985): On the Study of the Rhodonite from a Certain Gold Deposit in Suichang, Zhejiang. Journal of Geomechanics 5(1).
- Wu, C.Y., Bai, G., and Xu, L.M. (1993): Types and distribution of silver ore deposits in China. Mineralium Deposita 28(4), 223-239.
- Junfa Zhou and Jianmin Qian (1996): The characteristics and significances of multi-formation halos of Zhilingtou gold-silver deposits. Geology and Prospecting 32(1), 43-48.
- Pirajno, F., Bagas, L., Hickman, A.H., and Zhejiang Gold Research Team (1997): Gold mineralization of the Chencai-Suichang Uplift and tectonic evolution of Zhejiang Province, southeast China. Ore Geology Reviews 12, 35-55.
- Jiexiong Hua, Shaohua Cheng, and Yongsheng Du (2000): On geological characteristics and the metallogenic mode of Zhilingtou Pb-Zn-S deposit, Zhejiang. Geology and Prospecting 36(6), 44-47.
- Mei Jianming (2000): Chemical typomorphic characteristic of pyrites from Zhilingtou gold deposit, Suichang, Zhejiang. Geoscience Journal of Graduate School of China University of Geosciences 14(1), 51-55.
- Pirajno, F., and Bagas, L. (2002): Gold and silver metallogeny of the South China Fold Belt: a consequence of multiple mineralizing events ? Ore Geology Reviews 20, 109-126.
- Khin Zaw, Peters, S.G., Cromie, P., Burrett, C., and Zengqian Hou (2007): Nature, diversity of deposit types and metallogenic relations of South China. Ore Geology Reviews 31, 3-47.
- Pirajno, F. (2009): Hydrothermal Processes and Mineral Systems. Springer Science & Business Media B.V., 1250 pp.

Mineral List

Acanthite Alabandite Almandine Altaite Alunite Calaverite Calcite var: Manganoan Calcite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Epidote

Fluorite Galena Gold var: Electrum Graphite Hessite Jalpaite Kaolinite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Molybdenite Muscovite var: Sericite

Naumannite Petzite Polybasite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Chalcedony var: Smoky Quartz Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Selenopolybasite

Silver var: Küstelite Sphalerite var: Marmatite Sylvanite Talnakhite Tellurobismuthite Volynskite

41 entries listed. 32 valid minerals.